Five-Year 'Dust Storm' APT Campaign Seen Targeting Japanese Critical Infrastructure

A five-year campaign primarily focused on extracting sensitive information from Japanese oil, gas, and electric utilities was outlined by researchers on Tuesday. Referred to as Operation Dust Storm .PDF by researchers at Cylance, the campaign has managed to stay persistent over the years, and...

Joomla Joins WordPress As TeslaCrypt Ransomware Target

Exploit kits infecting thousands of WordPress websites are setting their sights on the open-source content management system Joomla in a new campaign spotted by a researcher at the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center. “The group behind the WordPress ‘admedia’ campaign is now apparently targeti...

Apple Can Still Read Your End-to-End Encrypted iMessages

If you are backing up your data using iCloud Backup, then you need you watch your steps NOW! In government fight against encryption, Apple has positioned itself as a staunch defender of its user privacy by refusing the federal officials to provide encryption backdoors into its products. When it...

Spyware Asacub Evolves to Mobile Banking Malware

Asacub, once thought of as spyware, appears to have completed its transition into mobile banking malware, according to research published this week. When the Android malware surfaced in June 2015, researchers with Kaspersky Lab assumed it was spyware. It more or less fit the part; Asacub siphoned...

BackdoorMe - Powerful Auto-Backdooring Utility

Backdoorme is a powerful utility capable of backdooring Unix machines with a slew of backdoors. Backdoorme uses a familiar metasploit interface with tremendous extensibility. Backdoorme relies on having an existing SSH connection or credentials to the victim, through which it will transfer and...

France will not Ban Public Wi-Fi Or Tor Network, Prime Minister Valls Confirms

Despite the French Ministry of Interior's demands, France will not ban the TOR anonymity network or Free public Wi-Fi as a way to help the law enforcement fight terrorism. French Prime Minister Manual Valls has gone on record saying that a ban on Free public Wi-Fi is "not a course of action...

FBI on Encryption: 'It's A Business Model Question'

Now that encryption has been elevated to a default technology on mobile devices, the government has heightened its “Going Dark” rhetoric, again on Wednesday insisting during a Senate Judicial Committee hearing that Silicon Valley figure out how to deliver plain-text communication between criminal...

Thriving Beyond The Operating System: Financial Threat Group Targets Volume Boot Record

In September, Mandiant Consulting identified a financially motivated threat group targeting payment card data using sophisticated malware that executes before the operating system boots. This rarely seen technique, referred to as a ‘bootkit’, infects lower-level system components making it very...

Sofacy APT28 Gang Using New Backdoors, Zero Days

A new analysis of the Sofacy APT gang, a Russian-speaking group carrying out targeted attacks against military and government offices for close to a decade, shows a relentless wave of intrusions peaking this summer against victims in a number of NATO countries and the Ukraine. Researchers at...

German Government Audits TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt continues to fascinate even though it hasn’t been updated in more than a year and has been cleared of backdoors in more than one extensive audit. The German government’s Federal Office for Information Security BSI is the latest to inspect and analyze the security of the abandoned open...

iBackDoor: High-Risk Code Hits iOS Apps

Introduction FireEye mobile researchers recently discovered potentially “backdoored” versions of an ad library embedded in thousands of iOS apps originally published in the Apple App Store. The affected versions of this library embedded functionality in iOS apps that used the library to display...

Western Digital Self-Encrypting Drives Vulnerable

Some consumer-grade, self-encrypting external hard drives are littered with security vulnerabilities that render their encryption an afterthought. An academic paper published in late September took apart a number of drives manufactured by Western Digital that suffer from flaws that are trivial to...

Obama Encryption Policy: White House Will Not Force Companies To Decode Encrypted Data

After the revelations that Whistleblower Edward Snowden made about the United States National Security Agency NSA, the U.S. citizens are in need of more transparent digital security. The Citizens of the United States have appealed to the Obama Administration through a campaign for rejecting any...

Apple Clarifies Privacy Policy

Apple’s clarified and repackaged privacy policy is merely the storefront to a company-wide decision to make the safety and integrity of user data a differentiator among large technology companies, experts said. The new privacy policy appeared today filled with practical advice for users, describi...

Apple's Biggest Hack Ever: 4000 Malicious iOS Store Apps Linked to CIA?

The First major cyber attack on Apple's App Store has now been linked to CIA Central Intelligence Agency. Last week, Researchers disclosed some 39 iOS apps on Apple's App Store infected by 'XCodeGhost Malware'. The Bad News is that the infection has now increased exponentially with the discovery ...

Wind River VxWorks Integer Overflow Vulnerability

VxWorks is a real-time operating system widely used on ICS-related devices. An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the implementation of Wind River VxWorks versions 5.5-6.9.4.1. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code in the operating system, corrup...

使用非官方渠道 Cocos2d-x 开发 App 造成的后门

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Simple Backdoor Shell Remote Code Execution

This module exploits unauthenticated simple web backdoor shells by leveraging the common backdoor shell's vulnerable parameter to execute commands. The SecLists project of Daniel Miessler and Jason Haddix has a lot of samples for these kind of backdoor shells which is categorized under Payloads...

Emissary Panda APT Group Gets Selective About Data it Steals

LAS VEGAS – The Emissary Panda APT group has a long history of invading Western organizations—be they enterprises, government or political outfits—hungry for reams of intellectual property. Lately the group, however, has become a little more selective about what it steals. Researchers at Dell...

Multiple vulnerabilities in php File Manager

php File Manager is a suite of applications for managing web sites using PHP scripts. Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, information disclosure vulnerabilities, arbitrary file upload vulnerabilities, backdoor vulnerabilities, security bypass vulnerabilities, and cross-site request forgery...