Iranian APT Lures Defense Contractor in Catfishing-Malware Scam

Most people have probably heard of catfishing. That’s when someone adopts a fake online persona, usually to trick someone into falling in love. Now, threat actors have developed their own spin on the grift, developing appealing — objectively hot — profiles to charm victims into downloading malwar...

Imperva mitigated its largest attack as a provider of DDoS protection

In July, Imperva mitigated its largest attack as a provider of DDoS protection, and one of the largest DDoS attacks so far in 2021. The attack lasted for 40 minutes and generated a massive throughput of 1.02 terabytes per second Tbps and 155 million packets per second Mpps. Imperva also mitigated...

Defending Against Malicious Cyber Activity Originating from Tor

Summary This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® and Pre-ATT&CK framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise and Pre-ATT&CK frameworks for referenced threat actor techniques. This advisory—written by the Cybersecurity Security and Infrastructure...

The vulnerability of the cryptographic module of microprogramming software for Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) allows a perpetrator to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the cryptographic module of microprogramming software for Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances ASA and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense FTD is related to errors in encryption and decryption processes. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service...

BazaCall: Phony call centers lead to exfiltration and ransomware

Our continued investigation into BazaCall campaigns, those that use fraudulent call centers that trick unsuspecting users into downloading the BazaLoader malware, shows that this threat is more dangerous than what’s been discussed publicly in other security blogs and covered by the media. Apart...

Six Malicious Linux Shell Scripts Used to Evade Defenses and How to Stop Them

Siddartha Sharma and Adhokshaj Mishra Evasive techniques used by attackers, date back to the earlier days, when base64 and other common encoding schemes were used. Today, attackers are adopting new Linux shell script tactics and techniques to disable firewalls, monitoring agents and modifying...

Hackers posed as aerobics instructors in malware attack on defense contractors

By Deeba Ahmed Iranian hackers used social media platforms especially Facebook to target employees of an aerospace defense contractor to steal their login credentials. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers posed as aerobics instructors in malware attack on defense...

Hackers Posed as Aerobics Instructors for Years to Target Aerospace Employees

An Iranian cyberespionage group masqueraded as an aerobics instructor on Facebook in an attempt to infect the machine of an employee of an aerospace defense contractor with malware as part of a years-long social engineering and targeted malware campaign. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: https://██████/ Vulnerable to CVE-2013-3827 (Directory-traversal vulnerability)

Description: Hi team, https://█████/ using older version of Oracle JavaServer which is vulnerable to CVE-2013-3827. POC: https://█████/████ References https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63052/info https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38802 Impact Directory-traversal System Hosts █████ Affected...

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software TCP Intercept Bypass (cisco-sa-tcp-intercept-bypass-xG9M3PbY)

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software is affected by a vulnerability in the TCP Intercept functionality of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense FTD Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured Access Control Policies including...

Cisco FTD Software Command Injection (cisco-sa-fxos-cmdinj-pqZvmXCr)

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Firepower Threat Defense is affected by a vulnerability in the CLI that allows an authenticated, local attacker to inject arbitrary commands that are executed with root privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of commands...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: [CVE-2021-29156 on ForgeRock OpenAm] LDAP Injection in Webfinger Protocol!

Description: https://████████ is vulnerable to CVE-2021-29156. References https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29156 https://portswigger.net/research/hidden-oauth-attack-vectors...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: XSS due to CVE-2020-3580 [██████]

Multiple vulnerabilities in the web services interface of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance ASA Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense FTD Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct cross-site scripting XSS attacks against a user of the web services interface of an...

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Release 7.0.0 IPsec DoS (cisco-sa-asa-ftd-ipsec-dos-TFKQbgWC)

A vulnerability in the software cryptography module of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance ASA Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense FTD Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker or an unauthenticated attacker in a man-in-the-middle position to cause an unexpected reload of the...

An Explosive Spyware Report Shows the Limits of iOS Security

Amnesty International sheds alarming light on an NSO Group surveillance tool—and the gaps in Apple’s and Google's defenses...

U.S. Government Releases Indictment and Several Advisories Detailing Chinese Cyber Threat Activity

CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the National Security Agency NSA have observed increasingly sophisticated Chinese state-sponsored activity targeting U.S. political, economic, military, educational, and critical infrastructure personnel and organizations. In response: The White...

CVE-2021-1422

A vulnerability in the software cryptography module of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance ASA Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense FTD Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker or an unauthenticated attacker in a man-in-the-middle position to cause an unexpected reload of the...

Cisco Releases Security Updates

Cisco has released security updates to address a vulnerability in Adaptive Security Appliance Software Release 9.16.1 and Firepower Threat Defense Software Release 7.0.0. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition. CISA encourages users and...

CVE-2021-1422

A vulnerability in the software cryptography module of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance ASA Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense FTD Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker or an unauthenticated attacker in a man-in-the-middle position to cause an unexpected reload of the...

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Release 9.16.1 and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Release 7.0.0 IPsec Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the software cryptography module of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance ASA Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense FTD Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker or an unauthenticated attacker in a man-in-the-middle position to cause an unexpected reload of the...