03 Dec, 2024

Critical Veeam RCE bug now used in Frag ransomware attacks

After being used in Akira and Fog ransomware attacks, a critical Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) security flaw was also recently exploited to deploy Frag ransomware. Code White security researcher Florian Hauser found that the vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2024-40711) is caused by a deserialization of untrusted data weakness that unauthenticated threat actors can exploit to gain remote […]

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Akira and Fog ransomware now exploit critical Veeam RCE flaw

Ransomware gangs now exploit a critical security vulnerability that lets attackers gain remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) servers. Code White security researcher Florian Hauser found that the security flaw, now tracked as CVE-2024-40711, is caused by a deserialization of untrusted data weakness that unauthenticated threat actors can exploit in […]

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Veeam warns of critical RCE flaw in Backup & Replication software

Veeam has released security updates for several of its products as part of a single September 2024 security bulletin that addresses 18 high and critical severity flaws in Veeam Backup & Replication, Service Provider Console, and One. The most severe of the problems addressed is CVE-2024-40711, a critical (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8) remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability on Veeam […]

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