Cyber Briefing: 2024.10.16

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🚨 Cyber Alerts

1. CISA Warns of Critical SolarWinds Flaw

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning regarding the active exploitation of a critical vulnerability in SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) software. Tracked as CVE-2024–28987, this flaw, with a CVSS score of 9.1, stems from hard-coded credentials that allow unauthorized access…