Starting January 10, 2024, multiple parties (Ivanti, Volexity, and Mandiant) disclosed the existence of a zero-day exploit chain affecting Ivanti Connect Secur…
Active Exploitation of Two Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure VPN
Volexity has uncovered active in-the-wild exploitation of two vulnerabilities allowing unauthenticated remote code execution in Ivanti Connect Secure VPN appliances. An official security advisory and knowledge base article have been released by Ivanti that includes mitigation that should be applied immediately. However, a mitigation does not remedy a past or ongoing compromise. Systems should simultaneously be thoroughly analyzed per details in this post to look for signs of a breach.
Hackers exploit critical flaw in WordPress Royal Elementor plugin
A critical severity vulnerability impacting Royal Elementor Addons and Templates up to version 1.3.78 is reported to be actively exploited by two WordPress security teams.
CVE: Zero-Day Privilege Escalation in Confluence Server & Data Center
On 10/4/2023, Atlassian published a security advisory on CVE-2023-22515, a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Confluence Server & Data Center.
New Apple Zero-Days Exploited to Target Egyptian ex-MP with Predator Spyware
The three zero-day flaws addressed by Apple on September 21, 2023, were leveraged as part of an iPhone exploit chain in an attempt to deliver a spyware strain called Predator targeting former Egyptian member of parliament Ahmed Eltantawy between May and September 2023. "The targeting took place after Eltantawy publicly stated his plans to run for President in the 2024 Egyptian elections," the Citizen Lab said, attributing the attack with high confidence to the Egyptian government owing to it being a known customer of the commercial spying tool.
Apple emergency updates fix 3 new zero-days exploited in attacks
Apple released emergency security updates to patch three new zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks targeting iPhone and Mac users, for a total of 16 zero-days patched this year.
App Management is a new macOS security feature in Ventura introduced at WWDC last year: If an app is modified by something that isn't signed by the same development team and isn't allowed by an NSUpdateSecurityPolicy, macOS will block the modification and notify the user that an app wants to manage other apps. Clicking on the notification sends people to System Settings, where they can allow an app to update and modify other apps.
Trustwave Action Response: Zero Day Exploitation of MOVEit (CVE-2023-34362)
On May 31, threat actors were discovered targeting a critical zero day in MOVEit Transfer software resulting in escalated privileges and unauthorized data access. The vulnerability being exploited is an SQL injection and has since been patched. Resources links, including one for the patch, are at the bottom of this post.
Project Zero: Multiple Internet to Baseband Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Exynos Modems
In late 2022 and early 2023, Project Zero reported eighteen 0-day vulnerabilities in Exynos Modems produced by Samsung Semiconductor. The four most severe of these eighteen vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-24033 and three other vulnerabilities that have yet to be assigned CVE-IDs) allowed for Internet-to-baseband remote code execution. Tests conducted by Project Zero confirm that those four vulnerabilities allow an attacker to remotely compromise a phone at the baseband level with no user interaction, and require only that the attacker know the victim's phone number. With limited additional research and development, we believe that skilled attackers would be able to quickly create an operational exploit to compromise affected devices silently and remotely.
Microsoft’s March 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 76 CVEs (CVE-2023-23397)
Microsoft’s March 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 76 CVEs (CVE-2023-23397)Microsoft addresses 76 CVEs including two zero-days exploited in the wild, one of which was publicly disclosed.
Rogue CyberSecurity Company Employee Tried To Sell Powerful, Stolen iPhone Malware For $50-Million
An employee of cyberweapon manufacturer, NSO Group, tried to sell advanced malware to unauthorized parties for $50-Million, according to an Israeli indictment unsealed last week against the individual in question. About two years ago, Herzliya-based NSO Group developed a powerful cyberweapon called Pegasus, which operated as malware that exploited three previously unknown vulnerabilities in iPhones […]
Project Zero: Multiple Internet to Baseband Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Exynos Modems
In late 2022 and early 2023, Project Zero reported eighteen 0-day vulnerabilities in Exynos Modems produced by Samsung Semiconductor. The four most severe of these eighteen vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-24033 and three other vulnerabilities that have yet to be assigned CVE-IDs) allowed for Internet-to-baseband remote code execution. Tests conducted by Project Zero confirm that those four vulnerabilities allow an attacker to remotely compromise a phone at the baseband level with no user interaction, and require only that the attacker know the victim's phone number. With limited additional research and development, we believe that skilled attackers would be able to quickly create an operational exploit to compromise affected devices silently and remotely.
Microsoft’s March 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 76 CVEs (CVE-2023-23397)
Microsoft’s March 2023 Patch Tuesday Addresses 76 CVEs (CVE-2023-23397)Microsoft addresses 76 CVEs including two zero-days exploited in the wild, one of which was publicly disclosed.
Rogue CyberSecurity Company Employee Tried To Sell Powerful, Stolen iPhone Malware For $50-Million
An employee of cyberweapon manufacturer, NSO Group, tried to sell advanced malware to unauthorized parties for $50-Million, according to an Israeli indictment unsealed last week against the individual in question. About two years ago, Herzliya-based NSO Group developed a powerful cyberweapon called Pegasus, which operated as malware that exploited three previously unknown vulnerabilities in iPhones […]