Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 5 to 11 February 2024

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries in the realm of cybersecurity threats. In the past week alone, a total of five attacks were executed, six vulnerabilities were uncovered, and two active adversaries were...

Siemens Polarion ALM

As of January 10, 2023, CISA will no longer be updating ICS security advisories for Siemens product vulnerabilities beyond the initial advisory. For the most up-to-date information on vulnerabilities in this advisory, please see Siemens' ProductCERT Security Advisories CERT Services | Services |...

Cyberattack on Democracy: Escalating Cyber Threats Immediately Ahead of Taiwan’s 2024 Presidential Election

Cyberattack on Democracy: Escalating Cyber Threats Immediately Ahead of Taiwan’s 2024 Presidential Election By Anne An · February 13, 2024 Preface Cybersecurity has become an integral part of election security. Nation-state actors and other politically motivated groups are likely to try to...

Priorities of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative for 2024

Today, CISA—on behalf of the collective group of industry and government partners that comprise the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative JCDC—released JCDC’s 2024 Priorities. Similar to the 2023 JCDC Planning Agenda, JCDC’s 2024 Priorities will help focus the collective group on developing high-impa...

U.S. DoJ Dismantles Warzone RAT Infrastructure, Arrests Key Operators

The U.S. Justice Department DoJ on Friday announced the seizure of online infrastructure that was used to sell a remote access trojan RAT called Warzone RAT. The domains – www.warzone.ws and three others – were "used to sell computer malware used by cybercriminals to secretly access and steal dat...

Ransomware in 2023 recap: 5 key takeaways

This article is based on research by Marcelo Rivero, Malwarebytes’ ransomware specialist, who monitors information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web sites. In this report, “known attacks” are those where the victim did not pay a ransom. This provides the best overall picture of...

FBI and CISA publish guide to Living off the Land techniques

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, National Security Agency NSA, Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and other authoring agencies have released a joint guidance about common living off the land LOTL techniques and common gaps in cyber defense capabilities. Living Off The...

Volt Typhoon: A Cyber Threat to U.S. Critical Infrastructure

Summary: State-sponsored cyber actors from the People’s Republic of China, known as Volt Typhoon, are actively targeting critical infrastructure in the United States, employing sophisticated tactics like pre-compromise reconnaissance and living off-the-land techniques. Threat Level - Red | Attack...

Fortinet Warns of Critical FortiOS SSL VPN Flaw Likely Under Active Exploitation

Fortinet has disclosed a new critical security flaw in FortiOS SSL VPN that it said is likely being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2024-21762 CVSS score: 9.6, allows for the execution of arbitrary code and commands. "A out-of-bounds write vulnerability CWE-787 in FortiOS may allow ...

USN-6625-2: Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities

Marek Marczykowski-Górecki discovered that the Xen event channel infrastructure implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race condition. An attacker in a guest VM could possibly use this to cause a denial of service paravirtualized device unavailability. CVE-2023-34324 Zheng Wang discovered...

Chinese Hackers Operate Undetected in U.S. Critical Infrastructure for Half a Decade

The U.S. government on Wednesday said the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as Volt Typhoon had been embedded into some critical infrastructure networks in the country for at least five years. Targets of the threat actor include communications, energy, transportation, and water and...

Qolsys IQ Panel 4, IQ4 HUB

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.3 ATTENTION : Low attack complexity Vendor : Qolsys, Inc. Equipment : IQ Panel 4, IQ4 Hub Vulnerability : Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow the panel...

CISA and Partners Release Advisory on PRC-sponsored Volt Typhoon Activity and Supplemental Living Off the Land Guidance

Today, CISA, the National Security Agency NSA, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA, PRC State-Sponsored Actors Compromise and Maintain Persistent Access to U.S. Critical Infrastructure alongside supplemental Joint Guidance: Identifying and...

BounceBack - Stealth Redirector For Your Red Team Operation Security

BounceBack is a powerful, highly customizable and configurable reverse proxy with WAF functionality for hiding your C2/phishing/etc infrastructure from blue teams, sandboxes, scanners, etc. It uses real-time traffic analysis through various filters and their combinations to hide your tools from...

HID Global Encoders

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 5.9 ATTENTION : Exploitable locally Vendor : HID Global Equipment : iCLASS SE, OMNIKEY Vulnerability : Improper Authorization 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to read data from reader configuration...

The vulnerability in the web interface of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure monitoring and management system, as well as the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) Manager software, allows a perpetrator to execute arbitrary commands in the basic operating system.

The vulnerability of the web interface for managing Cisco Prime Infrastructure network equipment and the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network EPN Manager software relates to improper handling of objects in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to execute arbitrary...

The vulnerability in the web interface of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure monitoring and management system, as well as the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) Manager software, allows a perpetrator to alter confidential information stored in the base database.

The vulnerability of the web interface for managing Cisco Prime Infrastructure network equipment and the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network EPN Manager software relates to the lack of security measures for the SQL query structure. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to alter...

The vulnerability of the command-line interface of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure monitoring and network device management system, as well as the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) Manager software, allows a attacker to gain access to the basic operating system as a root user.

The vulnerability of the Application CLI component of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure monitoring and network management system, as well as the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network EPN Manager software, is related to the implementation or modification of arguments. Exploiting this vulnerability can...

The vulnerability in the web interface of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure monitoring and management system, as well as the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) Manager software, allows a perpetrator to carry out cross-site scripting attacks.

The vulnerability in the web interface of the Cisco Prime Infrastructure monitoring and management system, as well as the Cisco Evolved Programmable Network EPN Manager software, exists due to the lack of protective measures for the web page structure. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a...

IBM Cloud Pak System Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2024-07607)

IBM Cloud Pak System is a full-stack, converged infrastructure with configurable, pre-integrated software from International Business Machines IBM. The product supports deploying, managing and moving application environments across hybrid clouds. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in...