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We’re happy to announce the open beta availability of Snyk’s new Risk Score! Replacing the existing Priority Score, the new Risk Score was designed to help you prioritize more effectively by providing you with an accurate and holistic understanding of the risk posed by a given security issue.

Vulnerability management (VM) is the process of detecting, prioritizing, remediating, and auditing security vulnerabilities in systems and software. This critical process minimizes the organization’s “attack surface” by installing the most current software updates and properly hardening computer configuration.

The maintainers have already released an update fixing the issue. Versions before 0.7.5 are affected and thus vulnerable to Prototype Pollution. We strongly recommend that impacted users upgrade to the newer version that includes the fixes, i.e., version 0.7.5 and above.We have found a new Prototype Pollution vulnerability in the JavaScript package tree-kit in all versions before 0.7.5. The maintainer of tree-kit has released an update that fixed the issue on 21 July 2023.

There are three vulnerabilities impacting Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM), formerly known as MobileIron Core: CVE-2023-35078 and CVE-2023-35082, which both enable authenticated bypass for unauthorized access; and CVE-2023-35081, which allows directory traversal with privilege escalation and arbitrary file write. These Ivanti EPMM vulnerabilities have been observed in active cyber attacks on systems using the affected versions.

As GenerativeAI expands its reach, the impact of software development is not left behind. Generative models — particularly Language Models (LMs), such as GPT-3, and those falling under the umbrella of Large Language Models (LLMs) — are increasingly adept at creating human-like text. This includes writing code.

Living Off the Land (LOTL) cyber attacks represent a growing and increasingly sophisticated threat within the cybersecurity landscape. The significance of LOTL attacks extends beyond mere technicalities; they pose substantial risks to global security, influencing everything from corporate stability to national defense mechanisms.

The Vitality Group, LLC, a business-to-business vendor that provides employee benefit services to GuidePoint Security, experienced a security vulnerability on May 30, 2023 relating to the third-party file transfer program called MOVEit. The zero-day vulnerability became known in established security networks and channels late on May 31, 2023, and was specifically picked up and identified by internal Vitality security personnel on June 1, 2023.

Threat actors are constantly looking for new ways or paths to achieve their goals, and the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of these novelties that could drastically change the underground ecosystem. The cybercrime community will see this new technology either as a business model (developers and sellers) or as products to perpetrate their attacks (buyers).

A strong vulnerability management program underpins a successful security strategy overall. After all, you can’t defend weak points you don’t know are there. It is predicted that 2023 will see an average of 1,900 critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) a month, up 13% from last year. This is due to increased interconnectedness, the addition of more tools, IoT devices and SaaS services, and the increased risk of human error.