Russian Hackers Tomiris Targeting Central Asia for Intelligence Gathering

The Russian-speaking threat actor behind a backdoor known as Tomiris is primarily focused on gathering intelligence in Central Asia, fresh findings from Kaspersky reveal. "Tomiris's endgame consistently appears to be the regular theft of internal documents," security researchers Pierre Delcher an...

Russian Hackers Tomiris Targeting Central Asia for Intelligence Gathering

The Russian-speaking threat actor behind a backdoor known as Tomiris is primarily focused on gathering intelligence in Central Asia, fresh findings from Kaspersky reveal. "Tomiris's endgame consistently appears to be the regular theft of internal documents," security researchers Pierre Delcher an...

Qualys Security Solutions Now Support Alibaba Cloud

Enterprise IT environments are getting exponentially more complex with the booming adoption of cloud computing, upping the ante for InfoSec teams, which must protect these new environments. As the foundation for modern IT innovations that propel digital transformation, public cloud platforms are...

Tomiris called, they want their Turla malware back

Introduction We introduced Tomiris to the world in September 2021, following our investigation of a DNS-hijack against a government organization in the Commonwealth of Independent States CIS. Our initial report described links between a Tomiris Golang implant and SUNSHUTTLE which has been...

Removing the human: When should AI be used in emotional crisis? Lock and Code S03E09

In January, a mental health nonprofit admitted that it had used Artificial Intelligence to help talk to people in distress. Prompted first by a user's longing for personal improvement--and the difficulties involved in that journey--the AI tool generated a reply, which, with human intervention,...

WordPress PowerPress 10.0 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

On April 5, 2023, our Wordfence Threat Intelligence team identified and began the responsible disclosure process for a stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in Blubrry’s PowerPress plugin, which is actively installed on more than 50,000 WordPress websites. The vulnerability enables threat...

invscout RPM Privilege Escalation

This module exploits a command injection vulnerability in IBM AIX invscout set-uid root utility present in AIX 7.2 and earlier. The undocumented -rpm argument can be used to install an RPM file; and the undocumented -o argument passes arguments to the rpm utility without validation, leading to...

Threat Source newsletter (April 20, 2023) — Preview of Cisco and Talos at RSA

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Were firing up the conference circuit again for 2023, kicking things off next week with the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Cisco has a ton of exciting announcements, keynotes and talks lined up for the week, but there are also plent...

3 Key Challenges to Clarity in Threat Intelligence: 2023 Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ Study

Inundated with data It would have been really cool to combine those two words to make “inundata,” but it would have been disastrous for SEO purposes. It’s all meant to kick off a conversation about the state of security organizations with regard to threat intelligence. There are several key...

Cyber Threat Intelligence: The Power of Data

Discover how cybersecurity leaders and decision makers can leverage cyber threat intelligence to increase security posture and reduce risk...

Google TAG Warns of Russian Hackers Conducting Phishing Attacks in Ukraine

Elite hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence service have been linked to large-volume phishing campaigns aimed at hundreds of users in Ukraine to extract intelligence and influence public discourse related to the war. Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG, which is monitoring the...

Google TAG Warns of Russian Hackers Conducting Phishing Attacks in Ukraine

Elite hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence service have been linked to large-volume phishing campaigns aimed at hundreds of users in Ukraine to extract intelligence and influence public discourse related to the war. Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG, which is monitoring the...

CVE-2023-21965

Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Analytics component: Analytics Server. The supported version that is affected is 6.4.0.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle...

CVE-2023-21970

Vulnerability in the Oracle BI Publisher product of Oracle Analytics component: Security. The supported version that is affected is 6.4.0.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle BI Publisher. Successful attacks require...

CVE-2023-21910

Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Analytics component: Analytics Web General. Supported versions that are affected are 6.4.0.0.0 and 12.2.1.4.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to...

Buffer overflow

Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Analytics component: Analytics Server. The supported version that is affected is 6.4.0.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle...

CVE-2023-21965

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE/OAS) 6.4.0.0.0 is affected by CVE-2023-21965 in the Analytics Server component. The vulnerability allows a low-privilege attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise OBIEE and potentially access all accessible data; successful attacks ...

State-sponsored campaigns target global network infrastructure

Cisco is deeply concerned by an increase in the rate of high-sophistication attacks on network infrastructure -- that we have observed and have seen corroborated by numerous reports issued by various intelligence organizations -- indicating state-sponsored actors are targeting routers and firewal...

Microsoft shifts to a new threat actor naming taxonomy

April 19, 2023 update – We have published a JSON file mapping old threat actor names with their new names in the updated taxonomy, summarized here: https://aka.ms/threatactors. We also added hunting queries that Microsoft customers can use while transitioning to the new taxonomy. See the Resource...

Microsoft shifts to a new threat actor naming taxonomy

April 19, 2023 update – We have published a JSON file mapping old threat actor names with their new names in the updated taxonomy, summarized here: https://aka.ms/threatactors. We also added hunting queries that Microsoft customers can use while transitioning to the new taxonomy. See the Resource...