Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Dirty Frag is a newly disclosed Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting kernel networking and memory-fragment handling components including esp4, esp6, and rxrpc. The vulnerability enables reliable escalation from an unprivileged user to root and may be leveraged after initial compromise through SSH access, web shells, containers, or low-privileged accounts. Microsoft Defender is actively monitoring limited in-the-wild activity and provides detection coverage for exploitation attempts. The post Active attack: Dirty Frag Linux vulnerability expands post-compromise risk appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

Huntress is warning that threat actors are exploiting three recently disclosed security flaws in Microsoft Defender to gain elevated privileges in compromised systems

Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a new campaign that's actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Langflow to deliver the Flodrix botnet malware

The ransomware group known as Kasseika has become the latest to leverage the Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attack to disarm security-related processes on compromised Windows hosts, joining the likes of other groups like Akira, AvosLocker, BlackByte, and RobbinHood

Trend Micro says vulnerable systems in Singapore have been compromised There has been a land rush of sorts among threat groups trying to use the vulnerability discovered in the open-source Spring Framework last month, and now researchers at Trend Micro are saying it's being actively exploited to execute the Mirai botnet.…