The China-linked APT group Velvet Ant exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Cisco switches, CVE-2024-20399, to take control of network devices. The flaw in Cisco NX-OS Software’s CLI enabled attackers with Admin credentials to run arbitrary commands.
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has placed a security flaw impacting Versa Director to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog based on evidence of active exploitation.
The medium-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-39717 (CVSS score: 6.6), is case of file upload bug impacting the “Change Favicon” feature that could allow a threat actor to
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DataDome researchers found that major UK political parties lack critical security features to protect against bot and credential stuffing attacks on their donation platforms.
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Hackers are now using AppDomain Injection to drop Cobalt Strike beacons in a series of attacks that began in July 2024. This technique, known as AppDomain Manager Injection, can weaponize any Microsoft .NET application on Windows.
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This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges to SYSTEM level through a heap-based buffer overflow. With a CVSS score of 7.8, CVE-2024-38054 is a critical flaw patched by Microsoft in July.
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Meta platforms, alongside Telegram, are among the growing number of sites used as a form of contact in 45% of scams.
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Ticket scams are costing football fans close to £200 a season, on average, according to a report.
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The release of new NIST quantum-proof cryptography standards signals it’s time for cybersecurity teams to get serious about preparing for the rise of quantum threats.
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The disclosure of CVE-2024-28987 means that, in two weeks, there have been two critical bugs and corresponding patches for SolarWinds’ less-often-discussed IT help desk software.
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