On November 4, 2023, QNAP published security advisories for two critical command injection vulnerabilities impacting multiple versions of QNAP operating systems and applications related to the vendor’s network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Both vulnerabilities have been given critical CVSS scores (CVE-2023-23368: 9.8, CVE-2023-23369: 9.0) and both can lead to unauthenticated, remote threat actors executing commands if successfully exploited.

On November 2, 2023, SysAid was notified by Microsoft of a zero-day path traversal vulnerability allowing for remote code execution, which affects their on-premises ITSM solution. In the investigation conducted by SysAid, it was determined that the vulnerability was being actively exploited by a ransomware affiliate group known as Lace Tempest (DEV-0950), a group known for deploying the CL0P ransomware payload.

On November 6, 2023, Veeam published security hotfixes for two critical-severity vulnerabilities impacting Veeam ONE. At this time, Arctic Wolf has not identified active exploitation of either vulnerability, nor a published proof of concept (PoC) exploit. Although threat actors have not historically targeted Veeam ONE products, obtaining RCE on the monitoring and analytics platform will likely increase the potential for threat actors to create a working PoC exploit and attempt exploitation.

The cloud offers major benefits to organizations, helping increase business agility, better serve their customers’ needs, and cut their costs. This is why the typical modern business now uses public, infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud platforms for its major business and organizational functions. However, the cloud also introduces new risks that can increase your costs should you fall victim to a breach.

This article aims to share timely and relevant information about a rapidly developing campaign under investigation. We are publishing it as early as possible for the benefit of the cybersecurity community, and we may provide updates in the near future once more details become available in our research.

On October 27, 2023, Apache published a security advisory addressing that a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability has been fixed in the latest updates for Apache ActiveMQ products, CVE-2023-46604. This vulnerability was rated with a maximum Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score of 10.0, as it can be exploited remotely by an unauthenticated threat actor in low complexity attacks.

Network infrastructure is not immune from the schemes of cybercriminals. State sponsored actors have U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) concerned after a spike in attacks on networks. In April, Sudan-linked hackers launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on an Israeli government network, — and in late 2022, Arctic Wolf Labs issued a warning about a multiple CVEs tied to the Cisco Nexus Dashboard.

When a ransomware group launched twin cyber attacks on casino giants MGM and Caesars, they only needed the accidental participation of the organizations’ outsourced IT help desk to get started. It was social engineering — in this case impersonation over the phone, or vishing— that gave the hackers the information they needed to launch a ransomware attack that cost both casinos millions.

On October 26, 2023, F5 released security hotfixes for a critical unauthenticated RCE vulnerability (CVE-2023-46747) in BIG-IP’s Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI). If successfully exploited a threat actor with network access to the vulnerable system could bypass the configuration utility authentication and execute arbitrary system commands. CVE-2023-46747 is exploitable if the Traffic Management User Interface is exposed to the Internet.

On October 25, 2023 VMware published a security advisory regarding a critical out-of-bounds write vulnerability (CVE-2023-34048) that has been fixed in the latest updates by VMware. The vulnerability has received a critical severity rating by VMware as it could potentially allow a remote, unauthenticated threat actor to achieve remote code execution if successfully exploited.