U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA has added a new batch of 95 actively exploited flaws to its "Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog."

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/cisa-adds-another-95-flaws-to-its.html

Researchers warn of a new high-risk vulnerability (CVE-2022-0492) affecting the Linux kernel's cgroups feature that could potentially be abused to escape a container to execute arbitrary commands on the host.

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/new-linux-kernel-cgroups-vulnerability.html

Mozilla has warned hundreds of millions of Firefox users about newly discovered 0-day bugs (CVE-2022-26485, CVE-2022-26486) that are being exploited in the wild.

https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/2-new-mozilla-firefox-0-day-bugs-under.html

Update to Firefox 97.0.2, ESR 91.6.1, Android v97.3.0, Focus 97.3.0 & Thunderbird 91.6.2.

Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) warns of new phishing attacks against its citizens using compromised email accounts from Indian entities.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/ukrainian-cert-warns-citizens-of.html

Newly disclosed vulnerabilities in the operating system for TerraMaster NAS devices can be chained to achieve unauthorized RCE with highest privileges.

https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/critical-bugs-in-terramaster-tos-could.html

Bugs found by Ethiopian cybersecurity firm OctagonNetworks have been patched in v4.2.30 or higher.

Researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched Microsoft Azure automation vulnerability — dubbed AutoWarp — that could have allowed attackers unauthorized access to other Azure customer accounts.

Details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/microsoft-azure-autowarp-bug-could-have.html

Researchers warn of a new vulnerability (CVE-2022-0847) in the Linux kernel, dubbed "Dirty Pipe," which could allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary data and take complete control of a system.

Details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/researchers-warn-of-linux-kernel-dirty.html

A series of newly discovered security vulnerabilities — dubbed "Access:7" — in PTC's Axeda software affects hundreds of thousands of ATMs, vending machines, SCADA systems, medical devices and IoT devices.

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/critical-access7-supply-chain.html

Samsung confirms a security breach that led to the exposure of internal company data, including the source code related to its Galaxy smartphones.

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/samsung-confirms-data-breach-after.html

Google is officially buying cybersecurity company Mandiant in an all-cash deal approximately valued at $5.4 billion.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/google-buys-cybersecurity-firm-mandiant.html

Google warns that Russian and Belarusian hackers are targeting Ukraine and European allies through phishing attacks.

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/google-russian-hackers-target.html

Researchers have discovered 16 new high-severity vulnerabilities in UEFI firmware affecting millions of HP devices, including laptops, desktops, PoS systems and edge computing nodes.

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/new-16-high-severity-uefi-firmware.html

Researchers have uncovered 3 critical vulnerabilities in the Pascom Cloud Phone System (CPS) that could be combined to achieve full pre-authenticated remote code execution of affected systems.

Details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/critical-rce-bugs-found-in-pascom-cloud.html

Cybersecurity researchers at Mandiant have revealed that China-backed APT41 hacker group compromised at least 6 state government networks in the United States between May 2021 and February 2022.

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/chinese-apt41-hackers-broke-into-at.html

Patch Tuesday, March 2022: In addition to Microsoft, Adobe, and Google, the following major software vendors have also released patches to fix various security vulnerabilities:

—Cisco
—Citrix
—HP
—Intel
—Juniper Networks
—Linux distributions
— Mozilla Firefox and ESR
—SAP
—Schneider Electric, and
—Siemens

https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/critical-security-patches-issued-by.html

⭐Experts have discovered 3 new critical flaws in APC Smart UPS that could let attackers remotely hack devices or manipulate ⚡ power of millions of enterprise devices to physically 💥 damage them or other 🖨️💻 assets connected to them.

Details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/critical-bugs-could-let-attackers.html

⚡Hackers abusing Mitel devices to launch high-impact DDoS attacks with a record-breaking amplification ratio of 4,294,967,296 to 1.

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/hackers-abuse-mitel-devices-to-amplify.html

Emotet botnet malware has infected over 100,000 computers since its latest resurgence in November 2021, and the number is steadily increasing.

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/emotet-botnets-latest-resurgence.html

22-year-old Ukrainian hacker allegedly linked to Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware gang has been extradited to the United States and put on trial for his role in carrying out #cyberattacks on several companies, including Kaseya.

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/ukrainian-hacker-linked-to-revil.html

New Branch History Injection (BHI) technique to exploit the Spectre v2 vulnerability allows attackers to bypass existing hardware mitigations in Intel, AMD, and Arm processors and leak sensitive information from host memory.

Details: https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/new-exploit-bypasses-existing-spectre.html