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Threat Advisory

22,500 Palo Alto firewalls "possibly vulnerable" to ongoing attacks

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Approximately 22,500 exposed Palo Alto GlobalProtect firewall devices are likely vulnerable to the CVE-2024-3400 flaw, a critical command injection vulnerability that has been actively exploited in attacks since at least March 26, 2024.

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Frontier Communications shuts down systems after cyberattack

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American telecom provider Frontier Communications is restoring systems after a cybercrime group breached some of its IT systems in a recent cyberattack.

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Active exploit of Atlassian Confluence

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This Cybersecurity Threat Advisory details the exploitation of the critical vulnerability CVE-2023-22518 in the Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server. Attackers are deploying a Linux variant of Cerber (aka C3RB3R) ransomware. This allows unauthenticated attackers to reset Confluence and create administrator accounts, granting them complete control over affected systems.

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LayerSlider SQL injection vulnerability

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An unauthenticated Structured Query Language (SQL) injection vulnerability, known as CVE-2024-2879, has been found in the WordPress plugin LayerSlider.

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Roku warns 576,000 accounts hacked in new credential stuffing attacks

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Roku warns that 576,000 accounts were hacked in new credential stuffing attacks after disclosing another incident that compromised 15,000 accounts in early March.

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Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS firewall zero-day used in attacks

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Today, Palo Alto Networks warns that an unpatched critical command injection vulnerability in its PAN-OS firewall is being actively exploited in attacks.

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LastPass: Hackers targeted employee in failed deepfake CEO call

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LastPass revealed this week that threat actors targeted one of its employees in a voice phishing attack, using deepfake audio to impersonate Karim Toubba, the company's Chief Executive Officer.

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Palo Alto Networks zero-day exploited since March to backdoor firewalls

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Suspected state-sponsored hackers have been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks firewalls tracked as CVE-2024-3400 since March 26, using the compromised devices to breach internal networks, steal data and credentials.

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Critical flaws in Ivanti

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Recent flaws found in Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure Gateways can lead to remote code execution (RCE) attacks. Review this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory to learn additional details and recommendations to keep your organization secure. 

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D-Link NAS vulnerabilities

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Two vulnerabilities were found in legacy D-Link products that have reached end-of-life (EoL) status. The vulnerabilities can cause command injection and backdoor account to these devices. This Cybersecurity Threat Advisory discusses the impact of the threat, as well as recommendations to mitigate risks these vulnerabilities may cause.

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XZ Utils supply chain vulnerability

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A supply chain vulnerability was found in XZ Utils that creates a backdoor into OpenSSH and can lead to remote code execution (RCE). Read this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory to learn about this supply chain vulnerability and how to reduce your risks. 

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Over 92,000 exposed D-Link NAS devices have a backdoor account

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A threat researcher has disclosed a new arbitrary command injection and hardcoded backdoor flaw in multiple end-of-life D-Link Network Attached Storage (NAS) device models.. 

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Fake Facebook MidJourney AI page promoted malware to 1.2 million people

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Hackers are using Facebook advertisements and hijacked pages to promote fake Artificial Intelligence services, such as MidJourney, OpenAI's SORA and ChatGPT-5, and DALL-E, to infect unsuspecting users with password-stealing malware.

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Acuity confirms hackers stole non-sensitive govt data from GitHub repos

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Acuity, a federal contractor that works with U.S. government agencies, has confirmed that hackers breached its GitHub repositories and stole documents containing old and non-sensitive data.

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Panera Bread week-long IT outage caused by ransomware attack

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Panera Bread's recent week-long outage was caused by a ransomware attack, according to people familiar with the matter and emails. 

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Visa warns of new JSOutProx malware variant targeting financial orgs

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Visa is warning about a spike in detections for a new version of the JsOutProx malware targeting financial institutions and their customers.

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US cancer center data breach exposes info of 827,000 patients

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Cancer treatment and research center City of Hope is warning that a data breach exposed the sensitive information of over 820,000 patients. 

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TA558 phishing campaign

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 The threat actor TA558 is conducting a phishing campaign targeting various sectors in Latin America, intending to deploy the remote access tool known as Venom RAT. LBT Technology Group encourages organizations to follow the recommendations detailed in this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory to mitigate the potential risk of this campaign.

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GitHub supply chain attack

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Malicious actors have launched a software supply chain attack targeting developers on the GitHub platform. LBT Technology Group, LLC. recommends taking proactive measures detailed in this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory to mitigate the risk. 

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AWS 'FlowFixation' vulnerabiltiy

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The AWS "FlowFixation" vulnerability, while patched in September 2023, may still pose account hijacking risks within its Amazon Managed Workflows Apache Airflow (MWAA) service. Read this Cybersecurity Threat Advisory to learn the impact and security measures to mitigate risks associated with this vulnerability. 

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Top Breaches Cost ($) of 2024

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Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024