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Microsoft on Wednesday took the lid off a "novel and distinct Russian threat actor," which it said is linked to the General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) and has a "relatively low success rate." The tech giant's Threat Intelligence team, which was previously tracking the group under its emerging moniker DEV-0586, has graduated it to a named actor dubbed Cadet Blizzard. "Cadet

Attackers continue to attempt to steal Bitcoin and other virtual coins, with a 40% increase in phishing attacks and fourfold increase in incidents.

Microsoft says Cadet Blizzard wielded a custom wiper malware in the weeks leading up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and it remains capable of wanton destruction.

Potential vulnerabilities have been identified in the system BIOS of certain HP PC products, which might allow arbitrary code execution, escalation of privilege, denial of service, and information disclosure.

The Chinese state-sponsored group known as UNC3886 has been found to exploit a zero-day flaw in VMware ESXi hosts to backdoor Windows and Linux systems. The VMware Tools authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20867 (CVSS score: 3.9), "enabled the execution of privileged commands across Windows, Linux, and PhotonOS (vCenter) guest VMs without authentication of guest credentials

By paying attention to emerging threat intelligence, security leaders can be better prepared to defend against similar attack vectors in the future.

For the better part of the 90s and early aughts, the sysadmin handbook said, "Filter your incoming traffic, not everyone is nice out there" (later coined by Gandalf as "You shall not pass"). So CIOs started to supercharge their network fences with every appliance they could get to protect against inbound (aka INGRESS) traffic. In the wake of the first mass phishing campaigns in the early 2010s,

Unauth. IDOR vulnerability leading to PII Disclosure in WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway plugin <= 7.4.0 versions.

The MStore API plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to missing nonce validation on the mstore_update_limit_product function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update limit the number of product per category to use cache data in home screen via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

The MStore API plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to missing nonce validation on the mstore_update_status_order_message function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update status order message via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.