General cyber hygiene has gotten worse at small and midsized businesses, according to Simon Newman, CEO of the Cyber Resilience Center for London. "Businesses are less able to spot that they've been a victim than they perhaps have in previous years," he said.
SMBs must deal with heightened digital risk despite having less resources, personnel and intelligence than their larger counterparts, said Qualys CEO Sumedh Thakar. Firms rely on different teams and tools to discover assets, find misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, prioritize them and patch them.
Adobe released a fresh out-of-band security update to patch an improperly fixed ColdFusion zero-day vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild that allows attackers to bypass security controls. The update includes fixes for two other critical vulnerabilities.
Top U.S. and Australian cybersecurity agencies strongly urged users to patch a critical zero-day flaw in Citrix ADC and Gateway appliances being exploited by unnamed threat actors in the wild. The bug, which is tracked as CVE-2023-3519, gives unauthenticated attackers RCE privileges.
Product security is the other half of the security picture. While IT security focuses on an internal audience, product security teams must respond quickly to issues identified by customers and researchers. Quentyn Taylor of Canon EMEA discussed the value of product security programs.
Warning: Hackers are actively exploiting a flaw in Adobe's ColdFusion rapid web application development platform to execute malicious code. While Adobe attempted to patch the flaw, researchers say attackers appear to have found a way to bypass it by chaining together multiple flaws.
Rockwell Automation teamed-up with CISA to find two critical flaws that require immediate attention, citing a novel exploit capability attributed to advanced persistent threat actors known for targeting industrial systems and critical infrastructure.
Security appliance manufacturers SonicWall and Fortinet fixed multiple critically rated vulnerabilities in their network security products this week. The fixes include authentication bypass flaws that could result in exposure of sensitive information. Regulators urge users to patch soon.
Configuration management - especially vulnerability patching - is a significant challenge for many healthcare entities, including some Veterans Affairs medical facilities. A recent watchdog agency security inspection found configuration to be a top weakness at a VA healthcare system in Arizona.
Microsoft released the largest set of patches of the year - software updates for 132 vulnerabilities, including six zero-days. Microsoft rated nine of the flaws as having critical severity, 121 as being important and eight as being linked to critical remote code execution vulnerabilities.
Apple is advising users to remove the software patch released on Monday aimed at fixing a zero-day vulnerability being exploited in the wild. The tech giant said the patch might prevent some websites from displaying properly and that it hopes to release a new patch soon.
For the third time since the discovery of the MOVEit Transfer application zero-day vulnerability, Progress Software has revealed a new critical SQL injection vulnerability that allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code.
This week, the U.S. sanctioned Russians running influence campaigns, the owner of the Monopoly darknet drug market was charged, CISA ordered federal agencies to patch flaws before July 13, Suncor Energy suffered a cyberattack and Petro-Canada gas stations were affected.
Microsoft discovered hackers targeting internet-facing Linux systems and IoT devices to steal IT resources for cryptocurrency mining operations. The campaign begins by brute-forcing target systems and devices and then uses a backdoor to deploy open-source tools such as rootkits and an IRC bot.
Apple has fixed multiple zero-days that were actively being exploited since 2019 and infect several iOS devices with a spyware implant dubbed TriangleDB via zero-click iMessage exploits. The tech giant said the vulnerabilities actively exploited iOS versions released before iOS 15.7.
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