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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday closes 72 vulnerabilities, including 5 zero-days

Microsoft addressed 72 vulnerabilities affecting its core products and underlying systems, including five actively exploited zero-days across various Windows components, the company said in its latest security update Tuesday. “This is now the eight consecutive Patch Tuesday on which Microsoft has published zero-day vulnerabilities without evaluating any of them as critical severity at time of…

SonicWall customers confront resurgence of actively exploited vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities are proliferating in SonicWall devices and software this year, putting the vendor’s customers at risk of intrusion via secure access gateways and firewalls. The year started off on a sour note for the California-based company when it released security advisories for nine vulnerabilities on Jan. 7. The total number of vulnerabilities publicly disclosed by…

Google addresses 1 actively exploited vulnerability in May’s Android security update

Google addressed 47 vulnerabilities affecting Android devices in its May security update, including an actively exploited software defect that was first disclosed in March. Google said the high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2025-27363, “may be under limited, targeted exploitation.” The out-of-bounds write defect in FreeType versions 2.13.0 and below may result in arbitrary code execution, Facebook said in…

Revived CryptoJS library is a crypto stealer in disguise

An illicit npm package called ‘crypto-encrypt-ts‘ may appear to revive the unmaintained but vastly popular CryptoJS library, but what it actually does is peek into your crypto wallet and exfiltrate your secrets to threat actors. The post Revived CryptoJS library is a crypto stealer in disguise appeared first on Security Boulevard.

SAP zero-day vulnerability under widespread active exploitation

Threat hunters and security researchers have observed widespread exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability affecting SAP NetWeaver systems. The unrestricted file upload vulnerability — CVE-2025-31324 — has a base score of 10 on the CVSS scale and allows attackers to upload files directly to the system without authorization.  The software defect, which affects the SAP Visual…

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 04/25/25

Insight No. 1 — Fast code, slow security? Think ADR Consider the scenario: Development teams are pushing code at unprecedented speeds, and vulnerabilities, whether human or AI-generated, are lingering far too long. What’s the logical outcome? Increased exploitation in your production environment. The strategic imperative is clear: We must implement robust detection and response capabilities…

VulnCheck spotted 159 actively exploited vulnerabilities in first few months of 2025

Attackers exploited nearly a third of vulnerabilities within a day of CVE disclosure in the first quarter of 2025, VulnCheck said in a report released Thursday. The company, which focuses on vulnerability threat intelligence, identified 159 actively exploited vulnerabilities from 50 sources during the quarter. The time from CVE disclosure to evidence of exploitation in…

Attackers hit security device defects hard in 2024

Attackers are having a field day with software defects in security devices, according to a new report released Wednesday by Mandiant  Exploits were the most common initial infection vector, representing 1 of every 3 attacks in 2024, and the four most frequently exploited vulnerabilities were all contained in edge devices, such as VPNs, firewalls and…

The Evolution of Vulnerability Management with Steve Carter

Steve Carter discusses the evolution of the vulnerability management market, as well as where vulnerability management has failed and why the next phase has to center around automation and scale. The problem, as Carter sees it, is deceptively simple: Organizations are drowning in vulnerabilities but still can’t prioritize or fix them quickly. Scanners can identify..…

Attackers stick with effective intrusion points, valid credentials and exploits

IBM X-Force observed an identical breakdown of the top methods cybercriminals used to intrude networks for two years running, the company said in its annual Threat Intelligence Index. The top initial access vectors, valid account credentials and exploitation of public-facing applications, each accounted for 30% of IBM X-Force incident response cases last year. By focusing…

Update these two servers from Gladinet immediately, CISOs told

CISOs running Gladinet’s CentreStack file server or Triofox file sharing server should update the applications as soon as possible because of a hard-coded key vulnerability which is being exploited now, say researchers at Huntress. “Immediate action is essential.” John Hammond, principal security researcher at Huntress, said in an email to CSO. “If left unpatched, it…

What’s happening with MITRE and the CVE program uncertainty

Yesterday’s headlines have sent ripples through the cybersecurity and software supply chain communities: MITRE announced that U.S. government funding for the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) database was set to expire today. Overnight, the CVE Foundation emerged with a plan to maintain the program before the Critical Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) announced it has…

Prophylactic Cybersecurity for Healthcare

How to Be Proactive in a Reactive World In healthcare, preventative medicine is always more effective, less costly, and has better outcomes than waiting until after a serious heart incident occurs. It’s an apt analogy for cybersecurity as well. Prophylactic (preventative) care in cybersecurity yields far better outcomes than constantly scrambling to respond to critical……

Is Ivanti the problem or a symptom of a systemic issue with network devices?

