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Cisco on Wednesday announced patches for six vulnerabilities in its products, including three high-severity bugs in NX-OS and FXOS software that could be exploited to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. Impacting the FXOS software of Firepower 4100 and Firepower 9300 security appliances and of UCS 6300 series fabric interconnects, the most severe of these flaws is CVE-2023-20200, described as the improper handling of specific SNMP requests. The issue allows an authenticated, remote attacker to send…

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It’s been eight and half years since I first wrote about the need for security leadership representation in the boardroom. I then revisited the topic last year, when the SEC initially proposed amendments to its rules to enhance and standardize disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident reporting. Now, as the SEC cyber incident disclosure rules come into effect, organizations will finally be forced to seriously consider giving security leaders a seat at…

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Four vulnerabilities identified by academic researchers from Italy and the UK in the TP-Link Tapo L530E smart bulb and its accompanying mobile application can be exploited to obtain the local Wi-Fi network’s password. Currently a best-seller on Amazon Italy, the TP-Link Tapo smart Wi-Fi light bulb (L530E) is cloud-enabled and can be controlled using a Tapo application (available on both Android and iOS) and a Tapo account. The most severe of the identified issues is…

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Suspected North Korean hackers have attempted an attack targeting a major joint military exercise between Seoul and Washington that starts on Monday, South Korean police said. South Korea and the United States will kick off the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield drills on Monday through August 31 to counter growing threats from the nuclear-armed North. Pyongyang views such exercises as rehearsals for an invasion and has repeatedly warned it would take “overwhelming” action in response. The…

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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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Government agencies in Israel and the US have announced plans to invest $3.85 million in projects meant to improve the security of critical infrastructure in both countries. The investment is made through the BIRD Cyber Program, a joint initiative from the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD), the Israel-US Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation, and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T). As part of the program, four grants…

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Exploitation attempts targeting a remote code execution flaw in Citrix’s ShareFile product have spiked just as the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.  The vulnerability affecting the ShareFile file sharing and collaboration product is tracked as CVE-2023-24489 and it has been assigned a ‘critical’ severity rating. It can allow an unauthenticated attacker to upload arbitrary files and possibly achieve remote code execution. When details of the…

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A threat actor has automated the exploitation of a recent Citrix vulnerability and has infected roughly 2,000 NetScaler instances with a backdoor, British information assurance firm NCC Group reports. Tracked as CVE-2023-3519, the critical vulnerability was disclosed last month as a zero-day, being exploited since June 2023, including in attacks against critical infrastructure organizations. The issue allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway appliances that…

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