Its been a while since my last post on new/updated products, so heres making up for that… Our Kompany mission is to protect any and all citizens of the digital world — anywhere and any-when — against all cyber-evil in all its many flavors, stripes and categories. And that of course includes protection of the show more ...
The good news? John Deere bricked expensive farm equipment taken by thieving Russian troops. The bad news: those same remote access features could be used to launch crippling, large scale attacks on US farms. The post Feel Good Ukraine Tractor Story Highlights Ag Cyber Risk appeared first on The Security Ledger with show more ...
The really interesting thing about all this is that fake fair scams aren’t some weird anomaly. It’s an actual mini cybercrime industry populated by particularly dedicated scammers.
Design-wise, Gobrut has been written in Golang, a programming language very popular among hackers and pen-testers, and employs two IP addresses – one for payload delivery and one to perform various C2 functions.
The Russian hacking group behind the SolarWinds hack, Nobelium, is setting up new infrastructure to launch attacks using old tricks, researchers at Recorded Future found.
The Series B round was led by IVP with participation from BIG Labs, Unusual Ventures, Tiger Global Management, and several undisclosed angel investors. It takes the company's valuation to $450 million.
Since the include statement was buried deep down into the wp-settings.php file, it was easy to miss on a casual review. Additionally, because the include itself does not follow any malware patterns, it could be missed by malware scanners.
The critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-26352, stems from a directory traversal attack when performing file uploads, enabling an adversary to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying system.
There may be a risk of retaliatory activity by threat actors supporting the Russian Federation, against organizations being leveraged to unwittingly conduct disruptive attacks against government, military, and civilian websites.
The Augury vulnerability comes from Apple silicon's use of a Data Memory-Dependent Prefetcher (DMP) which is an optimization that accounts for the content of previous memory prefetches.
Several ransomware strains have been linked to APT38, a North Korean-sponsored hacking group known for its focus on targeting and stealing funds from financial institutions worldwide.
According to researchers, the attacks have been focused on infiltrating the networks of technology and manufacturing companies in Europe, Asia, and North America, focusing on stealing sensitive proprietary information.
The unit, formerly known as the cyber unit, will be renamed as the crypto assets and cyber unit and will continue to reside in the Division of Enforcement. It will also gain 20 additional team members, taking the unit's total headcount to 50.
The targets were notified that there was a problem with their verified Twitter account and were advised to click on the ‘Check notifications’ button to find out more about what is wrong.
Transport for NSW has confirmed its Authorised Inspection Scheme (AIS) online application was impacted by a cyber incident in early April. The AIS authorizes examiners to inspect vehicles to ensure a minimum safety standard.
The Series C funding round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Insight Partners and existing investors. This latest investment brings the total raised to $169.2 million and values the firm at $1.1 billion.
A researcher has shown how a type of vulnerability affecting many ransomware families can be exploited to control the malware and terminate it before it can encrypt files on compromised systems.
Between background statements by the NHS and Inky's investigations, researchers were able to determine that the breach was not a compromised mail server but rather individually hijacked accounts.
The threat group exfiltrates data prior to deploying ransomware and leaks the stolen information if a ransom is not paid. The group has demanded multi-million dollar ransoms from some victims.
The phishing emails pretended to contain policy updates and originated from legitimate email addresses belonging to embassies. The campaign lasted from January to March 2022.
The spear-phishing email consists of a weaponized document pretending to be a call for tender. Two payloads are hidden in the document as document properties.
Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that an APT group linked to China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLA SSF), tracked as Curious Gorge, is targeting Russian government agencies.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5390-2 - David Bouman discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate passed user register indices. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. David Bouman discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-1681-01 - Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.4.4 General Availability release images. This update provides security fixes, bug fixes, and updates container images. Issues addressed include bypass and traversal vulnerabilities.
WannaCry ransomware looks for and executes DLLs in its current directory. Therefore, we can hijack a DLL to execute our own code in order to control and terminate the malware pre-encryption. The exploit DLL checks if the current directory is "C:WindowsSystem32" and if not we grab our process ID and terminate. show more ...
