Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. It’s not clear who’s behind this network of fake CISOs or what their intentions may be. But the fabricated LinkedIn identities are show more ...
An attacker can bypass the controls provided by certain Cisco enterprise devices by sending crafted packets that would trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) or allow them to perform a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack.
The Erbium info-stealer was found being advertised on Russian-speaking hacker forums. The malware is swiftly becoming a preferred choice for hackers and it is being disseminated as game cheats on gaming forums to steal credentials and crypto wallets. Cluster25 reported Erbium infections in the U.S., France, Spain, Italy, India, Colombia, Malaysia, and Vietnam.
Fast Company took its website offline after it was hacked to display stories and push out Apple News notifications containing obscene and racist comments. Today, the hacker shared how they allegedly breached the site.
The legislation would not on its own institute the proposed changes in Federal government software procurement and use, but it would order Federal agencies to undertake much of the groundwork necessary to prepare for those changes.
Active since 2014, in 2016, the group decided to give up ATM malware and focus all of its attacks on PoS systems, targeting the core of the payment industry. The group has extensive knowledge of the payment market, and EFT software and protocols.
Maritime and offshore system cyber risk management specialists, CyberOwl have successfully secured US$5.1M of investor funding to support the accelerated adoption of their Medulla cyber risk monitoring solution.
The average ethical hacker can find a vulnerability that allows the breach of the network perimeter and then exploit the environment in under 10 hours, with penetration testers focused on cloud security gaining access most quickly to targeted assets.
A recently discovered malware builder called Quantum Builder is being used to deliver the Agent Tesla RAT. The infection chain starts with a spear-phishing email, including LNK File laden with GZIP Archive. This campaign delivering Agent Tesla is the latest in the list of malware threats that are using Quantum Builder show more ...
Similar to Cobalt Strike, Brute Ratel is a toolkit used by red teamers to deploy agents, called badgers, on compromised network devices and use them to execute commands remotely and spread further on a network.
A Cluster25 report stated that Russian GRU-linked APT28 is delivering Graphite malware to target entities in the defense and government sectors of the European Union and Eastern Europe. Cluster25 analysts state that the hackers have been planning the campaign since January or February but only executed it in August.
The highly targeted attacks begin with a phishing email sent to employees of victim organizations, leading to a multi-stage infection involving many persistence and detection avoidance systems.
The enhanced phishing protection automatically detects when a user types their password into an app or website and knows immediately whether the app or site has a secure connection to a trusted website.
According to the blockchain security firm PeckShield, the bug can be traced back to the bot's callback routine, and this was exploited by the hacker to approve an arbitrary address for spending.
Western allies initially feared a tsunami of cyberattacks against Ukraine's military command and critical infrastructure, hindering its ability to resist the Russian forces pouring across its borders.
As the company revealed in a blog post on Monday, multiple code repository archives from 2020 and earlier (pre-dating Okta's February 2022 acquisition) were obtained by unknown means from its environment.
The U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, France, and Germany top the list as the five countries most affected by ransomware. In the U.S., manufacturing and construction were the industries hit most often.
Melbourne-based GRC vendor has completed a $10 million capital raise led by Centerstone Capital as it plans to scale its presence with partners. It was previously funded by private investors, including high-net-worth individuals and family offices.
So far in 2022, the IRS has identified and reported thousands of fraudulent domains tied to multiple MMS/SMS/text scams (known as smishing) targeting taxpayers. Especially in the last few weeks, IRS-themed smishing has increased exponentially.
The company will begin the deprecation process by first disabling client access rules in tenants where they're unused starting October 2022. Until September 2023, Microsoft plans to help migrate all remaining tenants to new access control features.
The activity was discovered during an incident response investigation where Mandiant observed an attacker leveraging legitimate VMWare tools to send commands to Windows guest machines.
Schneider Electric in recent months released patches for its EcoStruxure platform and some Modicon programmable logic controllers (PLCs) to address a critical vulnerability that was disclosed more than a year ago.
Leaked details include usernames, email addresses, password hashes, mobile numbers, one-time passwords, last logged-in times, and IP addresses, among others, according to a report shared by CloudSEK with The Hacker News.
Researchers have traced almost 700 ransomware incidents back to wholesale access markets (WAM) — platforms where people sell access to compromised endpoints, access over various remote protocols such as RDP, and more.
