The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is sounding the alarm over a series of high-risk vulnerabilities present in industrial control systems
Ongoing intrusions leveraging the critical static credential backdoor flaw impacting the Cisco Smart Licensing Utility, tracked as CVE-2024-20439, have prompted the bug's inclusion in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Known Exploited Vulnerability catalog, with federal agencies urged to apply remediations by Apr. 21, Security Affairs reports.
Ivanti Connect Secure instances that remain vulnerable to the patched stack-based buffer overflow bug, tracked as CVE-2025-0282, were reported by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to have been subjected to attacks spreading the nascent RESURGE malware, according to The Hacker News.
Threat actors have been launching intrusions leveraging a pair of old vulnerabilities impacting the Sitecore CMS and Experience Platform, as well as other security issues affecting the open-source JavaScript framework Next.js and DrayTek devices, according to The Hacker News.
Major Australian trade tool retailer Sydney Tools had more than 34 million online order records and over 5,000 employees' records leaked by an unprotected ClickHouse database, according to Cybernews.
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