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Microsoft fixes Power Pages zero-day bug exploited in attacks
Microsoft has issued a security bulletin for a high-severity elevation of privilege vulnerability in Power Pages, which hackers exploited as a zero-day in attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-24989, is an improper access control problem impacting Power Pages, allowing unauthorized actors to elevate their privileges over a network and bypass user registration controls. Microsoft says it has addressed the risk at…
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CISA flags Craft CMS code injection flaw as exploited in attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that a Craft CMS remote code execution flaw is being exploited in attacks. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2025-23209 and is a high severity (CVSS v3 score: 8.0) code injection (RCE) vulnerability impacting Craft CMS versions 4 and 5. Craft CMS is a content management system (CMS) used for building websites…
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96% of Phishing Attacks in 2024 Exploited Trusted Domains
Threat actors are increasingly targeting trusted business platforms such as Dropbox, SharePoint, and QuickBooks in their phishing email campaigns and leveraging legitimate domains to bypass security measures, a new report released today has found. By embedding sender addresses or payload links within legitimate domains, attackers evade traditional detection methods and deceive unsuspecting users. According to Darktrace’s Annual Threat Report 2024,…
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PostgreSQL flaw exploited as zero-day in BeyondTrust breach
Rapid7’s vulnerability research team says attackers exploited a PostgreSQL security flaw as a zero-day to breach the network of privileged access management company BeyondTrust in December. BeyondTrust revealed that attackers breached its systems and 17 Remote Support SaaS instances in early December using two zero-day bugs (CVE-2024-12356 and CVE-2024-12686) and a stolen API key. Less than one month later, in…
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Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Patches Two Actively Exploited Zero-Day Flaws
The monthly report is relatively lightweight, with some mobile updates or fixes that have already been performed server-side and shouldn’t be a concern to admins, said Tyler Reguly, associate director of security R&D at global cybersecurity software and services provider Fortra. Another vulnerability impacts only Microsoft Surface hardware. February update patches two exploited vulnerabilities The two exploited vulnerabilities are: CVE-2025-21391,…
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Apple fixes zero-day exploited in ‘extremely sophisticated’ attacks
Apple has released emergency security updates to patch a zero-day vulnerability that the company says was exploited in targeted and “extremely sophisticated” attacks. “A physical attack may disable USB Restricted Mode on a locked device,” the company revealed in an advisory targeting iPhone and iPad users. “Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in…
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Over 12,000 KerioControl firewalls exposed to exploited RCE flaw
Over twelve thousand GFI KerioControl firewall instances are exposed to a critical remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-52875. KerioControl is a network security suite that small and medium-sized businesses use for VPNs, bandwidth management, reporting and monitoring, traffic filtering, AV protection, and intrusion prevention. The flaw in question was discovered in mid-December by security researcher Egidio Romano (EgiX), who…
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Critical RCE bug in Microsoft Outlook now exploited in attacks
CISA warned U.S. federal agencies on Thursday to secure their systems against ongoing attacks targeting a critical Microsoft Outlook remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. Discovered by Check Point vulnerability researcher Haifei Li and tracked as CVE-2024-21413, the flaw is caused by improper input validation when opening emails with malicious links using vulnerable Outlook versions. The attackers gain remote code execution…
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CISA orders agencies to patch Linux kernel bug exploited in attacks
CISA has ordered federal agencies to secure their systems within three weeks against a high-severity Linux kernel flaw actively exploited in attacks. Tracked as CVE-2024-53104, the security bug was first introduced in kernel version 2.6.26 and was patched by Google for Android users on Monday. “There are indications that CVE-2024-53104 may be under limited, targeted exploitation,” the Android February 2025…
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Zyxel won’t patch newly exploited flaws in end-of-life routers
Zyxel has issued a security advisory about actively exploited flaws in CPE Series devices, warning that it has no plans to issue fixing patches and urging users to move to actively supported models. VulnCheck discovered the two flaws in July 2024, but last week, GreyNoise reported having seen exploitation attempts in the wild. According to network scanning engines FOFA and…
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