NSA Releases Cybersecurity Advisory on Detecting Abuse of Authentication Mechanisms

The National Security Agency NSA has released a cybersecurity advisory on detecting abuse of authentication mechanisms. This advisory describes tactics, techniques, and procedures used by malicious cyber actors to access protected data in the cloud and provides guidance on defending against and...

NSA Releases Advisory on Russian State-Sponsored Malicious Cyber Actors Exploiting CVE-2020-4006

The National Security Agency NSA has released a Cybersecurity Advisory on Russian state-sponsored actors exploiting CVE-2020-4006, a command-injection vulnerability in VMware Workspace One Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager, and Identity Manager Connector. The actors were found exploiting...

Ransomware Activity Targeting the Healthcare and Public Health Sector

Summary This advisory was updated to include information on Conti, TrickBot, and BazarLoader, including new IOCs and Yara Rules for detection. This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® version 7 framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise version 7 f...

North Korean Advanced Persistent Threat Focus: Kimsuky

Summary This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® version 7 framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise version 7 for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. This joint cybersecurity advisory was coauthored by the Cybersecurity and...

APT Actors Chaining Vulnerabilities Against SLTT, Critical Infrastructure, and Elections Organizations

Summary This joint cybersecurity advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise framework for all referenced threat actor techniques. Note: the analysis in this joint cybersecurity advisory is ongoing, and the...

Continued Threat Actor Exploitation Post Pulse Secure VPN Patching

Summary Note: This Activity Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT&CK® framework. See the ATT &CK for Enterprise framework for all referenced threat actor techniques and mitigations. This Alert provides an update to Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

Hitachi ABB Power Grids XMC20 Multiservice-Multiplexer

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.1 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Hitachi ABB Power Grids Equipment: XMC20 Multiservice-Multiplexer Vulnerability: Improper Authentication 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to...

Feds Warn Nation-State Hackers are Actively Exploiting Unpatched Microsoft Exchange, F5, VPN Bugs

The U.S. government is warning that Chinese threat actors have successfully compromised several government and private sector entities in recent months, by exploiting vulnerabilities in F5 BIG-IP devices, Citrix and Pulse Secure VPNs and Microsoft Exchange servers. Patches are currently available...

Chinese Government-affiliated Malicious Cyber Actors Targeting U.S. Government Agencies

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have issued an advisory about Chinese Ministry of State Security MSS-affiliated cyber threat actors targeting U.S. government agencies. Through the National Cybersecurity Protection System, CISA has...

Joint NSA and FBI Cybersecurity Advisory Discloses Russian Malware Drovorub

The National Security Agency NSA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released a cybersecurity advisory introducing previously undisclosed Russian malware. NSA and the FBI attributed the malware, dubbed Drovorub, to Russian advanced persistent threat APT actors. The Cybersecurity and...

QSnatch Data-Stealing Malware Infected Over 62,000 QNAP NAS Devices

Cybersecurity agencies in the US and UK yesterday issued a joint advisory about a massive ongoing malware threat infecting Taiwanese company QNAP's network-attached storage NAS appliances. Called QSnatch or Derek, the data-stealing malware is said to have compromised 62,000 devices since reports...

Malicious Activity Targeting COVID-19 Research, Vaccine Development

In response to malicious activity targeting COVID-19 research and vaccine development in the United States, United Kingdom UK, and Canada, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, UK’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC, Canada’s Communications Security Establishment CSE, and t...

Continued Exploitation of Pulse Secure VPN Vulnerability

Summary Unpatched Pulse Secure VPN servers continue to be an attractive target for malicious actors. Affected organizations that have not applied the software patch to fix an arbitrary file reading vulnerability, known as CVE-2019-11510, can become compromised in an attack. 1 Although Pulse Secur...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pulse Secure VPN

The CERT Coordination Center CERT/CC has released information on multiple vulnerabilities affecting Pulse Secure Virtual Private Network VPN. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. These vulnerabilities have been targeted by advanced persistent thre...

APT Groups Exploiting Flaws in Unpatched VPNs, Officials Warn

State-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT groups are using flaws in outdated VPN technologies from Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and Pulse Secure to carry out cyber attacks on targets in the United States and overseas, warned U.S. and U.K. officials. The National Security Agency NSA issued a...

Authentication Bypass Bug Hits Top Enterprise VPNs

UPDATE VPN apps built by four vendors — Cisco, F5 Networks, Palo Alto Networks and Pulse Secure — improperly store authentication tokens and session cookies without encryption on a user’s computer, according to an alert from the U.S. government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency...

Eaton Xpert Meter 13.4.0.10 SSH Private Key Disclosure

Exploit Title: Eaton Xpert Meter 13.4.0.10 - SSH Private Key Disclosure Date: 2018-07-16 WebPage: https://CTRLu.net/ Vendor Homepage: http://www.eaton.com/ Vendor Advisory: http://www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/company/news-insights/cybersecurity/security-bulletins/PXM-Advisory.pdf Software Link...

Moxa MXview 2.8 - Private Key Disclosure

Credits: John Page AKA HYP3RLINX + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MOXA-MXVIEW-v2.8-REMOTE-PRIVATE-KEY-DISCLOSURE.txt + ISR: APPARITIONSEC Vendor: ============ www.moxa.com Product: =========== MXview V2.8 Download:...

Beware of Fake USB Chargers that Wirelessly Record Everything You Type, FBI warns

Last year, a white hat hacker developed a cheap Arduino-based device that looked and functioned just like a generic USB mobile charger, but covertly logged, decrypted and reported back all keystrokes from Microsoft wireless keyboards. Dubbed KeySweeper, the device included a web-based tool for li...

SUSE: Security Advisory for MozillaFirefox (SUSE-SU-2015:2335-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...