Network edge devices — hardware that powers firewalls, VPNs and network routers — have quickly moved up the list of attackers’ preferred intrusion points into enterprise networks. While dozens of companies make and sell these devices, customers of one company in particular — Ivanti — have confronted exploited vulnerabilities in their products more than any…

Reasoning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Lately, I often hear people asking: “Will Artificial Intelligence replace my job?” Perhaps you’ve had this thought too. More than just a matter of the job market or salary expectations, this question challenges our role in society and our ability to remain relevant over time. It’s worth addressing this doubt once and for all, especially…

Microsoft patches zero-day actively exploited in string of ransomware attacks

Microsoft addressed 126 vulnerabilities affecting its systems and core products, including a zero-day in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) that’s been actively exploited in a series of ransomware attacks, the company said in its latest security update Tuesday. A group Microsoft tracks as Storm-2460 has exploited CVE-2025-29824 to initiate ransomware attacks “against a…

Google addresses 2 actively exploited vulnerabilities in security update

Google addressed 62 vulnerabilities affecting Android devices in its April security update, including a pair of actively exploited software defects that were first disclosed in December. Google said the two vulnerabilities — CVE-2024-53197 and CVE-2024-53150 — “may be under limited, targeted exploitation.” The pair of flaws under active exploitation are high-severity and affect the Linux…

The Ultimate Guide to Vulnerability Assessment

Vulnerability assessment is a process that identifies security weaknesses of any IT system, network, application, or cloud environment. It is a proactive approach to detect and fix security gaps before… The post The Ultimate Guide to Vulnerability Assessment appeared first on Strobes Security. The post The Ultimate Guide to Vulnerability Assessment appeared first on Security…

Altgeräte bedrohen Sicherheit in Unternehmen

width=”2500″ height=”1406″ sizes=”(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px”>Schwachstellen in alten Netzwerkgeräten stellen ein erhebliches Sicherheitsrisiko für Unternehmen dar. SeventyFour – shutterstock.com Eine Analyse von Ciscos Threat-Intelligence-Team Talos zeigt, zwei der drei häufigsten Schwachstellen, auf die es Angreifer im Jahr 2024 abgesehen hatten, waren in alten Netzwerkgeräten zu finden. Das Problem ist, dass Hersteller dazu keine Patches mehr…

How Contrast ADR Speeds up SOC Incident Response Time| SOC Challenges From Alert Fatigue to Application-Layer Visibility | Contrast Security

Just because you work in a security operations center (SOC) doesn’t mean you have to waste your time chasing  dragons. And by “dragons,” we mean the traditional SOC’s difficulty identifying cyberattacks that originate in the black box of the application layer.  The post How Contrast ADR Speeds up SOC Incident Response Time| SOC Challenges From…

CodeQLEAKED – Public Secrets Exposure Leads to Supply Chain Attack on GitHub CodeQL

A potential supply chain attack on GitHub CodeQL started simply: a publicly exposed secret, valid for 1.022 seconds at a time. In that second, an attacker could take a series of steps that would allow them to execute code within a GitHub Actions workflow in most repositories using CodeQL, GitHub’s code analysis engine trusted by…

Tomcat PUT to active abuse as Apache deals with critical RCE flaw

Apache Software’s open-source web container for handling Java-based web applications, Tomcat, is under active attacks through a critical RCE flaw the company disclosed last week. According to API security vendor, Wallarm, threat actors are using a public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit released for the flaw, CVE-2025-24813, just 30 hours after it was publicly disclosed. “A devastating…

Microsoft patches 57 vulnerabilities, including 6 zero-days

Microsoft patched 57 vulnerabilities affecting its foundational systems and core products, including six actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, the company said in its latest security update Tuesday. Four of the six zero-days, which were all added to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s known exploited vulnerabilities catalog, are high-severity on the CVSS scale.  The software defects…

Multiple vulnerabilities found in ICONICS industrial SCADA software

A popular set of SCADA software systems used in critical infrastructure around the world suffered from at least five known vulnerabilities that could have allowed for privilege escalation, DLL hijacking and the ability to modify critical files. The vulnerabilities were found within a suite of software made by ICONICS, which claims on its website that…

Android security update contains 2 actively exploited vulnerabilities

Google addressed 43 vulnerabilities affecting Android devices in its March security update, including a pair of software defects reportedly under active exploitation. Google said the two vulnerabilities — CVE-2024-43093 and CVE-2024-50302 — “may be under limited, targeted exploitation.” The most severe of the flaws under active exploitation, CVE-2024-43093, carries a CVSS score of 7.8 and…

Critical Microsoft Partner Center vulnerability under attack, CISA warns

A critical vulnerability in Microsoft’s Partner Center platform is under attack, enabling unauthenticated attackers to escalate privileges, potentially leading to data breaches, malware deployment, and lateral movement across enterprise networks. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added the flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-49035, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, confirming active exploitation…

Critical deserialization bugs in Adobe, Oracle software actively exploited, warns CISA

