Tag: exploit
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React2Shell is the Log4j moment for front end development
What to look for: In an attack tracked by S-RM, immediately after the threat actor gained access to a targeted company’s network, they ran a hidden PowerShell command, establishing command and control (C2) by downloading a Cobalt Strike PowerShell stager, a tactic regularly used by red teamers, and installing a beacon to allow them to…
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The Agentic Era is Here: Announcing the 4th Edition of AI API Security For Dummies
If you look at the headlines, the story is about Artificial Intelligence. But if you look at the architecture, the story is about APIs. The reality of modern tech is simple: You can’t have AI security without API security. As we move rapidly from simple chatbots to autonomous agents, the way we secure our infrastructure…
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Chinese Hackers Exploited a Zero-Day in Cisco Email Security Systems
Cisco disclosed that a China-linked hacking group exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in its email security products, allowing attackers to compromise systems that sit at the center of enterprise email traffic. The flaw affected Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Secure Email and Web Manager appliances running AsyncOS and was actively exploited before public disclosure. The……
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Chinese Hackers Exploited a Zero-Day in Cisco Email Security Systems
Cisco disclosed that a China-linked hacking group exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in its email security products, allowing attackers to compromise systems that sit at the center of enterprise email traffic. The flaw affected Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Secure Email and Web Manager appliances running AsyncOS and was actively exploited before public disclosure. The……
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The Agentic Era is Here: Announcing the 4th Edition of AI API Security For Dummies
If you look at the headlines, the story is about Artificial Intelligence. But if you look at the architecture, the story is about APIs. The reality of modern tech is simple: You can’t have AI security without API security. As we move rapidly from simple chatbots to autonomous agents, the way we secure our infrastructure…
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Chinese Hackers Targeting Cisco Email Gateways
Cisco Talos Attributes Campaign to UAT-9686. Likely Chinese nation-state hackers are exploiting an unpatched flaw in Cisco email appliances as part of an ongoing campaign to gain persistent access. Hackers have been exploiting since mid-November a zero-day in the Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Breach Roundup: Coupang Breach Sparks Leadership Shakeup
Also: Texas AG Sues Smart TV Manufacturers, Fortinet SSO Flaws. This week, a leadership shakeup at Coupang, attackers exploited critical Fortinet SSO flaws, Pornhub data hacked, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued smart TV makers, auto finance provider 700Credit disclosed a breach affecting millions, A revived pro-Russia ransomware operation stumbled. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Beyond Rules and Alerts: How Behavioral Threat Analytics Redefines Modern Cyber Defense
Executive Summary Modern cyber adversaries no longer depend on loud malware, obvious exploits, or easily identifiable indicators of compromise. Instead, they leverage legitimate credentials, trusted tools, and native system functions to operate silently within enterprise environments. These attacks are deliberately designed to resemble normal business activity, rendering traditional detection methods ineffective. Behavioral Threat Analytics (BTA)…
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Cisco customers hit by fresh wave of zero-day attacks from China-linked APT
Cisco has yet to release a patch for the actively exploited vulnerability, and attacks have been underway since at least late November. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/cisco-zero-day-attacks-china-apt/
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NDSS 2025 PhantomLiDAR: Cross-Modality Signal Injection Attacks Against LiDAR
Session 6C: Sensor Attacks Authors, Creators & Presenters: Zizhi Jin (Zhejiang University), Qinhong Jiang (Zhejiang University), Xuancun Lu (Zhejiang University), Chen Yan (Zhejiang University), Xiaoyu Ji (Zhejiang University), Wenyuan Xu (Zhejiang University) PAPER PhantomLiDAR: Cross-Modality Signal Injection Attacks Against LiDAR LiDAR is a pivotal sensor for autonomous driving, offering precise 3D spatial information. Previous signal…
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NDSS 2025 PhantomLiDAR: Cross-Modality Signal Injection Attacks Against LiDAR
Session 6C: Sensor Attacks Authors, Creators & Presenters: Zizhi Jin (Zhejiang University), Qinhong Jiang (Zhejiang University), Xuancun Lu (Zhejiang University), Chen Yan (Zhejiang University), Xiaoyu Ji (Zhejiang University), Wenyuan Xu (Zhejiang University) PAPER PhantomLiDAR: Cross-Modality Signal Injection Attacks Against LiDAR LiDAR is a pivotal sensor for autonomous driving, offering precise 3D spatial information. Previous signal…
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NDSS 2025 PhantomLiDAR: Cross-Modality Signal Injection Attacks Against LiDAR
Session 6C: Sensor Attacks Authors, Creators & Presenters: Zizhi Jin (Zhejiang University), Qinhong Jiang (Zhejiang University), Xuancun Lu (Zhejiang University), Chen Yan (Zhejiang University), Xiaoyu Ji (Zhejiang University), Wenyuan Xu (Zhejiang University) PAPER PhantomLiDAR: Cross-Modality Signal Injection Attacks Against LiDAR LiDAR is a pivotal sensor for autonomous driving, offering precise 3D spatial information. Previous signal…
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) fixed maximum severity OneView flaw
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) fixed a critical OneView flaw that could allow attackers to achieve remote code execution. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) addressed a maximum-severity security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-37164 (CVSS score of 10.0), in OneView Software. An attacker can exploit the flaw to achieve remote code execution. HPE OneView is an integrated IT management…
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Actively Exploited ASUS Vulnerability Added to CISA’s KEV List
Tags: attack, cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, infrastructure, kev, malicious, software, supply-chain, update, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical ASUS vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, signaling active exploitation in the wild. CVE-2025-59374 affects ASUS Live Update software and stems from a sophisticated supply chain compromise that embedded malicious code into legitimate software distributions. Supply Chain Attack Details The vulnerability involves…
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TruffleNet and Cloud Abuse at Scale: An Identity Architecture Failure
