New NodeStealer Variant Targeting Facebook Business Accounts and Crypto Wallets

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a Python variant of a stealer malware NodeStealer that's equipped to fully take over Facebook business accounts as well as siphon cryptocurrency. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said it detected the previously undocumented strain as part of a campaign that...

How To Present SecOps Metrics (The Right Way)

SecOps metrics can be a gold mine of potential for informing better business decisions, but 78% of CEOs say they don’t have adequate data on risk exposure to make good decisions. Even when they do see the right data, 82% are inclined to “trust their gut” anyway. Here lies the disconnect between...

Threat Actors Exploiting Ivanti EPMM Vulnerabilities

SUMMARY The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Norwegian National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-NO are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA in response to active exploitation of CVE-2023-35078 and CVE-2023-35081. Advanced persistent threat APT actors exploited...

CISA and International Partner NCSC-NO Release Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Threat Actors Exploiting Ivanti EPMM Vulnerabilities

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Norwegian National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-NO have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA, Threat Actors Exploiting Ivanti EPMM Vulnerabilities, in response to the active exploitation of CVE-2023-35078 and CVE-2023-35081...

Patchwork Hackers Target Chinese Research Organizations Using EyeShell Backdoor

Threat actors associated with the hacking crew known as Patchwork have been spotted targeting universities and research organizations in China as part of a recently observed campaign. The activity, according to KnownSec 404 Team, entailed the use of a backdoor codenamed EyeShell. Patchwork, also...

CVE-2023-37580

Zimbra Collaboration ZCS 8 before 8.8.15 Patch 41 allows XSS in the Zimbra Classic Web Client. Recent assessments: ccondon-r7 at January 28, 2024 7:36pm UTC reported: Per Google’s Threat Analysis Group TAG, this bug was exploited as a zero-day and has been used by at least four different threat...

New Android Malware CherryBlos Utilizing OCR to Steal Sensitive Data

A new Android malware strain called CherryBlos has been observed making use of optical character recognition OCR techniques to gather sensitive data stored in pictures. CherryBlos, per Trend Micro, is distributed via bogus posts on social media platforms and comes with capabilities to steal...

PSA: Wordfence Brand Being Actively Used in Phishing Campaigns

Earlier this week we became aware that malicious actors are using Wordfence brand image to run a phishing scam on WordPress and Wordfence users, posing as unknown login notifications from their own website while linking to a fake login page, clearly aiming to steal WordPress login credentials. If...

Malicious actors could pass in huge arrays to disrupt service availability (DOS) in the updateVotingPower function

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The contract is stopped from being usable by legitimate users if the attacker repeatedly spammed large arrays Proof of Concept The updateVotingPower function currently only checks that the array is = 50: While 50 may be a reasonable limit for normal usag...

CISA Releases Analysis of FY22 Risk and Vulnerability Assessments

CISA has released an analysis and infographic detailing the findings from the 121 Risk and Vulnerability Assessments RVAs conducted across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in fiscal year 2022 FY22. The analysis details a sample attack path including tactics and steps a cyber threat actor...

New AI Tool 'FraudGPT' Emerges, Tailored for Sophisticated Attacks

Following the footsteps of WormGPT, threat actors are advertising yet another cybercrime generative artificial intelligence AI tool dubbed FraudGPT on various dark web marketplaces and Telegram channels. "This is an AI bot, exclusively targeted for offensive purposes, such as crafting spear...

Cryptojacking: Understanding and defending against cloud compute resource abuse

In cloud environments, cryptojacking – a type of cyberattack that uses computing power to mine cryptocurrency – takes the form of cloud compute resource abuse, which involves a threat actor compromising legitimate tenants. Cloud compute resource abuse could result in financial loss to targeted...

Critical Flaws in AMI MegaRAC BMC Software Expose Servers to Remote Attacks

Two more security flaws have been disclosed in AMI MegaRAC Baseboard Management Controller BMC software that, if successfully exploited, could allow threat actors to remotely commandeer vulnerable servers and deploy malware. "These new vulnerabilities range in severity from High to Critical,...

Threat Actors Exploiting Citrix CVE-2023-3519 to Implant Webshells

SUMMARY Update September 6, 2023: This Cybersecurity Advisory has been updated with new tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs as well as indicators of compromise IOCs received from an additional victim and trusted third parties. Update End The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency...

The Japanese Technology and Media Attack Landscape

Recently, we released a major report analyzing the threat landscape of Japan, the globe’s third largest economy. In that report we looked at the ways in which threat actors infiltrate Japanese companies spoiler alert: it is often through foreign subsidiaries and affiliates and some of the most...

Part 2: An In-Depth Look at the Latest Vulnerability Threat Landscape (Attackers’ Edition)

The previous blog from this three-part series showcased an overview of the vulnerability threat landscape. To summarize quickly, it illustrated the popular methods of exploiting vulnerabilities and the tactical techniques employed by threat actors, malware, and ransomware groups. Perhaps more...

Massive Targeted Exploit Campaign Against WooCommerce Payments Underway

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team has been monitoring an ongoing exploit campaign targeting a recently disclosed vulnerability in WooCommerce Payments, a plugin installed on over 600,000 sites. Large-scale attacks against the vulnerability, assigned CVE-2023-28121, began on Thursday, July 14...

Deposit transaction is prone to being front-run by bad actors.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact It is possible for an attacker to front-run a user's deposit transaction while transferring fewer amount of assets than the user and minting an equivalent amount of shares as the user could have. Proof of Concept The scenario described below is for the...

An identical vault can be deployed with existing values, the logic controlling this is missing

Lines of code Vulnerability details VaultFactory. The deployVault function deploys a new vault with 10 arguments, but does not check if there is a vault already deployed with the same arguments This seems to have been preferred as a design, but malicious people with copy safes can direct users to...

CVE-2023-30561

The data flowing between the PCU and its modules is insecure. A threat actor with physical access could potentially read or modify data by attaching a specially crafted device while an infusion is running...