Facebook Sues Two Android App Developers for Click Injection Fraud

Facebook has filed a lawsuit against two shady Android app developers accused of making illegal money by hijacking users' smartphones to fraudulently click on Facebook ads. According to Facebook, Hong Kong-based 'LionMobi' and Singapore-based 'JediMobi' app developers were distributing malicious...

New Linux Malware ‘HiddenWasp’ Borrows from Mirai, Azazel

A new strain of malware targeting Linux systems has been identified by researchers. The malware, dubbed HiddenWasp, is believed to be used as part of a second-stage attack against already-compromised systems and is composed of a rootkit, trojan and deployment script. “The ratio of Linux threats h...

GLSA-201904-25 : QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201904-25 QEMU: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in QEMU. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details...

Ryuk Ransomware Attack: Rush to Attribution Misses the Point

ARCHIVED STORY Ryuk Ransomware Attack: Rush to Attribution Misses the Point By John Fokker · January 09, 2019 Senior analyst Ryan Sherstobitoff contributed to this report. During the past week, an outbreak of Ryuk ransomware that impeded newspaper printing services in the United States has garner...

Ryuk Ransomware Attack: Rush to Attribution Misses the Point

ARCHIVED STORY Ryuk Ransomware Attack: Rush to Attribution Misses the Point By John Fokker · January 09, 2019 Senior analyst Ryan Sherstobitoff contributed to this report. During the past week, an outbreak of Ryuk ransomware that impeded newspaper printing services in the United States has garner...

New Shamoon Malware Variant Targets Italian Oil and Gas Company

Shamoon is back… one of the most destructive malware families that caused damage to Saudi Arabia's largest oil producer in 2012 and this time it has targeted energy sector organizations primarily operating in the Middle East. Earlier this week, Italian oil drilling company Saipem was attacked and...

Not So Cozy: An Uncomfortable Examination of a Suspected APT29 Phishing Campaign

Introduction FireEye devices detected intrusion attempts against multiple industries, including think tank, law enforcement, media, U.S. military, imagery, transportation, pharmaceutical, national government, and defense contracting. The attempts involved a phishing email appearing to be from the...

What Happened to Cyber 9/11?

A recent article in the Atlantic asks why we haven't seen a"cyber 9/11" in the past fifteen or so years. I, too, remember the increasingly frantic and fearful warnings of a "cyber Peal Harbor," "cyber Katrina" -- when that was a thing -- or "cyber 9/11." I made fun of those warnings back then. Th...

Assessing the security of a portable router: a look inside its hardware

Network administrators should perform security assessments of hardware that they will provide their users, or particularly paranoid users might want to poke at their devices just to be extra sure. In this blog post, we will demonstrate the techniques used to assess security on a generic portable...

Oracle Financial Services Applications Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Basic Component Unauthorized Operation Vulnerability

Oracle Financial Services Applications is a suite of financial services software from Oracle Corporation that combines core banking, online banking, and estate management.Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Basic is one of the Basel-based capital adequacy management component. A security...

Oracle Financial Services Applications Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Internal Ratings Based Approach component unauthorized operation vulnerability (CNVD-2018-11043 )

Oracle Financial Services Applications is a suite of financial services software from Oracle that combines core banking, online banking, and property management.Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Internal Ratings Based Approach is one of the components of the Basel Regulatory Capital...

Oracle Financial Services Applications Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Internal Ratings Based Approach Component Unauthorized Operation Vulnerability

Oracle Financial Services Applications is a suite of financial services software from Oracle that combines core banking, online banking, and property management.Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Internal Ratings Based Approach is one of the components of the Basel Regulatory Capital...

New Crossrider variant installs configuration profiles on Macs

A new variant of the Crossrider adware has been spotted that is infecting Macs in a unique way. For the most part, this variant is still quite ordinary, doing some of the same old things that we've been seeing for years in Mac adware. However, the use of a configuration profile introduces a uniqu...

CVE-2018-2856: Undefined Security Weakness

Vulnerability in the Oracle Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Internal Ratings Based Approach component of Oracle Financial Services Applications subcomponent: Portfolio, Attribution. The supported version that is affected is 8.0.x. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged...

CVE-2018-2859: Undefined Security Weakness

Vulnerability in the Oracle Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Internal Ratings Based Approach component of Oracle Financial Services Applications subcomponent: Portfolio, Attribution. The supported version that is affected is 8.0.x. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticate...

CVE-2018-2855: Undefined Security Weakness

Vulnerability in the Oracle Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Basic component of Oracle Financial Services Applications subcomponent: Portfolio, Attribution. The supported version that is affected is 8.0.x. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network...

CVE-2018-2854: Undefined Security Weakness

Vulnerability in the Oracle Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Basic component of Oracle Financial Services Applications subcomponent: Portfolio, Attribution. The supported version that is affected is 8.0.x. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network...

Olympic Destroyer: A False Flag Confusion Bomb

CANCUN, Mexico – A postmortem of the Olympic Destroyer malware used in the PyeongChang Olympics attack reveals a deliberate attempt by adversaries to plant a false flags when it comes to attribution, according to researchers. Days after the crippling attack on the backend networks tied to the...

Who Wasn’t Responsible for Olympic Destroyer?

This blog post is authored by Paul Rascagneres and Martin Lee. Summary Absent contributions from traditional intelligence capacities, the available evidence linking the Olympic Destroyer malware to a specific threat actor group is contradictory, and does not allow for unambiguous attribution. The...

Beers with Talos EP23 - Eternal Fauxmance: Attribution Easter Eggs

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Episode 23 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing: www.talosintelligence.com/podcast EP23 Show Notes: Recorded 2/16/18 - This week, Mitch learns about starting a show without Matt with no...