The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week moved to add a Linux vulnerability dubbed PwnKit to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The issue, tracked as CVE-2021-4034 (CVSS score: 7.8), came to light in January 2022 and concerns a case of local privilege escalation in polkit’s pkexec utility, […]
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Chinese state-sponsored threat actors are exploiting known vulnerabilities to target public and private companies in the United States, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency says. A related joint advisory from CISA, the FBI and the National Security Agency discusses how cyberattackers have been compromising “major telecommunications companies and network service providers” since 2020. It […]
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The flaws affect Illumina Local Run Manager (LRM), which is used by sequencing instruments designed for clinical diagnostic use in the sequencing of a person’s DNA, testing for various genetic conditions, as well as research. The vulnerabilities CISA is warning about – four “critical severity” and one “high severity” – can be exploited to execute […]
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