Hackers Using Fake Police Data Requests against Tech Companies

Brian Krebs has a detailed post about hackers using fake police data requests to trick companies into handing over data. Virtually all major technology companies serving large numbers of users online have departments that routinely review and process such requests, which are typically granted as...

CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Critical Spring4Shell Vulnerability

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday added the recently disclosed remote code execution RCE vulnerability affecting the Spring Framework, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog based on "evidence of active exploitation." The critical severity flaw,...

North Korean Hackers Distributing Trojanized DeFi Wallet Apps to Steal Victims' Crypto

The North Korean state-backed hacking crew, otherwise known as the Lazarus Group, has been attributed to yet another financially motivated campaign that leverages a trojanized decentralized finance DeFi wallet app to distribute a fully-featured backdoor onto compromised Windows systems. The app,...

Lazarus Trojanized DeFi app for delivering malware

For the Lazarus threat actor, financial gain is one of the prime motivations, with a particular emphasis on the cryptocurrency business. As the price of cryptocurrency surges, and the popularity of non-fungible token NFT and decentralized finance DeFi businesses continues to swell, the Lazarus...

Backdoor.Win32.Avstral.e Remote Command Execution

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2022 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/35f0d754f161af35241cb081c73ea6dd.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Backdoor.Win32.Avstral.e Vulnerability: Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution Family: Avstral Typ...

PlugX: A Talisman to Behold

PlugX: A Talisman to Behold By Max Kersten, Marc Elias, Leandro Velasco, and Alexandre Mundo Alguacil · March 28, 2022 For over a decade, the PlugX malware has been observed internationally with different variants found around the world. This blog covers a PlugX variant that we have named Talisma...

Backdoor.Win32.Cafeini.b Hardcoded Credential

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2022 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/b24c56abb4bde960c2d51d4e509d2c68B.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Backdoor.Win32.Cafeini.b Vulnerability: Weak Hardcoded Credentials Family: Cafeini Type: PE32 MD5:...

PlugX: A Talisman to Behold

PlugX: A Talisman to Behold By Max Kersten, Marc Elias, Leandro Velasco, and Alexandre Mundo Alguacil · March 28, 2022 For over a decade, the PlugX malware has been observed internationally with different variants found around the world. This blog covers a PlugX variant that we have named Talisma...

Backdoor.Win32.Cafeini.b Denial Of Service

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2022 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/b24c56abb4bde960c2d51d4e509d2c68.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Backdoor.Win32.Cafeini.b Vulnerability: Denial of Service Family: Cafeini Type: PE32 MD5:...

Another Chinese Hacking Group Spotted Targeting Ukraine Amid Russia Invasion

A Chinese-speaking threat actor called Scarab has been linked to a custom backdoor dubbed HeaderTip as part of a campaign targeting Ukraine since Russia embarked on an invasion last month, making it the second China-based hacking group after Mustang Panda to capitalize on the conflict. "The...

CVE-2021-40906

CheckMK Raw Edition software versions 1.5.0 to 1.6.0 does not sanitise the input of a web service parameter that is in an unauthenticated zone. This Reflected XSS allows an attacker to open a backdoor on the device with HTML content and interpreted by the browser such as JavaScript or other...

Authentication flaw

CheckMK Raw Edition software versions 1.5.0 to 1.6.0 does not sanitise the input of a web service parameter that is in an unauthenticated zone. This Reflected XSS allows an attacker to open a backdoor on the device with HTML content and interpreted by the browser such as JavaScript or other...

UBUNTU-CVE-2021-40906

CheckMK Raw Edition software versions 1.5.0 to 1.6.0 does not sanitise the input of a web service parameter that is in an unauthenticated zone. This Reflected XSS allows an attacker to open a backdoor on the device with HTML content and interpreted by the browser such as JavaScript or other...

CheckMK Raw Edition 跨站脚本漏洞

tribe29 CheckMK Raw Edition is a comprehensive and flexible IT monitoring system from tribe29 Germany. A security vulnerability exists in CheckMK Raw Edition that allows an attacker to open a backdoor on the device with HTML content that is interpreted by the browser e.g., JavaScript or other...

Chinese 'Mustang Panda' Hackers Spotted Deploying New 'Hodur' Malware

A China-based advanced persistent threat APT known as Mustang Panda has been linked to an ongoing cyber espionage campaign using a previously undocumented variant of the PlugX remote access trojan on infected machines. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET dubbed the new version Hodur, owing to its...

New Threat Actor using Serpent Backdoor attacking French Entities

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Serpent Backdoor Slithers into Orgs Using Chocolatey Installer

Researchers have discovered a cyberattack that uses unusual evasion tactics to backdoor French organizations with a novel malware dubbed Serpent, they said. A team from Proofpoint observed what they call an “advanced, targeted threat” that uses email-based lures and malicious files typical of man...

Backdoor.Win32.BirdSpy.b Hardcoded Credential

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2022 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/eba3dd81723ddf33621fd85ded577920.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Backdoor.Win32.BirdSpy.b Vulnerability: Weak Hardcoded Credentials Family: BirdSpy Type: PE32 MD5:...

Backdoor.Win32.Agent.bxxn Open Proxy

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2022 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/dcbc237f21839a6514c8321d5fa631a4.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Backdoor.Win32.Agent.bxxn Vulnerability: Open Proxy Description: The malware listens on TCP port 108...

CVE-2022-0687

The Amelia WordPress plugin before 1.0.47 stores image blobs into actual files whose extension is controlled by the user, which may lead to PHP backdoors being uploaded onto the site. This vulnerability can be exploited by logged-in users with the custom "Amelia Manager" role...