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GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files supply chain attack: everything you need to know
A supply chain attack on popular GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files caused many repositories to leak their secrets. Discover how it unfolded and the steps to mitigate the risk.
Tracking cloud-fluent threat actors - Part two: Behavioral cloud IOCs
Discover how behavioral cloud IOCs can expose malicious activity as we break down real-world examples to reveal actionable detection techniques.
Wiz Research Identifies Exploitation in the Wild of Aviatrix Controller RCE (CVE-2024-50603)
The Wiz Incident Response team is currently responding to multiple incidents involving CVE-2024-50603, an Aviatrix Controller unauthenticated RCE vulnerability, that can lead to privileges escalation in the AWS control plane. Organizations should patch urgently.
CVE-2025-0282 and CVE-2025-0283: Critical Ivanti 0days Exploited in the Wild
Detect and mitigate CVE-2025-0282, a critical RCE vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure and CVE-2025-0283, exploited as 0day vulnerabilities in the wild. Organizations should patch urgently.
Supply chain attack on lottie-player: everything you need to know
Supply chain attack in popular lottie-player library compromises websites with malicious Web3 wallet prompts – update or revert the library to avoid the compromised versions.
Critical vulnerabilities in Palo Alto Expedition: everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-9463, CVE-2024-9464, CVE-2024-9465, CVE-2024-9466, CVE-2024-9467) in Palo Alto Networks’ Expedition tool. Organizations should patch urgently.
CVE-2024-47076, CVE-2024-47175, CVE-2024-47176, CVE-2024-47177: Everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate CVE-2024-47076, CVE-2024-47175, CVE-2024-47176, and CVE-2024-47177 vulnerabilities impacting CUPS and IPP packages.
Tracking cloud-fluent threat actors - Part one: Atomic cloud IOCs
Strategies for tracking and defending against malicious activity and threats in the cloud using atomic indicators of compromise (IOCs).
RCE vulnerability in OpenSSH: everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate CVE-2024-6387, a remote code execution vulnerability in OpenSSH. Organizations are advised to patch urgently.
Critical RCE vulnerability in PHP CGI: everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate CVE-2024-4577, a critical remote code execution vulnerability in PHP CGI. Organizations are advised to patch urgently.
CVE-2024-4040 exploited in the wild: everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate CVE-2024-4040, a critical vulnerability in CrushFTP exploited in the wild. Organizations should patch urgently.
Backdoor in XZ Utils allows RCE: everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate CVE-2024-3094, a critical supply chain compromise, affecting XZ Utils Data compression library. Organizations should patch urgently.
Authentication bypass vulnerabilities in TeamCity: everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate CVE-2024-27198 (CVSS score: 9.8) and CVE-2024-27199 (CVSS score: 7.3), authentication bypass vulnerabilities in JetBrains TeamCity.
February Fortinet Advisory: everything you need to know
Fortinet offers guidance to detect and mitigate CVE-2024-21762 and CVE-2024-23113, critical RCE vulnerabilities in FortiOS and FortiProxy, including guidance that organizations should patch urgently.
Critical Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Exploited in-the-Wild: everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate CVE-2023-46805, CVE-2024-21887, CVE-2024-21888 and CVE-2024-21893, critical vulnerabilities in Ivanti VPN products. Organizations should patch urgently, and government agencies are instructed to isolate Ivanti VPN instances.
Leaky Vessels: runC and BuildKit container escape vulnerabilities - everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate “Leaky Vessels”, container escape vulnerabilities affecting runC and BuildKit. Learn how to prioritize patching and detect exploitation attempts in runtime.
Crying out Cloud – Our Favorite Stories of 2023
Each member of the Crying out Cloud team at Wiz shares their top stories from the past year
CVE-2023-38545 high severity vulnerability in cURL: everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate CVE-2023-38545, a high severity buffer overflow vulnerability in cURL. Organizations should upgrade to the patched version.
The good, the bad, and the vulnerable
Get the tl;dr on Wiz's methodology for cloud vulnerability triage in our new report, "The good, the bad, and the vulnerable."
Critical and high severity Exim vulnerabilities: everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate CVE-2023-42115, and 5 more vulnerabilities in Exim. Organizations using affected configurations should mitigate and patch the vulnerabilities urgently.
Critical vulnerabilities in media libraries exploited in the wild: everything you need to know
Delving into CVE-2023-4863 and CVE-2023-5217 - critical vulnerabilities in libwebp and libvpx exploited in the wild.
Zenbleed: cross-process infoleak vulnerability in AMD Zen 2 Processors - everything you need to know
Learn about the impact in cloud environments of CVE-2023-20593, a cross-process information leak vulnerability in AMD Zen 2 Processors.
CVE-2023-34362 RCE vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer exploited in the wild: everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate CVE-2023-34362, a remote code execution vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer exploited in the wild. Organizations should patch urgently.
Exploitable and unpatched KeePass vulnerability: everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate CVE-2023-32784, a vulnerability in KeePass which allows the extraction of the master password in cleartext from the application's memory.
Microsoft April 2023 Patch Tuesday Highlights: everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate CVE-2023-28252, EoP vulnerability exploited in the wild, and CVE-2023-21554, a critical RCE vulnerability. Organizations should patch urgently.
CVE-2023-25610 a critical RCE vulnerability in FortiOS: everything you need to know
CVE-2023-25610 is a critical RCE vulnerability in FortiOS. This vulnerability is a buffer underwrite bug in the administrative interface which could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute code using specially crafted requests. Affected customers should patch immediately.
Ransomware attacks targeting VMware ESXi servers: everything you need to know
Recent attacks leverage CVE-2021-21974 to install ransomware on VMWare ESXi servers. Security teams are advised to patch and stay vigilant for indicators of compromise.
CVE-2022-44877, critical RCE in CentOS Control Web Panel exploited in the wild: everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate CVE-2022-44877, a CentOS Control Web Panel (CWP) unauthenticated RCE exploited in the wild. Security teams are advised to patch urgently.
Malicious PyTorch dependency 'torchtriton' on PyPI: everything you need to know
The developers of PyTorch (a popular machine-learning framework) recently identified a malicious dependency confusion attack on the open-source project. Security teams are advised to check for infected resources and rotate any exposed keys.
CVE-2022-47939 critical vulnerability in Linux kernel `ksmbd` module: everything you need to know
Critical RCE vulnerability found in Linux kernel's `ksmbd` module: remote attackers can execute code without authentication. The module is not enabled by default on most operating systems.
OWASSRF, a new exploit for Exchange vulnerabilities, exploited in the wild: everything you need to know
A new exploit method targeting CVE-2022-41080 and CVE-2022-41082 vulnerabilities in Exchange servers, which can bypass previous workarounds, has been discovered and exploited in the wild. Organizations should patch urgently.