February 2024

CISA Warning: Akira Ransomware Exploiting Cisco ASA/FTD Vulnerability

Following reports that it’s likely being exploited in Akira ransomware attacks, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a now-patched security flaw affecting Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defence (FTD) software to its list of known exploited vulnerabilities (KEV) on Thursday. The high-severity information disclosure flaw in question is CVE-2020-3259 […]

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WordPress Bricks Theme Under Active Attack: Critical Flaw Impacts 25,000+ Sites

Threat actors are actively using a serious security vulnerability in the WordPress Bricks theme to force arbitrary PHP code to run on vulnerable installations. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-25600 (CVSS score: 9.8), allows remote code execution to be accomplished by unauthorised attackers. It affects every Bricks version up to and including 1.9.6. Only a few

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Russian Government Software Backdoored to Deploy Konni RAT Malware

A backdoor has been included in an installer for a utility that is probably used by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MID)’s Russian Consular Department to distribute the remote access trojan Konni RAT (also known as UpDog). The investigation was conducted by German cybersecurity firm DCSO, which concluded that actors with ties to the Democratic

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