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

Three bugs are under active attack, and two more critical holes could add to the pain

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.…

Second try's a charm? Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that attackers are exploiting a zero-click Windows flaw that can expose sensitive information on vulnerable systems.…

Bug hiding in plain sight for over a decade lands on KEV list CISA is sounding the alarm on a newly-exploited Apache ActiveMQ bug, ordering federal agencies to patch within two weeks as attackers circle a flaw that's been quietly lurking for more than a decade.…

Vuln old enough to drive lands on CISA's exploited list While Microsoft was rolling out its bumper Patch Tuesday updates this week, US cybersecurity agency CISA was readying an alert about a 17-year-old critical Excel flaw now under exploit.…

CISA added the flaw to KEV after Fortinet confirmed exploitation in the wild Fortinet released an emergency patch over the weekend for a critical FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) bug believed to be under attack since at least March 31.…

Hardcoded credential flaw in RecoverPoint already abused in espionage campaign Uncle Sam's cyber defenders have given federal agencies just three days to patch a maximum-severity Dell bug that's been under active exploitation since at least mid-2024.…

The critical-rated flaw leaves unpatched systems open to full takeover Cisco has finally shipped a fix for a critical-rated zero-day in its Unified Communications gear, a flaw that's already being weaponized in the wild, and which CISA previously flagged as an emergency priority.…

Git server flaw that attackers have been abusing for months has now caught the attention of US cyber cops CISA has ordered federal agencies to stop using Gogs or lock it down immediately after a high-severity vulnerability in the self-hosted Git service was added to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.…

Max-severity OneView hole joins a PowerPoint bug that should've been retired years ago CISA has added a pair of security holes to its actively exploited list, warning that attackers are now abusing a maximum-severity bug in HPE's OneView management software and a years-old flaw in Microsoft Office.…

Agencies have until December 12 to mitigate flaw that was likely exploited before Big Red released fix CISA has ordered US federal agencies to patch against an actively exploited Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) flaw within three weeks – a scramble made more urgent by evidence that attackers may have been abusing the bug months before a fix was released.…

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.…

CISA adds high-severity flaw to KEV list, urges swift updating Uncle Sam's cyber wardens have warned that a high-severity flaw in Microsoft's Windows SMB client is now being actively exploited – months after it was patched.…

CISA gives feds 24 hours to patch, NCSC urges rapid action as flaws linked to ArcaneDoor spies Cybersecurity agencies on both sides of the Atlantic are sounding the alarm over Cisco firewall vulnerabilities that are being exploited by an "advanced threat actor."…

Unnamed org compromised with two malware sets An unknown attacker has abused a couple of flaws in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) and deployed two sets of malware against an unnamed organization, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.…

Plus: Google clears up Gmail concerns, NSA drops SBOM bomb, Texas sues PowerSchool, and more Infosec in brief The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has said two flaws in routers made by Chinese networking biz TP-Link are under active attack and need to be fixed – but there's another flaw being exploited as well.…

Two flaws in TeleMessage are 'frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors' The US security watchdog CISA has warned that malicious actors are actively exploiting two flaws in the Signal clone TeleMessage TM SGNL, and has directed federal agencies to patch the flaws or discontinue use of the app by July 22.…

Good news: The vendor patched the flaw in January. Bad news: Not everyone got the memo Ransomware criminals infected a utility billing software providers' customers, and in some cases disrupted services, after exploiting unpatched versions of SimpleHelp’s remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, according to a Thursday CISA alert.…

Resurge an apt name for malware targeting hardware maker that has security bug after security bug Owners of Ivanti’s Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateway products have a new strain of malware to fend off, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA.…