Thursday, January 23, 2025

Vulnerability Analysis

Security Researchers Discover Critical RCE Vulnerability, Earned $40,000 Bounty

Cybersecurity researchers Abdullah Nawaf and Orwa Atyat, successfully escalated a limited path traversal vulnerability into a full-blown remote code execution (RCE).Their discovery earned a massive $40,000 bounty from...

New Botnet Exploiting DNS Records Misconfiguration To Deliver Malware

Botnets are the networks of compromised devices that have evolved significantly since the internet's inception. Threat actors exploit vulnerabilities to control these devices remotely...

New Botnet Exploiting D-Link Routers To Gain Control Remotely

Researchers observed a recent surge in activity from the "FICORA" and "CAPSAICIN," both variants of Mirai and Kaiten, respectively, which exploit known vulnerabilities in...

McDonald’s Delivery App Bug Let Customers Orders For Just $0.01

McDonald's India (West & South) / Hardcastle Restaurants Pvt. Ltd. operates a custom McDelivery web app for ordering McDonald's food for delivery, dine-in, and...

Hackers Exploiting PLC Controllers In US Water Management System To Gain Remote Access

A joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) warns of ongoing exploitation attempts by Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-affiliated cyber actors using the online persona "CyberAv3ngers." These...

Malicious Supply Chain Attacking Moving From npm Community To VSCode Marketplace

Researchers have identified a rise in malicious activity on the VSCode Marketplace, highlighting the vulnerability of the platform to supply chain attacks similar to...

Spring Framework Path Traversal Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38819) PoC Exploit Released

A Proof of Concept (PoC) exploit for the critical path traversal vulnerability identified as CVE-2024-38819 in the Spring Framework has been released, shedding light...

New AI Tool To Discover 0-Days At Large Scale With A Click Of A Button

Vulnhuntr, a static code analyzer using large language models (LLMs), discovered over a dozen zero-day vulnerabilities in popular open-source AI projects on Github (over...

Critical Automative 0-Day Flaws Let Attackers Gain Full Control Over Cars

Recent discoveries in the automotive cybersecurity landscape have unveiled a series of critical zero-day vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to gain full control over...

Pootry EDR Killer Malware Wipes Out Security Tools From Windows Machine

Windows drivers can be abused to bypass security measures. Attackers can exploit vulnerabilities in legitimate drivers or use stolen or forged digital signatures to...

TAG-100 Actors Using Open-Source Tools To Attack Gov & Private Orgs

Hackers exploit open-source tools to execute attacks because they are readily available, well-documented, and often have extensive community support, making them easy to modify...