Author: DEFENDEDGE

Today, CISA released an Open Source Software Security Roadmap to lay out—in alignment with the National Cybersecurity Strategy and the CISA Cybersecurity Strategic Plan—how we will partner with federal agencies, open source software (OSS) consumers, and the OSS community, to secure OSS infrastructure. To that end, the roadmap details four key goals: Establish CISA’s role… Read more

  High Vulnerabilities Primary Vendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info canonical_ltd. — snapd_for_linux Using the TIOCLINUX ioctl request, a malicious snap could inject contents into the input of the controlling terminal which could allow it to cause arbitrary commands to be executed outside of the snap sandbox after the snap… Read more

Today, CISA, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) published a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), Multiple Nation-State Threat Actors Exploit CVE-2022-47966 and CVE-2022-42475. This CSA provides information on an incident at an Aeronautical Sector organization, with malicious activity occurring as early as January 2023.  CISA, FBI, and CNMF… Read more

SUMMARY The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) identified the presence of indicators of compromise (IOCs) at an Aeronautical Sector organization as early as January 2023. Analysts confirmed that nation-state advanced persistent threat (APT) actors exploited CVE-2022-47966 to gain unauthorized access to a public-facing… Read more

 High Vulnerabilities Primary Vendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info earcms — ear_app An issue found in Earcms Ear App v.20181124 allows a remote cyber threat actor to execute arbitrary code via the uload/index-uplog.php. 2023-08-29 9.8 CVE-2020-18912MISCMISC tripspark — veo_transportation_novusedu TripSpark VEO Transportation-2.2.x-XP_BB-20201123-184084 NovusEDU-2.2.x-XP_BB-20201123-184084 allows unsafe data inputs in POST body… Read more

CISA has released actionable guidance for Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to help them evaluate and mitigate the risk of volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against their websites and related web services. The Capacity Enhancement Guide: Volumetric DDoS Against Web Services Technical Guidance:   Helps agencies prioritize DDoS mitigations based on mission and reputational… Read more

VMware has released a security update to address a vulnerability in VMware Tools. A cyber threat actor can exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information. CISA encourages users and administrators to review VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2023-0019 and apply the necessary update. Read more

Today, the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK), the United States’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), New Zealand’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NZ), Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS), and the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) published a joint Malware Analysis Report (MAR), on… Read more

SUMMARY The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to disseminate QakBot infrastructure indicators of compromise (IOCs) identified through FBI investigations as of August 2023. On August 25, FBI and international partners executed a coordinated operation to disrupt QakBot infrastructure worldwide. Disruption operations… Read more

Juniper Networks has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability for Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved. A cyber threat actor could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service condition. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Juniper’s Support Portal and apply the necessary update. Read more