Online shopping is a part of all our lives, and many can no longer imagine their daily routine without it. A couple of clicks, and a delivery guy is already bringing pizza or dog food straight to your door, while movie tickets arrive straight into your inbox. This calls for more, not less vigilance: its not only show more ...
The popular pen-testing tool is often cracked and repurposed by threat actors. Google now has a plan to address that.
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Following the dollars reveals pen-test and intrusion-detection startups are the most attractive to investors right now, collectively getting more than $3 billion in funding.
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Analysts see an uptick in token theft from authenticated users, allowing threat actors to bypass MFA protections.
Improved cyber hygiene keeps users and their identities, devices, and data more secure and reduces the organization’s risk exposure.
Threat actors are becoming only more sophisticated and determined.
Luna Moth is relying solely on call-back phishing, as well as legitimate tools, to steal data and extract ransoms from victims of all stripes in an expanding cyberattack effort.
Here's what that means about our current state as an industry, and why we should be happy about it.
CISA is in charge of enhancing cybersecurity and infrastructure protection at all levels of government, coordinating cybersecurity initiatives with American U.S. states, and enhancing defenses against cyberattacks.
The threat actor is relying on malware downloaders such as BatLoader, posing as legitimate installers or updates for software such as AnyDesk, Adobe Flash Player, Microsoft Teams, TeamViewer, and Zoom.
Federal civilian agencies have six months to begin submitting inventories and prioritizing high-value cryptographic systems and assets to migrate to “post-quantum” encryption, per a new White House memorandum.
Massengale Eye Care issued a breach notice to patients in late October, informing them that their data was also compromised during what remains the largest incident reported in healthcare this year at nearly 3.7 million impacted patients.
LodaRAT is written in AutoIt, a well-known scripting language typically used to automate administrative tasks in Windows. AutoIt scripts can be compiled into standalone binaries.
Given its wide-ranging suite of features, unauthorized versions of the software have been increasingly weaponized by many threat actors to advance their post-exploitation activities.
Ransomware incidents in the United Kingdom are now so impactful that the majority of the British government’s recent crisis management COBRA meetings have been convened in response to them rather than other emergencies.
The SEO poisoning attack analyzed by BleepingComputer uses Google's datastudio.google.com subdomain to lend credibility to malicious domains. The campaign uses the keyword stuffing technique to boost the rankings of these illicit domains.
The AXLocker ransomware encrypts victims’ files and steals Discord tokens from the infected machine. Octocrypt is a Golang-based ransomware and its operators are adopting the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) business model.
According to civil servants in the government, they noticed that their official emails started bouncing back from government addresses, this was the first sign when they found that something was wrong.
The Indian government on Friday released a draft version of the much-awaited data protection regulation, making it the fourth such effort since it was first proposed in July 2018.
The bugs impact Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019, an authenticated attacker can trigger them to elevate privileges to run PowerShell in the context of the system and gain arbitrary or remote code execution on vulnerable servers.
A spokesperson for the threat actor told DataBreaches.net that further attacks were not pursued owing to AirAsia's poor security measures and "the chaotic organization of the network."
Tracked as CVE-2022-26696 (CVSS score of 7.8), the security defect was identified and reported last year, with a patch available since the release of macOS Monterey 12.4 in May.
In a survey by ARMO, 55% of respondents said they used at least some open-source tools to keep their Kubernetes clusters safe; this includes those who use purely open-source and those who mix open-source and proprietary solutions.
Meta Platforms is said to have fired or disciplined over two dozen employees and contractors over the past year for allegedly compromising and taking over user accounts, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The charged individuals allegedly recruited money mules to transfer money and used spoofed email addresses, bank account takeovers, and similar fraudulent methods designed to deceive victims into believing that they were making legitimate payments.
The server is actively scraping information from Mastodon users. Researcher Anurag Sen found the server on November 15, however, it is unclear for how long it has been logging users’ information.
In this campaign, attackers use legitimate and trusted systems management tools to interact directly with a victim’s computer, to manually exfiltrate data to be used for extortion.
DEV-0569 uses a malware downloader, BatLoader, that drops the next stage payloads (via PowerShell commands), including Royal ransomware and Cobalt Strike Beacon implant.
The malware quietly runs in the background, steals emails for use in phishing attacks, and downloads additional post-exploitation toolkits such as Brute Ratel or Cobalt Strike.
According to Trend Micro researchers, Earth Preta is targeting government, academic, foundations, and research sectors in Myanmar, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, and other Asia Pacific countries.
Microsoft has outlined several mitigations to protect against attacks on multi-factor authentication that will unfortunately make life more difficult for your remote workers.
When files are downloaded from an untrusted remote location, such as the Internet or an email attachment, Windows add a special attribute to the file called the Mark of the Web. However, this attack bypasses the security warning.
This Metasploit module exploits the logic in the CartView.php page when crafting a draft email with an attachment. By uploading an attachment for a draft email, the attachment will be placed in the /tmp_attach/ folder of the ChurchInfo web server, which is accessible over the web by any user. By uploading a PHP show more ...
