COVID-Themed Lures Target SCADA Sectors With Data Stealing Malware

A new malware campaign has been found using coronavirus-themed lures to strike government and energy sectors in Azerbaijan with remote access trojans RAT capable of exfiltrating sensitive documents, keystrokes, passwords, and even images from the webcam. The targeted attacks employ Microsoft Word...

COVID-Themed Lures Target SCADA Sectors With Data Stealing Malware

A new malware campaign has been found using coronavirus-themed lures to strike government and energy sectors in Azerbaijan with remote access trojans RAT capable of exfiltrating sensitive documents, keystrokes, passwords, and even images from the webcam. The targeted attacks employ Microsoft Word...

New PoetRAT Hits Energy Sector With Data-Stealing Tools

A never-before-seen remote access trojan RAT has been discovered in a set of campaigns targeting the energy sector, with a slew of post-exploitation tools to log keystrokes, record footage from webcams and steal browser credentials. Researchers called the malware “PoetRAT” due to various referenc...

Hackers steal 10 TB of data in ransomware attack on energy giant

By Sudais Asif The hackers are demanding 1,580 Bitcoins amounting to $10.9M/€9.9M or from the victim of their ransomware attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers steal 10 TB of data in ransomware attack on energy giant...

CVE-2019-13916

An issue was discovered in Cypress formerly Broadcom WICED Studio 6.2 CYW20735B1 and CYW20819A1. As a Bluetooth Low Energy BLE packet is received, it is copied into a Heap ThreadX Block buffer. The buffer allocated in dhmulpgetRxBuffer is four bytes too small to hold the maximum of 255 bytes plus...

CVE-2019-13916

An issue was discovered in Cypress formerly Broadcom WICED Studio 6.2 CYW20735B1 and CYW20819A1. As a Bluetooth Low Energy BLE packet is received, it is copied into a Heap ThreadX Block buffer. The buffer allocated in dhmulpgetRxBuffer is four bytes too small to hold the maximum of 255 bytes plus...

Heap overflow

An issue was discovered in Cypress formerly Broadcom WICED Studio 6.2 CYW20735B1 and CYW20819A1. As a Bluetooth Low Energy BLE packet is received, it is copied into a Heap ThreadX Block buffer. The buffer allocated in dhmulpgetRxBuffer is four bytes too small to hold the maximum of 255 bytes plus...

CVE-2019-13916

An issue was discovered in Cypress formerly Broadcom WICED Studio 6.2 CYW20735B1 and CYW20819A1. As a Bluetooth Low Energy BLE packet is received, it is copied into a Heap ThreadX Block buffer. The buffer allocated in dhmulpgetRxBuffer is four bytes too small to hold the maximum of 255 bytes plus...

"Try again" error occurs and Bluetooth device cannot connect to computer in Windows 8.1 or Windows RT 8.1

"Try again" error occurs and Bluetooth device cannot connect to computer in Windows 8.1 or Windows RT 8.1 This article describes an issue that occurs when a Bluetooth device connects to a computer in Windows 8.1 or Windows RT 8.1. An update is available to resolve this issue. Before you install...

Advantech WebAccess/NMS

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Advantech Equipment: WebAccess/NMS Vulnerabilities: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type, SQL Injection, Relative Path Traversal, Missing Authentication for Critical Function, Improper...

2019: Looking Back at Ransomware

In security, 2016 was “The Year of Ransomware.” Since then, ransomware has only gotten more pervasive, costing billions in damages. In that vein, 2019 could have been referred to as “The Year of Ransoming Governments.” More than 70 state and local governments across the U.S. suffered ransomware...

The effects of climate change on cybersecurity

Outside the coronavirus pandemic and its related healthcare and economic fallout, climate change and cybersecurity are seen by many as the two most urgent problems facing our planet now and in the near future. They are two distinct and separate problems, to be sure. There are some areas, however,...

Introduction to Bluetooth Low Energy

Bluetooth Low Energy BLE is used by almost everyone in our everyday lives, from wireless headphones, to car stereos, computer keyboards and mice, and other everyday items. Even though this standard is popular there seems a general lack of understanding of how it works and what certain terms mean...

ABB Asset Suite

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.1 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: ABB Equipment: Asset Suite Vulnerability: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker access to...

energy-cities.eu Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1114148 Security Researcher raviakp1004 Helped patch 586 vulnerabilities Received 4 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 5 recommendations , a holder of 4 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting energy-cities.eu website...

ICSA-20-063-02_PHOENIX CONTACT Emalytics Controller ILC

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.4 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Phoenix Contact Equipment: Emalytics Controller ILC 2050 BIL Vulnerability: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability...

CVE-2020-8809

Gurux GXDLMS Director prior to 8.5.1905.1301 downloads updates to add-ins and OBIS code over an unencrypted HTTP connection. A man-in-the-middle attacker can prompt the user to download updates by modifying the contents of gurux.fi/obis/files.xml and gurux.fi/updates/updates.xml. Then, the attack...

Code injection

Gurux GXDLMS Director prior to 8.5.1905.1301 downloads updates to add-ins and OBIS code over an unencrypted HTTP connection. A man-in-the-middle attacker can prompt the user to download updates by modifying the contents of gurux.fi/obis/files.xml and gurux.fi/updates/updates.xml. Then, the attack...

CVE-2020-8809

Gurux GXDLMS Director prior to 8.5.1905.1301 downloads updates to add-ins and OBIS code over an unencrypted HTTP connection. A man-in-the-middle attacker can prompt the user to download updates by modifying the contents of gurux.fi/obis/files.xml and gurux.fi/updates/updates.xml. Then, the attack...

Emerson OpenEnterprise

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.1 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely Vendor: Emerson Equipment: OpenEnterprise SCADA Server Vulnerability: Heap-based Buffer Overflow 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute code on an OpenEnterprise SCADA...