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ToddyCat's Samurai and Ninja tools are designed to give attackers persistent and deep access on compromised networks, security vendor says.

An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor codenamed ToddyCat has been linked to a string of attacks aimed at high-profile entities in Europe and Asia since at least December 2020. The relatively new adversarial collective is said to have commenced its operations by targeting Microsoft Exchange servers in Taiwan and Vietnam using an unknown exploit to deploy the China Chopper web shell and

Nexans FTTO GigaSwitch industrial/office switches HW version 5 suffer from having a hardcoded backdoor user and multiple outdated vulnerable software components.

Mitel 6800/6900 Series SIP Phones excluding 6970 and Mitel 6900 Series IP (MiNet) Phones have a flow to spawn a telnet backdoor on the device with a static root password enabled. Affected versions include Rel 5.1 SP8 (5.1.0.8016) and earlier, Rel 6.0 (6.0.0.368) to 6.1 HF4 (6.1.0.165), and MiNet 1.8.0.12 and earlier.

This week on Lock and Code, we speak with Kim Lewandowski about what steps we can take to secure the software supply chain. The post Securing the software supply chain, with Kim Lewandowski: Lock and Code S03E13 appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Infiray IRAY-A8Z3 thermal camera version 1.0.957 suffers from hardcoded web credential, authenticated remote code execution, buffer overflow, lack of password for root, and outdated software component vulnerabilities.

Most of the attacks involve the use of automated exploits, security vendor says.

A vulnerability in Antminer Monitor 0.50.0 exists because of backdoor or misconfiguration inside a settings file in flask server. Settings file has a predefined secret string, which would be randomly generated, however it is static.

Evidence suggests that a just-discovered APT has been active since 2013.

A sophisticated Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) actor exploited a critical security vulnerability in Sophos' firewall product that came to light earlier this year to infiltrate an unnamed South Asian target as part of a highly-targeted attack. "The attacker implement[ed] an interesting web shell backdoor, create[d] a secondary form of persistence, and ultimately launch[ed] attacks