Category Archives: News

Threat Advisory – September 1 – 7

Phising

CySec News A variant of the Mirai botnet known as MooBot is co-opting vulnerable D-Link devices into an army of denial-of-service bots by taking advantage of multiple exploits. Reference: https://thehackernews.com/2022/09/mirai-variant-moobot-botnet-exploiting.html   Networking equipment maker Zyxel has released patches for a critical security flaw impacting its network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Tracked as CVE-2022-34747 (CVSS score: 9.8), […]

Threat Advisory – August 25 – 31

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CySec News A critical command injection vulnerability in a Bitbucket product could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, researchers warn. Bitbucket is a Git-based source code repository hosting service owned by Atlassian. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-36804, is a command injection vulnerability in multiple API endpoints of Bitbucket Server and Data Center. Reference: https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/critical-command-injection-vulnerability-discovered-in-bitbucket-server-and-data-center […]

Threat Advisory – August 18 – 24

encryption

CySec News GitLab has issued a security update to address a critical vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution (RCE). The vulnerability could allow an authenticated user to achieve remote code execution via the ‘Import from GitHub API’ endpoint, an advisory from GitLab reads. Tracked as CVE-2022-2884, the security issue is present in GitLab […]

Threat Advisory – August 11 – 17

Android

CySec News Android malware developers are already adjusting their tactics to bypass a new ‘Restricted setting’ security feature introduced by Google in the newly released Android 13. Reference: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-devs-already-bypassed-android-13s-new-security-feature/   Google has released a security update for the Chrome browser that addresses close to a dozen vulnerabilities, including a zero-day flaw that is being exploited […]

Threat Advisory – July 21 – 27

Microsoft Defender

CySec News Atlassian has addressed a hardcoded credential flaw in Questions for Confluence and servlet filter bypasses in multiple other products. The Australian vendor of software development and collaboration tools issued security advisories with instructions for applying updates and mitigations (July 20). Reference: https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/atlassian-patches-batch-of-critical-vulnerabilities-across-multiple-products   Zyxel has released patches for several of its firewall products […]

Threat Advisory – July 14 – 20

Android Trojan

CySec News Juniper Networks has pushed security updates to address several vulnerabilities affecting multiple products, some of which could be exploited to seize control of affected systems. The most critical of the flaws affect Junos Space and Contrail Networking, with the tech company urging customers to update to release versions 22.1R1 and 21.4.0, respectively. Reference: […]

Threat Advisory – July 7 – 13

encryption

CySec News Microsoft reminded customers that Windows Server, version 20H2 will be reaching its End of Service (EOS) next month, on August 9. Reference: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-warns-windows-server-20h2-reaches-eos-next-month/   Microsoft says last week’s decision to roll back VBA macro auto-blocking in downloaded Office documents is only a temporary change. Reference: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-says-decision-to-unblock-office-macros-is-temporary/   Cisco on Wednesday rolled out patches […]

Threat Advisory – June 23 – 29

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CySec News Microsoft has released the optional KB5014666 Preview cumulative update for Windows 10 20H2, Windows 10 21H1, and Windows 10 21H2. This update includes numerous bug fixes and new, unexpected printing features. The KB5014666 cumulative update preview is part of Microsoft’s June 2022 monthly “C” update, allowing admins to test fixes in the July […]