CVE-2019-12440

The Sitecore Rocks plugin before 2.1.149 for Sitecore allows an unauthenticated threat actor to inject malicious commands and code via the Sitecore Rocks Hard Rocks Service...

IT threat evolution Q1 2019

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Go Zebrocy Zebrocy was first observed being used as a Sofacy backdoor in 2015. However, the collection of cases where this tool has been used mean that we consider it a subset of activity in its own right. On the basis of this threat actor's past behaviour, ...

Recent MuddyWater-associated BlackWater campaign shows signs of new anti-detection techniques

This blog was authored by Danny Adamitis, David Maynor, and Kendall McKay Executive summary Cisco Talos assesses with moderate confidence that a campaign we recently discovered called "BlackWater" is associated with suspected persistent threat actor MuddyWater. Newly associated samples from April...

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor and SQL Injection in Spring Data JPA

This affects Spring Data JPA in versions up to and including 2.1.5, 2.0.13 and 1.11.19. Derived queries using any of the predicates ?startingWith?, ?endingWith? or ?containing? could return more results than anticipated when a maliciously crafted query parameter value is supplied. Also, LIKE...

ScarCruft continues to evolve, introduces Bluetooth harvester

Executive summary After publishing our initial series of blogposts back in 2016, we have continued to track the ScarCruft threat actor. ScarCruft is a Korean-speaking and allegedly state-sponsored threat actor that usually targets organizations and companies with links to the Korean peninsula. Th...

Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley Multiple Devices Authentication Bypass (ICSA-18-310-02)

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The vulnerability of the InnoDB component of the MySQL database management system, which allows a hacker to cause a service failure

The vulnerability of the InnoDB component of the MySQL database management system is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to cause service failures using the MySQL protocol...

Malware targeting industrial plants: a threat to physical security

We live in a world where more and more manufacturing processes are controlled by computers that send instructions to robots. This might sound like a safe and efficient way of work, as it rules out human error, but what happens when a threat actor decides to target production servers? Consider the...

Preparing the Internet for the Next Mega DDoS Attack

When you think of a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack at this point in the age of the internet, you might be thinking they’re old news. But when a multi-million-dollar business can be easily taken offline by an unskilled adversary and a $5 rent-a-DDoS service, I would argue that the issue...

The vulnerability of the RouterOS operating system, related to errors in the watchdog timer, allows a intruder to reboot the device.

The vulnerability of the RouterOS operating system is related to errors in the watchdog timer’s operation. This vulnerability allows a malicious actor to reboot the vulnerable device remotely...

TRITON Actor TTP Profile, Custom Attack Tools, Detections, and ATT&CK Mapping

Overview FireEye can now confirm that we have uncovered and are responding to an additional intrusion by the attacker behind TRITON at a different critical infrastructure facility. In December 2017, FireEye publicly released our first analysis on the TRITON attack where malicious actors used the...

Microsoft.ChakraCore vulnerable to Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the scripting engine does not properly handle objects in memory in Microsoft Edge, aka 'Scripting Engine Information Disclosure Vulnerability'...

Session fixation

VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers 9.5.x prior to 9.5.0.3 update resolves a Remote Session Hijack vulnerability in the Tenant and Provider Portals. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow a malicious actor to access the Tenant or Provider Portals by impersonating a currently...

DART: the Microsoft cybersecurity team we hope you never meet

If you spent 270 days away from home, not on vacation, you’d want it to be for a good reason. When boarding a plane, sometimes having been pulled out of bed to leave family for weeks on end, I know it’s because one of our customers is in need. It means there is a security compromise and they may ...

VMSA-2019-0004:VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers update resolves a Remote Session Hijack vulnerability

VMSA-2019-0004 VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers update resolves a Remote Session Hijack vulnerability VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2019-0004 VMware Security Advisory Severity: Critical VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware vCloud Director for...

Are hackers gonna hack anymore? Not if we keep reusing passwords

Enterprises have a password problem, and it’s one that is making the work of hackers a lot easier. From credential stuffing to brute force and password spraying attacks, modern hackers don’t have to do much hacking in order to compromise internal corporate networks. Instead, they log in using wea...

CVE-2018-19391

Cobham Satcom Sailor 250 and 500 devices before 1.25 contained persistent XSS, which could be exploited by an unauthenticated threat actor via the /index.lua?pageID=Phone%20book name field...

Cross site scripting

Cobham Satcom Sailor 250 and 500 devices before 1.25 contained persistent XSS, which could be exploited by an unauthenticated threat actor via the /index.lua?pageID=Phone%20book name field...

CVE-2018-19391

Cobham Satcom Sailor 250 and 500 devices before 1.25 contained persistent XSS, which could be exploited by an unauthenticated threat actor via the /index.lua?pageID=Phone%20book name field...

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Spark

In Apache Spark 1.0.0 to 2.1.2, 2.2.0 to 2.2.1, and 2.3.0, when using PySpark or SparkR, it's possible for a different local user to connect to the Spark application and impersonate the user running the Spark application...