NewsPenguin Threat Actor Emerges with Malicious Campaign Targeting Pakistani Entities

A previously unknown threat actor dubbed NewsPenguin has been linked to a phishing campaign targeting Pakistani entities by leveraging the upcoming international maritime expo as a lure. "The attacker sent out targeted phishing emails with a weaponized document attached that purports to be an...

Gootkit Malware Adopts New Tactics to Attack Healthcare and Finance Firms

The Gootkit malware is prominently going after healthcare and finance organizations in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, according to new findings from Cybereason. The cybersecurity firm said it investigated a Gootkit incident in December 2022 that adopted a new method of deployment, with the actors...

CERT-UA Alerts Ukrainian State Authorities of Remcos Software-Fueled Cyber Attacks

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has issued an alert warning of cyber attacks against state authorities in the country that deploy a legitimate remote access software named Remcos. The mass phishing campaign has been attributed to a threat actor it tracks as UAC-0050 , with...

CERT-UA Alerts Ukrainian State Authorities of Remcos Software-Fueled Cyber Attacks

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has issued an alert warning of cyber attacks against state authorities in the country that deploy a legitimate remote access software named Remcos. The mass phishing campaign has been attributed to a threat actor it tracks as UAC-0050, with...

CVE-2023-25016

Couchbase Server before 6.6.6, 7.x before 7.0.5, and 7.1.x before 7.1.2 exposes Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor...

Information disclosure

Couchbase Server before 6.6.6, 7.x before 7.0.5, and 7.1.x before 7.1.2 exposes Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor...

node-fetch: exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor

A flaw was found in node-fetch. When following a redirect to a third-party domain, node-fetch was forwarding sensitive headers such as "Authorization," "WWW-Authenticate," and "Cookie" to potentially untrusted targets. This flaw leads to the exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized...

CVE-2023-25016

Couchbase Server before 6.6.6, 7.x before 7.0.5, and 7.1.x before 7.1.2 exposes Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor...

Lack of double step transfer in admin modification in a upgradeable contract is dangerous

Lines of code Vulnerability details Lack of double step transfer in admin modification in a upgradeable contract is dangerous Summary Double step transfer of admin / ownership should be a must in upgradeable contracts Vulnerability Detail Admin is changed with changeAdmin that calls changeAdmin,...

Experts Warn of 'Ice Breaker' Cyberattacks Targeting Gaming and Gambling Industry

A new attack campaign has been targeting the gaming and gambling sectors since at least September 2022, just as the ICE London 2023 gaming industry trade fair event is scheduled to kick off next week. Israeli cybersecurity company Security Joes is tracking the activity cluster under the name Ice...

GitHub revokes several certificates after unauthorized access

In a call to action, GitHub warned users of GitHub Desktop for Mac and Atom that it will revoke certificates which were exposed during unauthorized access to a set of repositories used in the planning and development of GitHub Desktop and Atom. Revoking these certificates will invalidate some...

Microsoft の調査 – 検証済みの発行者確認を悪用する脅威アクターの同意フィッシング キャンペーンについて

本ブログは、Microsoft Investigation – Threat actor consent phishing campaign abusing the verified publisher process の抄訳版です。最新の情報は原文を参照してくださ...

CVE-2023-0524

As part of our Security Development Lifecycle, a potential privilege escalation issue was identified internally. This could allow a malicious actor with sufficient permissions to modify environment variables and abuse an impacted plugin in order to escalate privileges. We have resolved the issue...

Microsoft Investigation - Threat actor consent phishing campaign abusing the verified publisher process

Summary Summary On December 15th, 2022, Microsoft became aware of a consent phishing campaign involving threat actors fraudulently impersonating legitimate companies when enrolling in the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program MCPP formerly known as Microsoft Partner Network MPN. The actor used fraudule...

GitHub Breach: Hackers Stole Code-Signing Certificates for GitHub Desktop and Atom

GitHub on Monday disclosed that unknown threat actors managed to exfiltrate encrypted code signing certificates pertaining to some versions of GitHub Desktop for Mac and Atom apps. As a result, the company is taking the step of revoking the exposed certificates out of abundance of caution. The...

Yandex Source Code Online Leaked, Company Denies Hack

By Waqas The threat actor has dumped a whopping 44.7 GB worth of Yandex data, including its source code repository, on a popular hacker forum. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Yandex Source Code Online Leaked, Company Denies Hack...

Experts Uncover the Identity of Mastermind Behind Golden Chickens Malware Service

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered the real-world identity of the threat actor behind Golden Chickens malware-as-a-service, who goes by the online persona "badbullzvenom." eSentire's Threat Response Unit TRU, in an exhaustive report published following a 16-month-long investigation, said i...

CVE-2022-31710

vRealize Log Insight contains a deserialization vulnerability. An unauthenticated malicious actor can remotely trigger the deserialization of untrusted data which could result in a denial of service...

Google Takes Down 50,000 Instances of Pro-Chinese DRAGONBRIDGE Influence Operation

Google on Thursday disclosed it took steps to dismantle over 50,000 instances of activity orchestrated by a pro-Chinese influence operation known as DRAGONBRIDGE in 2022. "Most DRAGONBRIDGE activity is low quality content without a political message, populated across many channels and blogs," the...

Researchers Uncover Connection b/w Moses Staff and Emerging Abraham's Ax Hacktivists Group

New research has linked the operations of a politically motivated hacktivist group known as Moses Staff to another nascent threat actor named Abraham's Ax that emerged in November 2022. This is based on "several commonalities across the iconography, videography, and leak sites used by the groups,...