CISA Releases Six Industrial Control Systems Advisories

CISA released six Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on March 23, 2023. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-23-082-01 RoboDK ICSA-23-082-02 CP-Plus KVMS Pro ICSA-23-082-03 SAUTER EY-modulo 5 Building Automation Stations Read Read More …

Critical infrastructure gear is full of flaws, but hey, at least it’s certified

Devices used in critical infrastructure are riddled with vulnerabilities that can cause denial of service, allow configuration manipulation, and achieve remote code execution, according to security researchers. And most of these operational technology (OT) products – which include industrial control Read More …

Hackers mostly targeted Microsoft, Google, Apple zero-days in 2022

Hackers continue to target zero-day vulnerabilities in malicious campaigns, with researchers reporting that 55 zero-days were actively exploited in 2022, most targeting Microsoft, Google, and Apple products. Most of these vulnerabilities (53 out of 55) enabled the attacker to either Read More …

CISA Releases Eight Industrial Control Systems Advisories

CISA released eight Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on March 16, 2023. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisories for technical Read More …

Threat Actors Exploited Progress Telerik Vulnerability in U.S. Government IIS Server

Today, the CISA, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), Threat Actors Exploit Progress Telerik Vulnerability in U.S. Government IIS Server. This joint CSA provides IT infrastructure defenders Read More …

Hands up who DIDN’T exploit this years-old flaw to ransack a US govt web server…

Multiple criminals, including at least potentially one nation-state group, broke into a US federal government agency’s Microsoft Internet Information Services web server by exploiting a critical three-year-old Telerik bug to achieve remote code execution. The snafu happened between November 2022 Read More …

Magniber ransomware actors used a variant of Microsoft SmartScreen bypass

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) recently discovered usage of an unpatched security bypass in Microsoft’s SmartScreen security feature, which financially motivated actors are using to deliver the Magniber ransomware without any security warnings. The attackers are delivering MSI files signed Read More …

Microsoft fixes Windows zero-day exploited in ransomware attacks

Microsoft has patched another zero-day bug used by attackers to circumvent the Windows SmartScreen cloud-based anti-malware service and deploy Magniber ransomware payloads without raising any red flags. The attackers have been using malicious MSI files signed with a specially crafted Read More …