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Kubernetes Used in Brute-Force Attacks Tied to Russia’s APT28
U.S. and U.K. authorities are warning that the APT28 advanced-threat actor APT – a.k.a. Fancy Bear or Strontium, among other names – has been using a Kubernetes cluster in a widespread campaign of brute-force password-spraying attacks against hundreds of government and private sector targets...
ehd.liverpool.gov.uk Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2073724
Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website operator about its existence...
Microsoft exec reveals “routine” secrecy orders from government investigators
Microsoft executive Tom Burt told Congressional lawmakers Wednesday that Federal law enforcement agencies send “routine” secret orders for customer information from the Seattle-based company, numbering anywhere from 2,400 to 3,500 such requests a year. “While the recent news about secret...
Insurance and Ransomware
As ransomware becomes more common, Im seeing more discussions about the ethics of paying the ransom. Heres one more contribution to that issue: a research paper that the insurance industry is hurting more than its helping. However, the most pressing challenge currently facing the industry is...
Ongoing Spearphishing Campaign Targets Afghan Gov’t
Chinese-speaking cyberespionage actors have targeted the Afghan government, using Dropbox for command-and-control C2 communications and going so far as to impersonate the Office of the President to infiltrate the Afghan National Security Council NSC, researchers have found. According to a report...
IndigoZebra APT Hacking Campaign Targets the Afghan Government
Cybersecurity researchers are warning of ongoing attacks coordinated by a suspected Chinese-speaking threat actor targeting the Afghanistan government as part of an espionage campaign that may have had its provenance as far back as 2014. Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point Research attributed...
The critical role of Zero Trust in securing our world
We are operating in the most complex cybersecurity landscape that we’ve ever seen. While our current ability to detect and respond to attacks has matured incredibly quickly in recent years, bad actors haven’t been standing still. Large-scale attacks like those pursued by Nobelium1 and Hafnium,...
Feds Told to Better Manage Facial Recognition, Amid Privacy Concerns
Though the federal government widely uses facial recognition for various uses from criminal investigations to collecting traveler data, this use is largely unmonitored and unmanaged — a scenario that must change to protect people’s privacy and avoid inaccurate identification of perpetrators, a...
Attackers Breach Microsoft Customer Service Accounts
The same group behind the SolarWinds supply-chain attacks has been targeting Microsoft’s corporate networks to gain access to specific organizations — primarily, U.S.-based IT and government organizations. Microsoft officially announced the attacks after Reuters obtained an email sent to customer...
ehd.liverpool.gov.uk Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2065466
Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website operator about its existence...
Iran Media Websites Seized by U.S. in Disinformation Campaign
The Department of Justice has seized the domains of 36 Iranian media sites that officials say weren’t just operating in violation of sanctions, but were part of a widespread government-backed malign-influence operation targeting the U.S. The DoJ said that 33 of the sites are run by the Iranian...
Pakistan-linked hackers targeted Indian power company with ReverseRat
A threat actor with suspected ties to Pakistan has been striking government and energy organizations in the South and Central Asia regions to deploy a remote access trojan on compromised Windows systems, according to new research. "Most of the organizations that exhibited signs of compromise were...
Weak password vulnerability in remote access platform of Shenzhen Wheaton Information Technology Co.
Shenzhen Wheaton Information Technology Co., Ltd Wheaton for short is a company dedicated to providing government, enterprises and institutions with remote application centralized access solutions, VPN security interconnection solutions, core data security protection solutions and so on. There is...
Cyber espionage by Chinese hackers in neighbouring nations is on the rise
A string of cyber espionage campaigns dating all the way back to 2014 and likely focused on gathering defense information from neighbouring countries have been linked to a Chinese military-intelligence apparatus. In a wide-ranging report published by Massachusetts-headquartered Recorded Future th...
Molerats Hackers Return With New Attacks Targeting Middle Eastern Governments
A Middle Eastern advanced persistent threat APT group has resurfaced after a two-month hiatus to target government institutions in the Middle East and global government entities associated with geopolitics in the region in a rash of new campaigns observed earlier this month. Sunnyvale-based...
File Upload Vulnerability in Zhongwei Government Portal Group Management System
Jiangsu Zhongwei Technology Software System Co., Ltd. is mainly engaged in independent software technology research, product development; application system project development and construction; technical consulting, program consultant; cloud services and other businesses. A file upload...
Logic flaws and vulnerabilities in the government procurement transaction system of Hangzhou Pinming Information Technology Co.
Hangzhou Pinming Information Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise dedicated to building a domestic leading public resource transaction informationization field. A logic flaw vulnerability exists in the government procurement transaction system of Hangzhou Pinming Information Technology...
Logic Flaw Vulnerability in MSS Streaming Media Server at Suzhou Kodak Technology Co.
Ltd. is a leading provider of video and security products and solutions, committed to video conferencing, video surveillance and a wealth of video application solutions to help all kinds of government and enterprise customers to improve communication and management efficiency. A logic flaw exists...
Threat Source newsletter (June 10, 2021)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers. We seriously can't escape from ransomware. It's in the headlines constantly and has now drawn the full attention of the federal government. But we at Talos recognize that is going to take far more than just words to... This is only...
DarkSide Pwned Colonial With Old VPN Password
It took only one dusty, no-longer-used password for the DarkSide cybercriminals to breach the network of Colonial Pipeline Co. last month, resulting in a ransomware attack that caused significant disruption and remains under investigation by the U.S. government and cybersecurity experts. Attacker...