REvil ransomware looks for and executes DLLs in its current directory. Therefore, we can potentially hijack a DLL to execute our own code in order to control and terminate the malware pre-encryption. The exploit dll will check if the current directory is "C:WindowsSystem32" and if not we grab our process ID show more ...
Conti ransomware looks for and executes DLLs in its current directory. Therefore, we can potentially hijack a DLL to execute our own code to control and terminate the malware pre-encryption. The exploit dll will check if the current directory is "C:WindowsSystem32". If not, we grab our process ID and terminate. show more ...
Conti ransomware looks for and loads a DLL named "wow64log.dll" in WindowsSystem32. Therefore, we can drop our own DLL to intercept and terminate the malware pre-encryption. The exploit DLL will simply display a Win32API message box and call exit(). Our Conti.Ransom exploit DLL must export the show more ...
Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for Unix. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command-line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package, which you can use in your own software.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5395-2 - USN-5395-1 fixed vulnerabilities in networkd-dispatcher. Unfortunately that update was incomplete and could introduce a regression. This update fixes the problem. It was discovered that networkd-dispatcher incorrectly handled internal scripts. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a race condition, escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-1703-01 - Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 91.9.0 ESR. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5401-1 - Wenxiang Qian discovered that DPDK incorrectly checked certain payloads. An attacker could use this issue to cause DPDK to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that DPDK incorrectly handled inflight type messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause DPDK to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5402-1 - Elison Niven discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled the c_rehash script. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands when c_rehash is run. Raul Metsma discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly verified certain response signing certificates. A remote show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-1701-01 - Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 91.9.0 ESR. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-1708-01 - Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard operating environments.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-1705-01 - Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 91.9.0 ESR. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-1709-01 - Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.5 is a standalone server, based on the Keycloak project, that provides authentication and standards-based single sign-on capabilities for web and mobile applications. This release of Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.5.2 serves as a replacement for Red Hat show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-1622-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.57.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-1702-01 - Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 91.9.0 ESR. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-1704-01 - Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 91.9.0 ESR. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-1712-01 - Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.5 is a standalone server, based on the Keycloak project, that provides authentication and standards-based single sign-on capabilities for web and mobile applications. This release of Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.5.2 on RHEL 8 serves as a security patch for show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-1711-01 - Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.5 is a standalone server, based on the Keycloak project, that provides authentication and standards-based single sign-on capabilities for web and mobile applications. This release of Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.5.2 on RHEL 7 serves as a security patch for show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5400-2 - USN-5400-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in MySQL. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated in Ubuntu 16.04 ESM to MySQL 5.7.38.
A growing number of threat actors are using the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war as a lure in various phishing and malware campaigns, even as critical infrastructure entities continue to be heavily targeted. "Government-backed actors from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, as well as various unattributed groups, have used various Ukraine war-related themes in an effort to get targets to open
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday announced that it will expand and rebrand its Cyber Unit to fight against cyber-related threats and protect investors in cryptocurrency markets. To that end, the SEC is renaming the Cyber Unit within the Division of Enforcement to Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit and plans to infuse 20 additional positions with the goal of investigating
An elusive and sophisticated cyberespionage campaign orchestrated by the China-backed Winnti group has managed to fly under the radar since at least 2019. Dubbed "Operation CuckooBees" by Israeli cybersecurity company Cybereason, the massive intellectual property theft operation enabled the threat actor to exfiltrate hundreds of gigabytes of information. Targets included technology and
A pre-authenticated remote code execution vulnerability has been disclosed in dotCMS, an open-source content management system written in Java and "used by over 10,000 clients in over 70 countries around the globe, from Fortune 500 brands and mid-sized businesses." The critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-26352, stems from a directory traversal attack when performing file uploads, enabling an
Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Keeper Security. Thanks to the great team there for their support! The mass migration to distributed work presented IT and DevOps teams with new challenges as they were forced to perform infrastructure monitoring and management remotely. IT and DevOps show more ...
Passwords have become a common way to access and manage our digital lives. Think of all the accounts you have with different providers. Having a password allows you to securely access your information, pay bills or connect with friends and family on various platforms. However, having a password alone is not enough. show more ...
