APT29 utilizes cloud storage service to deliver malicious payloads

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary APT29, a cyber espionage gang uses cloud storage services such as Google Drive and Dropbox to distribute malware to compromised systems. The gang used a phishing campaign that targeted several Western diplomatic...

Russian Hackers Using DropBox and Google Drive to Drop Malicious Payloads — The Hacker News

The Russian state-sponsored hacking collective known as APT29 has been attributed to a new phishing campaign that takes advantage of legitimate cloud services like Google Drive and Dropbox to deliver malicious payloads on compromised systems. "These campaigns are believed to have targeted several...

Leakage of third-party OAuth token via redirect

Description The application allows the usage of third-parties to store the files, such as Google Drive, Github, Gitlab, etc. It's possible to bypass the protection of the redirect parameter and redirect the user and the OAuth token to an attacker controlled site. Proof of Concept 1. An attacker...

WordPress Integrate Google Drive – Complete Google Drive Cloud Solution For WordPress plugin < 1.1.0 - Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability

Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability discovered in WordPress Integrate Google Drive – Complete Google Drive Cloud Solution For WordPress plugin versions 1.1.0. Solution Update the WordPress Integrate Google Drive – Complete Google Drive Cloud Solution For WordPress plugin to the latest...

WordPress Integrate Google Drive – Complete Google Drive Cloud Solution For WordPress plugin < 1.1.0 - Toggle The Debug Mode via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Toggle The Debug Mode via Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability discovered in WordPress Integrate Google Drive – Complete Google Drive Cloud Solution For WordPress plugin versions 1.1.0. Solution Update the WordPress Integrate Google Drive – Complete Google Drive Cloud Solution For...

Google Drive accounted for 50% of malicious Office document downloads

By Deeba Ahmed OneDrive was responsible for 19% while 15% of malicious Microsoft Office documents were downloaded through Sharepoint in 2021.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google Drive accounted for 50% of malicious Office document downloads...

Attackers Target Intuit Users by Threatening to Cancel Tax Accounts

Just in time for tax season, Intuit is warning customers of a phishing campaign that threatens to close user accounts if they don’t click on a malicious link. The attacks on the accounting-software specialist that many people use for filing U.S. income tax forms comes as phishers overall are...

Dropbox: Exfiltrate GDrive access token using CSRF

The report demonstrates a method of redirecting Google Drive OAuth tokens from Dropbox. A fix for the issue has been released and it was applied for existing users through an automatic update. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by getting a user to visit a specially-crafted link that se...

MoleRats APT Launches Spy Campaign on Bankers, Politicians, Journalists

Malicious files doctored up to look like legitimate content related to the Israeli-Palestine conflict are being used to target prominent Palestinians, as well as activists and journalists in Turkey, with spyware. That’s according to a disclosure from Zscaler, which attributes the cyberattacks to...

The BlueNoroff cryptocurrency hunt is still on

BlueNoroff is the name of an APT group coined by Kaspersky researchers while investigating the notorious attack on Bangladeshs Central Bank back in 2016. A mysterious group with links to Lazarus and an unusual financial motivation for an APT. The group seems to work more like a unit within a larg...

New SysJoker Espionage Malware Targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux Users

A new cross-platform backdoor called "SysJoker" has been observed targeting machines running Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems as part of an ongoing espionage campaign that's believed to have been initiated during the second half of 2021. "SysJoker masquerades as a system update and...

Dropbox: Full Response SSRF via Google Drive

This researcher pointed out that HelloSign's Google Drive doc export feature had a URL parsing issue that could allow extra parameters to be passed to Google Drive API. By making use of an extra parameter in the Google Drive API, it was possible for researchers to force HelloSign to parse externa...

Ransomware Phishing Emails Sneak Through SEGs

Secure email gateway SEG protections aren’t necessarily enough to stop phishing emails from delivering ransomware to employees, especially if the cybercrooks are using legitimate cloud services to host malicious pages. Researchers are raising the alarm over a phishing email kicking off a...

Covert-Control - Google Drive, OneDrive And Youtube As Covert-Channels - Control Systems Remotely By Uploading Files To Google Drive, OneDrive, Youtube Or Telegram

Control systems remotely by uploading files to Google Drive, OneDrive, Youtube or Telegram using Python to create the files and the listeners. It allows to create text files, images, audio or videos, with the commands in cleartext or encrypted using AES. covert-googledrive.py - Control systems...

GC2 - A Command And Control Application That Allows An Attacker To Execute Commands On The Target Machine Using Google Sheet And Exfiltrate Data Using Google Drive

GC2 Google Command and Control is a Command and Control application that allows an attacker to execute commands on the target machine using Google Sheet and exfiltrates data using Google Drive. Why This program has been developed in order to provide a command and control that does not require any...

Mitsubishi Electric & INEA SmartRTU - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Exploit Title: Mitsubishi Electric & INEA SmartRTU - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS Date: 2021-17-10 Exploit Author: Hamit CİBO Vendor Homepage: https://www.inea.si Software Link: https://www.inea.si/telemetrija-in-m2m-produkti/mertu/ Version: ME RTU Tested on: Windows CVE : CVE-2018-16061 Po...

WhatsApp to Finally Let Users Encrypt Their Chat Backups in the Cloud

WhatsApp on Friday announced it will roll out support for end-to-end encrypted chat backups on the cloud for Android and iOS users, paving the way for storing information such as chat messages and photos in Apple iCloud or Google Drive in a cryptographically secure manner. The optional feature,...

Threat Actors Use Google Docs to Host Phishing Attacks

Threat actors are exploiting Google Docs by hosting their attacks within the web-based document service in a new phishing campaign that delivers malicious links aimed at stealing victims’ credentials. Researchers at email and collaboration security firm Avanan discovered the campaign, which is th...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2021:1430-1)

This update for webkit2gtk3 fixes the following issues : Update to version 2.32.0 bsc1184155 : - Fix the authentication request port when URL omits the port. - Fix iframe scrolling when main frame is scrolled in async - scrolling mode. - Stop using gmemdup. - Show a warning message when overridin...

ALERT: North Korean hackers targeting South Korea with RokRat Trojan

A North Korean hacking group has been found deploying the RokRat Trojan in a new spear-phishing campaign targeting the South Korean government. Attributing the attack to APT37 aka Starcruft, Ricochet Chollima, or Reaper, Malwarebytes said it identified a malicious document last December that, whe...