Tag: update
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Hackers abuse IPv6 networking feature to hijack software updates
A China-aligned APT threat actor named “TheWizards” abuses an IPv6 networking feature to launch adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks that hijack software updates to install Windows malware. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-abuse-ipv6-networking-feature-to-hijack-software-updates/
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TheWizards APT Casts a Spell on Asian Gamblers With Novel Attack
A SLAAC-spoofing, adversary-in-the-middle campaign is hiding the WizardNet backdoor malware inside updates for legitimate software and popular applications. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/thewizards-apt-asian-gamblers-attack
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Ransomware bei einer Polizei in Tennessee, USA
Message from Your Sheriff Regarding April 14th Cyber Ransomware Incident – UPDATE First seen on facebook.com Jump to article: www.facebook.com/permalink.php
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DARPA believes AI Cyber Challenge could upend patching as the industry knows it
Federal research leaders suggested Tuesday that AI could lead industries to “nearly eliminate software vulnerabilities” in critical infrastructure. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/darpa-ai-grand-challenge-rsac-2025-patching/
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Chrome 136 Fixes 20-Year-Old Privacy Bug in Latest Update
Google has begun rolling out Chrome 136 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac, and Linux, bringing significant security and privacy upgrades to millions of users worldwide. The update, set to be distributed over the coming days and weeks, addresses a range of vulnerabilities. However, its most notable change closes a privacy loophole that has…
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Securing the invisible: Supply chain security trends
Adversaries are infiltrating upstream software, hardware, and vendor relationships to quietly compromise downstream targets. Whether it’s a malicious update injected into a … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/04/30/supply-chain-security-trends/
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🚀 Agentic Runtime Protection Rules Makes Us the First Truly Self-Writing Security System – Impart Security
Agentic Runtime Rules: The First Self-Writing Security System for Runtime The End of Manual Security Management Is Here Say goodbye to regex repositories and ticket fatigue”, Impart delivers instant detections and autonomous investigations for security teams. For years, security teams have been trapped in reactive mode. Every investigation, detection rule update, or WAF configuration change…
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Windows Server hotpatching to require subscription
Microsoft has announced it will require paid subscriptions for Windows Server 2025 hotpatching, a service that enables admins to install security updates without restarting. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-windows-server-hotpatching-to-require-subscription/
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44% of the zero-days exploited in 2024 were in enterprise solutions
In 2024, threat actors exploited 75 zero-days i.e., vulnerabilities previously unknown to vendors, thus without a readily available patch in a wide variety of … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/04/29/44-of-the-zero-days-exploited-in-2024-were-in-enterprise-solutions/
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Google Reports 75 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited in the Wild
In a comprehensive report released by the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), 75 zero-day vulnerabilities were identified as actively exploited in the wild throughout 2024, marking a slight decline from 98 in 2023 but an increase from 63 in 2022. These vulnerabilities, defined as flaws exploited before a patch becomes publicly available, underscore a persistent…
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Enterprise-specific zero-day exploits on the rise, Google warns
Tags: access, apple, apt, attack, china, cisco, cloud, crime, crimes, cyberespionage, detection, endpoint, exploit, finance, flaw, google, group, Hardware, incident response, injection, Internet, ivanti, korea, lessons-learned, mandiant, microsoft, mitigation, network, north-korea, remote-code-execution, russia, service, strategy, technology, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-daySurge in network edge device exploitation: Of the 33 zero-day vulnerabilities in enterprise-specific products, 20 targeted hardware appliances typically located at the network edge, such as VPNs, security gateways, and firewalls. Notable targets last year included Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance, Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance, and Ivanti Connect Secure VPN.Targeted attacks against…
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Brocade Fabric OS flaw could allow code injection attacks
Same KEV update included a Commvault flaw: CISA also added a high severity bugCVSS 8.7/10 affecting Commvault Web Server to its KEV Catalog, recommending patching under the same BOD directive.The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-3928, is an unspecified vulnerability that can be exploited by a remote, authenticated attacker to execute webshells. All versions before 11.36.46, 11.32.89,…
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Broadcom-backed SAN devices face code injection attacks via a critical Fabric OS bug
Same KEV update included a Commvault flaw: CISA also added a high severity bugCVSS 8.7/10 affecting Commvault Web Server to its KEV Catalog, recommending patching under the same BOD directive.The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-3928, is an unspecified vulnerability that can be exploited by a remote, authenticated attacker to execute webshells. All versions before 11.36.46, 11.32.89,…
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Cyberattacke auf berlin.de
Auf Berlins Info- und Serviceportal berlin.de ging Ende April 2025 nichts mehr. Hacker haben die Seite per DDoS-Attacke lahmgelegt.Hacker haben das Hauptstadt-Portal berlin.de per DDoS-Attacke lahmgelegt. Bereits seit Freitag, dem 25. April, sei die Website Ziel eines massiven Cyberangriffs, teilte die Senatskanzlei mit. ‘Sämtliche Bereiche von berlin.de und dem Serviceportal service.berlin.de sind seitdem nur eingeschränkt…
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Windows Server 2025 Gets Hotpatching Support Beginning July 1, 2025
Microsoft announced that hotpatching support for Windows Server 2025 will become generally available as a subscription service starting July 1, 2025. This move expands a key feature-previously exclusive to Azure-based servers-for broader use in on-premises and multicloud environments via Azure Arc. What is Hotpatching? Hotpatching is a revolutionary update mechanism that patches the in-memory code…
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What’s worth automating in cyber hygiene, and what’s not
