Tag: advisory
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Elastic Defend for Windows Vulnerability Allows Threat Actors to Gain Elevated Access
Elastic has released a security advisory addressing a significant vulnerability in Elastic Defend that could allow attackers to escalate their privileges on Windows systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-37735, stems from improper preservation of file permissions in the Defend service and poses a serious risk to organizations relying on this endpoint protection platform. Field Details…
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Inside the Adversary’s Playbook: Credential Abuse, Cloud Intrusions, and Lateral Movement
Most cyber breaches begin quietly, with a simple mistake. A misconfigured cloud bucket, a phishing email that looks just real enough, or an employee who forgets to revoke access when leaving the company. The ColorTokens Threat Advisory team highlighted how these small cracks turn into serious breaches. There were insider threats in the financial sector,……
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Inside the Adversary’s Playbook: Credential Abuse, Cloud Intrusions, and Lateral Movement
Most cyber breaches begin quietly, with a simple mistake. A misconfigured cloud bucket, a phishing email that looks just real enough, or an employee who forgets to revoke access when leaving the company. The ColorTokens Threat Advisory team highlighted how these small cracks turn into serious breaches. There were insider threats in the financial sector,……
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Inside the Adversary’s Playbook: Credential Abuse, Cloud Intrusions, and Lateral Movement
Most cyber breaches begin quietly, with a simple mistake. A misconfigured cloud bucket, a phishing email that looks just real enough, or an employee who forgets to revoke access when leaving the company. The ColorTokens Threat Advisory team highlighted how these small cracks turn into serious breaches. There were insider threats in the financial sector,……
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Cisco Issues Critical Warning Over New Unified Contact Center Express Vulnerabilities
Cisco has issued an urgent security advisory detailing two critical vulnerabilities affecting its Unified Contact Center Express (Unified CCX) platform. The flaws, identified as CVE-2025-20354 and CVE-2025-20358, could allow unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, bypass authentication, and potentially gain root-level access to affected systems. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/cisco-warns-of-cve-2025-20354/
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Cisco Issues Critical Warning Over New Unified Contact Center Express Vulnerabilities
Cisco has issued an urgent security advisory detailing two critical vulnerabilities affecting its Unified Contact Center Express (Unified CCX) platform. The flaws, identified as CVE-2025-20354 and CVE-2025-20358, could allow unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, bypass authentication, and potentially gain root-level access to affected systems. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/cisco-warns-of-cve-2025-20354/
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Malicious npm packages contain Vidar infostealer
Typosquatting: One favorite tactic of threat actors trying to infect the open source software supply chain is typosquatting, the creation of packages with names similar to those of legitimate ones to trick unwitting developers searching for a particular library. For example, in 2018 a researcher found that threat actors had created phony libraries in the…
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Malicious npm packages contain Vidar infostealer
Typosquatting: One favorite tactic of threat actors trying to infect the open source software supply chain is typosquatting, the creation of packages with names similar to those of legitimate ones to trick unwitting developers searching for a particular library. For example, in 2018 a researcher found that threat actors had created phony libraries in the…
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Malicious npm packages contain Vidar infostealer
Typosquatting: One favorite tactic of threat actors trying to infect the open source software supply chain is typosquatting, the creation of packages with names similar to those of legitimate ones to trick unwitting developers searching for a particular library. For example, in 2018 a researcher found that threat actors had created phony libraries in the…
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Cisco Confirms Active Exploitation of Secure ASA and FTD RCE Vulnerability
Cisco has issued a critical warning about ongoing attacks targeting a severe remote code execution vulnerability affecting its Secure Firewall, Adaptive Security Appliance, and Threat Defense Software. The company updated its security advisory on November 5, 2025, revealing that threat actors have discovered a new attack variant capable of fully compromising devices on unpatched systems.…
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Microsoft Issues Alert: BitLocker Recovery Risk After October 2025 Updates
Microsoft has issued an urgent advisory for Windows users, confirming that a recent set of security updates released after October 14, 2025 may cause certain systems to boot into the BitLocker recovery screen upon restart. The issue, currently under active investigation, has resulted in user reports of unexpected prompts for BitLocker recovery keys following device…
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Microsoft Issues Alert: BitLocker Recovery Risk After October 2025 Updates
Microsoft has issued an urgent advisory for Windows users, confirming that a recent set of security updates released after October 14, 2025 may cause certain systems to boot into the BitLocker recovery screen upon restart. The issue, currently under active investigation, has resulted in user reports of unexpected prompts for BitLocker recovery keys following device…
