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Nucleus Security Raises $43 Million Series B Funding to Lead Innovation in Enterprise Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

Nucleus Security announces it has secured $43 million in Series B funding led by Arthur Ventures and Lead Edge Capital. This milestone marks a significant leap forward in the company's mission to redefine how enterprises manage risk exposure from vulnerabilities across infrastructure, cloud, and application portfolios in one unified platform.

CVE-2024-22024: New High-severity Ivanti Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

On February 8, 2024, Ivanti publicly disclosed a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2024-22024) impacting Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA products. CVE-2024-22024 is an XML external entity (XXE) flaw in the SAML component and could allow threat actors to bypass authentication and access certain restricted resources if successfully exploited.

CVE-2024-21762 and CVE-2024-23113: Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities in Fortinet, One Likely Under Active Exploitation

On February 8, 2024, Fortinet’s FortiGuard disclosed two critical vulnerabilities affecting FortiOS. CVE-2024-23113, a format string vulnerability, and CVE-2024-21762, an out-of-bounds write vulnerability, could allow unauthenticated threat actors to execute arbitrary code or commands. FortiGuard has stated they are aware of potential exploitation of CVE-2024-21762.

Automatic source locations with Rego

At Snyk, we are big fans of Open Policy Agent’s Rego. Snyk IaC is built around a large set of rules written in Rego, and customers can add their own custom rules as well. We recently released a series of improvements to Snyk IaC, and in this blog post, we’re taking a technical dive into a particularly interesting feature — automatic source code locations for rule violations.

CVSS: The Common Vulnerability Scoring System

Cybersecurity measures have become important in the ever-evolving landscape of digital threats. With organizations increasingly relying on digital technologies to drive their operations, the risk of cyberattacks becomes more likely, with potential consequences ranging from financial losses to reputational damages.

How Nucleus Security's $43M Series B Funding Powers Enterprise Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Innovation

We at Nucleus Security are thrilled to share our journey and vision following our recent $43 million Series B funding round. This investment, led by Arthur Ventures and Lead Edge Capital, is a testament to our commitment to leading the charge in vulnerability management innovation and our dedication to protecting digital infrastructures worldwide. Read the full press release here.

5 Best Network Vulnerability Scanning Tools in 2024

Network vulnerability scanning provides in-depth insight into your organization’s security posture and highlights the specific types of vulnerabilities attackers may exploit when targeting it. These tools work by systematically scanning your network environment — including all desktops, laptops, mobile endpoints, servers, and other assets for known weaknesses and misconfigurations. Your analyzer then produces a detailed report that tells you exactly how hackers might breach your systems.

Fortinet Vulnerability: CVE-2024-21762

On Thursday, February 8th, the Fortinet Product Security Incident Response Team released an advisory (FG-IR-24-015) notifying of an out-of-bound write vulnerability in their SSL VPN tracked as CVE-2024-21762. The vulnerability “may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or command via specially crafted HTTP requests”.

Vulnerability A03 : Injection - OWASP TOP 10

Welcome to our latest video on the OWASP Top 10, focusing on Vulnerability A03: Injection. This video is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of injection vulnerabilities, which are among the most common and dangerous security risks in web applications. In this video, we will explore the concept of injection vulnerabilities, their various types, and how they can be identified. We will also look at real-world examples to illustrate the potential impacts of these vulnerabilities when they are exploited.