This blog post is a summary of this week’s Information Security News put together by our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) Currently the biggest exposure to threats in the cyber domain is presented via mail. Phishing attacks tricks out the credentials for legitimate users and then gain access to the mail account, and some actors […]
Published: 2020-07-29MITRE CVE-2020-10713 GRUB 2 is a “boot loader”, it precedes the actual operating system and allows for multiple options in what operating system to load and with what parameters given. An attacker with administrative privileges on a system, or physical access, can use this vulnerability to bypass the check of cryptographic signatures and run […]
This blog post is a summary of this week’s Information Security News put together by our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) This week we get a unique insight into a threat actors inner working as IBM’s X-Force IRIS security team uncover a 40GB cache of data belonging to a threat actor called “ITG18” (overlaps with […]
Published: 2020-07-01MITRE CVE-2020-5902 “The Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI), also referred to as the Configuration utility, has a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in undisclosed pages.” “This vulnerability allows for unauthenticated attackers, or authenticated users, with network access to the TMUI, through the BIG-IP management port and/or Self IPs, to execute arbitrary system commands, create […]
Published: 2020-06-25MITRE CVE-2020-11996 “A specially crafted sequence of HTTP/2 requests could trigger high CPU usage for several seconds. If a sufficient number of such requests were made on concurrent HTTP/2 connections, the server could become unresponsive.” CVSS Base score: 7.5 (or 5.9 if Attack Complexity turns out to be High)CVSS Temporal Score: 6.5 as of […]
This blog post is a summary of this week’s Information Security News put together by our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) ESET researchers are warning about targeted phishing attacks agains high-profile aerospace and military companies in Europe. The attacker will approach individual personnel about possible job vacancies, some file-sharing then commences with the pretense of […]
Published: 2020-04-24 MITRE CVE-2020-4415 “IBM Spectrum Protect server is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking. This could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system with the privileges of an administrator or user associated with the Spectrum Protect server or cause the Spectrum Protect server to crash.” […]
There has been discovered a vulnerability in the default mail application (MobileMail) for iOS. The vulnerability allows an attacker to send an email to a victim (you) and without any action from you, the email will launch code prepared by the attacker on your device. The fix for this is not released yet, it has […]