SANS ISC

Critical FortiClient EMS vulnerability fixed, (fake?) PoC for sale (CVE-2023-48788)

March 14, 2024

A recently fixed SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2023-48788) in Fortinet’s FortiClient Endpoint Management Server (EMS) solution has apparently piqued the interest of …

Critical ownCloud flaw under attack (CVE-2023-49103)

November 28, 2023

Attackers are trying to exploit a critical information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2023-49103) in ownCloud, a popular file sharing and collaboration platform used in …

New twist on ZeroFont phishing technique spotted in the wild

September 27, 2023

Cybercriminals are leveraging the ZeroFont technique to trick users into trusting phishing emails, SANS ISC handler Jan Kopriva has warned. The ZeroFont phishing attack …

Someone is roping Apache NiFi servers into a cryptomining botnet

May 31, 2023

If you’re running an Apache NiFi instance exposed on the internet and you have not secured access to it, the underlying host may already be covertly cryptomining on …

Google ads increasingly pointing to malware

January 18, 2023

The FBI has recently warned the public about search engine ads pushing malware diguised as legitimate software – an old tactic that has lately resulted in too many …

Attackers are attempting to exploit critical F5 BIG-IP RCE

May 9, 2022

Researchers have developed PoC exploits for CVE-2022-1388, a critical remote code execution bug affecting F5 BIG-IP multi-purpose networking devices/modules. Simultaneously, …

Critical Microsoft RPC runtime bug: No PoC exploit yet, but patch ASAP! (CVE-2022-26809)

April 15, 2022

Three days have passed since Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday, and CVE-2022-26809 has emerged as the vulnerability with the most exploitation potential. It’s easy …

Spring4Shell: No need to panic, but mitigations are advised

March 31, 2022

Security teams around the world got another shock on Thursday when news of disclosure of a PoC for an unauthenticated RCE zero-day vulnerability in Spring Core, a massively …

Log4Shell: A new fix, details of active attacks, and risk mitigation recommendations

December 15, 2021

Due to the extraordinary widespread use of the open-source Apache Log4j library, the saga of the Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) vulnerability is nowhere near finished. As Dr. …

Log4Shell update: Attack surface, attacks in the wild, mitigation and remediation

December 13, 2021

Several days have passed since the dramatic reveal of CVE-2021-44228 (aka Log4Shell), an easily exploitable (without authentication) RCE flaw in Apache Log4j, a popular …

Phishers tricking users via fake LinkedIn Private Shared Document

February 18, 2021

Phishers are trying to trick users into opening a “LinkedIn Private Shared Document” and entering their login credentials into a fake LinkedIn login page, security …

Easily exploitable RCE in Oracle WebLogic Server under attack (CVE-2020-14882)

October 29, 2020

A critical and easily exploitable remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2020-14882) in Oracle WebLogic Server is being targeted by attackers, SANS ISC has warned. Oracle …