Why Ransomware in Education on the Rise and What That Means for 2023

The breach of LA Unified School District LAUSD highlights the prevalence of password vulnerabilities, as criminal hackers continue to use breached credentials in increasingly frequent ransomware attacks on education. The Labor Day weekend breach of LAUSD brought significant districtwide disruptio...

CVE-2022-22972

VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation contain an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting local domain users. A malicious actor with network access to the UI may be able to obtain administrative access without the need to authenticate. Rapid7 Analysis...

CISA Alert: Top 15 Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has published its report on the top exploited vulnerabilities of 2021. This blog summarizes the report’s findings and how you can use Qualys VMDR to automatically detect and remediate these risks in your enterprise environment. The...

Millions of Java Apps Remain Vulnerable to Log4Shell

Four months after the discovery of the zero-day Log4Shell critical flaw, millions of Java applications still remain vulnerable to compromise, researchers have found. Rezilion expected that due to the “massive amount of media coverage” the bug unsurprisingly received, the majority of applications...

Trend Micro Partnering with Bit Discovery

We’re excited to partner with Bit Discovery, bringing attack surface discovery capabilities to the Trend Micro One platform, providing ongoing visibility to internal assets devices, identities, applications but also external, internet-facing assets...

New Partner Bit Discovery Helps TM with Attack Surface

We’re excited to partner with Bit Discovery, bringing attack surface discovery capabilities to the Trend Micro One platform, providing ongoing visibility to internal assets devices, identities, applications but also external, internet-facing assets...

Melody - A Transparent Internet Sensor Built For Threat Intelligence

Melody Monitor the Internet's background noise Melody is a transparent internet sensor built for threat intelligence and supported by a detection rule framework which allows you to tag packets of interest for further analysis and threat monitoring. Features Here are some key features of Melody :...

Palantir Public: SQL Injection at https://files.palantir.com/ due to CVE-2021-38159

A vulnerability was discovered in an Internet-facing asset files.palantir.com. A proof of concept POC was developed and used to validate the finding. The vulnerability was patched and resolved. Blog about this vulnerability published. You can read full detail here:...

Understanding How Hackers Recon

Cyber-attacks keep increasing and evolving but, regardless of the degree of complexity used by hackers to gain access, get a foothold, cloak their malware, execute their payload or exfiltrate data, their attack will begin with reconnaissance. They will do their utmost to uncover exposed assets an...

QNAP Warns of DeadBolt Ransomware Targeting Internet-Facing NAS Devices

Taiwanese company QNAP has warned customers to secure network-attached storage NAS appliances and routers against a new ransomware variant called DeadBolt. "DeadBolt has been widely targeting all NAS exposed to the Internet without any protection and encrypting users' data for Bitcoin ransom," th...

The right ASM tools include understanding where the real risk lies

While companies are just scratching the surface of understanding their Internet-facing architecture, hackers have been monitoring growing attack surfaces to find vulnerabilities where companies arent looking or maybe not prioritizing and reaping the reward through bug bounty programs...

Alert! Hackers Exploiting GitLab Unauthenticated RCE Flaw in the Wild

A now-patched critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability in GitLab's web interface has been detected as actively exploited in the wild, cybersecurity researchers warn, rendering a large number of internet-facing GitLab instances susceptible to attacks. Tracked as CVE-2021-22205, the issue...

Defending Assets You Don’t Know About Against Cyberattacks

Back in the 90s, we all used to build massive firewalls around our systems and spent our day-to-day resources looking for holes to patch. In theory, an impenetrable wall around everything you own is a great idea, because it protects even the things you’ve forgotten about. However, if a wall is yo...

FamousSparrow APT Spies on Hotels, Governments

A cyberespionage group dubbed “FamousSparrow” by researchers has taken flight, targeting hotels, governments and private organizations around the world with a custom backdoor called, appropriately, “SparrowDoor.” It’s one of the advanced persistent threats APTs that targeted the ProxyLogon...

Zoho ManageEngine Password Manager Zero-Day Gets Fix

A critical security vulnerability in the Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus platform could allow remote attackers to bypass authentication and have free rein across users’ Active Directory AD and cloud accounts. The issue CVE-2021-40539 has been actively exploited in the wild as a zero-day,...

eCh0raix Ransomware Variant Targets QNAP, Synology NAS Devices

Operators of the nearly-year-old eCh0raix ransomware strain that’s been used to target QNAP and Synology network-attached storage NAS devices in past, separate campaigns have, gotten more efficient. According to researchers, both have put out a new variant that can target either vendors’ devices ...

Microsoft finds new NETGEAR firmware vulnerabilities that could lead to identity theft and full system compromise

The continuous improvement of security solutions has forced attackers to explore alternative ways to compromise systems. The rising number of firmware attacks and ransomware attacks via VPN devices and other internet-facing systems are examples of attacks initiated outside and below the operating...

ForgeRock Access Manager/OpenAM Pre-Auth Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2021-35464): What You Need To Know

On June 29, 2021, security researcher Michael Stepankin @artsploit posted details of CVE-2021-35464, a pre-auth remote code execution RCE vulnerability in ForgeRock Access Manager identity and access management software. ForgeRock front-ends web applications and remote access solutions in many...

Utilities ‘Concerningly’ at Risk from Active Exploits

The amount of time that utility networks spend exposed to a known application exploit has spiked over the past two months — something analysts called out as a “concerning datapoint,” and an important reminder that ransomware isn’t the only threat utility networks need to secure against. A new...

Smogcloud - Find Cloud Assets That No One Wants Exposed

Find exposed AWS cloud assets that you did not know you had. A comprehensive asset inventory is step one to any capable security program. We made smogcloud to enable security engineers, penetration testers, and AWS administrators to monitor the collective changes that create dynamic and ephemeral...