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Cisco Patches Critical ISE Vulnerabilities Enabling Root CmdExec and PrivEsc

Cisco Patches Critical ISE Vulnerabilities Enabling Root CmdExec and PrivEsc

Cisco has released updates to address two critical security flaws Identity Services Engine (ISE) that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands and elevate privileges on susceptible devices. The vulnerabilities are listed below – An attacker could weaponize either of the flaws by sending a crafted serialized Java object or an HTTP request to an unspecified

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CERT-UA Warns of Cyber Scams Using Fake AnyDesk Requests for Fraudulent Security Audits

CERT-UA Warns of Cyber Scams Using Fake AnyDesk Requests for Fraudulent Security Audits

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of ongoing attempts by unknown threat actors to impersonate the cybersecurity agency by sending AnyDesk connection requests. The AnyDesk requests claim to be for conducting an audit to assess the “level of security,” CERT-UA added, cautioning organizations to be on the lookout for such social

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Cybercriminals Target Ethereum Developers with Fake Hardhat npm Packages

Cybercriminals Target Ethereum Developers with Fake Hardhat npm Packages

Cybersecurity researchers have revealed several malicious packages on the npm registry that have been found impersonating the Nomic Foundation’s Hardhat tool in order to steal sensitive data from developer systems. “By exploiting trust in open source plugins, attackers have infiltrated these platforms through malicious npm packages, exfiltrating critical data such as private keys, mnemonics, and

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LDAPNightmare PoC Exploit Crashes LSASS and Reboots Windows Domain Controllers

LDAPNightmare PoC Exploit Crashes LSASS and Reboots Windows Domain Controllers

A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been released for a now-patched security flaw impacting Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) that could trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The out-of-bounds reads vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-49113 (CVSS score: 7.5). It was addressed by Microsoft as part of Patch Tuesday updates for December 2024, alongside CVE-2024-49112 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical integer overflow flaw

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