The recent TruffleNet campaign, first documented by Fortinet, highlights a familiar and uncomfortable truth for security leaders: some of the most damaging cloud attacks aren’t exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities. They’re exploiting identity models that were never designed for the scale and automation of modern cloud environments. Nothing about this attack was novel. That’s precisely the problem….…
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TruffleNet and Cloud Abuse at Scale: An Identity Architecture Failure
The recent TruffleNet campaign, first documented by Fortinet, highlights a familiar and uncomfortable truth for security leaders: some of the most damaging cloud attacks aren’t exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities. They’re exploiting identity models that were never designed for the scale and automation of modern cloud environments. Nothing about this attack was novel. That’s precisely the problem….…
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‘Fake Proof’ and AI Slop Hobble Defenders
In the React2Shell saga, nonworking and trivial proof-of-concept exploits led to confusion and perhaps a false sense of security. Can the onslaught of PoCs be tamed? First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/fake-proof-ai-slop-hobble-defenders
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Chinese attackers exploiting zero-day to target Cisco email security products
Chinese hackers have been exploiting a vulnerability in a popular Cisco email management tool since late November, the company said in an advisory. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/chinese-attackers-zero-day
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China-linked hackers exploit insecure setting in Cisco security products
The company urged customers to immediately reconfigure affected products. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisco-china-cyberattacks-asyncos-configuration/808258/
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Cisco says China-linked hackers exploiting insecure setting in security products
The company urged customers to immediately reconfigure affected products. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisco-china-cyberattacks-asyncos-configuration/808258/
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OAuth Device Code Phishing Campaigns Surge Targets Microsoft 365
A surge in phishing attacks exploiting Microsoft’s OAuth device code flow has been identified by Proofpoint First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/oauth-phishing-campaigns/
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Another bad week for SonicWall as SMA 1000 zero-day under active exploit
Flaw in remote-access appliance lets attackers chain bugs for root-level takeover First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/12/18/sonicwall_sma_1000_0day/
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HPE OneView Flaw Rated CVSS 10.0 Allows Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Tags: control, cve, cvss, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, remote-code-execution, software, vulnerabilityHewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has resolved a maximum-severity security flaw in OneView Software that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution.The critical vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-37164, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. HPE OneView is an IT infrastructure management software that streamlines IT operations and controls all systems via a First…
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Fortinet vulnerabilities prompt pre-holiday warnings
Analysts track exploitation of two vulnerabilities disclosed last week by Fortinet First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366636678/Fortinet-vulns-prompt-pre-holiday-warnings
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Fortinet vulnerabilities prompt pre-holiday warnings
Analysts track exploitation of two vulnerabilities disclosed last week by Fortinet First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366636678/Fortinet-vulns-prompt-pre-holiday-warnings
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ThreatsDay Bulletin: WhatsApp Hijacks, MCP Leaks, AI Recon, React2Shell Exploit and 15 More Stories
This week’s ThreatsDay Bulletin tracks how attackers keep reshaping old tools and finding new angles in familiar systems. Small changes in tactics are stacking up fast, and each one hints at where the next big breach could come from.From shifting infrastructures to clever social hooks, the week’s activity shows just how fluid the threat landscape…
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Humanthe-loop isn’t enough: New attack turns AI safeguards into exploits
Defensive steps for agents and users: Checkmarx recommended measures primarily for AI agent developers, urging them to treat HITL dialogs as potentially manipulative rather than inherently trustworthy. Recommended steps include constraining how dialogs are rendered, limiting the use of complex UI formatting, and clearly separating human-visible summaries from the underlying actions that will be executed.The…
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Humanthe-loop isn’t enough: New attack turns AI safeguards into exploits
Defensive steps for agents and users: Checkmarx recommended measures primarily for AI agent developers, urging them to treat HITL dialogs as potentially manipulative rather than inherently trustworthy. Recommended steps include constraining how dialogs are rendered, limiting the use of complex UI formatting, and clearly separating human-visible summaries from the underlying actions that will be executed.The…
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Humanthe-loop isn’t enough: New attack turns AI safeguards into exploits
Defensive steps for agents and users: Checkmarx recommended measures primarily for AI agent developers, urging them to treat HITL dialogs as potentially manipulative rather than inherently trustworthy. Recommended steps include constraining how dialogs are rendered, limiting the use of complex UI formatting, and clearly separating human-visible summaries from the underlying actions that will be executed.The…
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The Biggest Cyber Stories of the Year: What 2025 Taught Us
Tags: access, attack, authentication, awareness, banking, breach, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, container, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, email, encryption, endpoint, exploit, government, healthcare, iam, identity, incident, incident response, Internet, law, metric, mfa, monitoring, network, privacy, regulation, resilience, risk, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-day, zero-trustThe Biggest Cyber Stories of the Year: What 2025 Taught Us madhav Thu, 12/18/2025 – 10:30 2025 didn’t just test cybersecurity; it redefined it. From supply chains and healthcare networks to manufacturing floors and data centers, the digital world was reminded of a simple truth: everything is connected, and everything is at risk. Data Security…