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Command injection vulns land on exploited list after researchers spot abuse attempts

A major credential leak spurred the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to strengthen protections for its sensitive materials, improve how researchers can report agency vulnerabilities and develop plans for similar incidents, the agency said in a forensic report released Thursday. The blog post outlines CISA’s response to the leak that the researcher who discovered it […] The post CISA looks to remedy ailments from big May credential leak appeared first on CyberScoop.

Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn’t sit idle for long CISA is warning that a newly-disclosed Linux kernel bug dubbed "CopyFail" is already being exploited, just days after researchers dropped a working root-level exploit.…

CISA has warned that threat actors have started exploiting the "Copy Fail" Linux security vulnerability in the wild, one day after Theori researchers disclosed it and shared a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit. [...]

Also, SmarterMail Flaw, Nike Breach Probe, Empire Market Co-Creator Pleads GuiltyThis week, researchers exposed an Android RAT abusing Hugging Face. Attackers exploited a SmarterMail flaw. Automakers raised cyber spending. CISA flagged a VMware bug. Microsoft patched Office. An Empire Market co-creator pleaded guilty. Nike probed a breach.

PLUS: CISA issues drone warning; China-linked DNS-hijacking malware; Prison for BTC Samourai; And more Infosec In Brief Researchers have urged users of the glob file pattern matching library to update their installations, after discovery of a years-old remote code execution flaw in the tool's CLI.…

1 in 3 entries are used to extort civilians, says new paper Fresh research suggests attackers are actively monitoring databases of vulnerabilities that are known to be useful in carrying out ransomware attacks.…

Hackers Unlikley to Exploit Flaws in The WildSecurity researchers found an unpatchable flaw in the system that prevents commercial aircraft from crashing into each other, the U.S. federal government said in a Tuesday advisory that called the likelihood of its exploitation "unlikely" outside of a laboratory setting

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published research looking into 172 key open-source projects and whether they are susceptible to memory flaws. [...]

More work to do as most deadlines are missed and worst bugs still take months to fix The deadlines associated with CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog only apply to federal agencies, but fresh research shows they're having a positive impact on private organizations too.…

Kinsing Threat Actor Observed Targeting Vulnerable Cloud Environments With New FlawThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is requiring federal agencies to patch Linux devices on their networks and urging private sector organizations to do the same after security researchers observed threat actors exploiting a new vulnerability on many major Linux distributions.

Monitoring platform is trusted by Cisco, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, and others in CISA's critical infrastructure Sectors, say Synopsys researchers.

Researchers have observed China's UNC4841 dropping the backdoor on Barracuda's email security appliances, in a spiraling cyber-espionage campaign.

Censys researchers have discovered hundreds of Internet-exposed devices on the networks of U.S. federal agencies that have to be secured according to a recently issued CISA Binding Operational Directive. [...]

New ESXiArgs-ransomware attacks include a workaround for CISA's decryptor, researchers find.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation

Nearly 60 holes found affecting 'more than 30,000' machines worldwide Fifty-six vulnerabilities – some deemed critical – have been found in industrial operational technology (OT) systems from ten global manufacturers including Honeywell, Ericsson, Motorola, and Siemens, putting more than 30,000 devices worldwide at risk, according to the US government's CISA and private security researchers. …

Plus: Fox News learns to use database passwords, Autodesk patches high-severity bugs, and CISA says retire old D-Link routers In brief Google pulled a slew of Android apps with more than 46 million downloads from its Google Play Store after security researchers notified the cloud giant that the code contained some sneaky data-harvesting code.…