Hackers Started Exploiting Critical "Text4Shell" Apache Commons Text Vulnerability

The Hacker News Daily Updates Incident Response for a Remote World Bob Violino explores the incident response challenges created by the pandemic and how organizations can adapt their IR to fit a hybrid and remote work environment. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Oct 21, 2022 Hackers Started Exploiting Critical "Text4Shell" Apache Commons Text Vulnerability WordPress security company Wordfence on Thursday said it started detecting exploitation attempts targeting the newly disclosed flaw in Apache Commons Text on October 18, 2022. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-42889 aka Text4Shell, has been assigned a severity ranking of 9.8 out of a possible ... Read More A Quick Look at the "Strengthening America's Cybersecurity" Initiative Acknowledging that you have a problem is the first step to addressing the problem in a serious way. This seems to be the reasoning for the White House recently announcing its "Strengthening America's Cybersecurity" initiative. The text of the announcement contains several statements that anyone ... Read More Microsoft Confirms Server Misconfiguration Led to 65,000+ Companies' Data Leak Microsoft this week confirmed that it inadvertently exposed information related to thousands of customers following a security lapse that left an endpoint publicly accessible over the internet sans any authentication. "This misconfiguration resulted in the potential for unauthenticated access to ... Read More Google Launches GUAC Open Source Project to Secure Software Supply Chain Google on Thursday announced that it's seeking contributors to a new open source initiative called Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition, also known as GUAC, as part of its ongoing efforts to beef up the software supply chain. "GUAC addresses a need created by the burgeoning efforts across ... Read More OldGremlin Ransomware Targeted Over a Dozen Russian Entities in Multi-Million Scheme A Russian-speaking ransomware group dubbed OldGremlin has been attributed to 16 malicious campaigns aimed at entities operating in the transcontinental Eurasian nation over the course of two and a half years. "The group's victims include companies in sectors such as logistics, industry, insurance, ... Read More Incident Response for a Remote World Bob Violino explores the incident response challenges created by the pandemic and how organizations can adapt their IR to fit a hybrid and remote work environment. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to myemailku.ghdbrevo2018@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India