Both companies are wholly owned subsidiaries of Optus, with the company shuttering the Virgin brand in 2018, but it was not apparent until now whether these customers would have been caught up in the breach.
Despite increased investment in tools to fight ransomware, 90% of organizations were affected by ransomware in some capacity over the past 12 months, according to SpyCloud’s 2022 Ransomware Defense Report.
“Multiple vulnerabilities are possible if an untrusted user has access to write Twig code, including potential unauthorized read access to private files, the contents of other files on the server, or database credentials,” Drupal noted.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5647-1 - It was discovered that the framebuffer driver on the Linux kernel did not verify size limits when changing font or screen size, leading to an out-of- bounds write. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Moshe Kol, Amit Klein and show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5615-2 - USN-5615-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in SQLite. This update provides the corresponding fix for CVE-2020-35525 for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled INTERSEC query processing. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-6741-01 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Issues addressed include a privilege escalation vulnerability.
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in qdPM versions 9.1 and below. An attacker can upload a malicious PHP code file via the profile photo functionality by leveraging a path traversal vulnerability in the users['photop_preview'] delete photo feature thus allowing bypass of .htaccess protection. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-3884.
testssl.sh is a free command line tool which checks a server's service on any port for the support of TLS/SSL ciphers, protocols as well as recent cryptographic flaws, and much more. It is written in (pure) bash, makes only use of standard Unix utilities, openssl and last but not least bash sockets.
Joomla AdsManager extension version 3.2.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
Bus Pass Management System version 1.0 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5646-1 - Tobias Stoeckmann discovered that libXi did not properly manage memory when handling X server responses. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libXi to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
Sippts is a set of tools to audit VoIP servers and devices using SIP protocol. It is programmed in Python script and it allows us to check the security of a VoIP server using SIP protocol, over UDP, TCP and TLS protocols.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5645-1 - Jacob Champion discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled SSL certificate verification and encryption. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary SQL queries when a connection is first established. Tom Lane discovered that PostgreSQL incorrect handled show more ...
Online Examination System version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
Joomla EDocman extension version 1.23.3 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Online Examination System version 1.0 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
This tool packs up to 4KB of compressed shellcode into an executable binary, near-instantly. The output file will always have the same MD5 hash: 3cebbe60d91ce760409bbe513593e401. Currently, only Linux x86-64 is supported. It would be trivial to port this technique to other platforms, although each version would end up with a different MD5.
A new covert attack campaign singled out multiple military and weapons contractor companies with spear-phishing emails to trigger a multi-stage infection process designed to deploy an unknown payload on compromised machines. The highly-targeted intrusions, dubbed STEEP#MAVERICK by Securonix, also targeted a strategic supplier to the F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft. "The attack was carried out
Every year, billions of credentials appear online, be it on the dark web, clear web, paste sites, or in data dumps shared by cybercriminals. These credentials are often used for account takeover attacks, exposing organizations to breaches, ransomware, and data theft. While CISOs are aware of growing identity threats and have multiple tools in their arsenal to help reduce the potential risk, the
A threat actor by the name of LeakBase has shared a database containing personal information allegedly affecting 16 million users of Swachh City, an Indian complaint redressal platform. Leaked details include usernames, email addresses, password hashes, mobile numbers, one-time passwords, last logged-in times, and IP addresses, among others, according to a report shared by security firm CloudSEK
Several hacktivist groups are using Telegram and other tools to aid anti-government protests in Iran to bypass regime censorship restrictions amid ongoing unrest in the country following the death of Mahsa Amini in custody. "Key activities are data leaking and selling, including officials' phone numbers and emails, and maps of sensitive locations," Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point said in
A Brazilian threat actor known as Prilex has resurfaced after a year-long operational hiatus with an advanced and complex malware to steal money by means of fraudulent transactions. "The Prilex group has shown a high level of knowledge about credit and debit card transactions, and how software used for payment processing works," Kaspersky researchers said. "This enables the attackers to keep
Anti-porn "shamware" apps take a privacy pounding, is your image already being used by AI, and deepfake danger continues to deepen. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Host Unknown's Thom Langford.
A 40-year-old man could face up to 10 years in prison, after admitting in a US District Court to sabotaging his former employer's computer systems. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
