Microsoft released security updates addressing 118 vulnerabilities, headlined by two actively exploited zero-days in the Microsoft Management Console and legacy MSHTML platform tracked as CVE-2024-43572 and CVE-2024-43573.
Casio disclosed a network breach and IT systems shutdown after the Underground ransomware group penetrated corporate networks via phishing, exfiltrating over 200 GB of confidential data.
American Water disconnected customer portals and billing networks following an unauthorized cyberattack on corporate IT systems, initiating emergency isolation protocols to protect operational technology.
Samsung released security updates addressing CVE-2024-44068, a critical use-after-free zero-day flaw in Exynos processor media drivers exploited in targeted attacks to achieve privileged code execution and process hijacking on mobile devices.
CISA warned that threat actors are actively exploiting CVE-2024-28987, a critical hardcoded credential vulnerability in SolarWinds Web Help Desk that enables unauthenticated remote attackers to access internal endpoints, read sensitive service desk tickets, and steal credentials.
Palo Alto Networks urged customers to patch critical vulnerabilities in its Expedition migration tool, including unauthenticated command injection CVE-2024-9463, which public exploits chain to exfiltrate database secrets and hijack managed PAN-OS firewalls.
CISA and Ivanti warned of active in-the-wild exploitation targeting CVE-2024-29824, a critical SQL injection flaw in Endpoint Manager Core servers allowing unauthenticated network attackers to achieve remote code execution via xp_cmdshell.
Aqua Nautilus identified a widespread campaign deploying stealthy 'perfctl' malware across thousands of Linux servers, leveraging vulnerabilities like CVE-2023-33246 and CVE-2021-4034 to drop evasive userland rootkits that hijack system resources.
DrayTek released urgent firmware updates addressing 14 security vulnerabilities dubbed DRAY:BREAK, including a CVSS 10.0 buffer overflow and an OS command injection flaw that allow remote unauthenticated attackers to gain root access across 700,000 internet-exposed routers.
A critical vulnerability in Kubernetes Image Builder allows remote unauthenticated attackers to gain root access to cluster nodes via persistent default credentials embedded in Proxmox virtual machine templates, tracked as CVE-2024-9486.