CISA is warning Adobe and Oracle customers about in-the-wild exploitation of critical vulnerabilities affecting the services of these leading enterprise software providers. The US cybersecurity watchdog added vulnerabilities in Adobe ColdFusion (CVE-2017-3066) and Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) (CVE-2024-20953) to its known exploited vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on Monday. “These type of vulnerabilities are frequent…

Edge device vulnerabilities fueled attack sprees in 2024

Edge devices harboring zero-day and n-day vulnerabilities were linked to the most consequential attack campaigns last year, Darktrace said in an annual threat report released Wednesday. Darktrace’s threat researchers found the most frequent vulnerability exploits in customers’ instances of Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure appliances, along with firewall products from Fortinet and Palo…

Salt Typhoon remains active, hits more telecom networks via Cisco routers

Salt Typhoon, the Chinese nation-state threat group linked to a spree of attacks on U.S. and global telecom providers, remains active in its intrusion and has hit multiple additional networks worldwide, including two in the United States, Recorded Future said in a report released Thursday. Recorded Future’s Insikt Group observed seven compromised Cisco network devices communicating…

Russian state threat group shifts focus to US, UK targets

A subgroup of Seashell Blizzard has shifted its focus to targets in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the U.K. within the past year, expanding the scope of its malicious activity, Microsoft’s threat intelligence team said in a report released Wednesday. The initial-access operation, which Microsoft tracks as the “BadPilot campaign,” has allowed the Russian state…

Microsoft fixes 63 vulnerabilities, including 2 zero-days

Microsoft patched 63 vulnerabilities affecting some of its underlying systems and core products, the company said in its latest security update Tuesday, including Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Windows CoreMessaging and Windows Storage. More than two-thirds of the vulnerabilities covered in the update are high-severity flaws on the CVSS scale. Vulnerabilities with high-severity base scores run…

Infosec pros: We need CVSS, warts and all

A key pillar of a strong cybersecurity program is identifying vulnerabilities in the complex mix of software programs, packages, apps, and snippets driving all activities across an organization’s digital infrastructure. At the heart of spotting and fixing these flaws is the widely used Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), maintained by a nonprofit called the Forum…

Android security update includes patch for actively exploited vulnerability 

Google has addressed a total of 47 security vulnerabilities in its February update for the Android operating system, highlighted by the patching of a critical flaw that has reportedly been under active exploitation.  The primary focus of the security update is CVE-2024-53104, a high-severity vulnerability affecting the USB Video Class (UVC) driver in the Linux…

Apple’s latest patch closes zero-day affecting wide swath of products

Apple released software updates Monday, aimed at addressing multiple security vulnerabilities within its products, including a significant zero-day vulnerability.  Tracked as CVE-2025-24085, the flaw is a use-after-free vulnerability in the company’s Core Media component, a framework that manages audio and video playback and is central to many of Apple’s multimedia applications. The vulnerability poses a…

Cisco patches antivirus decommissioning bug as exploit code surfaces

Cisco has patched a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability affecting its open-source antivirus software toolkit, ClamAV, which already has a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code available to the public. Identified as CVE-2025-20128, the vulnerability stems from a heap-based buffer overflow in the Object Linking and Embedding 2 (OLE2) decryption routine, enabling unauthenticated remote attackers to cause a DoS…

Tarbomb Denial of Service via Path Traversal

As software applications are built and developed over the years, engineering teams continuously shift perspective on what features to prioritize or de-prioritize. A feature developed five years ago may have no significance today. However, features deemed low priority may still be kept operational for legacy, compatibility, or business requirement reasons. Praetorian discovered such a legacy…

Microsoft fixes 159 vulnerabilities in first Patch Tuesday of 2025

In its latest security update, Microsoft has addressed a total of 159 vulnerabilities, covering a broad spectrum of the tech giant’s products, including .NET, Visual Studio, Microsoft Excel, Windows components, and Azure services.  The update covers several critical and high-severity flaws across various systems, impacting Windows Telephony Services, Active Directory Domain Services, Microsoft Excel and…

CISA report touts cyber hygiene enrollment surge for critical infrastructure orgs

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has seen a surge in its Cyber Hygiene (CyHy) service enrollment from critical infrastructure organizations over a two-year period, with the communications sector representing the biggest jump. In a report released Friday, CISA said an analysis of the 7,791 critical infrastructure organizations enrolled in the agency’s vulnerability scanning service…

New zero-day exploit targets Ivanti VPN product

A year after a series of vulnerabilities impacting a pair of Ivanti VPN products prompted an emergency directive from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to federal agencies, the Utah-based software firm is again experiencing issues with one of its signature systems. The company on Wednesday disclosed two vulnerabilities — CVE-2025-0282 and CVE-2025-0283 — that…

Android patches several vulnerabilities in first security update of 2025

Android has released its first security update of the year, disclosing several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities that affect a wide range of Android devices.  The bulletin identifies five critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities affecting what Android categorizes as the “system,” which encompasses Android’s core components and underlying architecture. These vulnerabilities could allow attackers to…