How to prepare for CMMC compliance as a defense industrial base supplier using the Microsoft cloud

In 2020, the US Department of Defense DoD began the phased rollout of a new framework for protecting their supply chain, known as the defense industrial base DIB. This new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification1 CMMC system requires regular audits that will bolster the security of the DIB,...

Winning the Cyber-Defense Race: Understand the Finish Line

If you ask organizations about their top objectives, you will likely hear they need to increase visibility, reduce toolsets and adopt automation to counteract the cybersecurity skills gap. And what most don’t realize is that these initiatives are driven by hurdles the industry has created for...

US Media, Retailers Targeted by New SparklingGoblin APT

An emerging international cybergang is broadening its targets to include North American media firms, universities and one computer retailer. The advanced persistent threat APT group is new, according to researchers who dubbed it SparklingGoblin. Also new is a novel backdoor technique, called...

New SideWalk Backdoor Targets U.S.-based Computer Retail Business

A computer retail company based in the U.S. was the target of a previously undiscovered implant called SideWalk as part of a recent campaign undertaken by a Chinese advanced persistent threat group primarily known for singling out entities in East and Southeast Asia. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESE...

InkySquid State Actor Exploiting Known IE Bugs

The InkySquid advanced persistent threat APT group, which researchers have linked to the North Korean government, was caught launching watering hole attacks against a South Korean newspaper using known Internet Explorer vulnerabilities. New analysis from Volexity reported its team of researchers...

[The Lost Bots] Episode 3: Stories From the SOC

!\The Lost Bots\ Episode 3: Stories From the SOChttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence.jpg Welcome back to The Lost Bots, a vlog series where Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice Advisor Jeffrey Gardner talks all things security wi...

IT threat evolution Q2 2021

Targeted attacks The leap of a Cycldek-related threat actor It is quite common for Chinese-speaking threat actors to share tools and methodologies: one such example is the infamous "DLL side-loading triad": a legitimate executable, a malicious DLL to be side-loaded by it and an encoded payload,...

Fortinet FortiSandbox OS Command Injection Vulnerability

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from Fortinet, a US-based company. The appliance provides dual sandbox technology, a dynamic threat intelligence system, real-time control panel and reporting, etc. Fortinet FortiSandbox has an operating system comman...

Fortinet FortiSandbox Path Traversal Vulnerability

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from Fortinet, Inc. The appliance provides dual sandboxing technology, dynamic threat intelligence, a real-time control panel and reporting, etc. A path traversal vulnerability exists in Fortinet FortiSandbox that cou...

Fortinet FortiSandbox Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from Fortinet, a US-based company. The appliance offers dual sandboxing technology, a dynamic threat intelligence system, a real-time control panel and reporting, etc. The Fortinet FortiSandbox is vulnerable to a buff...

Fortinet FortiSandbox和Fortinet FortiAuthenticator拒绝服务漏洞

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance. Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is a centralized user identity management solution. denial-of-service vulnerability, which can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to put the device into an unresponsive state via...

Fortinet FortiSandbox Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from Fortinet, Inc. The appliance provides dual sandboxing technology, a dynamic threat intelligence system, a real-time control panel and reporting, etc. The Fortinet FortiSandbox contains a cross-site scripting...

Fortinet FortiSandbox SQL注入漏洞

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from Fortinet, Inc. Fortinet FortiSandbox is vulnerable to SQL injection, a vulnerability that results from the product's failure to filter special characters in input data, which could be exploited to execute illegal...

Iranian APT Lures Defense Contractor in Catfishing-Malware Scam

Most people have probably heard of catfishing. That’s when someone adopts a fake online persona, usually to trick someone into falling in love. Now, threat actors have developed their own spin on the grift, developing appealing — objectively hot — profiles to charm victims into downloading malwar...

APT trends report Q2 2021

For more than four years, the Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat APT activity. The summaries are based on our threat intelligence research and provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and...

This Week in Security News - July 23, 2021

StrongPity APT Group Deploys Android Malware for the First Time and STIX Cyberthreat Sharing Standards Approved...

StrongPity APT Group Deploys Android Malware for the First Time

We recently conducted an investigation into a malicious Android malware sample, which we believe can be attributed to the StrongPity APT group, that was posted on the Syrian e-Gov website. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that the group has been publicly observed using malicio...

Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures of Indicted APT40 Actors Associated with China’s MSS Hainan State Security Department

Summary This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory was written by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA to provide information on a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat APT group known in open-source reporting as APT40. This advisory provides...

The Definitive RFP Templates for EDR/EPP and APT Protection

Advanced Persistent Threats groups were once considered a problem that concerns Fortune 100 companies only. However, the threat landscape of the recent years tells otherwise—in fact, every organization, regardless of vertical and size is at risk, whether as a direct target, supply chain or...

Talos Takes Ep: #61: SideCopy sounds so familiar, but I just can't put my finger on it...

By Jon Munshaw. The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. Asheer Malhotra of Talos Outreach has spent the past few months tracking APTs all along the same line. APT 36, aka... This...