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Hacker allegedly exploiting two popular vulnerabilities to attack U.S. defense contractors, U.K. government entities and institutions in Asia, according to new report by Google owned security firm Mandiant. The report focused on UNC5174, a threat actor. According to Mandiant, UNC5174 used to be a member of Chinese hacktivist groups. However, …

CISA, FBI, and MS-ISAC updated a guide to help organizations defend against DDoS attacks. The guidance now includes detailed insight into three different types of DDoS techniques: Volumetric, attacks aiming to consume available bandwidth. Protocol, attacks which exploit vulnerabilities in network protocols. Application, attacks targeting vulnerabilities in specific applications or …

Security researchers created a demonstration of a critical flaw in Fortinet’s FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) software. The security flaw CVE-2023-48788 is an SQL injection in the DB2 Administration Server (DAS) discovered and reported by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). It impacts FortiClient EMS versions 7.0 (7.0.1-7.0.10) and …