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Daily Cybersecurity Update, June-23, 2023

An unsecured database belonging to RateForce ended up exposing 93.93 GB of personal information of users. This is a reminder to secure your cloud buckets. We also have two more victims of the MOVEit ransomware attack. This time, it is the largest public pension fund in the U.S. and an insurance firm. In other news, there is an update on the Dole ransomware attack that took place in February this year. The corporation disclosed the number of impacted individuals. Read on to know more.

RateForce Data Leak

FBI investigating cyberattack at Oracle, Bloomberg News reports

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is probing the cyberattack at Oracle (ORCL.N), opens new tab that has led to...
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FBI investigating cyberattack at Oracle, Bloomberg News reports

OpenAI Offering $100K Bounties for Critical Vulns

OpenAI has increased its maximum bug bounty payout to $100,000, up from $20,000, to encourage the discovery of critical vulnerabilities...
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OpenAI Offering $100K Bounties for Critical Vulns

Splunk Alert User RCE and Data Leak Vulns

Splunk has released a security advisory about critical vulnerabilities in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform. These issues could lead...
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Splunk Alert User RCE and Data Leak Vulns

CIRT alert Situational Awareness for Eid Holidays

As the Eid holidays near, cybercriminals may try to take advantage of weakened security during this time. The CTI unit...
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CIRT alert Situational Awareness for Eid Holidays

Cyberattack on Malaysian airports: PM rejected $10 million ransom

Operations at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) were unaffected by a cyber attack in which hackers demanded US$10 million (S$13.4...
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Cyberattack on Malaysian airports: PM rejected $10 million ransom

Micropatches released for Windows zero-day leaking NTLM hashes

Unofficial patches are available for a new Windows zero-day vulnerability that allows remote attackers to steal NTLM credentials by deceiving...
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Micropatches released for Windows zero-day leaking NTLM hashes

VMware Patches Authentication Bypass Flaw in Windows Tool

On Tuesday, VMware issued an urgent fix for a security flaw in its VMware Tools for Windows. CVE-2025-22230 allows a...
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VMware Patches Authentication Bypass Flaw in Windows Tool

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Over 40% of cloud environments are vulnerable to RCE

Kubernetes users of the Ingress NGINX Controller are advised to fix four newly found remote code execution ( RCE) vulnerabilities,...
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IngressNightmare  Over 40% of cloud environments are vulnerable to RCE

(CVE-2025-29927)
Urgently Patch Your Next.js for Authorization Bypass

Next.js, a widely used React framework for building full-stack web applications, has fixed a serious security vulnerability. Used by many...
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(CVE-2025-29927)  Urgently Patch Your Next.js for Authorization Bypass

Oracle refutes breach after hacker claims 6 million data theft

A hacker known as “rose87168” claims to have stolen six million records from Oracle Cloud servers. The stolen data includes...
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Oracle refutes breach after hacker claims 6 million data theft

An unsecured database belonging to the U.S. auto insurance price comparison site RateForce leaked 255,756 records (93.93 GB) containing scans and images of vehicle registrations, driver’s licenses, state Medicaid health coverage cards, and others.

MOVEit Ransomware Attacks

The MOVEit ransomware attack has claimed two more victims: the largest public pension fund in the U.S. and an insurance firm. The attack on the pension fund compromised the personal data of 2.5 million Genworth Financial policyholders, while the attack on the insurance firm compromised the personal information, including Social Security numbers, of 769,000 retired California state employees.

GitHub RepoJacking

Aqua Nautilus has warned that millions of GitHub repositories are potentially vulnerable to RepoJacking, a type of attack that steals sensitive data from repositories. Some vulnerable repositories belong to Google, Lyft, and other anonymous firms.

New JS Dropper Variant

Deep Instinct has spotted a new variant of JS dropper, named PindOS, that is deploying next-stage payloads such as IcedID and Bumblebee. These malware, in turn, serve as loaders for other malware, including ransomware.

Dole Ransomware Attack Update

Dole has confirmed that the February ransomware attack compromised the names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, passport numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, and other employment information of 3,885 employees.

Chinese APT Groups Exploit Microsoft Office Vulnerability

SentinelOne has revealed that Chinese APT groups exploited a 17-year-old Microsoft Office vulnerability to launch malware attacks against foreign government officials who attended a G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan.

NIST Creates First-Ever Cybersecurity Framework for Water Infrastructure

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is creating the first-ever cybersecurity framework for water infrastructure to address unique cyber challenges impacting America’s complex water systems.

Microsoft Discovers Cryptomining Campaign

Microsoft has discovered a cryptomining campaign targeting IoT devices and internet-facing Linux systems. The attackers are using a backdoor that deploys a broad range of tools and an IRC bot to steal device resources for mining.

NSA Issues Guidance on Defending Against BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit Malware

The National Security Agency (NSA) has issued guidance on defending against BlackLotus UEFI bootkit malware attacks. The guidance recommends that system administrators apply the latest security updates, update recovery media, and customize UEFI Secure Boot to block older signed Windows boot loaders.

Unit 42 Researchers Observe Mirai Botnet Variant

Unit 42 researchers have observed a variant of the Mirai botnet that is targeting multiple vulnerabilities in popular IoT devices, with a focus on D-Link, Zyxel, and Netgear devices. The variant has been identified in two ongoing campaigns that started on March 14 and spiked in April and June.

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