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πŸ•΄ When Multifactor Authentication Is Compromised: Fighting Back With AI πŸ•΄

Now that attackers can bypass preventative controls, we need to find and stop the attackers when they're already inside.

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via "Dark Reading".
πŸ” Massachusetts Latest State to Advance Data Privacy Bill πŸ”

The bill marks the first time that comprehensive data privacy legislation has advanced out of committee in Massachusetts.

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πŸ•΄ A Prophylactic Approach for Today's Vulnerable Websites and Web Apps πŸ•΄

Take a proactive approach to client-side security: Why monitoring your JavaScript programming language is so important to your overall security posture.

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via "Dark Reading".
β™ŸοΈ IRS To Ditch Biometric Requirement for Online Access β™ŸοΈ

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said today it will be transitioning away from requiring biometric data from taxpayers who wish to access their records at the agency's website. The reversal comes as privacy experts and lawmakers have been pushing the IRS and other federal agencies to find less intrusive methods for validating one's identity with the U.S. government online.

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via "Krebs on Security".
β€Ό CVE-2022-21814 β€Ό

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver package, where improper handling of insufficient permissions or privileges may allow an unprivileged local user limited write access to protected memory, which can lead to denial of service.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
β€Ό CVE-2022-21813 β€Ό

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver, where improper handling of insufficient permissions or privileges may allow an unprivileged local user limited write access to protected memory, which can lead to denial of service.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
β€Ό CVE-2022-21816 β€Ό

NVIDIA vGPU software contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (nvidia.ko), where a user in the guest OS can cause a GPU interrupt storm on the hypervisor host, leading to a denial of service.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
β€Ό CVE-2022-22931 β€Ό

Fix of CVE-2021-40525 do not prepend delimiters upon valid directory validations. Affected implementations include: - maildir mailbox store - Sieve file repository This enables a user to access other users data stores (limited to user names being prefixed by the value of the username being used).

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
β€Ό CVE-2022-21815 β€Ό

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for private IOCTLs where a NULL pointer dereference in the kernel, created within user mode code, may lead to a denial of service in the form of a system crash.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
β€Ό CVE-2021-42833 β€Ό

A Use of Hardcoded Credentials vulnerability exists in AquaView versions 1.60, 7.x, and 8.x that could allow an authenticated local attacker to manipulate users and system settings.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
❌ LockBit, BlackCat, Swissport, Oh My! Ransomware Activity Stays Strong ❌

However, groups are rebranding and recalibrating their profiles and tactics to respond to law enforcement and the security community's focus on stopping ransomware attacks.

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via "Threat Post".
❌ Medusa Malware Joins Flubot’s Android Distribution Network ❌

Two powerful trojans with spyware and RAT capabilities are being delivered in side-by-side campaigns using a common infrastructure.

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via "Threat Post".
❌ CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Fix Actively Exploited Windows Bug ❌

Feb. 18 is the deadline to patch a bug that affects all unpatched versions of Windows 10 and requires zero user interaction to exploit.

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via "Threat Post".
πŸ•΄ FBI Publishes Indicators of Compromise for LockBit 2.0 Ransomware πŸ•΄

Flash bulletin alert includes mitigation strategies for defending against the ransomware.

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via "Dark Reading".
β€Ό CVE-2022-23613 β€Ό

xrdp is an open source remote desktop protocol (RDP) server. In affected versions an integer underflow leading to a heap overflow in the sesman server allows any unauthenticated attacker which is able to locally access a sesman server to execute code as root. This vulnerability has been patched in version 0.9.18.1 and above. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
β€Ό CVE-2022-21712 β€Ό

twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. In affected versions twisted exposes cookies and authorization headers when following cross-origin redirects. This issue is present in the `twited.web.RedirectAgent` and `twisted.web. BrowserLikeRedirectAgent` functions. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
β€Ό CVE-2021-45281 β€Ό

QuickBox Pro v2.4.8 contains a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability at "adminuseredit.php?usertoedit=XSS", as the user supplied input for the value of this parameter is not properly sanitized.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
β€Ό CVE-2021-3861 β€Ό

The RNDIS USB device class includes a buffer overflow vulnerability. Zephyr versions >= v2.6.0 contain Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122). For more information, see https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/security/advisories/GHSA-hvfp-w4h8-gxvj

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
β€Ό CVE-2021-3835 β€Ό

Buffer overflow in usb device class. Zephyr versions >= v2.6.0 contain Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122). For more information, see https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/security/advisories/GHSA-fm6v-8625-99jf

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
πŸ•΄ Russian APT Steps Up Malicious Cyber Activity in Ukraine πŸ•΄

Actinium/Gameredon's attacks are another reminder of why organizations need to pay additional scrutiny to systems in the region.

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via "Dark Reading".
β€Ό CVE-2022-23623 β€Ό

Frourio is a full stack framework, for TypeScript. Frourio users who uses frourio version prior to v0.26.0 and integration with class-validator through `validators/` folder are subject to a input validation vulnerability. Validators do not work properly for request bodies and queries in specific situations and some input is not validated at all. Users are advised to update frourio to v0.26.0 or later and to install `class-transformer` and `reflect-metadata`.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".