Cyber hygiene sounds simple. Patch your systems, remove old accounts, update your software. But for large organizations, this gets messy fast. Systems number in the thousands. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/04/29/automating-cyber-hygiene/
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RSAC 2025 Begins: Live Updates Insights from ColorTokens
Tags: updateThe energy is electric in San Francisco as RSAC 2025 kicks off today, and we’re thrilled to bring you live updates straight from the floor. Each day, we’ll capture the cream of the conversations, the breakthrough insights, and the pivotal moments from our booth and beyond. Stay with us as we show you how ColorTokens……
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CIOs Say Security Systems Not Delivering Value For Money, Too Complex To Manage
New research by Logicalis reveals that CIOs are struggling to derive value from security investments amid changing threat landscape. According to its annual CIO Report, which surveyed 1,000 global IT leaders, more than half say their security patch systems have become too complex to manage effectively. The top concerns for CIOs include malware and ransomware…
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SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer Flaw Under Active Exploitation
CVE-2025-31324 is a maximum severity bug that attackers exploited weeks before SAP released a patch for it. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/sap-netweaver-visual-composer-flaw-active-exploitation
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Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Protect AI, Launches AI Security Platform
Accelerating its aggressive foray into artificial intelligence (AI) security, Palo Alto Networks Inc. on Monday said it has agreed to acquire cybersecurity startup Protect AI. Additionally, the company launched an ambitious AI security platform at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, as well as updates to two of its core products. The deal to buy..…
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Kali Linux warns of update failures after losing repo signing key
Offensive Security warned Kali Linux users to manually install a new Kali repository signing key to avoid experiencing update failures. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/kali-linux-warns-of-update-failures-after-losing-repo-signing-key/
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Exposure Management Works When the CIO and CSO Are in Sync
Tags: access, ai, attack, business, cio, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, endpoint, finance, infrastructure, jobs, office, risk, strategy, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-dayEach Monday, the Tenable Exposure Management Academy provides the practical, real-world guidance you need to shift from vulnerability management to exposure management. In this post, Tenable CIO Patricia Grant looks at how the CIO/CSO relationship is key to a successful exposure management program. You can read the entire Exposure Management Academy series here. When I…
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4 big mistakes you’re probably still making in vulnerability management”¦and how to fix them
Tags: attack, automation, business, cloud, cve, data, endpoint, mitigation, office, risk, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementWhy is it a problem? Monthly, weekly, or even daily scans used to be adequate. Now? They leave blind spots. Cloud resources, remote endpoints, VMs”¦ can spin up and vanish in minutes, and you’ll never catch those with a scan that runs on a schedule.Fix it! Shift to continuous scanning. Use tools that integrate with…
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5 Big Palo Alto Networks Launches On XSIAM, SASE, AI Security
Palo Alto Networks unveiled the next version of its SIEM replacement offering with the debut of Cortex XSIAM 3.0, as well as updates to Prisma SASE and AI security, as RSAC 2025 got underway Monday. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/5-big-palo-alto-networks-launches-on-xsiam-sase-ai-security
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Policy-Audit sorgt für kontinuierliche Audit-Bereitschaft
Qualys stellt eine Erweiterung seiner Lösung für die Einhaltung von Richtlinien vor: Policy-Audit. Dieses Update revolutioniert den Audit-Prozess durch automatisierte Effizienzsteigerungen, die den manuellen Aufwand für die Audit-Vorbereitung drastisch reduzieren, die Behebung von Mängeln beschleunigen und sicherstellen, dass Unternehmen jederzeit Audit-bereit sind. Die Compliance-Anforderungen für Unternehmen nehmen stetig zu. Fast 70 Prozent der Dienstleistungsunternehmen unterliegen…
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A large-scale phishing campaign targets WordPress WooCommerce users
A large-scale phishing campaign targets WordPress WooCommerce users with a fake security alert urging them to download a ‘critical patch’ hiding a backdoor. Patchstack researchers uncovered a large-scale phishing campaign targeting WordPress WooCommerce users with a fake security alert. Threat actors urge recipients to download a >>critical patch
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Windows 11 25H2 Expected to Launch with Minor Changes
Microsoft is quietly preparing the next update to its flagship operating system,Windows 11 25H2, with new evidence pointing toward a SeptemberOctober 2025 release. Unlike the much-anticipated Windows 11 24H2-the major update arriving in 2024-the 25H2 release is shaping up to be a more modest affair, focusing on incremental improvements and under-the-hood changes rather than headline-grabbing…
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Hotpatching: Reboot-freie Updates kosten bei Windows Server 2025 extra
Wer jeden Monat 1,50 US-Dollar pro CPU-Kern bezahlt, kann sich mit Windows Server 2025 künftig ein paar Neustarts sparen – aber längst nicht alle. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/hotpatching-reboot-freie-updates-kosten-bei-windows-server-2025-extra-2504-195720.html
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WooCommerce Users Targeted by Fake Patch Phishing Campaign Deploying Site Backdoors
Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a large-scale phishing campaign targeting WooCommerce users with a fake security alert urging them to download a “critical patch” but deploy a backdoor instead.WordPress security company Patchstack described the activity as sophisticated and a variant of another campaign observed in December 2023 that employed a fake CVE ploy to breach…
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React Router Vulnerabilities Allow Attackers to Spoof Content and Alter Values
The widely used React Router library, a critical navigation tool for React applications, has resolved two high-severity vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-43864 and CVE-2025-43865) that allowed attackers to spoof content, alter data values, and launch cache-poisoning attacks. Developers must update toreact-router v7.5.2immediately to mitigate risks. Key Vulnerabilities and Impacts 1.CVE-2025-43864: DoS via SPA Mode Cache Poisoning Attackers could…