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Injected malicious JavaScript code gives attackers administrator rights on websites, and fills sites with SEO spam.

Knowledge institutions with legacy infrastructure, limited resources, and digitized intellectual property must protect themselves from sophisticated and destructive cyberattacks.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to plead guilty to one count of espionage in US court on Wednesday, ending a years-long legal battle between the US government and a controversial publisher.

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 10.0 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: PTC Equipment: Creo Elements/Direct License Server Vulnerability: Missing Authorization 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1 AFFECTED PRODUCTS PTC reports that the following versions of Creo Elements/Direct License Server are affected; note that this vulnerability does not impact "Creo License server": Creo Elements/Direct License Server: Version 20.7.0.0 and prior 3.2 Vulnerability Overview 3.2.1 Missing Authorization CWE-122 Creo Elements Direct License Server exposes a web interface which can be used by unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands on the server. CVE-2024-6071 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3.1 base score of 10.0 has been calculated; the CVSS vector string is (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H...

Threat actors are exploiting a novel attack technique in the wild that leverages specially crafted management saved console (MSC) files to gain full code execution using Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and evade security defenses. Elastic Security Labs has codenamed the approach GrimResource after identifying an artifact ("sccm-updater.msc") that was uploaded to the VirusTotal malware

For a while, the botnet spread but did essentially nothing. All the malicious payloads came well after.

Multiple WordPress plugins have been backdoored to inject malicious code that makes it possible to create rogue administrator accounts with the aim of performing arbitrary actions. "The injected malware attempts to create a new administrative user account and then sends those details back to the attacker-controlled server," Wordfence security researcher Chloe Chamberland said in a Monday alert.

In the latest breaches, threat groups compromised telecommunications firms in at least two Asian nations, installing backdoors and possibly eavesdropping or pre-positioning for a future attack.

Daily operations at some 15,000 automotive dealers remain impacted as CDK works to restore its dealer management system, following what appears to be a ransomware attack last week.

AppSec is hard for traditional software development, let alone citizen developers. So how did two people resolve 70,000 vulnerabilities in three months?