Author: DEFENDEDGE

Today, CISA, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) updated the joint fact sheet Top Cyber Actions for Securing Water Systems. This update includes additional resources—from American Water Works Association, the WaterISAC, and MS-ISAC—to support water systems in defending against from malicious cyber activity.  The fact sheet outlines the following… Read more

How SVR-Attributed Actors are Adapting to the Move of Government and Corporations to Cloud Infrastructure OVERVIEW This advisory details recent tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of the group commonly known as APT29, also known as Midnight Blizzard, the Dukes, or Cozy Bear. The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and international partners assess that APT29… Read more

SUMMARY The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the following partners (hereafter referred to as the authoring organizations) are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory to warn that cyber threat actors are exploiting previously identified vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure gateways. CISA and authoring organizations appreciate the cooperation of Volexity, Ivanti,… Read more

  High Vulnerabilities Primary Vendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info 9bis — kitty KiTTY versions 0.76.1.13 and before is vulnerable to command injection via the filename variable, occurs due to insufficient input sanitization and validation, failure to escape special characters, and insecure system calls (at lines 2369-2390). This allows an… Read more

CISA released seventeen Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on February 15, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-24-046-01 Siemens SCALANCE W1750D ICSA-24-046-02 Siemens SIDIS Prime ICSA-24-046-03 Siemens SIMATIC RTLS Gateways ICSA-24-046-04 Siemens CP343-1 Devices ICSA-24-046-05 Siemens Location Intelligence ICSA-24-046-06 Siemens Unicam FX ICSA-24-046-07 Siemens Tecnomatix Plant… Read more

SUMMARY The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) conducted an incident response assessment of a state government organization’s network environment after documents containing host and user information, including metadata, were posted on a dark web brokerage site. Analysis confirmed that an unidentified threat actor compromised network… Read more

  High Vulnerabilities Primary Vendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info allegro_ai — clearml Lack of authentication in all versions of the fileserver component of Allegro AI’s ClearML platform allows a remote attacker to arbitrarily access, create, modify and delete files. 2024-02-06 9.8 CVE-2024-245926f8de1f0-f67e-45a6-b68f-98777fdb759c allegro_ai — clearml A cross-site request forgery… Read more

Today, CISA—on behalf of the collective group of industry and government partners that comprise the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC)—released JCDC’s 2024 Priorities. Similar to the 2023 JCDC Planning Agenda, JCDC’s 2024 Priorities will help focus the collective group on developing high-impact and collaborative solutions to the most pressing cybersecurity challenges. Resulting from the trusted… Read more

Fortinet released security updates to address critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in FortiOS (CVE-2024-21762, CVE-2024-23313). A cyber threat actor could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. Note: According to Fortinet, CVE-2024-21762 is potentially being exploited in the wild.  CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following advisories and apply necessary… Read more

Fortinet released security updates to address critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in FortiOS (CVE-2024-21762, CVE-2024-23313) as well as an access control vulnerability in FortiClientEMS (CVE-2024-45581). A cyber threat actor could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. Note: According to Fortinet, CVE-2024-21762 is potentially being exploited in the wild.  CISA encourages users… Read more