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RevengeHotels: a new wave of attacks leveraging LLMs and VenomRAT
Background RevengeHotels, also known as TA558, is a threat group that has been active since 2015, stealing credit card data from hotel guests and travelers. RevengeHotels' modus operandi involves sending emails with phishing links which redirect victims to websites mimicking document storage. The...
CVE-2025-7028 SMM Arbitrary Memory Access via Flash Handler with Unchecked FuncBlock Pointer
A vulnerability in the Software SMI handler SwSmiInputValue 0x20 allows a local attacker to supply a crafted pointer FuncBlock through RBX and RCX register values. This pointer is passed unchecked into multiple flash management functions ReadFlash, WriteFlash, EraseFlash, and GetFlashInfo that...
Dero miner zombies biting through Docker APIs to build a cryptojacking horde
Introduction Imagine a container zombie outbreak where a single infected container scans the internet for an exposed Docker API, and bites exploits it by creating new malicious containers and compromising the running ones, thus transforming them into new "zombies" that will mine for Dero currency...
Neuromorphic Mimicry Attacks Exploiting Brain-Inspired Computing for Covert Cyber Intrusions
Neuromorphic computing, inspired by the human brain's neural architecture, is revolutionizing artificial intelligence and edge computing with its low-power, adaptive, and event-driven designs. However, these unique characteristics introduce novel cybersecurity risks. This paper proposes...
About Elevation of Privilege – PAN-OS (CVE-2024-9474) vulnerability
About Elevation of Privilege - PAN-OS CVE-2024-9474 vulnerability. An attacker with PAN-OS administrator access to the management web interface can perform actions on the Palo Alto device with root privileges. Linux commands can be injected via unvalidated input in script. The need for...
Inside Sophos' 5-Year War With the Chinese Hackers Hijacking Its Devices
Sophos went so far as to plant surveillance “implants” on its own devices to catch the hackers at work—and in doing so, revealed a glimpse into China's R&D pipeline of intrusion techniques...
CVE-2024-42501
An authenticated Path Traversal vulnerabilities exists in the ArubaOS. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows an attacker to install unsigned packages on the underlying operating system, enabling the threat actor to execute arbitrary code or install implants...
CVE-2024-42501 Authenticated Path Traversal Vulnerability Leads to a Remote Command Execution (RCE)
An authenticated Path Traversal vulnerabilities exists in the ArubaOS. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows an attacker to install unsigned packages on the underlying operating system, enabling the threat actor to execute arbitrary code or install implants...
CVE-2024-42501
ArubaOS is affected by an authenticated Path Traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-42501). The issue allows a remote attacker, with network access and high privileges, to install unsigned packages on the underlying OS and execute arbitrary code or implant software. The vulnerability source is ArubaOS...
GO-2023-1866 Silver vulnerable to MitM attack against implants due to a cryptography vulnerability in github.com/bishopfox/sliver
Silver vulnerable to MitM attack against implants due to a cryptography vulnerability in github.com/bishopfox/sliver...
BlindEagle flying high in Latin America
BlindEagle, also known as "APT-C-36", is an APT actor recognized for employing straightforward yet impactful attack techniques and methodologies. The group is known for their persistent campaigns targeting entities and individuals in Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Panama and other countries in Latin...
Intellexa and Cytrox: From fixer-upper to Intel Agency-grade spyware
By Mike Gentile, Asheer Malhotra and Vitor Ventura. Editors note: This blog post is a public version of a talk presented at LabsCon 2023 on Sept. 22, 2023. You can watch a recording of the talk here. Some of the intelligence presented at LabsCon was later confirmed by an Amnesty International blo...
milwaukeedentalimplants.com Improper Access Control vulnerability OBB-3804980
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. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...
YoroTrooper: Researchers Warn of Kazakhstan's Stealthy Cyber Espionage Group
A relatively new threat actor known as YoroTrooper is likely made up of operators originating from Kazakhstan. The assessment, which comes from Cisco Talos, is based on their fluency in Kazakh and Russian, use of Tenge to pay for operating infrastructure, and very limited targeting of Kazakhstani...
Exploit for Unprotected Alternate Channel in Rockwellautomation Allen-Bradley_Stratix_5200_Firmware
CVE-2023-20198 CVE-2023-20198 Checkscript based on: - Technica...
Cisco IOS XE vulnerability widely exploited in the wild
An authentication bypass affecting Cisco IOS X was disclosed on October 16, 2023. Researchers have found since then that the vulnerability is widely being exploited in the wild to help install implants on affected switches and routers. Cisco IOS XE is a universally deployed Internetworking...
New ShroudedSnooper actor targets telecommunications firms in the Middle East with novel Implants
Cisco Talos recently discovered a new malware family were calling "HTTPSnoop" being deployed against telecommunications providers in the Middle East. HTTPSnoop is a simple, yet effective, backdoor that consists of novel techniques to interface with Windows HTTP kernel drivers and devices to liste...
Common TTPs of attacks against industrial organizations
In 2022 we investigated a series of attacks against industrial organizations in Eastern Europe. In the campaigns, the attackers aimed to establish a permanent channel for data exfiltration, including data stored on air-gapped systems. Based on similarities found between these campaigns and...
Reptile Rootkit: Advanced Linux Malware Targeting South Korean Systems
Threat actors are using an open-source rootkit called Reptile to target Linux systems in South Korea. "Unlike other rootkit malware that typically only provide concealment capabilities, Reptile goes a step further by offering a reverse shell, allowing threat actors to easily take control of...
China's APT31 Suspected in Attacks on Air-Gapped Systems in Eastern Europe
A nation-state actor with links to China is suspected of being behind a series of attacks against industrial organizations in Eastern Europe that took place last year to siphon data stored on air-gapped systems. Cybersecurity company Kaspersky attributed the intrusions with medium to high...