Microsofts vulnerability hunters presented a fresh catch: 64 vulnerabilities in various products and services, five of which are critical. Two vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed before the patch was released (which technically makes them zero-days), and one is actively exploited by some attackers. As usual, we show more ...
Released on PC and consoles in September 2020, the action-adventure video game Genshin Impact was created by miHoYo Limited of China. The Windows version comes with a module combating gaming cheats, which incorporates a driver named mhyprot2.sys. It provides the games defense mechanism with broad system privileges, show more ...
A number of financial institutions in and around New York City are dealing with a rash of super-thin “deep insert” skimming devices designed to fit inside the mouth of an ATM’s card acceptance slot. The card skimmers are paired with tiny pinhole cameras that are cleverly disguised as part of the cash show more ...
This month’s Patch Tuesday offers a little something for everyone, including security updates for a zero-day flaw in Microsoft Windows that is under active attack, and another Windows weakness experts say could be used to power a fast-spreading computer worm. Also, Apple has also quashed a pair of zero-day bugs show more ...
Paul talks with Chris Hoff the Chief Secure Technology Officer at LastPass about the CSTO role and the security implications of “software eating the world.” The post Episode 243: The CSTO is a thing- a conversation with Chris Hoff of LastPass appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts. Click the show more ...
Moobot, a Mirai botnet variant, was found targeting vulnerable D-Link routers with both new and old exploits. The wave of attacks started in early August. To fix these flaws, the vendor provided security upgrades, although not all users have yet installed the fixes.
Honeypots deployed by Trend Micro researchers showed TeamTNT attackers were leaking credentials from at least two of their DockerHub accounts, namely alpineos (with over 150,000 pulls) and sandeep078 (with 200 pulls).
One of Australia’s top cybersecurity experts says the pandemic has worsened the risk of insider threats, with more employees unhappy with their work lives and therefore likely to seek revenge.
Iran-linked APT42 is suspected to be the actor behind over 30 cyber espionage attacks against individuals and organizations of strategic interest to the Iranian government. The most recent developments confirm that phishing attacks on Iranian entities have been going on for seven years and have a global reach.
On September 8, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team became aware of an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability being used to add a malicious administrator user to sites running the WPGateway plugin.
With the help of his co-conspirators, he began selling the identities of hundreds of vulnerable minors (stolen by a New York City's Human Resources Administration fraud investigator) to thousands of people profiting from this scheme.
Local governments and high-profile organizations in Asia are being targeted by a new espionage gang, named Worok, which has been active since 2020. The group used ProxyShell exploits for initial access, however, the access vector remains unknown for most attacks. For persistence, web shells are uploaded after abusing the vulnerabilities inside the victim's network.
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 has detailed the inner workings of a malware called OriginLogger, which has been touted as a successor to the widely used information stealer and remote access trojan (RAT) known as Agent Tesla.
The bad news is that 58% of respondents predict they will suffer another severe incident in the cloud over the coming year. About 77% of those questioned cited poor training and collaboration as a major challenge in this regard, according to Snyk.
Out of the 63 security vulnerabilities fixed in today's update, five are classified as 'Critical' as they allow remote code execution, one of the most severe types of vulnerabilities.
The Departmental Offices bureau at Treasury provides leadership in economic and financial policy, terrorism and financial intelligence, financial crimes, as well as general management.
The Senate Judiciary Committee committee also invited CEO Parag Agrawal to testify alongside the whistleblower, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, according to a copy of the letter obtained by CNN.
Nine days after the attack, the hospital was still having issues with some of its systems, including telephone and email, and the staff was working on getting everything up and running.
Cybersecurity experts say the timing of the FBI warning—several years after DeFi exploits began—illustrates how slow governmental agencies and technological solutions have been to catch up to the vulnerabilities of the ecosystem.
This variant was deployed against a Hong Kong university in February 2021, the same university that had already been targeted by SparklingGoblin during the student protests in May 2020.
According to the police’s press statement, law enforcement was able to track down the suspect by following crypto stolen using a malicious software update for the Electrum wallet.
The legislature’s website is still down as of Tuesday afternoon EST. The affected government agencies did not respond to requests for comment about the state of the restoration effort.
Interestingly, the increase in DDoS occurred even as overall attacks fell year-on-year. There were 55 reports of “material” cyber incidents in the first half of 2022, down 25% from the 73 reported in H1 2021.
The unknown threat actors used their control of FishPig's systems to carry out a supply chain attack that infected customer systems with Rekoobe, a sophisticated backdoor discovered in June.
