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VinChin Backup and Recovery in VinChin VMWare Backup versions 5.0 through 7.0 suffers from hardcoded credential and remote code execution vulnerabilities.

The financially motivated English-speaking threat actors use advanced social engineering techniques, SIM swapping, and even threats of violence to breach targets.

Categories: News Categories: Ransomware Tags: ALPHV Tags: Octo Tempest Tags: RaaS Tags: LOTL Tags: social engineering Tags: SIM swapping A group of cybercriminals known for advanced social engineering attacks has joined one of the biggest ransomware groups as an affiliate. (Read more...) The post Octo Tempest cybercriminal group is "a growing concern"—Microsoft appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious actor with non-root privileges may be able to hijack the /dev/uinput file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs.

VinChin Backup & Recovery v5.0.*, v6.0.*, v6.7.*, and v7.0.* was discovered to contain hardcoded credentials.

The prolific threat actor known as Scattered Spider has been observed impersonating newly hired employees in targeted firms as a ploy to blend into normal on-hire processes and takeover accounts and breach organizations across the world. Microsoft, which disclosed the activities of the financially motivated hacking crew, described the adversary as "one of the most dangerous financial criminal

VMware vCenter Servers need immediate patch against critical RCE bug as race against threat actors begins.

Categories: Business Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: VMWare Tags: vCenter Server Tags: CVE-2023-34056 Tags: CVE-2023-34048 Tags: DCE/RPC Tags: out of bounds write Tags: information disclosure Tags: remote code execution VMWare has issued an update to address out-of-bounds write and information disclosure vulnerabilities in its server management software, vCenter Server. (Read more...) The post Update vCenter Server now! VMWare fixes critical vulnerability appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

VMware has released security updates to address a critical flaw in the vCenter Server that could result in remote code execution on affected systems. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-34048 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the implementation of the DCE/RPC protocol. "A malicious actor with network access to vCenter Server may trigger an out-of-bounds