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Recently disclosed Drupal CVE-2019-6340 RCE flaw exploited in the wild

Security Affairs

Threat actors in the wild are exploiting the recently patched CVE-2019-6340 flaw in the Drupal CMS to deliver cryptocurrency miners and other payloads. The CVE-2019-6340 flaw is caused by the lack of proper data sanitization in some field types, an attacker could exploit the flaw to execute arbitrary PHP code.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: more than 59 million data records. BianLian claims to have exfiltrated 5 TB of data, comprising millions of sensitive documents. Data breached: 5 TB.