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A high severity vulnerability has been found in RARLAB’s popular Windows file archiver WinRAR. Security researchers at the Zero Day Initiative who first identified this vulnerability in June have published a security advisory about this flaw now that an update has been issued by the vendor. This vulnerability has the possibility of allowing remote, unauthenticatedRead more

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows have been identified in Ivanti Avalanche, tracked as a single vulnerability with a critical severity rating and CVSS base score of 9.8/10. Ivanti Avalanche is an enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution used by organisations to manage and monitor mobile devices securely. Researchers at Tenable discovered and investigated these flaws, publishing anRead more

Highly targeted phishing attacks have been carried out by the threat actor Midnight Blizzard, previously known as NOBELIUM, via Microsoft Teams. These attacks targeted a range of organisations including government and non-government organisations, IT services, technology businesses, manufacturing, and media companies. Through social engineering techniques Midnight Blizzard were able to achieve token and credential theftRead more

LinkedIn accounts have been targeted by attackers in hacking events that have led to users being locked out of their own accounts by LinkedIn, and unable to recover them through LinkedIn support. The cyber criminals conducting these account takeover attacks have pressured their victims into paying ransoms to recover their accounts under the threat ofRead more

A five-year-old vulnerability is currently being exploited in Zyxel P660HN-T1A routers to introduce a Gafgyt malware variant onto target networks. An outbreak alert has been issued by Fortinet to inform users that this end-of-life router running versions before 7.3.15.0 v001/ 3.40 (ULM.0)b31 is being actively targeted in the wild. Zyxel published a security advisory backRead more

A Defense-In-Depth Office update has been released by Microsoft as a part of the Patch Tuesday updates made available this week to fix an actively exploited remote code execution (RCE) flaw. This vulnerability was first identified last month, when it was confirmed to be actively exploited and publicly disclosed. At the time of discovery, itRead more

A critical severity flaw in PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF print management applications that can allow unauthenticated attackers to perform remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable Windows servers. Any use of the affected PaperCut software prior to version 22.1.3 on Windows that is exposed to the internet is vulnerable to exploitation. For the best security,Read more

A zero-day cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw that has been exploited in the wild has now been patched for Zimbra Collaboration Suite in version 8.8.15 patch 41. Two other vulnerabilities have been patched in this update, which are a high severity flaw that can allow for denial of service (DoS) attacks, and another vulnerability that canRead more

Canon Inkjet printers have been found to retain sensitive Wi-Fi information after the usual wipe that is performed in the initialisation process. Canon have released a security advisory to warn their customers that information that can be used to connect to previously connected Wi-Fi is kept within the memory of the Wi-Fi connection settings, andRead more