Atlassian added new urgency Thursday to a warning that customers with on-premises Confluence servers should patch immediately to protect against a vulnerability that attackers could exploit to destroy data. A publicly available exploit now exists for the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-22518.
Canada accused China of running a social media disinformation campaign aimed at members of Parliament and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Global Affairs Canada attributed the campaign to an operation elsewhere traced to Chinese law enforcement and known as "Spamouflage."
India federal law enforcement busted tech scam fraud rings operating in locations across the subcontinent after Microsoft and Amazon shared intelligence with the Central Bureau of Investigation. Scammers allegedly operated call centers impersonating tech giant customer support.
Hackers used an updated malware framework dubbed Mata by Kaspersky to target more than a dozen oil, gas and defense sector companies in Eastern Europe, including air-gapped systems. Kaspersky previously associated Mata with North Korea but doesn't attribute this campaign to the Pyongyang regime.
Pro-Ukrainian hackers claimed responsibility for wiping the servers of the Trigona ransomware gang, a recently formed group that may have links to the Russian cybercriminal underground. "'Terrible Russian hackers,' yeah, yeah," wrote a self-described spokesman for the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance.
Cisco issued an urgent warning Monday about a critical vulnerability in one of its modular operating system's web interfaces that is designed for routers, switches and other appliances. Hackers exploited the IOS XE software UI to gain admin rights that give them full control of compromised devices.
A financially motivated hacking group turned cyberespionage operation targeted attendees of high-profile European conferences, including the Women Political Leaders Summit in Brussels. Threat actor Void Rabisu - also known as Tropical Scorpius and UNC2596 - has been honing its backdoor.
The zero-day campaign underpinning the May mass attack on Progress Software's MOVEit file transfer software is now the vulnerability fueling a flotilla of attorneys, the software vendor disclosed in a regulatory filing listing pending litigation and governmental investigations.
Amnesty International says the Vietnamese government is likely behind a wave of attempted Predator spyware infections against targets including members of the U.S. Congress and European officials. Central to the campaign was an account on social media network X (formerly Twitter).
Maintainers of the widely used open-source command-line tool cURL and libcurl library that supports key network protocols said two upcoming vulnerabilities are set to be disclosed this week. One flaw is probably "the worst curl security flaw in a long time," said curl founder Daniel Stenberg.
The government of a Caribbean nation was the target of a cyberespionage campaign that has indicators of Chinese origin. Cybersecurity firm Eset says attackers used a previously undocumented backdoor as well as traditional hacking tools to target an unidentified "governmental entity" in Guyana.
Hackers have weaponized a zero-day in a popular workspace collaboration tool to create administrator accounts and gain unrestricted access to their on-premises instances of the software, Atlassian's Confluence Data Center and Server products, which serves millions of daily active users.
A clutch of vulnerabilities in an open-source tool used by major corporations to scale up machine learning models could lead to remote takeover, says a cybersecurity firm in a warning downplayed by Meta, which co-manages the open-source project.
Ransomware hackers are using a critical flaw in a DevOps tool, days after developer JetBrains issued a critical security update to patch its TeamCity build management and continuous integration server. Servers such as TeamCity are high-value targets since they manage source code, keys and secrets.
Google rolled out an urgent Chrome browser security update to address a zero-day actively exploited by a commercial spyware vendor. The high-severity bug is the fifth zero-day patched by Chrome this year. Google did not provide details, only stating that it is aware of an exploit in the wild.
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