Cyber Security Alerts & Threat Intelligence

Today, CISA—with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency (NSA), and international partners—released joint Cybersecurity Advisory Iranian Cyber Actors Brute Force and Credential Access Activity Compromises Critical Infrastructure. This advisory provides known indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by Iranian actors to impact organizations across multiple critical infrastructure sectors. Since October 2023, Iranian actors have used brute force and password spraying to compromise user accounts and obtain access to organizations in the healthcare and public health (HPH), government, information technology, engineering, and energy sectors. CISA and partners recommend critical infrastructure organizations follow…

High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info Patch Info adobe — animate  Animate versions 23.0.7, 24.0.4 and earlier are affected by a Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. 2024-10-09 7.8 CVE-2024-47410 psirt@adobe.com  adobe — animate  Animate versions 23.0.7, 24.0.4 and earlier are affected by an Access of Uninitialized Pointer vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue…

Today, CISA published the Framing Software Component Transparency, created by the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) Tooling & Implementation Working Group, one of the five SBOM community-driven workstreams facilitated by CISA. CISA’s community-driven working groups publish documents and reports to advance and refine SBOM and ultimately promote adoption. This resource serves as the detailed foundation of SBOM, defining SBOM concepts and related terms and offering an updated baseline of how software components are to be represented. This document serves as a guide on the processes around SBOM creation. For more information on all things SBOM, please visit CISA’s Software Bill of Materials website.

CISA has observed cyber threat actors leveraging unencrypted persistent cookies managed by the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) module to enumerate other non-internet facing devices on the network. F5 BIG-IP is a suite of hardware and software solutions designed to manage and secure network traffic. A malicious cyber actor could leverage the information gathered from unencrypted persistence cookies to infer or identify additional network resources and potentially exploit vulnerabilities found in other devices present on the network.    CISA urges organizations to encrypt persistent cookies employed in F5 BIG-IP devices and review the following article for details on how to configure the…

CISA released twenty-one Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on October 10, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-24-284-01 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 and S7-1200 CPUs ICSA-24-284-02 Siemens Simcenter Nastran ICSA-24-284-03 Siemens Teamcenter Visualization and JT2Go ICSA-24-284-04 Siemens SENTRON PAC3200 Devices ICSA-24-284-05 Siemens Questa and ModelSim ICSA-24-284-06 Siemens SINEC Security Monitor ICSA-24-284-07 Siemens JT2Go ICSA-24-284-08 Siemens HiMed Cockpit ICSA-24-284-09 Siemens PSS SINCAL ICSA-24-284-10 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPUs ICSA-24-284-11 Siemens RUGGEDCOM APE1808 ICSA-24-284-12 Siemens Sentron Powercenter 1000 ICSA-24-284-13 Siemens Tecnomatix Plant Simulation ICSA-24-284-14 Schneider Electric Zelio Soft 2 ICSA-24-284-15 Rockwell Automation DataMosaix Private Cloud…

Microsoft released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A cyber threat actor could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following and apply necessary updates: Microsoft Security Update Guide for October

As hurricanes and other natural disasters occur, CISA urges individuals to remain on alert for potential malicious cyber activity. Fraudulent emails and social media messages—often containing malicious links or attachments—are common after major natural disasters. Exercise caution in handling emails with hurricane-related subject lines, attachments, or hyperlinks. In addition, be wary of social media pleas, texts, or door-to-door solicitations relating to severe weather events. Before responding, ensure hurricane-related guidance is from trusted sources, such as local officials and disaster response organizations, including Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and DHS’s Ready.gov. CISA encourages users to review the following resources to avoid…

High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info n/a–n/a  An issue was discovered in Atos Eviden iCare 2.7.1 through 2.7.11. The application exposes a web interface locally. In the worst-case scenario, if the application is remotely accessible, it allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands with system privilege on the endpoint hosting the application, without any authentication. 2024-09-30 10 CVE-2024-42017cve@mitre.orgcve@mitre.org  Cisco–Cisco Data Center Network Manager  A vulnerability in the REST API and web UI of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) could allow an authenticated, low-privileged, remote attacker to perform a command injection attack against…

Today, the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC)—in partnership with CISA, U.S. government and international partners—released the guide Principles of Operational Technology Cybersecurity. This guidance provides critical information on how to create and maintain a safe, secure operational technology (OT) environment. The six principles outlined in this guide are intended to aid organizations in identifying how business decisions may adversely impact the cybersecurity of OT and the specific risks associated with those decisions. Filtering decisions that impact the security of OT will enhance the comprehensive decision-making that promotes security and business continuity. CISA encourages critical infrastructure organizations…

High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info Patch Info Dover Fueling Solutions (DFS)–ProGauge MAGLINK LX CONSOLE  A specially crafted POST request to the ProGauge MAGLINK LX CONSOLE UTILITY sub-menu can allow a remote attacker to inject arbitrary commands. 2024-09-25 10 CVE-2024-43693 ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov  Dover Fueling Solutions (DFS)–ProGauge MAGLINK LX CONSOLE  A specially crafted POST request to the ProGauge MAGLINK LX CONSOLE IP sub-menu can allow a remote attacker to inject arbitrary commands. 2024-09-25 10 CVE-2024-45066 ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov  webdevmattcrom–GiveWP Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform  The GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP…

Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released its Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (VDP) Platform 2023 Annual Report, highlighting the service’s remarkable success in 2023, its second full year of operation. Throughout 2023, CISA focused on advocating for the increased agency adoption of the VDP Platform, supporting federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) agencies in identifying vulnerabilities in their systems, and engaging the public security researcher community. Public security researchers play a vital role in securing our federal government’s networks. As part of CISA’s persistent and ongoing collaboration with the public security researcher community, CISA issued Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 20-01 in…

Today, the Australian Signals Directorate Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD ACSC), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and other U.S. and international partners released the joint guide Detecting and Mitigating Active Directory Compromises. This guide informs organizations of recommended strategies to mitigate common techniques used by malicious actors to compromise Active Directory. Active Directory is the most widely used authentication and authorization solution in enterprise information technology (IT) networks globally. Malicious actors routinely target Active Directory as part of efforts to compromise enterprise IT networks by escalating privileges and targeting the highest confidential user objects.   Responding to and…