Tag: 2024-11-18

Chinese threat actors, known as BrazenBamboo, are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Fortinet's FortiClient Windows VPN client to steal credentials. The hackers use a custom post-exploitation toolkit called DeepData, which includes a FortiClient plugin to extract usernames, passwords, and VPN s…

Two critical vulnerabilities in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS, CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474, have been disclosed. CVE-2024-0012 is an authentication bypass allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to gain admin privileges, while CVE-2024-9474 is an authenticated privilege escalation bug. These can …

A critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2024-0012) in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software allows unauthenticated attackers to gain administrator privileges on affected devices. The issue affects PAN-OS versions 10.2, 11.0, 11.1, and 11.2, but not Cloud NGFW or Prisma Access. Limited expl…

Water Barghest, a cybercriminal group, has developed a highly automated system for exploiting and monetizing IoT devices. Their botnet, comprising over 20,000 devices as of October 2024, uses automated scripts to identify and compromise vulnerable IoT devices from public internet scan databases. On…

Proofpoint researchers have identified a surge in the ClickFix social engineering technique across the threat landscape. This technique uses dialogue boxes with fake error messages to trick users into copying, pasting, and running malicious content on their computers. Multiple threat actors are emp…