Security measures amid global unrest
Current events: Russia v. Ukraine
From the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency:
“While there are no specific or credible cyber threats to the U.S. homeland at this time, we are mindful of the potential for Russia’s destabilizing actions to impact organizations both within and beyond the region, particularly in the wake of sanctions imposed by the United States and our Allies. Every organization—large and small—must be prepared to respond to disruptive cyber activity.
“CISA, along with our partners in the U.S. Intelligence Community, law enforcement, the military, and sector risk management agencies, is monitoring the threat environment 24/7 to discern whether those threats manifest themselves in risks to the U.S. homeland.”
Steps recommended by the agency:
“CISA recommends all organizations—regardless of size—adopt a heightened posture when it comes to cybersecurity and protecting their most critical assets.” See the recommended actions.
Vigilance and best practices
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Security alerts, bulletins & advisories
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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Track various cyber-security threats and more at the CISA website.
FEED: all CISA alerts and advisories:
- CISA released eight Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on April 25, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-24-116-01 Multiple Vulnerabilities in Hitachi Energy RTU500 Series ICSA-24-116-02 Hitachi Energy MACH SCM ICSA-24-116-03 Siemens RUGGEDCOM APE1808 Devices Configured […]
- View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 8.9 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely Vendor: Hitachi Energy Equipment: MACH SCM Vulnerabilities: Improper Control of Generation of Code, Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in an execution […]
- View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.1 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Honeywell Equipment: Experion PKS, Experion LX, PlantCruise by Experion, Safety Manager, Safety Manager SC Vulnerabilities: Exposed Dangerous Method or Function, Absolute Path Traversal, Stack-based Buffer Overflow, Debug Messages Revealing Unnecessary Information, […]
- View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 7.0 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Hitachi Energy Equipment: RTU500 Series Vulnerabilities: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow the attacker to upload or transfer files of […]
- As of January 10, 2023, CISA will no longer be updating ICS security advisories for Siemens product vulnerabilities beyond the initial advisory. For the most up-to-date information on vulnerabilities in this advisory, please see Siemens' ProductCERT Security Advisories (CERT Services | Services | Siemens Global). View CSAF 1. […]
- CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-20353 Cisco ASA and FTD Denial of Service Vulnerability CVE-2024-20359 Cisco ASA and FTD Privilege Escalation Vulnerability CVE-2024-4040 CrushFTP VFS Sandbox Escape Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent […]
- Today, Cisco released security updates to address ArcaneDoor—exploitation of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) devices and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software. A cyber threat actor could exploit vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-20353, CVE-2024-20359, CVE-2024-20358) to take control of an affected system. Cisco has reported active exploitation of CVE […]
- CISA released two Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on April 23, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-24-051-03 Mitsubishi Electric Electrical Discharge Machines (Update A) ICSA-24-067-01 Chirp Systems Chirp Access (Update A) CISA encourages users and […]
