• The Taiwan-based cybersecurity firm TeamT5 has confirmed that the vulnerability added recently by CISA to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog was likely exploited by Chinese threat actors.The vulnerabilityadded last week to the CISA KEV listis tracked as CVE-2024-7694 and it allows an attacker with admin privileges to upload malicious files, which can lead to arbitrary command execution on the server. • The security hole was fixed in August 2024.TeamT5’s website indicates that the company’s solutions are used in the United States, Japan, and Taiwan, including by government agencies. • This could explain why CISA added the vulnerability to its KEV catalog, instructing government agencies to address it by March 10.However, TeamT5 toldSecurityWeekthat the attacks exploiting CVE-2024-7694 occurred in 2024 and only targeted a few of its customers. • Affected customers were notified at the time and assisted with patching and mitigations.The company’s investigation found it was a “highly coordinated and targeted attack” aimed at compromising the systems of high-profile customers.TeamT5 said the threat actor invested significant resources into finding a vulnerability in its ThreatSonar product.Advertisement. • Scroll to continue reading.In ablog postpublished this week, the security firm said it helped all customers update the software in 2024, and it’s confident that no users are currently running a vulnerable version.When CISA added the vulnerability to its KEV catalog last week,SecurityWeeknoted that Chinese threat actors may have been behind the attacks.TeamT5 has now toldSecurityWeekthat based on its investigation the exploitation was part of a supply chain attack likely conducted by Chinese APTs it tracks as Slime57 and Slime62.“The actor used hundreds of IP addresses, mostly compromised devices in Taiwan, to hide their real identity,” a TeamT5 spokesperson said.Related:Dell RecoverPoint Zero-Day Exploited by Chinese Cyberespionage GroupRelated:Web Hosting Firms

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  • TeamT5, a Taiwan‑based cybersecurity firm, confirmed that the vulnerability recently added to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list-CVE‑2024‑7694-was likely abused by Chinese advanced persistent threat groups. The flaw, fixed in August 2024, lets an attacker with administrative rights upload malicious files and execute arbitrary commands on a server. TeamT5’s investigation links the attacks to supply‑chain operations by Chinese APTs identified as Slime57 and Slime62, which targeted a handful of high‑profile customers in the U.S., Japan, and Taiwan, including government agencies. All affected clients were notified, patched, and are now running non‑vulnerable software.
  • Taiwan‑based cybersecurity firm TeamT5 confirmed that the vulnerability recently added to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) list-CVE‑2024‑7694-was likely exploited by Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) groups. The flaw, fixed in August 2024, allows an attacker with administrative privileges to upload malicious files and execute arbitrary commands on a server. TeamT5’s investigation identified a highly coordinated supply‑chain attack targeting a few high‑profile customers, with the threat actors using numerous compromised IP addresses in Taiwan to conceal their identity. CISA’s KEV inclusion urged U.S. government agencies to patch the vulnerability by March 10.

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