PSA: Fake CVE-2023-45124 Phishing Scam Tricks Users Into Installing Backdoor Plugin

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team has recently been informed of a phishing campaign targeting WordPress users. The Phishing email claims to be from the WordPress team and warns of a Remote Code Execution vulnerability on the users site with an identifier of CVE-2023-45124, which is not...

Chinese Hackers Using SugarGh0st RAT to Target South Korea and Uzbekistan

A suspected Chinese-speaking threat actor has been attributed to a malicious campaign that targets the Uzbekistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and South Korean users with a remote access trojan called SugarGh0st RAT. The activity, which commenced no later than August 2023, leverages two different...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2021-29441

Nacos is a platform designed for dynamic service discovery and configuration and service management. In Nacos before version 1.4.1, when configured to use authentication -Dnacos.core.auth.enabled=true Nacos uses the AuthFilter servlet filter to enforce authentication. This filter has a backdoor...

Exploit for CVE-2022-30190

AmzWord an automated attack chain based on CVE-2022-30190, 16...

Hamas-Linked Cyberattacks Using Rust-Powered SysJoker Backdoor Against Israel

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a Rust version of a cross-platform backdoor called SysJoker, which is assessed to have been used by a Hamas-affiliated threat actor to target Israel amid the ongoing war in the region. "Among the most prominent changes is the shift to Rust language,...

Alert: New WailingCrab Malware Loader Spreading via Shipping-Themed Emails

Delivery- and shipping-themed email messages are being used to deliver a sophisticated malware loader known as WailingCrab. "The malware itself is split into multiple components, including a loader, injector, downloader and backdoor, and successful requests to C2-controlled servers are often...

SideWinder’s Nim Backdoor Spells Trouble for South Asian Nations

Summary: SideWinder, also known as Razor Tiger, commenced its offensive operations in 2012 and has recently shifted its focus to targeting Bhutan. It employs deceptive content, ultimately executing the Nim Backdoor. The decoy content utilized in the sample is directly sourced from announcements...

Alert: 'Effluence' Backdoor Persists Despite Patching Atlassian Confluence Servers

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a stealthy backdoor named Effluence that's deployed following the successful exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server. "The malware acts as a persistent backdoor and is not remediated by applying...

Kinsing Actors Exploiting Recent Linux Flaw to Breach Cloud Environments

The threat actors linked to Kinsing have been observed attempting to exploit the recently disclosed Linux privilege escalation flaw called Looney Tunables as part of a "new experimental campaign" designed to breach cloud environments. "Intriguingly, the attacker is also broadening the horizons of...

Hackers Infiltrate Russian Government and Industrial Entities

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Numerous governmental and pivotal industrial entities in Russia fell victim to a sophisticated Go-based custom backdoor. This malicious software was specifically crafted for data theft, suggesting its...

Backdoor Implanted on Hacked Cisco Devices Modified to Evade Detection

The backdoor implanted on Cisco devices by exploiting a pair of zero-day flaws in IOS XE software has been modified by the threat actor so as to escape visibility via previous fingerprinting methods. "Investigated network traffic to a compromised device has shown that the threat actor has upgrade...

DoNot Team's New Firebird Backdoor Hits Pakistan and Afghanistan

The threat actor known as DoNot Team has been linked to the use of a novel .NET-based backdoor called Firebird targeting a handful of victims in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Cybersecurity company Kaspersky, which disclosed the findings in its APT trends report Q3 2023, said the attack chains are als...

Cisco Zero-Day Exploited to Implant Malicious Lua Backdoor on Thousands of Devices

Cisco has warned of a new zero-day flaw in IOS XE that has been actively exploited by an unknown threat actor to deploy a malicious Lua-based implant on susceptible devices. Tracked as CVE-2023-20273 CVSS score: 7.2, the issue relates to a privilege escalation flaw in the web UI feature and is sa...

MATA Backdoor Targets Eastern European Industrial Companies

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary MATA malware, a sophisticated backdoor framework, updated to target Eastern European industrial companies via spear-phishing, compromising financial software servers, and infiltrating networks, even...

North Korean Actors Behind Active Exploitation of TeamCity Vulnerability

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The North Korean threat actors Lazarus and its subgroup Andariel are actively exploiting the CVE-2023-42793 vulnerability, which is an authentication bypass vulnerability, after successful exploitation, ...

CVE-2022-2441 ImageMagick Engine <= 1.7.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Remote Command Execution

The ImageMagick Engine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to remote code execution via the 'clipath' parameter in versions up to, and including 1.7.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated users to run arbitrary commands leading to remote command execution, granted they can trick a site...

There is still a risk that operators or executors can backdoor the subaccount.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The checkSubAccountSecurityConfig function ensures that the guard and fallback handler have not been disabled or updated, and that the owner console as a module has not been disabled by any operators or executors. This helper function is used as a last...

Sophisticated MATA Framework Strikes Eastern European Oil and Gas Companies

An updated version of a sophisticated backdoor framework called MATA has been used in attacks aimed at over a dozen Eastern European companies in the oil and gas sector and defense industry as part of a cyber espionage operation that took place between August 2022 and May 2023. "The actors behind...

TETRA BURST Security Vulnerability

TETRA BURST is a terrestrial trunked radio standard for radio communications from TETRA BURST. TETRA suffers from a security vulnerability that stems from a backdoor in the TEA1 algorithm that reduces the original 80-bit key to one that can be easily brute-force deciphered on consumer hardware in...

Multiple North Korean threat actors exploiting the TeamCity CVE-2023-42793 vulnerability

Since early October 2023, Microsoft has observed two North Korean nation-state threat actors – Diamond Sleet and Onyx Sleet – exploiting CVE-2023-42793, a remote-code execution vulnerability affecting multiple versions of JetBrains TeamCity server. TeamCity is a continuous integration/continuous...