Interpol’s First Light operation smashes crime on a global scale

A large-scale Interpol operation has resulted in arrested and ill-gotten gains seizures galore. Operation First Light took place between March and May of this year. It involved 76 countries taking social engineers and telecommunications fraudsters to task, with multiple wins for those involved...

Email compromise leads to healthcare data breach at Kaiser Permanente

At least 69,000 people have been impacted by a data breach at Kaiser Permanente, a long-running managed healthcare consortium. The latest in a long-running series of healthcare attacks, the road to stolen data began on April 5 this year with an email compromise. The direct path to data A...

Researchers Detail PureCrypter Loader Cyber Criminals Using to Distribute Malware

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the workings of a fully-featured malware loader dubbed PureCrypter that's being purchased by cyber criminals to deliver remote access trojans RATs and information stealers. "The loader is a .NET executable obfuscated with SmartAssembly and makes use of...

Denial of service vulnerability in gozero framework

go-zero is a web and rpc framework that integrates various engineering practices. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the gozero framework that can be exploited by an attacker to cause a denial of service attack...

Researchers Detail How Cyber Criminals Targeting Cryptocurrency Users

Cybercriminals are impersonating popular crypto platforms such as Binance, Celo, and Trust Wallet with spoofed emails and fake login pages in an attempt to steal login details and deceptively transfer virtual funds. "As cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens NFTs become more mainstream, and captu...

Old Hacks Die Hard: Ransomware, Social Engineering Top Verizon DBIR Threats – Again

Ransomware and social engineering continue to dominate challenges facing cybersecurity professionals, according to Verizon’s 15th annual Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR. In general, the results of DBIR merely confirm well-established trends, such as the growing threats of ransomware – up 1...

The vulnerability of the Change Management sub-component of the Oracle Engineering component in the Oracle E-Business Suite allows a malicious actor to gain access to read, modify, add, or delete data.

The vulnerability of the Change Management sub-component of the Oracle Engineering component in the Oracle E-Business Suite exists due to insufficient verification of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to gain access to read, modify, add, or delete data through HTT...

Threat Detection Software: A Deep Dive

As the threat landscape evolves and multiplies with more advanced attacks than ever, defending against these modern cyber threats is a monumental challenge for almost any organization. Threat detection is about an organization's ability to accurately identify threats, be it to the network, an...

WhatsApp accounts hijacked by call forwarding

In a short post on LinkedIn Rahul Sasi, founder and CEO of CloudSEK, explains how WhatsApp account takeovers are possible. The methods consists of several steps and it takes some social engineering skills, but it’s good to be aware of the possibility and how it works. It starts with the threat...

Fuji Electric Alpha7 PC Loader

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Low attack complexity Vendor: Fuji Electric Equipment: Alpha7 PC Loader Vulnerability: Stack-based Buffer Overflow 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow arbitrary code execution. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1 AFFECTED...

BinAbsInspector - Vulnerability Scanner For Binaries

BinAbsInspector Binary Abstract Inspector is a static analyzer for automated reverse engineering and scanning vulnerabilities in binaries, which is a long-term research project incubated at Keenlab. It is based on abstract interpretation with the support from Ghidra. It works on Ghidra's Pcode...

Security Bulletin: IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody (Rhapsody) is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution due to Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44832, CVE-2021-45046, ) and denial of service due to Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-45105)

Summary There are Remote Attack Vulnerabilities in Apache Log4j CVE-2021-45105, CVE-2021-45046, CVE-2021-44832 which is used by IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody RDM components; Knowledge Center and Test Conductor for logging . The fix includes upgrade to Apache Log4j v2.17.1. Vulnerability...

The Verizon 2022 DBIR

The Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report is out. We are proud to collaborate as a supporting contributor to this years data efforts once again and to have contributed for the past 8 years. The report provides interesting analysis of a full amount of global incident data. Several things...

Malicious HTML+XHR Artifact Privilege Escalation in Argo Workflows

Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. The attacker creates a workflow that produces a HTML artifact that contains a HTML file that contains a script which uses XHR calls to interact with the Argo Server API. The attacker...

GHSA-CMV8-6362-R5W9 Malicious HTML+XHR Artifact Privilege Escalation in Argo Workflows

Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. The attacker creates a workflow that produces a HTML artifact that contains a HTML file that contains a script which uses XHR calls to interact with the Argo Server API. The attacker...

Snake Keylogger Spreads Through Malicious PDFs

While most malicious e-mail campaigns use Word documents to hide and spread malware, a recently discovered campaign uses a malicious PDF file and a 22-year-old Office bug to propagate the Snake Keylogger malware, researchers have found. The campaign—discovered by researchers at HP Wolf...

Chinese "Twisted Panda" Hackers Caught Spying on Russian Defense Institutes

At least two research institutes located in Russia and a third likely target in Belarus have been at the receiving end of an espionage attack by a Chinese nation-state advanced persistent threat APT. The attacks, codenamed "Twisted Panda," come in the backdrop of Russia's military invasion of...

Hackers Trick Users with Fake Windows 11 Downloads to Distribute Vidar Malware

Fraudulent domains masquerading as Microsoft's Windows 11 download portal are attempting to trick users into deploying trojanized installation files to infect systems with the Vidar information stealer malware. "The spoofed sites were created to distribute malicious ISO files which lead to a Vida...

CVE-2020-14496

CVE-2020-14496 is a permissions-based vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric Factory Automation Engineering Software products. In affected products (e.g., CPU Module Logging Configuration Tool, CW/FR Configurators, EZSocket, GT Designer3, GX Works2/3, MELSOFT tools, Data Transfer, etc.), incorrect ...

CAN-2022-1002518 CWE-158: Improper Neutralization of Null Byte or NUL Character in iPhone, iPad version ALL

In Apple iPhone, iPad version ALL a CWE-158: Improper Neutralization of Null Byte or NUL Character exists in the QR/Barcode Scanner that can be attacked via Phishing, Social engineering resulting in As other scanners checked, such as on various Android devices, escape or strip the QR with embedde...