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Escalating Attacks Targeting CVE-2024-4577 in PHP-CGI for Windows

CVE-2024-4577 (CVSS 9.8 Critical) is currently climbing the winners’ podium of the most malicious security vulnerabilities. Disclosed in early June 2024 by Devcore security researchers, weaponization began within a mere 48 hours. It is a PHP-CGI OS Command Injection vulnerability [CWE-78] impacting PHP for Windows. Attacks distributing “TellYouThePass” ransomware were immediately observed and the CVE […]

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The “Perfect Storm” for Zyxel: EOL Routers and Ransomware Attacks

Every product has a due date, but customers often have little warning and no recourse when a vendor decides to sunset a product. Once a vendor designates a product as end-of-life (EOL) or end-of-service (EOS), managing associated risks becomes more complex. Risk is magnified when cyber criminals find and exploit vulnerabilities that will never be […]

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Greenbone Detects CVE-2025-0994: Actively Exploited Flaw in Trimble Cityworks

Trimble Cityworks, an enterprise asset management (EAM) and public works management software is actively under attack. The campaign began as an unknown (zero-day) vulnerability, but is now tracked as ​​CVE-2025-0994 with a CVSS of 8.6. The vulnerability is a deserialization flaw [CWE-502] that could allow an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code remotely (Remote Code […]

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Exciting New Features Arrive for Greenbone Enterprise Appliances

We’re excited to announce the release of several feature updates to our Greenbone Operating System (GOS), the software stack behind our physical and virtual Enterprise Appliances. The updates introduce new front-end features to enhance enterprise vulnerability management capabilities, and performance enhancing back-end features. The newest updates to the Greenbone Operating System (GOS), version 24.10, reflect […]

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Patch Now! Cleo Products Actively Exploited in Ransomware Attacks

An actively exploited RCE (Remote Code Execution) with system privileges vulnerability that does not require user-interaction is as bad as it gets from a technical standpoint. When that CVE impacts software widely used by Fortune 500 companies, it is a ticking time bomb. And when advanced persistent threat actors jump on a software vulnerability such […]

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Greenbone Audits CIS Google Chrome Benchmarks

Web browsers are a primary gateway to business and consequently they are also a primary gateway for cyber attacks. Malware targeting browsers could gain direct unauthorized access to a target’s network and data or social engineer victims into providing sensitive information that gives the attacker unauthorized access, such as account credentials. In 2024, major browsers […]

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Greenbone 2024 Review: A Very Good Year with Growth Everywhere

Also in its 16th year, the Osnabrück-based expert and market leader in Open Source Vulnerability Management has kept growing, both in employees, customers, partners and last not least on this blog. After doubling our workforce over the last two years, we at Greenbone are looking proudly at 143 employees, most of them work remotely. This […]

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BSI: More Vulnerability Reports from Healthcare

There are health data attractive to attackers in hospitals, doctors’ offices, laboratories and consumers’ devices. The latest security report from the German BSI shows that stealing these data is increasingly becoming a main target of attackers and attacks. For several years now, the “Network and Information Security Directive“ (NIS) and the KRITIS legislation has required […]

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Stop the Standstill: How Greenbone Helps Protect Against DoS Attacks

A DoS attack (Denial of Service) can mean a complete standstill: an important service fails, an application no longer responds or access to one’s own system is blocked. DoS attacks have a clear, destructive goal: to paralyze digital resources, preventing access to the legitimate users. The consequences of a DoS attack can be drastic: from […]

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Understanding Mass Exploitation Attacks

If an organization has high value, you can bet that bad actors are contemplating how to exploit its IT weaknesses for financial gain. Ransomware attacks are the apex threat in this regard, rendering a victim’s data unusable, extorting them for a decryption key. Highly targeted organizations need to understand exactly where their risk lies and […]