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Telecommunication providers in the Middle East are the subject of new cyber attacks that commenced in the first quarter of 2023. The intrusion set has been attributed to a Chinese cyber espionage actor associated with a long-running campaign dubbed Operation Soft Cell based on tooling overlaps. "The initial attack phase involves infiltrating Internet-facing Microsoft Exchange servers to deploy

An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup before 10.0 on Windows. A vulnerability in the way the client validates the path to a DLL prior to loading may allow a lower-level user to elevate privileges and compromise the system.

IS Decisions UserLock MFA 11.01 is vulnerable to authentication bypass using scheduled task.

Image-editing tools from Google and Microsoft contain the “aCropalypse” bug, which can reveal information users intentionally removed.

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MiroTalk P2P before commit f535b35 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the Name parameter under the settings module.

A new Tech Insight report examines how the enterprise attack surface is expanding and how organizations must deal with vulnerabilities in emerging technologies.

Emotet resumed spamming operations on March 7, 2023, after a months-long hiatus. Initially leveraging heavily padded Microsoft Word documents to attempt to evade sandbox analysis and endpoint protection, the botnets switched to distributing malicious OneNote documents on March 16. Since returning, Emotet has leveraged several distinct infection chains, indicating that

Nearly 20% of the zero-day flaws that attackers exploited in 2022 were in network, security, and IT management products, Mandiant says.

The North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) actor dubbed ScarCruft is using weaponized Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM) files to download additional malware. According to multiple reports from AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC), SEKOIA.IO, and Zscaler, the findings are illustrative of the group's continuous efforts to refine and retool its tactics to sidestep detection. "