Cyber alerts - NHS England Digital

Published Wednesday 21 November 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Adobe Releases Security Updates

Adobe has released security updates to address a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system.

CC-2467 Low

Published Wednesday 6 June 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Google Releases Security Update for Android

Google has released a security update for the Android operating system to address multiple vulnerabilities. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.

CC-2515 Low

Published Wednesday 27 June 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

WordPress File Deletion Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the WordPress content management system (CMS) core allows remote unauthenticated users to delete files. An attacker could exploit this gain remote code execution capability on an affected device.

CC-2526 Low

Published Wednesday 4 July 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Mozilla Releases Security Update for Thunderbird

Mozilla has released a security update to address multiple vulnerabilities in Thunderbird. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.

CC-2537 Low

Published Thursday 12 July 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Cisco Releases Security Updates

Cisco has released updates to address vulnerabilities affecting Cisco products. A remote attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.

CC-2448 Low

Published Thursday 31 May 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Browser Extension Backdoor Trojan

This trojan uses malicious macros and a Remote Administration Tool to gain a backdoor on the affected system

CC-2338 Low

Published Thursday 3 May 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Linux MMap Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Linux operating system kernel mmap system call could allow a local user execute arbitrary code within the kernel space. This could be exploited by an attacker to cause a local privilege escalation .

CC-2739 Low

Published Friday 19 October 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Drupal Releases Security Updates

Drupal has released security updates addressing multiple vulnerabilities in Drupal 7.x and 8.x. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.

CC-2026 Medium

Published Thursday 8 February 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Loda Information Stealer Trojan

First observed in May 2017, Loda (also known as Nymeria) is a trojan with information stealing, credential harvesting and remote execution capabilities.

CC-2291 Low

Published Wednesday 25 April 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

PBot Adware

PBot, also known as PythonBot, is a newly observed Python-based adware .