Oracle’s quarterly Critical Patch Update arrives with 520 fixes

Enterprise software giant Oracle has released its April Critical Patch Update (CPU) advisory, which includes 520 fixes for security flaws. Critical Patch Updates are collections of security fixes for Oracle products, published quarterly. This update addresses security flaws in dozens Read More …

FBI: BlackCat/ALPHV Ransomware Indicators of Compromise

This FLASH is part of a series of FBI reports to disseminate known indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) associated with ransomware variants identified through FBI investigations. As of March 2022, BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware as a service Read More …

Five Eyes nations fear wave of Russian attacks against critical infrastructure

The Five Eyes nations’ cybersecurity agencies this week urged critical infrastructure to be ready for attacks by crews backed by or sympathetic to the Kremlin amid strong Western opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The joint alert, issued by cybersecurity Read More …

Lenovo patches UEFI firmware vulnerabilities impacting millions of users

Lenovo has patched a trio of bugs that could be abused to perform UEFI attacks. Discovered by ESET researcher Martin Smolár, the vulnerabilities, assigned as CVE-2021-3970, CVE-2021-3971, and CVE-2021-3972, could be exploited to “deploy and successfully execute UEFI malware either Read More …

AWS’s Log4Shell Hot Patch Vulnerable to Container Escape and Privilege Escalation

ollowing Log4Shell, AWS released several hot patch solutions that monitor for vulnerable Java applications and Java containers and patch them on the fly. Each solution suits a different environment, covering standalone servers, Kubernetes clusters, Elastic Container Service (ECS) clusters and Read More …

Critically Underrated: Studying the Data Distribution Service (DDS) Protocol

Despite being unknown even to industry practitioners, the Data Distribution Service (DDS) protocol has been in use for more than a decade. This middleware software technology is responsible for running billions of public and private devices and mechanisms currently in Read More …

TraderTraitor: North Korean State-Sponsored APT Targets Blockchain Companies

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the U.S. Treasury Department (Treasury) are issuing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to highlight the cyber threat associated with cryptocurrency thefts and tactics used by a Read More …

UK Prime Minister, Catalan groups ‘targeted by NSO Pegasus spyware’

Citizen Lab has reported finding suspected surveillance software on devices associated with both the UK Prime Minister’s Office and what was formerly called the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The Canadian research outfit also said it had identified at least Read More …