Ongoing Cyber Threats to U.S. Water and Wastewater Systems

Summary Immediate Actions WWS Facilities Can Take Now to Protect Against Malicious Cyber Activity • Do not click on suspicious links. • If you use RDP, secure and monitor it. • Usestrong passwords. • Usemulti-factor authentication. Note: This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Technique...

U.S. Ban on Sales of Cyberattack Tools Is Anemic, Experts Warn

The launch of a standing offer to pay for Windows virtual private network VPN software zero-day exploits came to light this week, even as the U.S. mulls new regulations on the export of tools that could be used in cyberattacks against the U.S. or its interests. The developments signal that the U....

U.S. Government Bans Sale of Hacking Tools to Authoritarian Regimes

The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday announced new rules barring the sales of hacking software and equipment to authoritarian regimes and potentially facilitate human rights abuse for national security NS and anti-terrorism AT reasons. The mandate, which is set to go into effect in 90 days,...

Missouri Governor Doesn’t Understand Responsible Disclosure

The Missouri governor wants to prosecute the reporter who discovered a security vulnerability in a states website, and then reported it to the state. The newspaper agreed to hold off publishing any story while the department fixed the problem and protected the private information of teachers arou...

ExpressVPN made a choice, and so did I: Lock and Code S02E19

On September 14, the US Department of Justice announced that it had resolved an earlier investigation into an international cyber hacking campaign coming from the United Arab Emirates that has reportedly impacted hundreds of journalists, activists, and human rights defenders in Yemen, Iran, Turke...

Feds Sanctions SUEX Cryptocurrency Exchange for Laundering Ransomware Payouts

In an unprecedented move, the federal government has sanctioned a cryptocurrency exchange for laundering ransom transactions for cybercriminals and helping them evade law-enforcement activity. As part of its continued hardline against ransomware attacks, the U.S. Department of Treasury has...

A week in security (Sept 13 – Sept 19)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs Why backups aren’t a “silver bullet” against ransomware, with Matt Crape: Lock and Code S02E17 The many tentacles of Magecart Group 8 Apple releases emergency update: Patch, but don’t panic Update now! Google Chrome fixes two in-the-wild zero-days Parts of the Dark...

Ntlm_Theft - A Tool For Generating Multiple Types Of NTLMv2 Hash Theft Files

A tool for generating multiple types of NTLMv2 hash theft files. ntlmtheft is an Open Source Python3 Tool that generates 21 different types of hash theft documents. These can be used for phishing when either the target allows smb traffic outside their network, or if you are already inside the...

Support Board 3.3.3 - Multiple SQL Injection (Unauthenticated) Vulnerability

Exploit Title: Support Board 3.3.3 - 'Multiple' SQL Injection Unauthenticated Exploit Author: John Jefferson Li Vendor Homepage: https://board.support/ Software Link: https://codecanyon.net/item/support-board-help-desk-and-chat/20359943 Version: 3.3.3 Tested on: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS ----- PoC 1:...

MIK.starlight 输入验证错误漏洞

MIK.starlight is the departmental access and creation dashboard, reporting and planning environment. MIK.starlight is vulnerable to an input validation error, which could allow an attacker to access arbitrary path files...

Army Testing Facial Recognition in Child-Care Centers

Live video feeds of daycare centers are common, but the Army wants to take their kid-monitoring capabilities to the next level. Under a new pilot program being rolled out at a Fort Jackson, S.C. child-care center, the military is looking for service providers to layer commercially available facia...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Reflected XSS [██████]

Reflected cross-site scripting XSS arises when an application receives data in an HTTP request and includes that data within the immediate response in an unsafe way. An attacker can execute JavaScript arbitrary code on the victim's session. Steps To Reproduce Go to this URL:...

Lead generation firm exposed household data of 63 million Americans

By Waqas The data leak contains email addresses with .gov suffixes or indicated that the user worked for New York Police Department. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Lead generation firm exposed household data of 63 million Americans...

Spear-phishing now targets employees outside the finance and executive teams, report says

Social engineering attacks have been a longstanding concern for both individuals and organizations alike. The trend, as we know it, is that fraudsters conducting spear phishing attacks—specifically, business email compromise BEC—are likely to target employees either in the finance or executive...

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...

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...

Indictments, Attribution Unlikely to Deter Chinese Hacking

The federal government is fighting back against what it says are China-based cyberattacks against U.S. universities and companies with indictments and a “naming-and-shaming” approach — but researchers aren’t convinced the efforts will come to much in terms of deterring future activity. On Monday,...

US offers huge reward in fight against state-sponsored cybercriminals

The US Department of State has announced that its Rewards for Justice RFJ program is now offering: …up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of any person who, while acting at the direction or under the control of a foreign government, participates in malicious...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: SQL injection located in `███` in POST param `████████`

Hey DoD security team! I was able to exploit an SQL injection 1 in one of your domains. Description An SQL injection 1 was discovered in domain https://████████/██████ in the parameter ██████████. The SQL injection was located in a WHERE statment fallowed by a INT value. The vulnerable parameter...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: XSS on https://██████/███ via █████ parameter

PoC https://██████████/███████████=███████" ████████ Impact XSS at https://█████████/ System Hosts █████████ Affected Products and Versions CVE Numbers Steps to Reproduce Go to https://████/██████████████████=████" Suggested Mitigation/Remediation Actions...