Apple fixes actively exploited iOS zero-day on older iPhones, iPads

Apple has backported security patches addressing a remotely exploitable zero-day vulnerability to older iPhones and iPads. This bug is tracked as CVE-2022-42856, and it stems from a type confusion weakness in Apple’s Webkit web browser browsing engine. Read more… Source: Read More …

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses a significant risk to the federal enterprise. Note: Read More …

Suspected Chinese Threat Actors Exploiting FortiOS Vulnerability (CVE-2022-42475)

Mandiant is tracking a suspected China-nexus campaign believed to have exploited a recently announced vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiOS SSL-VPN, CVE-2022-42475, as a zero-day. Evidence suggests the exploitation was occurring as early as October 2022 and identified targets include a European Read More …

Thousands of Sophos firewalls still vulnerable out there to hijacking

More than 4,000 public-facing Sophos firewalls remain vulnerable to a critical remote code execution bug disclosed last year and patched months later, according to security researchers. The flaw, CVE-2022-3236, had already been exploited as a zero-day when Sophos published a Read More …

Hackers exploit Cacti critical bug to install malware, open reverse shells

More than 1,600 instances of the Cacti device monitoring tool reachable over the internet are vulnerable to a critical security issue that hackers have already started to exploit. Cacti is an operational and fault management monitoring solution for network devices Read More …

CISA Releases Twelve Industrial Control Systems Advisories

CISA released twelve Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on January 12, 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 …

Hackers exploit Control Web Panel flaw to open reverse shells

Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability patched recently in Control Web Panel (CWP), a tool for managing servers formerly known as CentOS Web Panel. The security issue is identified as CVE-2022-44877 and received a critical severity score of 9.8 Read More …

Juniper Networks Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Juniper Networks has released security updates to address vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Juniper Networks’ security advisories page and Read More …

Fortinet: Government networks targeted with now-patched SSL-VPN zero-day

Fortinet says unknown attackers exploited a FortiOS SSL-VPN zero-day vulnerability patched last month in attacks against government organizations and government-related targets. The security flaw (CVE-2022-42475) abused in these incidents is a heap-based buffer overflow weakness found in the FortiOS SSLVPNd Read More …

CISA Releases Three Industrial Systems Control Advisories

CISA released three Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on January 5 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 …