Crippling Cyberattacks, Disinformation Top Concerns for Election Day

What keeps researchers up at night leading up to Nov. 3 isn’t election-day winners and losers. Most cite possible attacks on local infrastructure, crippling ransomware incidents and disinformation campaigns. There are also many concerned voters this year. Election-related cybersecurity attacks ha...

KashmirBlack Botnet Hijacks Thousands of Sites Running On Popular CMS Platforms

An active botnet comprising hundreds of thousands of hijacked systems spread across 30 countries is exploiting "dozens of known vulnerabilities" to target widely-used content management systems CMS. The "KashmirBlack" campaign, which is believed to have started around November 2019, aims for...

Cyber Insecurity: Securing the Vote in the 2020 Election

Ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, there are a number of cybersecurity threats looming. In an unprecedented year, we have already begun to see foreign interference,1 government agencies hit with ransomware attacks2, the National Guard deployed by state and local governments to assist...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure

Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications is a financial services analytics software from Oracle. A security vulnerability exists in Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications that could be exploited by an attacker to compromise the Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle Hyperion Infrastructure Technology UI and Visualization Components

Oracle Hyperion Infrastructure Technology is a financial analytics product from Oracle Corporation USA. A security vulnerability exists in the Oracle Hyperion Infrastructure Technology UI and Visualization components that could allow a highly privileged attacker to compromise Hyperion...

Unhappy Hour Special: KEGTAP and SINGLEMALT With a Ransomware Chaser

Throughout 2020, ransomware activity has become increasingly prolific, relying on an ecosystem of distinct but co-enabling operations to gain access to targets of interest before conducting extortion. Mandiant Threat Intelligence has tracked several loader and backdoor campaigns that lead to the...

Akamai Edge Cloud: Scaling IoT, Part 2

IoT has tremendous possibilities to transform our world but will fall short of expectations if the underlying infrastructure cannot support the rapid exchange of massive amounts of information from billions of simultaneous and intermittent connections. Akamai Edge Cloud is designed to enable the...

Akamai Edge Cloud: Scaling IoT, Part 1

The Internet of Things IoT ecosystem is an exciting emerging market that is disrupting the way we design infrastructure to support businesses. Smart devices, homes, cities, cars, and automation supporting the Industry 4.0 industrial revolution are all placing new demands on existing internet...

SHUN HU Technology JUUKO Industrial Radio Remote Control

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.3 ATTENTION: Exploitable from an adjacent network/low skill level to exploit Vendor: SHUN HU Technology Co., Ltd Equipment: JUUKO Industrial Radio Remote Control Vulnerabilities: Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay, Command Injection 2. RISK EVALUATION...

NSA and CISA Recommend Immediate Actions to Reduce Exposure Across Operational Technologies and Control Systems

Summary Note: This Activity Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT&CK® framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise and ATT&CK for Industrial Control Systems frameworks for all referenced threat actor techniques and mitigations. Over recent months, cyber actors...

Potential for Iranian Cyber Response to U.S. Military Strike in Baghdad

Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is sharing the following information with the cybersecurity community as a primer for assisting in the protection of our Nation’s critical infrastructure in light of the current tensions between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the...

The US Sanctions Russians for Potentially ‘Fatal’ Malware

The message is meant to deter any similar attack against US infrastructure...

Georgia Election Data Hit in Ransomware Attack

Ransomware gangs have officially entered the 2020 election fray, with reports of one of the first breaches of the voting season, on Hall County, Ga. The county’s database of voter signatures was impacted in the attack along with other government systems. Although the county said the voting proces...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Oracle Hyperion

Oracle has fixed vulnerabilities in the following Oracle Hyperion products: Hyperion Analytic Provider Services Hyperion BI+ Hyperion Essbase Hyperion Infrastructure Technology Hyperion Planning Hyperion Lifecycle Management The vulnerabilities allow an unauthenticated malicious person with netwo...

CrimeOps of the KashmirBlack Botnet – Part II

Introduction The previous blog - “CrimeOps of the KasmirBlack Botnet - Part I” - described the DevOps behind the botnet. It showed how its well-designed infrastructure makes it easy to expand and add new exploits or payloads without much effort,and explained the evolution and version deployment o...

CrimeOps of the KashmirBlack Botnet – Part I

Introduction Being in a research team exposes us to a variety of attacks on different platforms, of different types, scope, and volume. It also gives us the opportunity to select particularly interesting attacks that target our customers and to analyze them. This blog will give you a taste of the...

Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics Installation Privilege Permission and Access Control Issues Vulnerability

Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics is a suite of restaurant sales management solutions from Oracle. A privilege permission and access control issue vulnerability exists in Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics Installation version 9.1.0, which allows a low-privileged attacker to log ...

Addressing cybersecurity risk in industrial IoT and OT

As the industrial Internet of Things IIoT and operational technology OT continue to evolve and grow, so too, do the responsibilities of the Chief Information Security Officer CISO. The CISO now needs to mitigate risks from cloud-connected machinery, warehouse systems, and smart devices scattered...

CVE-2020-14889

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization component: Core. The supported version that is affected is Prior to 6.1.16. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromis...

CVE-2020-14887

Vulnerability in the Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking product of Oracle Financial Services Applications component: Infrastructure. Supported versions that are affected are 12.3.0 and 14.0.0-14.4.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to...