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Reddit down in major outage blocking access to web, mobile apps

Reddit is investigating a major outage blocking users worldwide from accessing the social network’s websites and mobile apps. Users now see “502 Bad Gateway” and “Unknown server error” errors when accessing the Reddit website. Mobile users also report seeing an “Error: Choose failed Missing field ‘user_id’” error or an outage icon with the Reddit alien […]

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Researchers sinkhole PlugX malware server with 2.5 million unique IPs

Researchers have sinkholed a command and control server for a variant of the PlugX malware and observed in six months more than 2.5 million connections from unique IP addresses. Since last September, the sinkhole server received over 90,000 requests every day from infected hosts in more than 170 countries. Since September 2023, when Sekoia captured

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Patients’ data exposed in phishing attack

​The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services disclosed a data breach after patients’ personal and health information was exposed in a data breach resulting from a recent phishing attack impacting over two dozen employees. This integrated health system operates the public hospitals and clinics in L.A. County (the most populous county in the United

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FBI warns against using unlicensed crypto transfer services

​The FBI has warned today that using unlicensed cryptocurrency transfer services can result in financial loss if law enforcement takes down these platforms. This announcement is aimed at crypto transfer platforms not registered as Money Services Businesses (MSB) and non-compliant with anti-money laundering requirements as mandated by U.S. federal law. Such cryptocurrency services are frequently

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Siemens RUGGEDCOM APE1808 Devices Configured with Palo Alto Networks Virtual NGFW

As of January 10, 2023, CISA will no longer be updating ICS security advisories for Siemens product vulnerabilities beyond the initial advisory. For the most up-to-date information on vulnerabilities in this advisory, please see Siemens’ ProductCERT Security Advisories (CERT Services | Services | Siemens Global). View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 10.0 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity

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Multiple Vulnerabilities in Hitachi Energy RTU500 Series

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 7.0 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Hitachi Energy Equipment: RTU500 Series Vulnerabilities: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow the attacker to upload or transfer files of dangerous types that can be automatically processed within the product’s

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Honeywell Experion PKS, Experion LX, PlantCruise by Experion, Safety Manager, Safety Manager SC

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.1 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Honeywell Equipment: Experion PKS, Experion LX, PlantCruise by Experion, Safety Manager, Safety Manager SC Vulnerabilities: Exposed Dangerous Method or Function, Absolute Path Traversal, Stack-based Buffer Overflow, Debug Messages Revealing Unnecessary Information, Out-of-bounds Write, Heap-based Buffer Overflow, Binding to an Unrestricted IP

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Hitachi Energy MACH SCM | CISA

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 8.9 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely Vendor: Hitachi Energy Equipment: MACH SCM Vulnerabilities: Improper Control of Generation of Code, Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in an execution of arbitrary code. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1 AFFECTED PRODUCTS The

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CISA Releases Eight Industrial Control Systems Advisories

CISA released eight Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on April 25, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-24-116-01 Multiple Vulnerabilities in Hitachi Energy RTU500 Series ICSA-24-116-02 Hitachi Energy MACH SCM ICSA-24-116-03 Siemens RUGGEDCOM APE1808 Devices Configured with Palo Alto Networks Virtual NGFW ICSA-24-116-04 Honeywell Experion PKS,

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New Brokewell malware takes over Android devices, steals data

Security researchers have discovered a new Android banking trojan they named Brokewell that can capture every event on the device, from touches and information displayed to text input and the applications the user launches. The malware is delivered through a fake Google Chrome update that is shown while using the web browser. Brokewell is under active development

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