#The Hacker News

As many as 11 security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Nagios network management systems, some of which could be chained to achieve pre-authenticated remote code execution with the highest privileges, as well as lead to credential theft and phishing attacks.  Industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty, which discovered the flaws, said flaws in tools such as Nagios make them an attractive<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/xeFHS3DnjBY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

Microsoft has opened the lid on a large-scale phishing-as-a-service (PHaaS) operation that's involved in selling phishing kits and email templates as well as providing hosting and automated services at a low cost, thus enabling cyber actors to purchase phishing campaigns and deploy them with minimal efforts. "With over 100 available phishing templates that mimic known brands and services, the<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/oor8QBAgjtY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

One of the determining factors of how much damage a cyber-attack cause is how fast organizations can respond to it. Time to response is critical for security teams, and it is a major hurdle for leaner teams. To help improve this metric and enhance organizations’ ability to respond to attacks quickly, many endpoint detection and response (EDR) and extended detection and response (XDR) vendors<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/ksXg3mvAbC0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Russian cryptocurrency exchange Suex for helping facilitate and launder transactions from at least eight ransomware variants as part of the government's efforts to crack down on a surge in ransomware incidents and make it difficult for bad actors to profit from such attacks using digital currencies. "Virtual currency exchanges such as<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/lEF7-AJSuc0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

Over the last several years, there have been numerous high-profile security breaches. These breaches have underscored the fact that traditional cyber defenses have become woefully inadequate and that stronger defenses are needed. As such, many organizations have transitioned toward a zero trust security model. A zero trust security model is based on the idea that no IT resource should be trusted<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/TD8dPwSf7Ds" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

VMware on Tuesday published a new bulletin warning of as many as 19 vulnerabilities in vCenter Server and Cloud Foundation appliances that a remote attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. The most urgent among them is an arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the Analytics service (CVE-2021-22005) that impacts vCenter Server 6.7 and 7.0 deployments. "A malicious actor with<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/r8ZzAQq3YU4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

Law enforcement agencies in Italy and Spain have dismantled an organized crime group linked to the Italian Mafia that was involved in online fraud, money laundering, drug trafficking, and property crime, netting the gang about €10 million ($11.7 million) in illegal proceeds in just a year. "The suspects defrauded hundreds of victims through phishing attacks and other types of online fraud such<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/CWRBbPKV_2E" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details of an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in macOS Finder that could be abused by remote adversaries to trick users into running arbitrary commands on the machines. "A vulnerability in macOS Finder allows files whose extension is inetloc to execute arbitrary commands, these files can be embedded inside emails which if the user clicks on them<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/9L96LFgOB5w" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

Unidentified threat actors breached a server running an unpatched, 11-year-old version of Adobe's ColdFusion 9 software in minutes to remotely take over control and deploy file-encrypting Cring ransomware on the target's network 79 hours after the hack. The server, which belonged to an unnamed services company, was used to collect timesheet and accounting data for payroll as well as to host a<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/USuDSvrWDUo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

A recently discovered wave of malware attacks has been spotted using a variety of tactics to enslave susceptible machines with easy-to-guess administrative credentials to co-opt them into a network with the goal of illegally mining cryptocurrency. "The malware's primary tactic is to spread by taking advantage of vulnerable systems and weak administrative credentials. Once they've been infected,<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHackersNews/~4/LNnBCXKL1w0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>