Author: DEFENDEDGE

  • CISA Releases Security Advisory for ThroughTek Kalay P2P SDK

    Original release date: August 17, 2021 CISA has released an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisory detailing a vulnerability affecting several versions of ThroughTek Kalay P2P Software Development Kit (SDK). A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the ICS Advisory: ICSA-21-229-01 ThroughTek… Read more

  • AA21-229A: BadAlloc Vulnerability Affecting BlackBerry QNX RTOS

    Original release date: August 17, 2021 Summary On August 17, 2021, BlackBerry publicly disclosed that its QNX Real Time Operating System (RTOS) is affected by a BadAlloc vulnerability—CVE-2021-22156. BadAlloc is a collection of vulnerabilities affecting multiple RTOSs and supporting libraries.[1] A remote attacker could exploit CVE-2021-22156 to cause a denial-of-service condition or execute arbitrary code… Read more

  • Apple Releases Security Update

    Original release date: August 17, 2021 Apple has released a security update to address vulnerabilities in iCloud for Windows 12.5. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Apple security update and apply the necessary updates. This product is provided subject to this… Read more

  • Critical Valve Bug Lets Gamers Add Unlimited Funds to Steam Wallets

    Valve plugs an API bug found in its Steam platform that that abused the Smart2Pay system to add unlimited funds to gamer digital wallets. Read more

  • XSS Bug in SEOPress WordPress Plugin Allows Site Takeover

    The bug would allow a number of malicious actions, up to and including full site takeover. The vulnerable plugin is installed on 100,000 websites. Read more

  • Vulnerability Summary for the Week of August 9, 2021

    Original release date: August 16, 2021   High Vulnerabilities Primary Vendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info alg_ds_project — alg_ds An issue was discovered in the alg_ds crate through 2020-08-25 for Rust. There is a drop of uninitialized memory in Matrix::new(). 2021-08-08 7.5 CVE-2020-36432 MISC MISC care2x — hospital_information_management_system SQL Injection… Read more

  • Exchange Servers Under Active Attack via ProxyShell Bugs

    There’s an entirely new attack surface in Exchange, a researcher revealed at Black Hat, and threat actors are now exploiting servers vulnerable to the RCE bugs. Read more

  • WordPress Sites Abused in Aggah Spear-Phishing Campaign

    The Pakistan-linked threat group’s campaign uses compromised WordPress sites to deliver the Warzone RAT to manufacturing companies in Taiwan and South Korea. Read more

  • Black Hat: Novel DNS Hack Spills Confidential Corp Data

    Threatpost interviews Wiz CTO about a vulnerability recently patched by Amazon Route53’s DNS service and Google Cloud DNS. Read more

  • Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Thunderbird

    Original release date: August 12, 2021 Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Thunderbird. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla Security Advisory for Thunderbird 91 and apply the necessary updates. This product is provided subject to… Read more