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CISA issued seventeen advisories about Industrial Control Systems (ICS) on May 16, 2024. These advisories give important information about security problems, weaknesses, and attacks related to ICS. ICSA-24-137-01 Siemens Parasolid ICSA-24-137-02 Siemens SICAM Products ICSA-24-137-03 Siemens Teamcenter Visualization and JT2Go ICSA-24-137-04 Siemens Polarion ALM ICSA-24-137-05 Siemens Simcenter Nastran ICSA-24-137-06 Siemens …

CISA, FBI, HHS, and MS-ISAC released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory called #StopRansomware: Black Basta. It provides tactics, techniques, procedures, and indicators of compromise used by Black Basta ransomware affiliates, identified through FBI investigations and third-party reporting. Black Basta is a type of ransomware called ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS). It was discovered in …

Researchers found multiple vulnerabilities in various applications and system components on Xiaomi devices. “The vulnerabilities in Xiaomi led to access to arbitrary activities, receivers and services with system privileges, theft of arbitrary files with system privileges, [and] disclosure of phone, settings and Xiaomi account data,” The Hacker News report reads. …

The worm was first discovered in a 2023 post by security firm Sophos. It became active in 2019 when a variant of malware called PlugX added a feature to infect USB drives automatically. This allowed the malware to spread to new machines without needing any user interaction. Sekoia, a European …

Oracle announced 441 new security patches for its April 2024 Critical Patch Update, with over 200 of them fixing flaws that could be exploited by remote, unauthenticated attackers. Oracle’s advisory reported that about 230 unique CVEs were found in Oracle’s April 2024 CPU, with over 30 security patches addressing critical-severity …

CISA released four advisories about Industrial Control Systems (ICS) on April 16, 2024. They contain important information about security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits related to ICS. ICSA-24-107-01 Measuresoft ScadaPro ICSA-24-107-02 Electrolink FM/DAB/TV Transmitter ICSA-24-107-03 Rockwell Automation ControlLogix and GuardLogix ICSA-24-107-04 RoboDK RoboDK CISA encourages users and administrators to review the …

The Bitdefender GravityZone Update Server is vulnerable to server-side request forgery (SSRF) because of an incorrect regular expression. Bitdefender’s GravityZone: Bitdefender’s GravityZone Update Server has a critical vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.1. It could allow an attacker remote network access to compromise the server with low privileges. Bitdefender …

A critical zero-day vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS software. It is being used by attackers, but there are no patches to fix it yet. Palo Alto Networks issued an alert on April 12, 2024, thanking cybersecurity firm Volexity for discovering the flaw. There is a command injection vulnerability in …

CISA has ordered U.S. federal agencies to address risks from the breach of multiple Microsoft email accounts by the Russian APT29 hacking group. Emergency Directive 24-02 requires Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to investigate affected emails, reset any compromised credentials, and secure privileged Microsoft Azure accounts. CISA reports that …

ESET researchers found a spying campaign targeting Android users. The campaign uses fake messaging apps that include XploitSPY malware. The campaign, called eXotic Visit, has been active from November 2021 to the end of 2023. Malicious Android apps were distributed through targeted campaigns using dedicated websites and the Google Play …