Cyber Security giant FireEye hacked by a foreign government

By Sudais Asif FireEye has stated that they have been resetting the passwords of users for the previous 2 weeks as a part of its mitigatory actions. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cyber Security giant FireEye hacked by a foreign government...

Cybersecurity Firm FireEye Got Hacked; Red-Team Pentest Tools Stolen

FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity firms in the world, said on Tuesday it became a victim of a state-sponsored attack by a "highly sophisticated threat actor" that stole its arsenal of Red Team penetration testing tools it uses to test the defenses of its customers. The company said it's...

Cybersecurity Firm FireEye Got Hacked; Red-Team Pentest Tools Stolen

FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity firms in the world, said on Tuesday it became a victim of a state-sponsored attack by a "highly sophisticated threat actor" that stole its arsenal of Red Team penetration testing tools it uses to test the defenses of its customers. The company said it's...

Command Execution Vulnerability in Coolwell Typo Detection System

CoolWeather Typo Detection System is a typo detection system for government websites, which is able to detect typos on government website pages. A command execution vulnerability exists in CoolWeaver Typo Detection System, which can be exploited by an attacker to gain control of a server...

File Upload Vulnerability in Coolweather Typo Detection System

CoolWeather Typo Detection System is a typo detection system for government websites, which is able to detect typos on government website pages. A file upload vulnerability exists in CoolWeaver Typo Detection System, which can be exploited by attackers to gain control of the server...

File Upload Vulnerability in Coolweather's Typo Detection System (CNVD-2020-73271)

CoolWeather Typo Detection System is a typo detection system for government websites, which is able to detect typos on government website pages. A file upload vulnerability exists in CoolWeaver Typo Detection System, which can be exploited by attackers to gain control of the server...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Smart City Management Platforms

Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise certified by Beijing Municipality and a software enterprise with a number of independent intellectual property rights, specializing in the development and promotion of e-government and GIS application platforms. An SQL injection vulnerability exists in the intellige...

Russian State-Sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat Actor Compromises U.S. Government Targets

Summary This joint cybersecurity advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise framework for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques This joint cybersecurity advisory—written by the Federal Bureau of...

Nation-State Hackers Caught Hiding Espionage Activities Behind Crypto Miners

A nation-state actor known for its cyber espionage campaigns since 2012 is now using coin miner techniques to stay under the radar and establish persistence on victim systems, according to new research. Attributing the shift to a threat actor tracked as Bismuth, Microsoft's Microsoft 365 Defender...

Digitally Signed Bandook Trojan Reemerges in Global Spy Campaign

A wave of targeted cyberattack campaigns bent on espionage is cresting around the globe, using a strain of a 13-year old backdoor trojan named Bandook. According to Check Point Research, Bandook was last spotted being used in 2015 and 2017/2018, in the “Operation Manul” and “Dark Caracal”...

Digitally Signed Bandook Malware Once Again Targets Multiple Sectors

A cyberespionage group with suspected ties to the Kazakh and Lebanese governments has unleashed a new wave of attacks against a multitude of industries with a retooled version of a 13-year-old backdoor Trojan. Check Point Research called out hackers affiliated with a group named Dark Caracal in a...

Digitally Signed Bandook Malware Once Again Targets Multiple Sectors

A cyberespionage group with suspected ties to the Kazakh and Lebanese governments has unleashed a new wave of attacks against a multitude of industries with a retooled version of a 13-year-old backdoor Trojan. Check Point Research called out hackers affiliated with a group named Dark Caracal in a...

CVE-2020-28948

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2020-11-27 06:43:35+00:00| seen| https://t.me/cKure/2991 2020-11-30 04:00:00+00:00| seen| https://www.govcert.gov.hk/en/alertsdetail.php?id=530 2020-12-03 06:54:15+00:00| seen| Telegram/Guk8DuU3shklMFMRI0YLGr6ZXGDXJelP33OTSQyPGBX5w 2020-12-03...

IoT cybersecurity bill passed by Senate

Days before taking a week-long Thanksgiving recess, the US Senate passed an almost mundane cybersecurity bill that, if approved by the President, will improve security guidelines and protocols for Internet of Things IoT devices purchased and owned by the Federal government. The bill, called the...

CVE-2020-4006

VMware Workspace One Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager, and Identity Manager Connector address have a command injection vulnerability. Recent assessments: ccondon-r7 at December 10, 2020 7:54pm UTC reported: I’ve seen some news headlines with very scary-sounding words “ransacking...

The US Military Buys Commercial Location Data

Vice has a long article about how the US military buys commercial location data worldwide. The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. The most popular app among a group Motherboard analyzed...

APT Exploits Microsoft Zerologon Bug: Targets Japanese Companies

China-backed APT Cicada joins the list of threat actors leveraging the Microsoft Zerologon bug to stage attacks against their targets. In this case, victims are large and well-known Japanese organizations and their subsidiaries, including locations in the United States. Researchers observed a...

Evolution of Emotet: From Banking Trojan to Malware Distributor

Emotet is one of the most dangerous and widespread malware threats active today. Ever since its discovery in 2014—when Emotet was a standard credential stealer and banking Trojan, the malware has evolved into a modular, polymorphic platform for distributing other kinds of computer viruses. Being...

Congress unanimously passes federal IoT security law

The US Senate unanimously passed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act H.R.1668 yesterday. The US House passed the bill in September, so it is highly likely to become law, barring a Presidential veto. This is arguably the most significant US IoT-specific cybersecurity law to date, as well as the...

Chinese APT Hackers Target Southeast Asian Government Institutions

Cybersecurity researchers today unveiled a complex and targeted espionage attack on potential government sector victims in South East Asia that they believe was carried out by a sophisticated Chinese APT group at least since 2018. "The attack has a complex and complete arsenal of droppers,...