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Microsoft Issues Alert: BitLocker Recovery Risk After October 2025 Updates
Microsoft has issued an urgent advisory for Windows users, confirming that a recent set of security updates released after October 14, 2025 may cause certain systems to boot into the BitLocker recovery screen upon restart. The issue, currently under active investigation, has resulted in user reports of unexpected prompts for BitLocker recovery keys following device…
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Bob Flores, Former CTO of the CIA, Joins Brinker
Delaware, United States, November 4th, 2025, CyberNewsWire Brinker, the narrative intelligence company dedicated to combating disinformation and influence campaigns, announced today that Bob Flores, former Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, has joined its advisory board. His appointment strengthens Brinker’s mission to transform the fight against disinformation, moving from detection to real-time,…
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Bob Flores, Former CTO of the CIA, Joins Brinker
Delaware, United States, November 4th, 2025, CyberNewsWire Brinker, the narrative intelligence company dedicated to combating disinformation and influence campaigns, announced today that Bob Flores, former Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, has joined its advisory board. His appointment strengthens Brinker’s mission to transform the fight against disinformation, moving from detection to real-time,…
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CISA Issues Advisory on XWiki Flaw Allowing Remote Code Execution
Tags: advisory, authentication, cisa, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, injection, kev, remote-code-execution, risk, threat, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical vulnerability affecting XWiki Platform to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, highlighting the urgent security threat posed by an eval injection flaw. This vulnerability could allow any guest user to execute arbitrary remote code without authentication, representing a severe risk to organizations using the popular…
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CISA Issues Advisory on XWiki Flaw Allowing Remote Code Execution
Tags: advisory, authentication, cisa, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, injection, kev, remote-code-execution, risk, threat, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical vulnerability affecting XWiki Platform to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, highlighting the urgent security threat posed by an eval injection flaw. This vulnerability could allow any guest user to execute arbitrary remote code without authentication, representing a severe risk to organizations using the popular…
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Jenkins Flaws Expose SAML Authentication Bypass and MCP Server Plugin Weaknesses
Tags: advisory, authentication, automation, credentials, cyber, flaw, infrastructure, threat, vulnerabilityJenkins automation server users face critical security threats following the disclosure of 14 distinct vulnerabilities spanning multiple plugins. The security advisory reveals a widespread pattern of authentication bypass mechanisms, missing permission enforcement, and credential exposure issues that collectively put enterprise CI/CD infrastructure at serious risk. SAML Authentication Bypass Threatens User Sessions The most critical flaw…
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Jenkins Flaws Expose SAML Authentication Bypass and MCP Server Plugin Weaknesses
Tags: advisory, authentication, automation, credentials, cyber, flaw, infrastructure, threat, vulnerabilityJenkins automation server users face critical security threats following the disclosure of 14 distinct vulnerabilities spanning multiple plugins. The security advisory reveals a widespread pattern of authentication bypass mechanisms, missing permission enforcement, and credential exposure issues that collectively put enterprise CI/CD infrastructure at serious risk. SAML Authentication Bypass Threatens User Sessions The most critical flaw…
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New BIND 9 Security Flaw (CVE-2025-40778) Threatens Global DNS Infrastructure
A newly disclosed security flaw has put more than 706,000 BIND 9 DNS resolvers worldwide at risk of cache poisoning attacks, according to an advisory published by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) on October 22, 2025. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-40778, carries a CVSS v3.1 severity score of 8.6 (High) and could enable remote attackers to inject forged DNS records into resolver caches.…
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Beratungsdienste als Teil der Schutzstrategie – Sophos will mit Advisory Services Cyber-Resilienz stärken
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/sophos-will-mit-advisory-services-cyber-resilienz-staerken-a-d53287b3e99cae50f202e37ab6d27803/
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Oracle October 2025 Critical Patch Update Addresses 170 CVEs
Oracle addresses 170 CVEs in its final quarterly update of 2025 with 374 patches, including 40 critical updates. Background On October 21, Oracle released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for October 2025, the fourth and final quarterly update of the year. This CPU contains fixes for 170 unique CVEs in 374 security updates across 29…
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Critical ASP.NET core vulnerability earns Microsoft’s highest-ever severity score
The CVSS confusion: Despite Dorrans’ cautious assessment of the actual risk, the 9.9 CVSS rating has caused considerable confusion among developers, with many questioning whether the vulnerability truly warrants such an extreme severity score.Dorrans addressed this directly in the GitHub discussion, explaining that Microsoft’s scoring methodology accounts for worst-case scenarios.”On its own for ASP.NET Core,”…