Tens of Thousands of Cisco Devices Hacked via Zero-Day Vulnerability

October 18, 2023 at 07:00AM Tens of thousands of Cisco devices have been hacked through a newly disclosed zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2023-20198. Cisco is working on a patch, but in the meantime, customers are advised to implement mitigations. The vulnerability allows attackers to gain elevated privileges and complete control over targeted systems. Cybersecurity companies have observed … Read more

CISA Warns of Attacks Exploiting Adobe Acrobat Vulnerability 

October 11, 2023 at 06:42AM The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added five security vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. These include an Adobe Acrobat and Reader flaw that can be exploited for remote code execution, an out-of-bounds write flaw in Cisco IOS and IOS XE, two zero-days impacting Skype for … Read more

It’s 2023 and Microsoft WordPad can be exploited to hijack vulnerable systems

October 10, 2023 at 07:58PM Microsoft has released over 100 security updates, including fixes for two bugs that are already being actively exploited. One of the vulnerabilities, known as Rapid Reset, is an HTTP/2 weakness that has been used since August to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Microsoft WordPad also has an information … Read more