Tag: infrastructure
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Dragos: Surge of new hacking groups enter ICS space as states collaborate with private actors
States are increasingly collaborating with cybercriminal groups to share resources and amplify attacks on critical infrastructure in rival nations, a new report finds. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/dragos-ot-ics-annual-report-states-collaborating-with-private-hacking-groups/
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CISA KEV Catalog Updated with Adobe ColdFusion and Oracle Agile PLM Vulnerabilities
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has recently updated its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog by adding two significant security flaws one affecting Adobe ColdFusion and the other impacting Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). CVE-2017-3066 in… First seen on sensorstechforum.com Jump to article: sensorstechforum.com/cisa-kev-catalog-adobe-coldfusion-oracle-vulnerabilities/
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CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Adobe ColdFusion and Oracle Agile PLM Vulnerabilities
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has recently updated its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog by adding two critical vulnerabilities, both actively being exploited in the wild. These vulnerabilities, related to Adobe ColdFusion and Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), have been identified as security risks to federal agencies and organizations worldwide. First seen…
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LightSpy Malware Expands With 100+ Commands to Target Users Across All Major OS Platforms
The LightSpy surveillance framework has significantly evolved its operational capabilities, now supporting over 100 commands to infiltrate Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, and routers, according to new infrastructure analysis. First documented in 2020, this modular malware has shifted from targeting messaging applications to focusing on social media database extraction and cross-platform surveillance, marking…
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CISA Alerts: Oracle Agile Vulnerability Actively Exploited
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent alert regarding active exploitation of a severe deserialization vulnerability (CVE-2024-20953) in Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software. Added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on February 24, 2025, the flaw allows attackers with low-privileged access to execute arbitrary code on unpatched…
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Two Actively Exploited Security Flaws in Adobe and Oracle Products Flagged by CISA
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two security flaws impacting Adobe ColdFusion and Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.The vulnerabilities in question are listed below -CVE-2017-3066 (CVSS score: 9.8) – A deserialization vulnerability impacting First seen on thehackernews.com…
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UAC-0212: Hackers Unleash Devastating Cyber Attack on Critical Infrastructure
In a recent escalation of cyber threats, hackers have launched a targeted campaign, identified as UAC-0212, aimed at compromising critical infrastructure facilities in Ukraine. This campaign, which began in the second half of 2024, involves sophisticated tactics to infiltrate the networks of developers and suppliers of automation and process control solutions. The attackers’ ultimate goal…
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How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist”, the biggest in history
Attack on Bybit didn’t hack infrastructure or exploit smart contract code. So how did it work? First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2025/02/how-north-korea-pulled-off-a-1-5-billion-crypto-heist-the-biggest-in-history/
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Could the Plot of Netflix’s ‘Zero Day’ Occur IRL?
A new streaming series about a catastrophic, nationwide cyberattack against US critical infrastructure is about as believable as its main character: an honest, bipartisan, universally beloved politician. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/netflix-zero-day-irl
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UAC-0212: Hackers Unleash Devastating Cyber Assault on Critical Infrastructure
In a recent escalation of cyber threats, hackers have launched a targeted campaign, identified as UAC-0212, aimed at compromising critical infrastructure facilities in Ukraine. This campaign, which began in the second half of 2024, involves sophisticated tactics to infiltrate the networks of developers and suppliers of automation and process control solutions. The attackers’ ultimate goal…
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Stablecoin Bank Hit by Cyberattack, Loses $49.5M to Hackers
The cryptocurrency sector faced one of its most significant security breaches this year as stablecoin banking platform @0xinfini fell victim to a sophisticated cyberattack. Hackers drained 49.5 million USD Coin ($USDC) from the platform’s reserves, triggering immediate market turbulence and raising urgent questions about the security infrastructure of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. The stolen funds…
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Strategic? Functional? Tactical? Which type of CISO are you?
