Cutting Edge, Part 2: Investigating Ivanti Connect Secure VPN Zero-Day Exploitation

By MATT LIN, ROBERT WALLACE, JOHN WOLFRAM, DIMITER ANDONOV, TYLER MCLELLAN On Jan. 12, 2024, Mandiant published a blog post detailing two high-impact zero-day vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887, affecting Ivanti Connect Secure VPN (CS, formerly Pulse Secure) and Ivanti Policy Secure (PS) appliances. On Jan. 31, 2024, Ivanti disclosed two additional vulnerabilities impacting CS and PS devices, CVE-2024-21888 and CVE-2024-21893. The vulnerabilities allow for an unauthenticated threat actor to execute arbitrary commands on the appliance with elevated privileges. […]

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The best VPN for beginners

By Olivia Powell Contributions from Krishi Chowdhary Are VPNs safe? Yes, VPNs are generally safe to use. If you don’t want to second-guess your choice of a secure VPN, make sure you pick one from our list of the best VPN services—all of them follow a strict no-logs policy, support the most secure protocols (WireGuard, OpenVPN, and IKEv2), offer industry-standard AES-256 encryption, and come with security features like a kill switch […]

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URGENT: AnyDesk Servers Hacked, Customers Urged to Reset Passwords

It has been confirmed that AnyDesk, a renowned remote access software company headquartered in Germany, which boasts a staggering 170,000 customers worldwide, including big names such as Comcast and Thales, has fallen prey to a security breach that has compromised its production systems. “We have revoked all security-related certificates, and systems have been remediated or replaced where company’s,” the company said. According to recent media reports, AnyDesk has been targeted by attackers […]

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Hackers push USB malware payloads via news, media hosting sites

By Bill Toulas A financially motivated threat actor using USB devices for initial infection has been found abusing legitimate online platforms, including GitHub, Vimeo, and Ars Technica, to host encoded payloads embedded in seemingly benign content. The attackers hide these payloads in plain sight, placing them in forum user profiles on tech news sites or video descriptions on media hosting platforms. These payloads pose no risks to users visiting these […]

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Best VPNs for travel in 2024

BYADAM MARSHALL Whether you’re traveling domestically or overseas, these VPNS will keep you safer online and let you access all the content you can at home Your passport is at the ready and you’ve packed your sun lotion, pest spray, and that novel you’ve been putting off reading for years. There’s one other essential travel item that you may have forgotten, however: a VPN. Regardless of best intentions, we are never […]

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