Frank Crast

Chinese threat actors targeting U.S. government agencies and these 4 CVEs

Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS)-affiliated cyber threat actors are targeting U.S. government agencies, as well as exploiting four popular vulnerabilities over the past 12 months.

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Palo Alto Networks fixes Critical PAN-OS vulnerability (CVE-2020-2040)

Palo Alto Networks has fixed a Critical buffer overflow vulnerability that could allow an attacker to execute remote code as root on PAN-OS devices, along with multiple other High severity issues.

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2020 Threat Landscape Report reveals new themes and evolving threats

Security firm Bitdefender published its mid-year Threat Landscape Report 2020 that reveals how cybersecurity threats and malware play on the pandemic theme.

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Microsoft September 2020 Security and Adobe Updates

Microsoft has released the September 2020 Security updates that includes patches for 129 vulnerabilities, 24 of them rated Critical. Adobe also released updates for Experience Manager, Framemaker and InDesign.

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Critical File Manager plugin vulnerability affects 700k WordPress Websites

Developers have updated the WordPress plugin File Manager to fix a critical vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to gain complete access to nearly 700 thousand WordPress websites.

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KryptoCibule malware: triple threat to cryptocurrencies

Security researchers have discovered a new malware dubbed KryptoCibule that poses a triple threat to victim’s cryptocurrency resources. Attackers are using KryptoCibule to abuse victim’s resources to mine coins, hijack cryptocurrency transactions and exfiltrate cryptocurrency-related files. The name KryptoCibule derives from the Czech and Slovak words for “crypto” and “onion” respectively. According to ESET researchers,

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