Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

AI Tool Used to Discover Bugs, Which Included 2 Maximum Severity VulnerabilitiesResearchers at security firm AISLE said they recently identified 38 vulnerabilities, including two maximum-severity zero-day flaws in OpenEMR, an open-source electronic medical record software platform used by about 100,000 healthcare providers globally. OpenEMR has patched the problems.

Mirion Medical Says Bugs Are Fixed in New Release of BioDose/NMIS SoftwareU.S. federal authorities are warning that several high-severity vulnerabilities discovered in Mirion Medical Co. inventory tracking software used by nuclear medicine departments could allow attackers to modify program executables and gain access to sensitive information.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Flaw Enabled Malicious File Uploads, Researchers FoundExploring Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, researchers at Tenable found that Oracle's console-based Code Editor tool failed to block arbitrary file uploads, and could be silently exploited via drive-by attacks to install malware. They said Oracle has now fixed the vulnerability.

Hackers Can Use Unverified Email to Log onto SaaS Apps With Entra IDA flaw in a Microsoft single sign-on feature allowing cloud app account takeovers discovered in 2023 never really went away, say researchers - notwithstanding a computing giant claim that it almost immediately fixed the vulnerability known as nOAuth.

Attacker With Project Access Could Have Retrieved Private Images, Researchers SaidGoogle has fixed Google Cloud Platform vulnerability attackers could have exploited to gain unauthorized access to private container images, due to access restriction shortcomings. Researchers said the flaw highlights how services built atop other services can pose unexpected security risks.

Now-Fixed Flaw Is Big Sleep's First Real-World Bug Find, Say ResearchersGoogle's "highly experimental" artificial intelligence agent Big Sleep has autonomously discovered an exploitable memory flaw in popular open-source database engine SQLite. The researchers detail how the AI agent discovered the now-patched vulnerability.

Cryptocurrency Users Targeted in Latest Campaign Involving FudModule RootkitA hacking group tied to North Korea exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the open source Google Chromium web browser to try and steal cryptocurrency, Microsoft said. The attack campaign is the latest to involve a sophisticated North Korean rootkit called FudModule. Google has fixed the flaw.

Security Researcher Uncovered the Flaw, Which Allowed System TakeoverMicrosoft says it fixed a security flaw in artificial intelligence chatbot Copilot that enabled attackers to steal multifactor authentication code using a prompt injection attack. Security researcher Johann Rehberger said he discovered a way to invisibly force Copilot to send data.

Over 14 Million Servers May Be Affected by Bug First Fixed Decades AgoMore than 14 million servers may be affected by a regressed vulnerability in a remote server management and file transfer tool that can allow hackers to completely take over the affected systems. The flaw is an accidental repeat of a flaw patched in 2006.

Company Addresses Flaws in End-of-Life NAS DevicesNetworking solutions vendor Zyxel fixed critical vulnerabilities in end-of-life network-attached storage devices that allow remote code execution. It left two vulnerabilities allowing attacks by authenticated local attackers unpatched.

Microsoft Fixed Bug in February That Gave Kernel-Level Access to North Korean APTNorth Korea's Lazarus hackers exploited a Windows AppLocker driver zero-day to gain kernel-level access and turn off security tools that could detect the group's bring-your-own-vulnerable-driver exploitation techniques. Microsoft fixed the bug in its February patch dump.

Millions of Websites Potentially at RiskCross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Joomla, a widely used free-source content management system, were fixed in a patch published Tuesday by the open-source project that maintains the software. The flaws potentially expose millions of websites to attacks that can end with remote code execution.