Vulnerabilities

Orange’s CERT Coordination Center discovered over 34.5K Cisco IOS XE devices compromised in CVE-2023-20198 attacks. Hackers have used a newly discovered and very serious software vulnerability to hack and infect more than 10,000 Cisco IOS XE devices with harmful software. VulnCheck, a threat intelligence company, reported that a severe vulnerability …

Cisco has discovered a vulnerability in the web UI feature of Cisco IOS XE Software. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to create an account with high privileges on an affected system. They can then use this account to take control of the system. For steps to close the attack vector …

Thanks to improvements in security mechanisms and mitigations, hacking cell phones — both running iOS and Android — has become an expensive endeavor. That’s why hacking techniques for apps like WhatsApp are now worth millions of dollars, TechCrunch has learned. Last week, a Russian company that buys zero-days — flaws …

Apple released security updates on Wednesday to fix a new vulnerability in iOS and iPadOS. This vulnerability is being actively exploited by attackers. According to Aplle support page, the company traced two CVE as CVE-2023-42824 and CVE-2023-5217 for iOS 17.0.3 and iPadOS 17.0.3. According to Apple, Kernel Available for: iPhone …

ZeroFont Phishing is a new yet old technique for sending Phishing emails. It allows threat actors to bypass security mechanisms and successfully send phishing emails. Using this technique, attackers were able to evade Microsoft’s Natural Language Processing, which was serving as portion against phishing emails for Office users. Office 365 …

Air Canada, the national airline of Canada, has acknowledged a “brief” breach in its security controls. Air Canada confirmed that an incident occurred, but they did not give details about when or how much personal information was accessed by the attacker. “An unauthorized group briefly obtained limited access to an …

Bassem Bazzoun, a security researcher awarded for $25,300 and ranked 2nd place on the conference Leaderboard for discovering a Two-Factor Authentication bypass in Facebook during Meta bug bounty Researchers conference in Seoul, South Korea, 2023. If you’re curious about the technical details of how he managed to bypass Facebook’s two-factor …

A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has uploaded to the Chrome Web Store a proof-of-concept extension that can steal plaintext passwords from a website’s source code. An examination of the text input fields in web browsers revealed that the coarse-grained permission model underpinning Chrome extensions violates the principles …

A SAML token signature bypass vulnerability in VMware Tools was responsibly reported to VMware with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 7.5. Updates are available to remediate this vulnerability in the affected VMware products. Click here to read full report.

The National Safety Council has leaked nearly 10,000 emails and passwords of their members, exposing 2000 companies, including governmental organizations and big corporations. The National Safety Council (NSC) is a non-profit organization in the United States providing workplace and driving safety training. On its digital platform, NSC provides online resources …