Cisco Smart Install misuse
CERT NZ is aware of an active campaign targeting Cisco devices with Smart Install (SMI) enabled.
29 Mar 2018MikroTik RouterOS vulnerability
CERT NZ has been informed of an active attack targeting MikroTik RouterOS devices.
28 Feb 2018Memcached reflection denial-of-service
CERT NZ has been informed of an active attack that is using memcached servers to perform a reflected denial-of-service (DoS) attack.
08 Jan 2018Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities
Researchers have found multiple vulnerabilities in computer processors which may allow attackers to extract information from affected systems, including passwords and other sensitive data.
14 Dec 2017Certain TLS-RSA implementations susceptible to ROBOT attack
A vulnerability affecting certain implementations of RSA key exchange has been released. This vulnerability is susceptible to Return Of Bleichenbacher's Oracle Threat (ROBOT) attacks, which can allow attackers to decrypt TLS-RSA traffic on from some webservers that use RSA key exchange.
25 Oct 2017Bad Rabbit Ransomware affecting Eastern European networks
A new ransomware campaign, called ‘Bad Rabbit’, is spreading and appears to be primarily targeting agencies in Russia and Ukraine. There have been reports of it affecting networks in Turkey and Germany.