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As many as 2,000 Palo Alto Networks devices are estimated to have been compromised as part of a campaign abusing the newly disclosed security flaws that have come under active exploitation in the wild. According to statistics shared by the Shadowserver Foundation, a majority of the infections have been reported in the U.S. (554) and India (461), followed by Thailand (80), Mexico (48), Indonesia
The China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Gelsemium has been observed using a new Linux backdoor dubbed WolfsBane as part of cyber attacks likely targeting East and Southeast Asia. That's according to findings from cybersecurity firm ESET based on multiple Linux samples uploaded to the VirusTotal platform from Taiwan, the Philippines, and Singapore in March 2023.
This Metasploit module leverages an unauthenticated remote command execution vulnerability in Ivanti's EPM Agent Portal where an RPC client can invoke a method which will run an attacker-specified string on the remote target as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. This vulnerability is present in versions prior to EPM 2021.1 Su4 and EPM 2022 Su2.
Judge0 does not account for symlinks placed inside the sandbox directory, which can be leveraged by an attacker to write to arbitrary files and gain code execution outside of the sandbox.
Wireshark is a GTK+-based network protocol analyzer that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality analyzer for Unix and Win32 and to give Wireshark features that are missing from closed-source sniffers. This is the source code release.
Sysdig Falco is a behavioral activity monitoring agent that is open source and comes with native support for containers. Falco lets you define highly granular rules to check for activities involving file and network activity, process execution, IPC, and much more, using a flexible syntax. Falco will notify you when these rules are violated. You can think about Falco as a mix between snort, ossec and strace.
Ubuntu Security Notice 7118-1 - It was discovered that ZBar did not properly handle certain QR codes. If a user or automated system using ZBar were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this to obtain sensitive information. It was discovered that ZBar did not properly handle certain QR codes. If a user or automated system using ZBar were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this to obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
Ubuntu Security Notice 7091-2 - USN-7091-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Ruby. This update provides the corresponding update for ruby2.7 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled parsing of an XML document that has specific XML characters in an attribute value using REXML gem. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled parsing of an XML document that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a denial of service. It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled parsing of an XML document that has many digits in a hex numeric character reference. An attacker could use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
The future of cybersecurity isn't about preventing every breach — it's about learning and growing stronger with each attack.
When a cybersecurity incident occurs, it's not just IT systems and data that are at risk — a company's reputation is on the line, too.