The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released seven advisories this week about vulnerabilities in industrial control systems (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software from various vendors. These advisories cover critical flaws, two of which have public exploits. The affected products include ScadaFlex II controllers made by Industrial Control Links, Screen Creator Advance 2 and Kostac PLC programming software from JTEKT...
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Cybercriminals are increasingly turning to stolen credentials as a valuable commodity on the underground market. According to a report by cybersecurity firm Flashpoint, last year saw 4,518 data breaches reported, with attackers stealing or exposing 22.62 billion credentials and personal records. Over 60% of these were stolen from organizations in the information sector. Flashpoint's database of threat intelligence includes 575 million posts on illegal forums, 3.6...
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The security of Fortinet FortiNAC appliances is under attack, with proof-of-concept exploit code now available and active exploitation attempts in the wild. FortiNAC is a zero-trust network access solution that can be deployed both as a hardware device or as a virtual machine appliance, and is used for network segmentation, visibility, and control of devices and users connected to the network. With more than 700,000 Fortinet...
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On February 23, 2023, multiple threat actors have been observed exploiting a critical security vulnerability impacting several Zoho ManageEngine products since January 20, 2023. Tracked as CVE-2022-47966 (CVSS score: 9.8), the remote code execution flaw allows a complete takeover of the susceptible systems by unauthenticated attackers. Martin Zugec of Bitdefender's cybersecurity firm revealed in a technical advisory that the vulnerability "allows unauthenticated remote code execution due...
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China-based cyberespionage actor DEV-0147 has been observed compromising diplomatic targets in South America, according to Microsoft’s Security Intelligence team. The initiative is “a notable expansion of the group’s data exfiltration operations that traditionally targeted gov’t agencies and think tanks in Asia and Europe,” the team tweeted on Monday. DEV-0147’s attacks in South America included post-exploitation activity involving the abuse of on-premises identity infrastructure for reconnaissance...
