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The Rise In Vulnerability Disclosure, Exploitation and Threat Intelligence

Patrick Garrity, Security Researcher at Nucleus Security, discusses the rise of vulnerabilities exploitation and threat intelligence in the field of vulnerability management. He highlights the history of vulnerability management, the increase in vulnerabilities and exploitation, the limitations of the common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS), and the emergence of vulnerability threat intelligence. Patrick also emphasizes the importance of open-source intelligence, such as CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) List and the Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), as well as the value of commercial threat intelligence.

CVE-2023-41265, CVE-2023-41266 & CVE-2023-48365: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Qlik Sense Enterprise Actively Exploited

Arctic Wolf has recently worked multiple incident response cases where we have observed ransomware groups exploiting CVE-2023-41265, CVE-2023-41266 & CVE-2023-48365 to gain initial access. On August 29, 2023, Qlik published a support article detailing two vulnerabilities which when successfully exploited in tandem could lead to an unauthenticated threat actor achieving remote code execution (RCE). CVE-2023-41266.

Qlik Sense Exploited in Cactus Ransomware Campaign

Arctic Wolf Labs has observed a new Cactus ransomware campaign which exploits publicly-exposed installations of Qlik Sense, a cloud analytics and business intelligence platform.[1] Based on available evidence, we assess that all vulnerabilities exploited were previously identified by researchers from Praetorian [2,3]. For more information on these vulnerabilities, see the advisories published by Qlik (CVE-2023-41266, CVE-2023-41265, and CVE-2023-48365) as well as our Security Bulletin.

Mitigate infrastructure vulnerabilities with Datadog Cloud Security Management

Cloud environments comprise hundreds of thousands of individual components, from infrastructure-level containers and hosts to access-level user and cloud accounts. With this level of complexity, continuous and end-to-end visibility into your environment is vital for detecting, prioritizing, and fixing vulnerabilities before attackers can take advantage of them.

Exploring WebExtension security vulnerabilities in React Developer Tools and Vue.js devtools

Snyk's security researchers have conducted some research to better understand the risks of WebExtensions, both well-known (i.e. XSS, code injection) and those more specific to WebExtensions themselves. From our research we identified and disclosed some vulnerabilities within some popular browser extensions: React Developer Tools and Vue.js devtools. In this post, we will explore the WebExtension technology and look into the vulnerabilities identified.

CVE-2023-43177: Critical Unauthenticated RCE Vulnerability in CrushFTP

On August 10, 2023, CrushFTP released an advisory regarding a vulnerability affecting versions of CrushFTP lower than 10.5.1. Since then, the vulnerability has been tracked as CVE-2023-43177 and the security researchers at Converge published a blog sharing their findings on November 16. CVE-2023-43177 is a mass assignment vulnerability related to how CrushFTP parses request headers for the AS2 protocol. Successful exploitation could lead to unauthenticated, remote code execution (RCE).

Trustwave MailMarshal Email Security Protects Against WinRAR Vulnerability CVE-2023-38831

The importance of email security cannot be understated. Proof of this can be seen in some recent research conducted by the Trustwave SpiderLabs team around our email security product MailMarshal. The team recently ran an experiment on known Zero Day CVE-2023-38831 found in RARLabs WinRAR that is currently being exploited in the wild in WinRAR versions 6.23 and earlier. WinRAR is a compression, archiving, and archive managing software tool.

The Power of Library-Based Vulnerability Detection.

With an ever-growing number of vulnerabilities being discovered annually, vulnerability management tools are rapidly evolving to handle and prioritize these risks. However, it remains one of the most overwhelming and time-consuming areas in cybersecurity. There’s still significant room for enhancement, especially in reducing false alerts and prioritizing genuine threats.

File encryption in Python: An in-depth exploration of symmetric and asymmetric techniques

In our modern world, we constantly share private, confidential, and sensitive information over digital channels. A fundamental component of this communication is file encryption — transforming data into an unreadable format using encryption algorithms.