George Bailey

George Bailey is the byline of the CyberExperts editorial desk, the team behind the CyberExperts Daily Brief. The desk covers vulnerabilities, breaches and security news from vendor advisories, CISA alerts and other primary sources, and links those sources in every story. Questions or corrections: [email protected].
Attackers are planting web shells through Bricksforge forms — update WordPress sites built on Bricks today

Attackers are planting web shells through Bricksforge forms — update WordPress sites built on Bricks today

Exploited since Wednesday evening, no login needed. Version 3.1.8.10 closes it....
Splunk search head clusters can be taken over without a login — upgrade to this week’s release or switch off the sidecar

Splunk search head clusters can be taken over without a login — upgrade to this week’s release or switch off the sidecar

A 9.8 bug lets anyone who can reach a 10.2 or 10.4 search head cluster member run commands. Not exploited…
Seven countries just warned that attackers are still hunting forgotten FTP, DNS and Struts servers — find yours this weekend

Seven countries just warned that attackers are still hunting forgotten FTP, DNS and Struts servers — find yours this weekend

Old FTP, DNS and Struts boxes nobody watches are how one China-linked group gets in. Then it reads your email....
Thursday’s brief: FortiGate lockouts, then Nexus switches, hijacked AI servers, Atlassian exploits

Thursday’s brief: FortiGate lockouts, then Nexus switches, hijacked AI servers, Atlassian exploits

Stolen FortiGate logins are turning into lockouts and ransomware. The Atlassian bug from yesterday’s brief now has attackers....
Patch Jira and Confluence today: attackers are now testing the Atlassian bug we flagged yesterday

Patch Jira and Confluence today: attackers are now testing the Atlassian bug we flagged yesterday

A public exploit dropped Tuesday and honeypots lit up two hours later. If Jira talks to Crowd, the endgame is…
That LiteLLM box someone spun up for a pilot may be mining crypto for a stranger

That LiteLLM box someone spun up for a pilot may be mining crypto for a stranger

A botnet steered by a poem has taken over more than 3,400 exposed AI and dev servers. Find yours before…
Before you book the Nexus upgrade, check which of Cisco’s four critical NX-OS advisories actually apply to your switches

Before you book the Nexus upgrade, check which of Cisco’s four critical NX-OS advisories actually apply to your switches

One batch hits every Nexus config. Three more only matter if NX-API, NGOAM or MPLS OAM is on. Nothing’s exploited…
FortiBleed is still locking admins out of their own FortiGates — reset logins and lock down management today

FortiBleed is still locking admins out of their own FortiGates — reset logins and lock down management today

More than 86,000 FortiGates already taken with real passwords, and ransomware crews are buying the access. A firmware update won’t…
Wednesday’s brief: Atlassian Data Center, then Struts, Smarty’s cache, Osaka’s outage

Wednesday’s brief: Atlassian Data Center, then Struts, Smarty’s cache, Osaka’s outage

Wednesday’s CyberExperts Daily Brief — Atlassian Data Center file access, Struts OGNL, Smarty cache injection, Osaka ransomware, plus NetScaler KEV…
Osaka’s university lost hundreds of servers to ransomware — classes stay cancelled through Thursday

Osaka’s university lost hundreds of servers to ransomware — classes stay cancelled through Thursday

About 500 servers down. Possible exposure for ~130,000 people. Prove your offline restore this week....
The PHP template engine under your storefront needs a quiet update

The PHP template engine under your storefront needs a quiet update

Smarty’s cache marker can forge executable PHP. Most teams did not pick Smarty — check the lockfile anyway....
If your Java app still uses Struts’ old REST mapper, upgrade before someone tests it

If your Java app still uses Struts’ old REST mapper, upgrade before someone tests it

Legacy RESTful action mapper still on? That configuration turns this OGNL bug into remote code execution....
Your Confluence and Jira boxes can leak known files without a login — patch Data Center today

Your Confluence and Jira boxes can leak known files without a login — patch Data Center today

Eight Atlassian Data Center products. No login required. Cloud is already fixed — your servers are not....