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Weekly Top Ten Cybersecurity Stories – 12.16.2022

WEEKLY TOP TEN | DECEMBER 16, 2022 15:26 GMT

Our Threat Operations and Intelligence team compiles a daily digest of new cybersecurity threats from around the Internet. This top 10 has been culled from the 40+ unique stories we found relevant over the week, ranked by highest risk:

  1. New SQL Injection Techniques Discovered Capable of Bypassing Web Application Firewalls
    https://www.csoonline.com/article/3682770/json-based-sql-injection-attacks-trigger-need-to-update-web-application-firewalls.html
  2. SPNEGO CVE-2022-37958 Reclassified to Higher “Critical” Status After Remote Code Execution (RCE) Exploit Discovered
    https://thehackernews.com/2022/12/microsoft-reclassifies-spnego-extended.html
  3. NSA Calls for Companies to Patch CVE-2022-27518 Affecting Citrix ADC and Gateway
    https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/139609/apt/citrix-adc-gateway-cve-2022-27518.html
  4. Microsoft Hardware Developer Program Signs Several Malicious Drivers Used by Ransomware Actors
    https://thehackernews.com/2022/12/ransomware-attackers-use-microsoft.html
  5. Threat Actors Leveraging FIFA World Cup for Multiple Phishing Campaigns
    https://blog.cyble.com/2022/12/09/threat-actors-targeting-fans-amid-fifa-world-cup-fever/
  6. QBot Campaign Using HTML Smuggling via SVG Images to Infect Computers
    https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/139658/cyber-crime/qbot-html-smuggling-svg.html
  7. Typosquatting Campaign Continuing to Target Python & Javascript Developers w/ Ransomware-laced PyPI Packages
    https://www.securityweek.com/python-javascript-developers-targeted-fake-packages-delivering-ransomware
  8. Researchers Discover Method to Force Several Popular EDR and AV Software to Wipe Data
    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/antivirus-and-edr-solutions-tricked-into-acting-as-data-wipers/
  9. Microsoft December Patch Tuesday Can Cause Issues with Hyper-V Virtual Machines
    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-december-windows-server-updates-break-hyper-v-vm-creation/
  10. Fortinet Patches CVE-2022-42475 Arbitrary Code Execution Vuln Affecting FortiOS SSL-VPN
    https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/139569/hacking/fortinet-fortios-ssl-vpn-bug.html
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