Russian State-Sponsored Actors Target Cleared Defense Contractor Networks

CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the National Security Agency NSA have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA highlighting regular targeting of U.S. cleared defense contractors CDCs by Russian state-sponsored cyber actors. These CDCs support contracts for the U.S. Departmen...

Unknown TA2541 group attacking aviation and defense sectors since 2017

By Deeba Ahmed TA2541 is extensively using a variety of Remote Access Trojans RAT in spear-phishing attacks to lure their target.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Unknown TA2541 group attacking aviation and defense sectors since 2017...

Experts Warn of Hacking Group Targeting Aviation and Defense Sectors

Entities in the aviation, aerospace, transportation, manufacturing, and defense industries have been targeted by a persistent threat group since at least 2017 as part of a string of spear-phishing campaigns mounted to deliver a variety of remote access trojans RATs on compromised systems. The use...

Log4j Bringing You Down? Try Infection Monkey’s New Log4Shell Attack Simulation

What if you could see how a real cyberattack might unfold in your network? Imagine the insights you would gain into your security posture if you could safely and easily simulate the behavior of malicious actors before they hit your defenses. That’s what the Infection Monkey does...

What’s Next in Security from Microsoft

One of the biggest challenges in security today is complexity. Not only is there an ever-growing number of threats, but many organizations are defending their companies with a patchwork of security solutions that don’t work well together. This piecemeal approach is costly, less secure, and hinder...

Ransomware Awareness for Holidays and Weekends

Summary Immediate Actions You Can Take Now to Protect Against Ransomware • Make an offline backup of your data. • Do not click on suspicious links. • If you use RDP, secure and monitor it. • Update your OS and software. • Use strong passwords. • Usemulti-factor authentication. The Federal Bureau ...

Cybersecurity threats are always changing—staying on top of them is vital, getting ahead of them is paramount

With a 1,070 percent increase in ransomware attacks year-over-year between July 2020 and June 2021, staying on top of attack trends—such as ransomware and supply chain threats—is more important than ever.1 To successfully detect and defend against security threats, we need to come together as a...

oklahomalegaldefense.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2367294

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

AlmaLinux 8 : sqlite (ALSA-2021:4396)

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2021:4396 advisory. - Integer overflow in SQLite via WebSQL in Google Chrome prior to 74.0.3729.131 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a...

Iranian state-sponsored APT group MuddyWater targeting organizations via malicious executables

THREAT LEVEL: Red. United States Cyber Command USCYBERCOM has warned of an ongoing cyber attack by Iranian state sponsored actor named as MuddyWater. This APT group is currently targeting Middle Eastern countries and has also targeted European and North American nations. The Iranian-backed...

Cyber Signals: Defending against cyber threats with the latest research, insights, and trends

We’re excited to introduce Cyber Signals, a cyber threat intelligence brief informed by the latest Microsoft threat data and research. This content, which will be released quarterly, offers an expert perspective into the current threat landscape, discussing trending tactics, techniques, and...

Advantech ADAM-3600

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Advantech Equipment: ADAM-3600 Vulnerability: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow unauthorized access to intercept traffic...

North Korean Hackers Using Windows Update Service to Infect PCs with Malware

The notorious Lazarus Group actor has been observed mounting a new campaign that makes use of the Windows Update service to execute its malicious payload, expanding the arsenal of living-off-the-land LotL techniques leveraged by the APT group to further its objectives. The Lazarus Group, also kno...

Why Security in Kubernetes Isn't the Same as in Linux: Part 1

Kubernetes was first presented in 2014, and it almost entirely changed the way technological and even non-tech companies use infrastructure for running their applications. The Kubernetes platform still feels new and exciting — it has awesome features and can fit most use cases. But hackers find t...

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Snort Modbus DoS (cisco-sa-snort-dos-9D3hJLuj)

According to its self-reported version, Cisco FTD Software is affected by a denial of service DoS vulnerability in its Snort Modbus component due to an integer overflow. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this issue to cause the Snort process to stop responding. Please see the includ...

MoonBounce: New malware deployed by APT41 in UEFI firmware

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. MoonBounce is a new type of malware that hides in the most complex part of an Operating System OS, the Basic Input Output System BIOS chip, and thus persists even after reinstalling your OS or formatting your hard drive...

Crypto.com Finally Admits It Lost $30 Million in a Hack

Plus: Scammer arrests, the NSA plays defense, and more of the week's top security news...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Reflected XSS at https://█████ via "██████████" parameter

There is Reflected Cross site scripting issue at the following url: https://█████ Proof Of Concept https://████████?█████=%22onfocus%3d%22alertdocument.domain%22autofocus%3d%22&█████████████████████=Search ████ Best Regards @pelegn Impact Cookies Exfiltration SOAP Bypass CORS Bypass Executing...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Arbitrary File Deletion (CVE-2020-3187) on ████████

Hello team, I hope you're doing well, healthy & wealthy. I found an Arbitrary File Deletion CVE-2020-3187 vulnerability on https://██████████/+CSCOE+/sessionpassword.html that allows the Arbitrary File Deletion. References - https://twitter.com/aboul3la/status/1286809567989575685 -...

Log4J and The Memory That Knew Too Much

Log4J and The Memory That Knew Too Much By Trellix · January 19, 2022 By Guilherme Venere, Ismael Valenzuela, Carlos Diaz, Cesar Vargas, Leandro Costantino, Juan Olle, Jose Luis Sanchez Martinez, AC3 Team Collaborators: Steve Povolny, Douglas McKee, Mark Bereza, Frederick House, Dileep Kumar...