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SEC Charges SolarWinds and Its CISO With Fraud and Cybersecurity Failures

In a surprising development on Monday that is spooking the cybersecurity community, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against SolarWinds and its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Timothy G. Brown, alleging that the software company misled investors about its cybersecurity practices and known risks. The charges stem from alleged fraud and internal control failures related to known cybersecurity weaknesses that took place between the company’s October 2018 initial public offering (IPO) and…

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Roundcube Webmail servers under attack – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Video The zero-day exploit deployed by the Winter Vivern APT group only requires that the target views a specially crafted message in a web browser 27 Oct 2023 This week, ESET research described how the Winter Vivern APT group has been exploiting a zero-day XSS vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail servers to target European governmental entities and a think tank. ESET researchers uncovered the attacks on October 11th while monitoring Winter Vivern’s cyberespionage operations, which typically…

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ESET APT Activity Report Q2–Q3 2023

ESET APT Activity Report Q2–Q3 2023 summarizes the activities of selected advanced persistent threat (APT) groups that were observed, investigated, and analyzed by ESET researchers from April 2023 until the end of September 2023. In the monitored timespan, we observed a notable strategy of APT groups utilizing the exploitation of known vulnerabilities to exfiltrate data from governmental entities or related organizations. Russia-aligned Sednit and Sandworm, North Korea-aligned Konni, and geographically unattributed Winter Vivern and Sturgeon…

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In Other News: Ex-NSA Employee Spying for Russia, EU Threat Landscape, Cyber Education Funding

SecurityWeek is publishing a weekly cybersecurity roundup that provides a concise compilation of noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar. We provide a valuable summary of stories that may not warrant an entire article, but are nonetheless important for a comprehensive understanding of the cybersecurity landscape. Each week, we will curate and present a collection of noteworthy developments, ranging from the latest vulnerability discoveries and emerging attack techniques to significant policy changes and…

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Advanced ‘StripedFly’ Malware With 1 Million Infections Shows Similarities to NSA-Linked Tools

A highly sophisticated piece of malware posing as a cryptocurrency miner has stayed under the radar for five years, infecting more than one million devices, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky warns. Dubbed StripedFly, the threat contains code sequences previously observed in the malware used by the threat actor known as the Equation Group, which has been linked to the US National Security Agency. Designed as a modular framework, StripedFly can target both Windows and Linux and comes…

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F5 Warns of Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in BIG-IP

Security and application delivery solutions provider F5 on Thursday warned customers of a critical-severity vulnerability in its BIG-IP product. Tracked as CVE-2023-46747 (CVSS score of 9.8) and impacting the Traffic Management User Interface of the solution, the vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code remotely. “This vulnerability may allow an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the BIG-IP system through the management port and/or self IP addresses to execute arbitrary system commands. There…

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Winter Vivern exploits zero-day vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail servers

ESET Research ESET Research recommends updating Roundcube Webmail to the latest available version as soon as possible Matthieu Faou 25 Oct 2023  •  , 5 min. read ESET Research has been closely tracking the cyberespionage operations of Winter Vivern for more than a year and, during our routine monitoring, we found that the group began exploiting a zero-day XSS vulnerability in the Roundcube Webmail server on October 11th, 2023. This is a different vulnerability than…

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Critical Mirth Connect Vulnerability Could Expose Sensitive Healthcare Data

Open source data integration platform Mirth Connect is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability that can be exploited without authentication, cybersecurity firm Horizon3.ai warns. Developed by NextGen HealthCare, Mirth Connect is a cross-platform interface engine that healthcare organizations rely on for information management. Tracked as CVE-2023-43208, the newly disclosed issue is a bypass for a critical-severity RCE flaw (CVE-2023-37679, CVSS score of 9.8) that was disclosed in August 2023 and which was addressed with…

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‘YoroTrooper’ Espionage Group Linked to Kazakhstan

The YoroTrooper espionage group likely consists of individuals from Kazakhstan, Cisco’s Talos security researchers report. Active since at least June 2022 and initially detailed in March this year, YoroTrooper has been observed targeting government entities in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and other Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. According to Cisco’s latest report on the advanced persistent threat (APT) actor, the operations appear to be conducted by individuals from Kazakhstan, based on the use of Kazakh…

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One login to rule them all: Should you sign in with Google or Facebook on other websites?

Digital Security Why use and keep track of a zillion discrete accounts when you can log into so many apps and websites using your Facebook or Google credentials, right? Not so fast. What’s the trade-off? André Lameiras 23 Oct 2023  •  , 6 min. read “Continue with Google” – such a seamless way to sign up for and log into a website or app, especially since you likely are already logged into your Google account.…

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