Fifty percent of the environmental services sector's HTTP traffic was attributed to HTTP-based distributed denial-of-service attacks, which recorded a 61,839% increase during the fourth quarter of 2023, compared with the same period in 2022, reports The Hacker News.
Ongoing intrusions leveraging an already patched critical privilege escalation flaw impacting Microsoft SharePoint, tracked as CVE-2023-29357, have been flagged by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which has added the issue to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, The Hacker News reports.