Regardless of the approach to zero trust, to follow the zero trust principle, every organization must continuously validate users who need access to data – i.e., continuously authenticate, authorize and validate users across all data sources.
A cybersecurity consultant has discovered a new attack chain, GIFShell, that leverages GIF images in Microsoft Teams to execute arbitrary commands on the target’s machine. Since the data exfiltration is performed by leveraging Microsoft's own servers, it is challenging to identify the traffic and differentiate it from the legitimate Team traffic.
Phishers are looking to trick owners of Facebook pages with fake notices from the social network (i.e., Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp), in an attempt to get them to part with sensitive information.
The CISA is casting the widest net possible to get feedback for its implementation of the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act, asking stakeholders to opine on the most basic of terms used in the legislation.
Researchers Thomas Knudsen and Samy Younsi of Necrum Security Labs identified the vulnerabilities in the Flexlan FX3000 and FX2000 series wireless LAN devices made by Contec.
On average, 2.5% of employees exfiltrate sensitive information in a month, but over a six-month period, nearly one in 10, or 9.4% of employees, do so, Cyberhaven noted in its report.
The FBI has warned the Food and Agriculture (FA) sector that ransomware actors may be preparing to attack agricultural cooperatives during critical planting and harvest seasons.
Faraday is a tool that introduces a new concept called IPE, or Integrated Penetration-Test Environment. It is a multiuser penetration test IDE designed for distribution, indexation and analysis of the generated data during the process of a security audit. The main purpose of Faraday is to re-use the available tools in the community to take advantage of them in a multiuser way.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5611-1 - Several security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK Web and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security, including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and arbitrary code execution.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5610-1 - Addison Crump discovered that rust-regex did not properly limit the complexity of the regular expressions it parses. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5583-2 - USN-5583-1 fixed vulnerabilities in systemd. Unfortunately this caused a regression by introducing networking problems for some users. This update fixes the problem. It was discovered that systemd incorrectly handled certain DNS requests, which leads to user-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-6504-01 - Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-6507-01 - Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.5.2 images Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes provides the capabilities to address common challenges that administrators and site reliability engineers face as they work across a range of public and private show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-6503-01 - Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-6502-01 - Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-6505-01 - Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-6506-01 - Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5609-1 - Graham Esau discovered that .NET 6 incorrectly parsed certain payloads during model binding. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-6322-01 - 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 container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.59. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5608-1 - It was discovered that DPDK incorrectly handled certain Vhost headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5607-1 - It was discovered that GDK-PixBuf incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or cause a crash.
WordPress WPGateway plugin versions 3.5 and below suffer from an unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability.
Tech giant Microsoft on Tuesday shipped fixes to quash 64 new security flaws across its software lineup, including one zero-day flaw that has been actively exploited in real-world attacks. Of the 64 bugs, five are rated Critical, 57 are rated Important, one is rated Moderate, and one is rated Low in severity. The patches are in addition to 16 vulnerabilities that Microsoft addressed in its
A zero-day flaw in the latest version of a WordPress premium plugin known as WPGateway is being actively exploited in the wild, potentially allowing malicious actors to completely take over affected sites. Tracked as CVE-2022-3180 (CVSS score: 9.8), the issue is being weaponized to add a malicious administrator user to sites running the WPGateway plugin, WordPress security company Wordfence
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 has detailed the inner workings of a malware called OriginLogger, which has been touted as a successor to the widely used information stealer and remote access trojan (RAT) known as Agent Tesla. A .NET based keylogger and remote access, Agent Tesla has had a long-standing presence in the threat landscape, allowing malicious actors to gain remote access to targeted
A Linux variant of a backdoor known as SideWalk was used to target a Hong Kong university in February 2021, underscoring the cross-platform abilities of the implant. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, which detected the malware in the university's network, attributed the backdoor to a nation-state actor dubbed SparklingGoblin. The unnamed university is said to have been already targeted by the
According to the 2022 Malwarebytes Threat review, 40M Windows business computers' threats were detected in 2021. And malware analysis is necessary to combat and avoid this kind of attack. In this article, we will break down the goal of malicious programs' investigation and how to do malware analysis with a sandbox. What is malware analysis? Malware analysis is a process of studying a malicious
The operators behind the Lornenz ransomware operation have been observed exploiting a now-patched critical security flaw in Mitel MiVoice Connect to obtain a foothold into target environments for follow-on malicious activities. "Initial malicious activity originated from a Mitel appliance sitting on the network perimeter," researchers from cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf said in a report
Windows users are once again being told to update their systems with the latest security patches from Microsoft, following the discovery of critical vulnerabilities - including ones which are already being exploited in the wild, or could be used to fuel a fast-spreading worm. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