This Metasploit module exploits a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in F5 Big-IP's iControl interface to write an arbitrary file to the filesystem. While any file can be written to any location as root, the exploitability is limited by SELinux; the vast majority of writable locations are unavailable. show more ...
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202211-3 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in PHP, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution. Versions less than 7.4.33:7.4 are affected.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5286-1 - Greg Hudson discovered integer overflow flaws in the PAC parsing in krb5, the MIT implementation of Kerberos, which may result in remote code execution (in a KDC, kadmin, or GSS or Kerberos application server process), information exposure (to a cross-realm KDC acting maliciously), or denial of service (KDC or kadmind process crash).
Roxy Fileman versions 1.4.6 and below remote shell upload proof of concept exploit.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5733-1 - It was discovered that FLAC was not properly performing memory management operations, which could result in a memory leak. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause FLAC to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16. show more ...
Boa Web Server versions 0.94.13 through 0.94.14 fail to validate the correct security constraint on the HEAD HTTP method allowing everyone to bypass the Basic Authorization mechanism.
This is a whitepaper along with a proof of concept eml file discussing CVE-2020-16947 where a remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Outlook 2019 version 16.0.13231.20262 when it fails to properly handle objects in memory.
This is a whitepaper along with a proof of concept eml file that demonstrates an out-of-bounds read on Outlook 2019 version 16.0.12624.20424. NIST references this issue as simply an information disclosure.
This is a whitepaper discussing CVE-2020-1349 where a remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Outlook 2019 version 16.0.12624.20424 when it fails to properly handle objects in memory.
ZTE ZXHN-H108NS router with firmware version H108NSV1.0.7u_ZRD_GR2_A68 suffers from an authentication bypass vulnerability when alternate HTTP methods are leveraged.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8543-01 - Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 102.5.0. Issues addressed include bypass and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5729-2 - It was discovered that a race condition existed in the instruction emulator of the Linux kernel on Arm 64-bit systems. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Hsin-Wei Hung discovered that the BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel contained an out-of-bounds read show more ...
WordPress BeTheme theme version 26.5.1.4 suffers from multiple PHP object injection vulnerabilities when processing input.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5686-3 - USN-5686-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Git. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 22.10. Cory Snider discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain symbolic links. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause an unexpected behaviour.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8545-01 - Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 102.5.0. Issues addressed include bypass and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Backdoor.Win32.Oblivion.01.a malware suffers from an insecure transit vulnerability due to sending passwords in the clear over the wire.
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 and Billy Jheng Bing Jhong discovered that a race condition existed in the show more ...
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202211-4 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in PostgreSQL, the worst of which could result in remote code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 10.22:10 are affected.
ZTE ZXHN-H108NS router with firmware version H108NSV1.0.7u_ZRD_GR2_A68 remote stack buffer overflow exploit that causes a denial of service condition.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5728-2 - Jann Horn discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly track memory allocations for anonymous VMA mappings in some situations, leading to potential data structure reuse. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. It was show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8547-01 - Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 102.5.0. Issues addressed include bypass and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
ClicShopping version 3.402 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Trojan.Win32.Platinum.gen malware suffers from a code execution vulnerability.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5727-2 - It was discovered that a race condition existed in the instruction emulator of the Linux kernel on Arm 64-bit systems. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle virtual CPUs show more ...
Organizations that use the consensus principles can significantly improve their cyber resilience without raising costs, MIT research shows.
New study identifies critical focus areas for portfolio companies to reduce cyber risks and costs associated with breaches.
Cyber Risk Index report highlights elevated risk as organizations struggle with visibility.
Google Cloud last week disclosed that it identified 34 different hacked release versions of the Cobalt Strike tool in the wild, the earliest of which shipped in November 2012. The versions, spanning 1.44 to 4.7, add up to a total of 275 unique JAR files, according to findings from the Google Cloud Threat Intelligence (GCTI) team. The latest version of Cobalt Strike is version 4.7.2. Cobalt
Google has won a lawsuit filed against two Russian nationals in connection with the operation of a botnet called Glupteba, the company said last week. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York imposed monetary sanctions against the defendants and their U.S.-based legal counsel. The defendants have also been asked to pay Google's attorney fees. The defendants' move to press
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The cybercrime group called Daixin Team has leaked sample data belonging to AirAsia, a Malaysian low-cost airline, on its data leak portal. The development comes a little over a week after the company fell victim to a ransomware attack on November 11 and 12, per DataBreaches.net. The threat actors allegedly claim to have obtained the personal data associated with five million
The notorious Emotet malware has returned with renewed vigor as part of a high-volume malspam campaign designed to drop payloads like IcedID and Bumblebee. "Hundreds of thousands of emails per day" have been sent since early November 2022, enterprise security company Proofpoint said last week, adding, "the new activity suggests Emotet is returning to its full functionality acting as a delivery
