Author: DEFENDEDGE

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In early 2023, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) conducted a SILENTSHIELD red team assessment against a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization. During SILENTSHIELD assessments, the red team first performs a no-notice, long-term simulation of nation-state cyber operations. The team mimics the techniques, tradecraft, and behaviors of sophisticated threat actors and… Read more

Today, CISA released CISA Red Team’s Operations Against a Federal Civilian Executive Branch Organization Highlights the Necessity of Defense-in-Depth in coordination with the assessed organization. This Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) details key findings and lessons learned from a 2023 assessment, along with the red team’s tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and associated network defense activity. The… Read more

Today, CISA and FBI are releasing their newest Secure by Design Alert in the series, Eliminating OS Command Injection Vulnerabilities, in response to recent well-publicized threat actor campaigns that exploited OS command injection defects in network edge devices (CVE-2024-20399, CVE-2024-3400, CVE-2024-21887) to target and compromise users. These vulnerabilities allowed unauthenticated malicious actors to remotely execute code on network… Read more

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 July Read more

Citrix released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple Citrix 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:   NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway Security Update for CVE-2024-5491 and CVE-2024-5492 NetScaler… Read more

CISA has collaborated with the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) to release an advisory, People’s Republic of China (PRC) Ministry of State Security APT40 Tradecraft in Action outlining a PRC state-sponsored cyber group’s activity. The following organizations also collaborated with ASD’s ACSC on the guidance: The National Security Agency (NSA); The… Read more

Overview Background This advisory, authored by the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC), the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the United States National Security Agency (NSA), the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK), the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS),… Read more

High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info 2code — wpqa_builder  The WPQA Builder WordPress plugin before 6.1.1 does not have CSRF checks in some places, which could allow attackers to make logged in users perform unwanted actions via CSRF attacks 2024-07-03 8.8 CVE-2024-2376contact@wpscan.com ABB–ASPECT Enterprise (ASP-ENT-x)  Default credential in… Read more

High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info access_management_specialist_project — access_management_specialist  An issue in Shenzhen Weitillage Industrial Co., Ltd the access management specialist V6.62.51215 allows a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information. 2024-06-24 7.5 CVE-2024-37677cve@mitre.org aimeos–ai-client-html  ai-client-html is an Aimeos e-commerce HTML client component. Debug information revealed sensitive information from… Read more

Progress Software released a security bulletin to address a vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer. A cyber threat actor could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. Users and administrators are encouraged to review the following bulletin and apply the necessary updates: MOVEit Transfer Critical Security Alert Bulletin – June 2024 – (CVE-2024-5806) Read more