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A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Cacti open-source network monitoring and fault management framework that could allow an authenticated attacker to achieve remote code execution on susceptible instances. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-22604, carries a CVSS score of 9.1 out of a maximum of 10.0. "Due to a flaw in the multi-line SNMP result parser, authenticated users can inject malformed OIDs in the response," the project maintainers said in an advisory released this week. "When processed by ss_net_snmp_disk_io() or ss_net_snmp_disk_bytes(), a part of each OID will be used as a key in an array that is used as part of a system command, causing a command execution vulnerability." Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could permit an authenticated user with device management permissions to execute arbitrary code in the server, and steal, edit, or delete sensitive data. CVE-2025-22604 affects all versions of the software prior to and includ...

The advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as UAC-0063 has been observed leveraging legitimate documents obtained by infiltrating one victim to attack another target with the goal of delivering a known malware dubbed HATVIBE. "This research focuses on completing the picture of UAC-0063's operations, particularly documenting their expansion beyond their initial focus on Central Asia, targeting entities such as embassies in multiple European countries, including Germany, the U.K., the Netherlands, Romania, and Georgia," Martin Zugec, technical solutions director at Bitdefender, said in a report shared with The Hacker News. UAC-0063 was first flagged by the Romanian cybersecurity company in May 2023 in connection with a campaign that targeted government entities in Central Asia with a data exfiltration malware known as DownEx (aka STILLARCH). It's suspected to share links with a known Russian state-sponsored actor called APT28. Merely weeks later, the Compu...

Broadcom has alerted of a high-severity security flaw in VMware Avi Load Balancer that could be weaponized by malicious actors to gain entrenched database access. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-22217 (CVSS score: 8.6), has been described as an unauthenticated blind SQL injection. "A malicious user with network access may be able to use specially crafted SQL queries to gain database access," the company said in an advisory issued Tuesday. Security researchers Daniel Kukuczka and Mateusz Darda have been acknowledged for discovering and reporting the vulnerability. It affects the following version of the software - VMware Avi Load Balancer 30.1.1 (Fixed in 30.1.2-2p2) VMware Avi Load Balancer 30.1.2 (Fixed in 30.1.2-2p2) VMware Avi Load Balancer 30.2.1 (Fixed in 30.2.1-2p5) VMware Avi Load Balancer 30.2.2 (Fixed in 30.2.2-2p2) Broadcom further noted that versions 22.x and 21.x are not susceptible to CVE-2025-22217, and that users running version 30.1.1 must...

Cybersecurity researchers are warning that a critical zero-day vulnerability impacting Zyxel CPE Series devices is seeing active exploitation attempts in the wild. "Attackers can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on affected devices, leading to complete system compromise, data exfiltration, or network infiltration," GreyNoise researcher Glenn Thorpe said in an alert published Tuesday. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-40891, a critical command injection vulnerability that has neither been publicly disclosed nor patched. The existence of the bug was first reported by VulnCheck in July 2024. Statistics gathered by the threat intelligence firm show that attack attempts have originated from dozens of IP addresses , with a majority of them located in Taiwan. According to Censys, there are more than 1,500 vulnerable devices online. "CVE-2024-40891 is very similar to CVE-2024-40890, with the main difference being that the former is Teln...

A financially motivated threat actor has been linked to an ongoing phishing email campaign that has been ongoing since at least July 2024 specifically targeting users in Poland and Germany. The attacks have led to the deployment of various payloads, such as Agent Tesla , Snake Keylogger , and a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed TorNet that's delivered by means of PureCrypter . TorNet is so named owing to the fact that it allows the threat actor to communicate with the victim machine over the TOR anonymity network. "The actor is running a Windows scheduled task on victim machines—including on endpoints with a low battery—to achieve persistence," Cisco Talos researcher Chetan Raghuprasad said in an analysis published today. "The actor also disconnects the victim machine from the network before dropping the payload and then connects it back to the network, allowing them to evade detection by cloud antimalware solutions." The starting point of the attac...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched account takeover vulnerability affecting a popular online travel service for hotel and car rentals. "By exploiting this flaw, attackers can gain unauthorized access to any user’s account within the system, effectively allowing them to impersonate the victim and perform an array of actions on their behalf – including booking hotels and car rentals using the victim's airline loyalty points, canceling or editing booking information, and more," API security firm Salt Labs said in a report shared with The Hacker News. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could have put millions of online airline users at risk, it added. The name of the company was not disclosed, but it said the service is integrated into "dozens of commercial airline online services" and enables users to add hotel bookings to their airline itinerary. The shortcoming, in a nutshell, can be weaponized trivially by sending a...

Triaging and investigating alerts is central to security operations. As SOC teams strive to keep up with ever-increasing alert volumes and complexity, modernizing SOC automation strategies with AI has emerged as a critical solution. This blog explores how an AI SOC Analyst transforms alert management, addressing key SOC challenges while enabling faster investigations and responses. Security operations teams are under constant pressure to manage the relentless flow of security alerts from an expanding array of tools. Every alert carries the risk of serious consequences if ignored, yet the majority are false positives. This flood of alerts bogs down teams in a cycle of tedious, repetitive tasks, consuming valuable time and resources. The result? Overstretched teams are struggling to balance reactive alert “whack-a-mole” chasing with proactive threat hunting and other strategic security initiatives.  Core challenges High alert volumes: Security operations teams receive hundreds t...