Silent Librarian Goes Back to School with Global Research-Stealing Effort

The Silent Librarian campaign has re-emerged for the fall school session, actively targeting students and faculty at universities via spear-phishing campaigns. The threat group also known as TA407 and Cobalt Dickens, which operates out of Iran, has been on the prowl since the start of the 2019...

Microsoft and Other Tech Companies Take Down TrickBot Botnet

Days after the US Government took steps to disrupt the notorious TrickBot botnet, a group of cybersecurity and tech companies has detailed a separate coordinated effort to take down the malware's back-end infrastructure. The joint collaboration, which involved Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit,...

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LCDS LAquis SCADA

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: LCDS—Leão Consultoria e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas Ltda ME Equipment: LAquis SCADA Vulnerability: Out-of-bounds Read 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute...

Trickbot disrupted

As announced today, Microsoft took action against the Trickbot botnet, disrupting one of the world’s most persistent malware operations. Microsoft worked with telecommunications providers around the world to disrupt key Trickbot infrastructure. As a result, operators will no longer be able to use...

Watch Out — Microsoft Warns Android Users About A New Ransomware

Microsoft has warned about a new strain of mobile ransomware that takes advantage of incoming call notifications and Android's Home button to lock the device behind a ransom note. The findings concern a variant of a known Android ransomware family dubbed "MalLocker.B" which has now resurfaced wit...

Wormable Apple iCloud Bug Allows Automatic Photo Theft

A group of ethical hackers cracked open Apple’s infrastructure and systems and, over the course of three months, discovered 55 vulnerabilities, a number of which would have given attackers complete control over customer and employee applications. Of note, a critical, wormable iCloud account...

CISA and FBI Release Joint Advisory Regarding APT Actors Chaining Vulnerabilities Against SLTT, Critical Infrastructure, and Elections Organizations

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released a joint cybersecurity advisory regarding advanced persistent threat APT actors chaining vulnerabilities—a commonly used tactic exploiting multiple vulnerabilities in the course of a...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released Chrome version 86.0.4240.75 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version addresses vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review the...

Product release: Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure 4.0 (4.0.0-734)

In this release, Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure provides a wide range of new features that enhance the end-user experience and service providers' interoperability. The improvements cover networking, storage core, appliance, object storage, monitoring, performance charts, and localization...

Product release: Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure 3.5 Update 5.1 (3.5.5-41)

This update provides bug fixes and improvements. Vulnerability id: VSTOR-36967 Optimize the schedule of periodic tasks to minimize the number of false-positive "Node is offline" alerts. Vulnerability id: VSTOR-35658 Under certain circumstances, load balancers may fail to create...

Enter the Vault: Authentication Issues in HashiCorp Vault

Posted by Felix Wilhelm, Project Zero Introduction In this blog post I'll discuss two vulnerabilities in HashiCorp Vault and its integration with Amazon Web Services AWS and Google Cloud Platform GCP. These issues can lead to an authentication bypass in configurations that use the aws and gcp aut...

Live from VMworld 2020: A Spotlight on Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Cybersecurity is no longer a buzzword. It is now a concern for businesses, government entities, consumers — for anyone who relies on the internet in our increasingly digital world. Earlier this year, the FBI reported a 400% increase in cybercrime1, a stark reality that has been exacerbated by the...

Critical Flaws Discovered in Popular Industrial Remote Access Systems

Cybersecurity researchers have found critical security flaws in two popular industrial remote access systems that can be exploited to ban access to industrial production floors, hack into company networks, tamper with data, and even steal sensitive business secrets. The flaws, discovered by Tel...

CISA and CNMF Identify a New Malware Variant

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Department of Defense DOD Cyber National Mission Force CNMF have identified a malware variant—referred to as SLOTHFULMEDIA—used by a sophisticated cyber actor. In addition, U.S. Cyber Command has released the malware sample to the...

Akamai: Supporting Development at the Edge

The pressures on application and web development teams to deliver exceptional customer experiences have never been greater than they are at this time. With consumer expectations growing, the ability of developers to deliver fresh, leading-edge digital experiences confidently and at high velocity ...

Help Net Security – ThreadFix 3.0 Review

Help Net Security recently published a review of ThreadFix 3.0. Security Researcher, Toni Grzinic, took a deep dive into our vulnerability management platform and broke down everything from infrastructure, reporting and analytics, to integrations, and beyond. Click here to read Tonis full review ...

CISA Releases Telework Essentials Toolkit

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released the Telework Essentials Toolkit, a comprehensive resource of telework best practices. The Toolkit provides three personalized modules for executive leaders, IT professionals, and teleworkers. Each module outlines distinctive...

VMworld 2020: Delivering Intrinsic Security to the World’s Digital Infrastructure

A year ago, we bet big, with a vision to truly disrupt the security industry — and ultimately help more customers stay safe from cyber attacks. The VMware acquisition of Carbon Black created a massive opportunity to leverage infrastructure and control points in new ways to make security intrinsic...

Metasploit Wrap-up

Nine! Nine new modules! Ah ha ha! With the coming of autumn here in the Northern hemisphere, the nights are getting longer, and the hacking is getting stronger. We’ve really got something for everybody in this release, from IoT to infrastructure, Windows, and Linux; everyone’s pretty...