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About Elevation of Privilege – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-9474) vulnerability

About Elevation of Privilege – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-9474) vulnerability. An attacker with PAN-OS administrator access to the management web interface can perform actions on the Palo Alto device with root privileges. Linux commands can be injected via unvalidated input in script. The need for authentication and admin access could limit this vulnerability’s impact, but here we […]

Alexander V. Leonov
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New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#9): 4 trending vulnerabilities of October, scandal at The Linux Foundation, social “attack on the complainer”, “Ford’s method” for motivating IT specialists to fix vulnerabilities

New episode “In The Trend of VM” (#9): 4 trending vulnerabilities of October, scandal at The Linux Foundation, social “attack on the complainer”, “Ford’s method” for motivating IT specialists to fix vulnerabilities. The competition for the best question on the topic of VM continues. 😉🎁 📹 Video on YouTube, LinkedIn🗞 Post on Habr (rus)🗒 Digest […]

About Authentication Bypass – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-0012) vulnerability

About Authentication Bypass – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-0012) vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with network access to the Palo Alto device web management interface could gain PAN-OS administrator privileges to perform administrative actions, tamper with the configuration, or exploit other authenticated vulnerabilities. Firewalls of the PA, VM, CN series and the Panorama management platform are vulnerable. The vendor […]

Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier

Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data storage company Snowflake, but a third suspect -- a prolific hacker known as Kiberphant0m -- remains at large and continues to publicly extort victims. However, this person's identity may not remain a secret for long: A careful review of Kiberphant0m's daily chats across multiple cybercrime personas suggests they are a U.S. Army soldier who is or was recently stationed in South Korea.

Feds Charge Five Men in ‘Scattered Spider’ Roundup

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of cyber intrusions at major U.S. technology companies between 2021 and 2023, including LastPass, MailChimp, Okta, T-Mobile and Twilio.

November Linux Patch Wednesday

November Linux Patch Wednesday. I was happy in October that the number of vulnerabilities was gradually decreasing to an acceptable level, and in November I got a peak again. A total of 803 vulnerabilities. Of these, 567 are in the Linux Kernel. Kind of crazy. 😱 2 vulnerabilities in Chromium with signs of exploitation in […]

Fintech Giant Finastra Investigating Data Breach

The financial technology firm Finastra is investigating the alleged large-scale theft of information from its internal file transfer platform, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Finastra, which provides software and services to 45 of the world's top 50 banks, notified customers of a potential breach after a cybercriminal began selling more than 400 gigabytes of data purportedly stolen from the company.

About Remote Code Execution – FortiManager “FortiJump” (CVE-2024-47575) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution – FortiManager “FortiJump” (CVE-2024-47575) vulnerability. FortiManager is a centralized solution for configuring, enforcing policies, updating, and monitoring Fortinet network devices. 🔻 The vulnerability was released on October 23. A missing authentication for critical function in the FortiManager fgfmd (FortiGate-to-FortiManager) daemon allows remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or commands via specially […]

About the Remote Code Execution – FortiManager “FortiJump” (CVE-2024-47575) vulnerability

About the Remote Code Execution – FortiManager “FortiJump” (CVE-2024-47575) vulnerability. FortiManager is a centralized solution for configuring, enforcing policies, updating, and monitoring Fortinet network devices. 🔻 The vulnerability was released on October 23. A missing authentication for critical function in the FortiManager fgfmd (FortiGate-to-FortiManager) daemon allows remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or commands via […]

On November 13, NIST NVD finally admitted the obvious: they had failed to process the CVE analysis backlog before the end of the fiscal year (September 30)

On November 13, NIST NVD finally admitted the obvious: they had failed to process the CVE analysis backlog before the end of the fiscal year (September 30). This is actually visible in their own statistics. At the moment, there are 19860 identifiers in the backlog. This week, 1136 new CVEs were received, and they analyzed […]