Microsoft Says Russian APT Group Behind Zero-Day Attacks

Microsoft has singled out Sofacy, an APT group long thought to have ties to Russia’s military intelligence arm GRU, as the entity behind targeted attacks leveraging Windows kernel and Adobe Flash zero days in targeted attacks. The group, which Microsoft calls Strontium, is also known as APT28, Ts...

Election Leaks Failed to Move Needle on Polls

The barrage of information leaks, state-sponsored espionage and hacktivism related to the U.S. presidential election has had a mixed bag of effects on the race and voter confidence. For the most part, attacks against organizations supporting both major political parties, extensive email leaks and...

web2.gov.mb.ca XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/display2.php?p="=ccsm/h060e.php= Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 20.09.2017 Latest check for patch:| 20.09.2017 12:22 GMT Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / Not calculat...

Ex-NSA Contractor Stole 50 TB of Classified Data; Includes Top-Secret Hacking Tools

Almost two months ago, the FBI quietly arrested NSA contractor Harold Thomas Martin III for stealing an enormous number of top secret documents from the intelligence agency. Now, according to a court document filed Thursday, the FBI seized at least 50 terabytes of data from 51-year-old Martin tha...

Yahoo Asks DNI to De-Classify Email Scanning Order

Yahoo continues to seek high ground with regard to public reports that last year it scanned user email messages in compliance with a classified government order. General counsel Ron Bell yesterday sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper asking the government to confirm...

Five Ways That Good Guys Share More Than Bad Guys

It takes a lot for me to write a cybersecurity blog post these days. I spend most of my writing time working on my PhD. Articles like Nothing Brings Banks Together Like A Good Hack drive me up the wall, however, and a Tweet rant is insufficient. What fired me up, you might ask? Please read the...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in ChannelList.aspx Page of Shandong Wave Government Approval Platform

Wave Government Approval Platform is a cloud computing infrastructure platform of Shandong Wave Qilu Software Co. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the ChannelList.aspx page of the Shandong Wave Government Approval Platform, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive database...

Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in Government Affairs Cluster Management System of Beijing Xiangyu Leading Software Co.

Beijing Xiangyu Leader Software Co., Ltd. government affairs cluster management system is an Internet service platform that provides information management services for Chinese government functional units at all levels. There is an arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the government cluster...

Turkey Blocks GitHub, Google Drive and Dropbox to Censor RedHack Leaks

Turkey is again in the news for banning online services, and this time, it's a bunch of sites and services offered by big technology giants. Turkey government has reportedly blocked access to cloud storage services including Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, and Google Drive, as well as the code hosti...

The Ethics and Morality Behind APT Reports

DENVER—Investigations into state-sponsored APT campaigns are much more than black-and-white research into malware, exploits and zero-days. Behind the scenes, these can be geopolitical powder kegs that require moral examinations into the ethics of publishing public reports that could expose tools...

NSA Contractor Secretly Charged With Stealing Classified Secrets

The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a National Security Agency contractor working for Booz Allen Hamilton and charged him with stealing highly classified documents. Harold T. Martin III, of Glen Burnie, Md was charged in a criminal complaint filed in late August that became public...

Yahoo Slams Email Surveillance Story: Experts Demand Details

Bombshell revelations that Yahoo conducted mass email surveillance is raising hackles among legal, civil liberties and security experts that demand Yahoo and the U.S. government come clean. Meanwhile Yahoo challenged the accuracy of Tuesday’s report by Reuters. “The article is misleading. We...

Subpoena for Signal Messaging Data Renders Little

Open Whisper Systems, the non-profit group behind the encrypted messaging app Signal, was served with a subpoena for user data earlier this year but since the company keeps such little information on its users, it was unable to produce most of what it was asked for. The American Civil Liberties...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID25281: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on September 27, 2016

Medium Alert ID: 49052 First Published: 2016 September 27 13:41 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID25281 may contain the following files: Name ...

nord.gouv.fr XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.nord.gouv.fr/Outils/Glossaire/namefilter/Y%22%3E%3Cmarquee%20onstart=prompt/OPENBUGBOUNTY/%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 28.07.2017 Latest check for patch:| 28.07.2017 11:33 GMT Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclose...

MarsJoke Ransomware Targets .EDU, .GOV Agencies

New ransomware has surfaced that targets state and local government agencies, and educational institutions that are less likely to have big budgets to ward off or mitigate threats, according to researchers. The ransomware, called MarsJoke, was detected in a large-scale email campaign last week th...

Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability in Shanghai Ohuhu Network Technology Co.

Shanghai Ohuhu Network Technology Co., Ltd. is a service-oriented enterprise integrating Internet software research and development, website operation, e-commerce and IT services. Shanghai Ohuhu Network Technology Co., Ltd Ohuhu government system suffers from an arbitrary file read vulnerability...

Contrexx CMS GOV Module OnlineDesk SQL Injection Vulnerability

Contrexx is an open source content management system. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the Contrexx CMS GOV module OnlineDesk, which can be exploited by an attacker to transfer the Id parameter of the egov module to the database, resulting in the disclosure of database information...

Arbitrary File Write Vulnerability in Eurohoo Government System of Shanghai Eurohoo Network Technology Co.

Shanghai Ohuhu Network Technology Co., Ltd. is a service-oriented enterprise integrating Internet software research and development, website operation, e-commerce and IT services. There is an arbitrary file write vulnerability in Shanghai Ohuhu Network Technology Co. The vulnerability allows an...

DHS Announces Intent to Publish IoT Security Framework

CAMBRIDGE, Ma.—The Department of Homeland Security today formally announced its plan to develop a set of strategic principles for the Internet of Things, saying such a framework is necessary to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure from cyber threats. In a brief talk at the Internet of...