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The ransomware industry surged in 2023 as it saw an alarming 55.5% increase in victims worldwide, reaching a staggering 4,368 cases.  Figure 1: Year over year victims per quarter The rollercoaster ride from explosive growth in 2021 to a momentary dip in 2022 was just a teaser—2023 roared back with the same fervor as 2021, propelling existing groups and ushering in a wave of formidable

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202401-18 - A vulnerability has been found in zlib that can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow. Versions greater than or equal to 1.2.13-r2 are affected.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202401-17 - A vulnerability has been found in libgit2 which could result in privilege escalation. Versions greater than or equal to 1.4.4 are affected.

Korenix JetNet Series allows TFTP without authentication and also allows for unauthenticated firmware upgrades.

By Deeba Ahmed The attacks, potentially linked to Russian APT Sandworm, exploited vulnerabilities in Zyxel firewalls. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Forescout Report Uncovers New Details in Danish Energy Hack

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Bosch BCC100 thermostats and Rexroth NXA015S-36V-B smart nutrunners that, if successfully exploited, could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender, which discovered the flaw in Bosch BCC100 thermostats last August, said the issue could be weaponized by an attacker to

Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-0208-03 - An update for openssl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202401-16 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in FreeRDP, the worst of which could result in code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 2.11.0 are affected.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202401-15 - A vulnerability has been found in Prometheus SNMP Exporter which could allow for authentication bypass. Versions greater than or equal to 0.24.1 are affected.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5601-1 - Fabian Baeumer, Marcus Brinkmann and Joerg Schwenk discovered that the SSH protocol is prone to a prefix truncation attack, known as the "Terrapin attack". This attack allows a MITM attacker to effect a limited break of the integrity of the early encrypted SSH transport protocol by sending extra messages prior to the commencement of encryption, and deleting an equal number of consecutive messages immediately after encryption starts.