Exploitation Expected for Flaw in Caching Plugin Installed on 5M WordPress Sites

A critical vulnerability in the Litespeed Cache WordPress plugin can allow attackers to hack websites by creating an admin user.

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Google Patches Sixth Exploited Chrome Zero-Day of 2024

Chrome 128 was released in the stable channel with patches for 38 vulnerabilities, including a V8 JavaScript engine flaw exploited in the wild.

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MegaMedusa, RipperSec’s Public Web DDoS Attack Tool

RipperSec, a pro-Palestinian hacktivist group based in Malaysia, has released MegaMedusa, a publicly available Web DDoS attack tool that simplifies launching large-scale DDoS attacks.

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Critical Flaw in LiteSpeed Cache Plugin Actively Exploited: Over 30,000 Attacks Blocked in 24 Hours

The widely used LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress is being actively exploited through a critical security vulnerability, CVE-2024-28000, with over 30,000 attack attempts blocked in just 24 hours.

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Critical Flaw in WordPress LiteSpeed Cache Plugin Allows Hackers Admin Access

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress that could permit unauthenticated users to gain administrator privileges.
“The plugin suffers from an unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability which allows any unauthenticated visitor to gain Administrator level access after which malicious plugins could be uploaded and

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GitHub Patches Critical Security Flaw in Enterprise Server Granting Admin Privileges

GitHub has released fixes to address a set of three security flaws impacting its Enterprise Server product, including one critical bug that could be abused to gain site administrator privileges.
The most severe of the shortcomings has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-6800, and carries a CVSS score of 9.5.
“On GitHub Enterprise Server instances that use SAML single sign-on (SSO)

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Google Fixes High-Severity Chrome Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild

Google has rolled out security fixes to address a high-severity security flaw in its Chrome browser that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild.
Tracked as CVE-2024-7971, the vulnerability has been described as a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine.
“Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 128.0.6613.84 allowed a remote attacker to exploit heap

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New Malware PG_MEM Targets PostgreSQL Databases for Crypto Mining

Cybersecurity researchers have unpacked a new malware strain dubbed PG_MEM that’s designed to mine cryptocurrency after brute-forcing their way into PostgreSQL database instances.
“Brute-force attacks on Postgres involve repeatedly attempting to guess the database credentials until access is gained, exploiting weak passwords,” Aqua security researcher Assaf Morag said in a technical report.

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Bangladeshi Hackers Deface India’s Zee Media Website for Mocking Floods

Bangladeshi hackers “SYSTEMADMINBD” defaced Zee Media’s website, accusing them of mocking the situation in Bangladesh amid severe flooding.…

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From Offices to Hotels: Backdoor in Contactless Key Cards Enables Mass Cloning

Millions of office and hotel contactless access cards using Fudan Microelectronics chips are vulnerable to a hardware backdoor…

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