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Organizations running PHP face active exploitation attempts against two newly disclosed security issues. Federal civilian agencies were ordered to patch by Thursday, while other organizations were told to identify every PHP system and update it. Thousands of failed attack attempts have been reported…
Web server compromise is now more practical because public exploit code is available for two critical PHP issues. A researcher used the pair to win a public Bitcoin challenge, although the published script was developed and tested against a local lab copy and succeeded about seven of ten times there. PHP…
Public access to government services was disrupted as agencies took vulnerable PHP systems offline. UK ministers reported 32 services unavailable and four partly disrupted, mostly as a precaution while patches and mitigations were applied; no central government compromise was confirmed. Other governments…
Attackers are chaining four Plex Media Server weaknesses to obtain administrator tokens and run code with elevated privileges. Exploitation reports began on October 17, with early activity targeting honeypots to deploy a cryptocurrency miner. CISA warned that attackers are actively exploiting the…
A NATO-country shipbuilder was compromised during a Russia-linked espionage campaign that also targeted an aircraft engine maker and a law enforcement agency. The attackers delivered the Hookedge backdoor through an infected Microsoft Word document. They returned to the shipbuilder’s environment…
More than 600 critical infrastructure organizations worldwide have been affected by SafePay ransomware since August 2024, according to a joint government warning. The group uses exposed credentials, password attacks, phishing and weaknesses in internet-facing edge devices. It can enter through VPN…
Organizations may already have unauthorized VPN sessions created through a patched GlobalProtect authentication bypass. Ransomware operators including Qilin and Inc have been linked to exploitation, while public reporting also connects Settra activity. Attackers used the access to bypass multifactor…