Tags: breach, business, ceo, cisco, ciso, cloud, compliance, cybersecurity, finance, governance, group, guide, healthcare, infrastructure, jobs, risk, service, skills, startup, strategy, technology, trainingTransformational, as in program-builders or turnaround agents.Operational, often early-career CISOs who are closer to the technology and work at small-to-midsize companies where they still perform some technical duties.Compliance, that is, risk experts typically found in highly regulated industries.Steady-state CISOs, who, in opposition to the transformational type, keep everything on an even keel.Customer-facing CISOs, usually found…
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Ransomware Attacks on Critical Infrastructure, AI Use to Grow in 2025
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/news/ransomware-attacks-on-critical-infrastructure-ai-use-to-grow-in-2025
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CISA flags Craft CMS code injection flaw as exploited in attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that a Craft CMS remote code execution flaw is being exploited in attacks. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-flags-craft-cms-code-injection-flaw-as-exploited-in-attacks/
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Critical Vulnerability in Fluent Bit Exposes Cloud Services to Potential Cyber Attacks
Tags: attack, cloud, computing, cve, cvss, cyber, data-breach, flaw, infrastructure, metric, service, tool, vulnerabilityA critical security flaw in Fluent Bit, a widely adopted log processing and metrics collection tool part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), has exposed enterprise cloud infrastructures to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Designated as CVE-2024-50608 and CVE-2024-50609, these vulnerabilities”, scoring 8.9 on the CVSS v3.1 severity scale”, stem from improper handling of HTTP headers…
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U.S. CISA adds Craft CMS and Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Craft CMS and Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added SonicWall SonicOS and Palo Alto PAN-OS vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The two vulnerabilities are: Craft is a flexible, user-friendly CMS, affected…
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Australian Critical Infrastructure Faces ‘Acute’ Foreign Threats
The continent faces relentless military espionage, and increased cyber sabotage at the hands of authoritarian regimes, according to a high-ranking intelligence director. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-security/australian-critical-infrastructure-acute-foreign-threats
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CISA FBI Warns that Ghost Ransomware Hits Over 70 Organizations
Tags: advisory, cisa, cyber, cybersecurity, government, healthcare, infrastructure, network, ransomwareThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued a joint advisory warning about the widespread impact of the Ghost ransomware, also known as Cring. Since its emergence in early 2021, this ransomware has compromised over 70 organizations globally, spanning critical infrastructure, healthcare, education, government networks, and private…
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CISA and FBI Issue Alert as Ghost Ransomware Targets 70+ Organizations
Tags: access, advisory, cisa, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, infrastructure, malicious, ransomware, software, threat, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have issued a joint advisory warning about the increasing threat posed by Ghost ransomware. This malicious campaign has already impacted more than 70 organizations across various sectors, exploiting vulnerabilities in widely-used software to gain access to targeted networks. Exploitation of Vulnerabilities…
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What is SIEM? Improving security posture through event log data
Tags: access, ai, api, automation, ciso, cloud, compliance, data, defense, detection, edr, endpoint, firewall, fortinet, gartner, google, guide, ibm, infrastructure, intelligence, kubernetes, LLM, microsoft, mitigation, mobile, monitoring, network, openai, regulation, risk, router, security-incident, service, siem, soar, soc, software, threat, toolAt its core, a SIEM is designed to parse and analyze various log files, including firewalls, servers, routers and so forth. This means that SIEMs can become the central “nerve center” of a security operations center, driving other monitoring functions to resolve the various daily alerts.Added to this data are various threat intelligence feeds that…
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Der trügerische Komfort des Risikomanagements
Gefahrenmanagement statt Risikomanagement: Cybersicherheit erfordert Dringlichkeit und Entschlossenheit.Herkömmliches Risikomanagement basiert auf Wahrscheinlichkeiten und statistischen Berechnungen doch in einer zunehmend komplexen und aggressiven Bedrohungslandschaft sind solche Prognosen unzuverlässig. Daher ist ein Umdenken nötig: Anstatt dem Risikomanagement sollten Organisationen Gefahrenmanagement als neues Konzept einführen.Risikomanagement impliziert, dass man die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines Cyberangriffs vorhersagen kann. Doch die Realität sieht…
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DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency
DOGE technologists Edward Coristine”, the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls””, and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/doge-cisa-coristine-cybersecurity/
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Recent Ghost/Cring ransomware activity prompts alert from FBI, CISA
Tags: cisa, cybersecurity, exploit, firmware, group, infrastructure, ransomware, software, vulnerabilityA ransomware group known as Ghost has been exploiting vulnerabilities in software and firmware as recently as January, according to an alert issued Wednesday by the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/ghost-cring-ransomware-activity-fbi-cisa-alert
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CISA and FBI: Ghost ransomware breached orgs in 70 countries
CISA and the FBI said attackers deploying Ghost ransomware have breached victims from multiple industry sectors across over 70 countries, including critical infrastructure organizations. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-and-fbi-ghost-ransomware-breached-orgs-in-70-countries/
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North Korea’s Kimsuky Taps Trusted Platforms to Attack South Korea
The campaign heavily uses Dropbox folders and PowerShell scripts to evade detection and quickly scrapped infrastructure components after researchers began poking around. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/north-koreans-kimsuky-attacks-rivals-trusted-platforms
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Raymond IT Systems Hit by Cyber Attack, Authorities Investigating
Textile and apparel conglomerate Raymond Limited confirmed a cybersecurity breach affecting portions of its IT infrastructure on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, according to regulatory filings submitted to the BSE and NSE stock exchanges. The Mumbai-based company, whose operations span fabric manufacturing, branded apparel, and retail stores, stated the incident required isolation of compromised systems but…