Why Open Enrollment Readiness Should Be a Year-Round Strategy

Today’s malicious actors see the healthcare industry as a target-rich environment, so getting ready for open enrollment should be a year-round process...

Patch me if you can: Cyberattack Series

Many organizations utilize third-party apps for identity security solutions to automate and unburden overtaxed IT admins from tedious tasks that employees can perform via self-service without IT assistance. But in September 2021, our researchers observed threat actors exploiting one such...

The Japanese Threat Landscape: A Report on Cyber Threats in the Third Largest Economy on Earth

The Japanese economy is massive, global, and varied. It is also a major target for cyber threat actors. As a hub for automotive, manufacturing, technology, and financial services, Japanese companies and organizations face significant cyber risk. There is nonetheless relatively little...

How Generative AI Can Dupe SaaS Authentication Protocols — And Effective Ways To Prevent Other Key AI Risks in SaaS

Security and IT teams are routinely forced to adopt software before fully understanding the security risks. And AI tools are no exception. Employees and business leaders alike are flocking to generative AI software and similar programs, often unaware of the major SaaS security vulnerabilities...

MainWP Child < 4.4.1.1 - Sensitive File Disclosure

The plugin uses an easily guessable path to store user files, bad actors could use that to access other users' sensitive files...

Barracuda Email Security Gateway < 9.2.0.008 Command Injection (CVE-2023-2868)

According to its self-reported version, the Barracuda Email Security Gateway on the remote web server is 9.2.0.008. It is, therefore, affected by a command injection vulnerability in the processing of .tar files that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands wit...

Code injection

XML Signature Wrapping XSW in SAML-based Single Sign-on feature in TOPdesk v12.10.12 allows bad actors with credentials to authenticate with the Identity Provider IP to impersonate any TOPdesk user via SAML Response manipulation...

SaaS in the Real World: How Global Food Chains Can Secure Their Digital Dish

The Quick Serve Restaurant QSR industry is built on consistency and shared resources. National chains like McDonald's and regional ones like Cracker Barrel grow faster by reusing the same business model, decor, and menu, with little change from one location to the next. QSR technology stacks mirr...

Experts Uncover Year-Long Cyber Attack on IT Firm Utilizing Custom Malware RDStealer

A highly targeted cyber attack against an East Asian IT company involved the deployment of a custom malware written in Golang called RDStealer. "The operation was active for more than a year with the end goal of compromising credentials and data exfiltration," Bitdefender security researcher Vict...

Supply Chain Attack: Abandoned S3 Buckets Used for Malicious Payloads

By Deeba Ahmed Threat actors have been taking over abandoned S3 buckets to launch malicious binaries, steal login credentials and more. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Supply Chain Attack: Abandoned S3 Buckets Used for Malicious Payloads...

US dangles $10 million reward for information about Cl0p ransomware gang

The US Department of States national security rewards program, Rewards for Justice RFJ, is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information linking the Cl0p ransomware gang, or any other malicious cyber actors targeting US critical infrastructure, to a foreign government. Advisory from...

Cybercriminals Exploit Old Telerik Bug for Data Theft

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary APT actors and financially motivated cybercriminals were observed exploiting old Telerik vulnerabilities in an attack targeting a US government agency. To receive real-time threat advisories, please foll...

URLs have always been a great hiding place for threat actors

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Talos recent blog post on the dangers posed by the newly released ".zip" top-level domain TLD recently outlined how threat actors could create real URLs that look like file names and trick users into clicking on their links. .Zip and...

Threat Actors Exploit Progress Telerik Vulnerabilities in Multiple U.S. Government IIS Servers

SUMMARY From November 2022 through early January 2023, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and authoring organizations identified the presence of indicators of compromise IOCs at a federal civilian executive branch FCEB agency. Analysts determined that multiple cyber threat...

New Supply Chain Attack Exploits Abandoned S3 Buckets to Distribute Malicious Binaries

In what's a new kind of software supply chain attack aimed at open source projects, it has emerged that threat actors could seize control of expired Amazon S3 buckets to serve rogue binaries without altering the modules themselves. "Malicious binaries steal the user IDs, passwords, local machine...

CVE-2022-33163: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

IBM Security Directory Suite VA 8.0.1 specifies permissions for a security-critical resource in a way that allows that resource to be read or modified by unintended actors. IBM X-Force ID: 228571...

New Golang-based Skuld Malware Stealing Discord and Browser Data from Windows PCs

A new Golang-based information stealer called Skuld has compromised Windows systems across Europe, Southeast Asia, and the U.S. "This new malware strain tries to steal sensitive information from its victims," Trellix researcher Ernesto Fernández Provecho said in a Tuesday analysis. "To accomplish...

CVE-2023-27997

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability CWE-122 in FortiOS version 7.2.4 and below, version 7.0.11 and below, version 6.4.12 and below, version 6.0.16 and below and FortiProxy version 7.2.3 and below, version 7.0.9 and below, version 2.0.12 and below, version 1.2 all versions, version 1.1 all...

Why Now? The Rise of Attack Surface Management

The term "attack surface management" ASM went from unknown to ubiquitous in the cybersecurity space over the past few years. Gartner and Forrester have both highlighted the importance of ASM recently, multiple solution providers have emerged in the space, and investment and acquisition activity...

Beware: 1,000+ Fake Cryptocurrency Sites Trap Users in Bogus Rewards Scheme

A previously undetected cryptocurrency scam has leveraged a constellation of over 1,000 fraudulent websites to ensnare users into a bogus rewards scheme since at least January 2021. "This massive campaign has likely resulted in thousands of people being scammed worldwide," Trend Micro researchers...