Tag: Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Phishing attacks targeting GitHub accounts
GitHub alerted the public that there is an ongoing phishing campaign that is targeting its users by impersonating CircleCI continuous integration and delivery platform. These phishing attacks are designed to steal the targeted user’s account credentials and authentication codes. A...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Palo Alto PAN-OS vulnerability
This week, Palo Alto released a patch for PAN-OS’ vulnerability (CVE-2022-0028). This vulnerability is actively being targeted by threat actors. Firewalls running PAN-OS could permit an attacker to perform a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. Barracuda MSP recommends updating affected Palo Alto...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: OpenSSL vulnerability
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in OpenSSL version 3.0.4 that impacts RSA Private Keys and AES OCB Encryption operations. These vulnerabilities cause an incorrect RSA implementation for 2048-bit private keys that can lead to memory corruption while the device is in...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Google zero-day vulnerability
Google has released a new patch for Google Chrome to address critical vulnerabilities in V8, WebRTC, and Chrome OS Shell components. If exploited, the vulnerabilities will allow malicious actors to perform memory corruption and privilege escalation. Barracuda MSP recommends applying...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: New Microsoft Azure vulnerability
Researchers at Point 42 discovered a flaw in Microsoft Azure’s Fabric, dubbed ‘FabricScape’, propagating the ongoing series of vulnerabilities that the platform has been facing. This vulnerability allows bad actors using Linux to escalate their own privileges to the extent...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Mitel VoIP vulnerability
A known remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2022-29499, was discovered with the Linux-based Mitel VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) application. Once exploited, this vulnerability allows a threat actor to gain root privileges to the system and plant ransomware. Barracuda MSP recommends...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Apple Safari arbitrary code execution vulnerability
Apple has had an existing arbitrary code execution vulnerability in their MacOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Safari in their past 3 zero-days known as CVE-2022-22620. Google and Barracuda MSP researchers are making sure users don’t forget this. The vulnerability could allow...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: FastJson versions vulnerable to deserialization
A new version of FastJson has been released and has patched a vulnerability which allows malicious actors to utilize “AutoTypeCheck” mechanism and achieve remote code execution in FastJson. All Java applications that pass user-controlled data to either the JSON.parse or...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Black Basta Ransomware Group threat
The Black Basta ransomware group is revamping an older malware known as Qbot, Qakbot and Plinkslipbot to exploit the Microsoft Exchange Server. A successful attack will allow threat actors the ability to gain target network access, collect critical personal information,...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: A Microsoft Azure Synapse vulnerability uncovered
Security researchers at Orca uncovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Synapse, dubbed SynLapse. This vulnerability lies in the ODBC or Online Database Connectivity method employed by Synapse. Once a bad actor gains access through this vulnerability, they can gain access...