A week in security (Nov 29 – Dec 5)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: CronRAT targets Linux servers with e-commerce attacks Hackers all over the world are targeting Tasmania’s emergency services Massive faceprint scraping company Clearview AI hauled over the coals Most people aren’t upgrading to Windows 11: Not the end of the world...

CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Critical Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Vulnerability

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA are warning of active exploitation of a newly patched flaw in Zoho's ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus product to deploy web shells and carry out an array of malicious activities. Tracked as...

CISA and FBI Release Alert on Active Exploitation of CVE-2021-44077 in Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus

CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory identifying active exploitation of a vulnerability—CVE-2021-44077—in Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus. CVE-2021-44077 is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability that affects all...

Here’s what data the FBI can get from WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, and more

Not every secure messaging app is as safe as it would like us to think. And some are safer than others. A recently disclosed FBI training document shows how much access to the content of encrypted messages from secure messaging services US law enforcement can gain and what they can learn about yo...

A week in security (Nov 15 – Nov 21)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs Instagram’s memorialize feature abused to memorialize…Instagram’s boss Evasive manoeuvres: HTML smuggling explained FBI server hijacked to send up to 100,000 bogus attack mails New Mac malware raises more questions about Apple’s security patching SharkBot Android...

APT Actors Exploiting Newly Identified Vulnerability in ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus

Summary This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework, Version 8. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for referenced threat actor tactics and for techniques. This joint advisory is the result of analytic efforts between the...

A Canadian Teen Was Arrested in a $36.5M SIM-Swap Heist

Plus: An FBI email hack, a cam site data leak, and more of the week's top security news...

FBI issues flash alert after APT groups exploited VPN flaws

By Waqas With this; FatPipe joins the list of VPN providers that have faced a similar situation in the past, including Fortinet, Cisco, Pulse Secure, and Citrix. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI issues flash alert after APT groups exploited VPN flaws...

Iranian Government-Sponsored APT Cyber Actors Exploiting Microsoft Exchange and Fortinet Vulnerabilities in Furtherance of Malicious Activities

Summary Actions to Take Today to Protect Against Iranian State-Sponsored Malicious Cyber Activity • Immediately patch software affected by the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-34473, 2018-13379, 2020-12812, and 2019-5591. • Implementmulti-factor authentication. • Usestrong, unique passwords.v...

FBI Issues Flash Alert on Actively Exploited FatPipe VPN Zero-Day Bug

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has disclosed that an unidentified threat actor has been exploiting a previously unknown weakness in the FatPipe MPVPN networking devices at least since May 2021 to obtain an initial foothold and maintain persistent access into vulnerable networks,...

MuddyWater is taking advantage of old vulnerabilities

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC, and the United Kingdoms National Cyber Security Centre NCSC have issued a joint...

FBI Email Hoaxer ID’ed by the Guy He Allegedly Loves to Torment

Vinny Troia, the cybersecurity researcher mentioned in a fake alert gushed out to thousands of people from the FBI’s own email system on Friday night, has fingered the guy who allegedly pulled off the exploit. Register now for our LIVE event! Troia – white hat threat hunter, cybercrime investigat...

Wire Fraud Scam Upgraded with Bitcoin

The FBI has issued a bulletin describing a bitcoin variant of a wire fraud scam: As the agency describes it, the scammer will contact their victim and somehow convince them that they need to send money, either with promises of love, further riches, or by impersonating an actual institution like a...

Hacker accessed FBI server to send fake email threats

By Waqas The FBI has categorically denied sending spam emails from its server, which according to reports, hit 100,000 inboxes. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker accessed FBI server to send fake email threats...

FBI server hijacked to send up to 100,000 bogus attack mails

If you received a scary missive from what appears to be from the FBI over the last few days, youre not alone. The emails, which may have reached as many as 100,000 people, blamed a fictitious cyberattack on an innocent party. The mail read as follows: Our intelligence monitoring indicates...

FBI Says Its System Was Exploited to Email Fake Cyberattack Alert

The FBI admitted on Monday morning that an attacker exploited a flaw in how an agency messaging system is configured: a flaw that let an unknown party send out a flood of fake “urgent” warnings about bogus cyberattacks. The Spamhaus Project, a European nonprofit that monitors email spam, detected...

FBI's Email System Hacked to Send Out Fake Cyber Security Alert to Thousands

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI on Saturday confirmed unidentified threat actors have breached one of its email servers to blast hoax messages about a fake "sophisticated chain attack." The incident, which was first publicly disclosed by threat intelligence non-profit SpamHaus,...

Hoax Email Blast Abused Poor Coding in FBI Website

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation. According to an interview with the person who claimed responsibility for the hoax, the spam messages were sen...

TrickBot Operators Partner with Shathak Attackers for Conti Ransomware

The operators of TrickBot trojan are collaborating with the Shathak threat group to distribute their wares, ultimately leading to the deployment of Conti ransomware on infected machines. "The implementation of TrickBot has evolved over the years, with recent versions of TrickBot implementing...

Experts Detail Malicious Code Dropped Using ManageEngine ADSelfService Exploit

At least nine entities across the technology, defense, healthcare, energy, and education industries were compromised by leveraging a recently patched critical vulnerability in Zoho's ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus self-service password management and single sign-on SSO solution. The spying...