In the wake of publication of the “SessionReaper” vulnerability for Adobe Commerce, attackers have begun exploiting it in the wild. A patch was issued at the time of public disclosure, but organizations have reportedly been slow to apply it and criminals have been taking advantage.
Anyone still concerned about wild claims of 2.5 billion or 183 million Gmail passwords stolen that have appeared in recent weeks can relax and breathe easy. Google has confirmed that it has not suffered any kind of mass data breach.
The non-profit Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC) has issued an annual opinion report on the state of US federal cyber defense since 2020, and this year’s edition is noteworthy for being the first in which preparedness is seen as having regressed from prior years.
Amazon says that the infamous AWS outage that took place for about 12 hours on October 20 and caused disruptions for thousands of businesses is now fully remediated, but organizations are still struggling to catch up with some of the backups and issues it caused.
The conditions are ripe for the F5 theft to spiral into further security breaches, with not just source code but inside information on undisclosed vulnerabilities that had yet to be patched exposed to the hackers. The Chinese team suspected of being behind it is an espionage-focused outfit that specializes in quietly penetrating organizations in the US and Europe.
The good news from the UK report is that no incidents recorded over the year rose to the level of a “national cyber emergency,” the most serious designation … However, 18 cyber incidents in the second most serious category is bad news when that number was at just six the year before and virtually did not even exist just two years prior.
More sophisticated foreign adversaries have figured out how to exploit model “grey zones” in AI tools, however, building attack tools gradually from smaller pieces that individually do not present as threats.
The majority of the $2 billion stolen by the North Korean hackers this year came from crypto exchange Bybit, which was hit for $1.46 billion in February. About 30 more recorded incidents this year make up the difference of a little over half a billion dollars, though the Elliptic researchers warn there are likely more unreported and unattributed instances of stolen crypto out there.
A high-severity vulnerability in Oracle E‑Business Suite has received security patching along with a warning that it has already been exploited in the wild by ransomware threat groups.
Hacking group Crimson Collective was able to breach a self-managed GitLab instance used by the Red Hat consulting division, making off with about 570 GB of compressed data. The stolen data has since been seen for sale on Telegram channels.