Apr 03, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Data Security Data storage devices maker Western Digital on Monday disclosed a “network security incident” that involved unauthorized access to its systems. The breach is said to have occurred on March 26, 2023, enabling an unnamed third party to gain access to a “number of the company’s systems.” Following
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Apr 01, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Vulnerability Critical security flaws in Cacti, Realtek, and IBM Aspera Faspex are being exploited by various threat actors in hacks targeting unpatched systems. This entails the abuse of CVE-2022-46169 (CVSS score: 9.8) and CVE-2021-35394 (CVSS score: 9.8) to deliver MooBot and ShellBot (aka PerlBot), Fortinet FortiGuard Labs said in
Apr 01, 2023Ravie LakshmananAzure / Active Directory Microsoft has patched a misconfiguration issue impacting the Azure Active Directory (AAD) identity and access management service that exposed several “high-impact” applications to unauthorized access. “One of these apps is a content management system (CMS) that powers Bing.com and allowed us to not only modify search results, but
Mar 31, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / APT The advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Winter Vivern is now targeting officials in Europe and the U.S. as part of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign. “TA473 since at least February 2023 has continuously leveraged an unpatched Zimbra vulnerability in publicly facing webmail portals that allows them
Mar 30, 2023Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Vulnerability Details have emerged about a now-patched vulnerability in Azure Service Fabric Explorer (SFX) that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2023-23383 (CVSS score: 8.2), the issue has been dubbed “Super FabriXss” by Orca Security, a nod to the FabriXss flaw (CVE-2022-35829, CVSS score: 6.2) that
Mar 29, 2023Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Mobile Security A number of zero-day vulnerabilities that were addressed last year were exploited by commercial spyware vendors to target Android and iOS devices, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has revealed. The two distinct campaigns were both limited and highly targeted, taking advantage of the patch gap between the release
Mar 28, 2023Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Cyber Threat Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled Security Copilot in preview, marking its continued push to embed AI-oriented features in an attempt to offer “end-to-end defense at machine speed and scale.” Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 generative AI and its own security-specific model, it’s billed as a security analysis tool that
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