BeyondTrust security advisory addresses a vulnerability in the Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access systems

BeyondTrust has released a security advisory that addresses a vulnerability in the Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access systems. Remote Support allows authorised individuals such as IT Helpdesk staff to connect to remote systems. Privileged Remote Access facilitates just-in-time secure Read More …

Careto is back: what’s new after 10 years of silence?

During the first week of October, Kaspersky took part in the 34th Virus Bulletin International Conference, one of the longest-running cybersecurity events. There, Kaspersky researchers delivered multiple presentations, and one of our talks focused on newly observed activities by the Read More …

Modular Java Backdoor Dropped in Cleo Exploitation Campaign

While investigating incidents related to Cleo software exploitation, Rapid7 Labs and MDR observed a novel, multi-stage attack that deploys an encoded Java Archive (JAR) payload. Our investigation revealed that the JAR file was part of a modular, Java-based Remote Access Read More …

Exploitation of critical path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-41713) and 0-day path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-55550) in Mitel MiCollab

After proof-of-concept technical details were published on 5 December 2024 for CVE-2024-41713 and CVE-2024-55550, exploitation activity chaining these two Mitel MiCollab vulnerabilities has been reported. MiCollab is a cloud-based platform that integrates chat, voice, video, and SMS messaging for teams. Read More …

Cleo Releases Security Advisory for Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom

Cleo has released a security advisory addressing two vulnerabilities in Cleo Harmony, Cleo VLTrader, and Cleo LexiCom, which are commonly used to manage file transfers. Cleo LexiCom is a desktop-based client solution for communication with major trading networks Cleo VLTrader Read More …

Patch Tuesday – December 2024

Microsoft is addressing 70 vulnerabilities this December 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and public disclosure for one of the vulnerabilities published today, and this is reflected in a CISA KEV entry. For the third month in Read More …

QNAP Fixes Several Vulnerabilities Affecting High-End NAS Devices

QNAP has released fixes for several vulnerabilities affecting the QTS and QuTS hero operating systems. In addition to the three high severity vulnerabilities below, the security advisory also addresses two medium severity vulnerabilities and three low severity vulnerabilities. QuTS is Read More …

SonicWall Releases Security Updates for SMA100 NetExtender for Windows (CVE-2024-29014)

SonicWall has released a security update addressing a vulnerability in the Windows (32 and 64-bit) versions of SonicWall SMA100 NetExtender. SMA100 NetExtender is a virtual private network (VPN) client. This vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-29014, may allow an attacker to execute Read More …

Russia-linked hackers exploited Firefox and Windows bugs in ‘widespread’ hacking campaign

Security researchers have uncovered two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited by RomCom, a Russian-linked hacking group, to target Firefox browser users and Windows device owners across Europe and North America. Researchers with security firm ESET say Read More …

Update now – Apple confirms vulnerabilities are already being exploited

Apple has released security patches for most of its operating systems, including iOS, Mac, iPadOS, Safari, and visionOS. The updates for iOS and Intel-based Mac systems are especially important, as they tackle vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited by cybercriminals. Read More …