CISA Order Highlights Persistent Risk at Network Edge

The U.S. government agency in charge of improving the nations cybersecurity posture is ordering all federal agencies to take new measures to restrict access to Internet-exposed networking equipment. The directive comes amid a surge in attacks targeting previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely...

CISA Issues BOD 23-02: Mitigating the Risk from Internet-Exposed Management Interfaces

Today, CISA issued Binding Operational Directive BOD 23-02: Mitigating the Risk from Internet-Exposed Management Interfaces, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch FCEB agencies to reduce risks posed by internet-exposed networked management interfaces on federal information systems. This...

CLR SqlShell Malware Targets MS SQL Servers for Crypto Mining and Ransomware

Poorly managed Microsoft SQL MS SQL servers are the target of a new campaign that's designed to propagate a category of malware called CLR SqlShell that ultimately facilitates the deployment of cryptocurrency miners and ransomware. "Similar to web shell, which can be installed on web servers,...

Apache Superset Vulnerability: Insecure Default Configuration Exposes Servers to RCE Attacks

The maintainers of the Apache Superset open source data visualization software have released fixes to plug an insecure default configuration that could lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-27524 CVSS score: 8.9, impacts versions up to and including 2.0.1 and relat...

UNC4466 Attack Campaign Targets Veritas Backup Exec and Deploys ALPHV Ransomware

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary UNC4466 conducted an attack campaign in late 2022, gaining initial access to an internet-exposed Windows server running Veritas Backup Exec and deploying the ALPHV ransomware, with over 8,500 potentially...

Chinese Hackers Utilize Golang Malware in DragonSpark Attacks to Evade Detection

Organizations in East Asia are being targeted by a likely Chinese-speaking actor dubbed DragonSpark while employing uncommon tactics to go past security layers. "The attacks are characterized by the use of the little known open source SparkRAT and malware that attempts to evade detection through...

The DTrack Backdoor campaigns aimed European organizations

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary DTrack, a malware developed by the Lazarus group is a flexible backdoor that unloads malware in stages. It is dispersed with filenames that are routinely used in legitimate executables. The backdoor is...

Warning — Deadbolt Ransomware Targeting ASUSTOR NAS Devices

ASUSTOR network-attached storage NAS devices have become the latest victim of Deadbolt ransomware, less than a month after similar attacks singled out QNAP NAS appliances. In response to the infections, the company has released firmware updates ADM 4.0.4.RQO2 to "fix related security issues." The...

Crimes of Opportunity: Increasing Frequency of Low Sophistication Operational Technology Compromises

Attacks on control processes supported by operational technology OT are often perceived as necessarily complex. This is because disrupting or modifying a control process to cause a predictable effect is often quite difficult and can require a lot of time and resources. However, Mandiant Threat...

75% of the 'Left to Get Hacked' Redis Servers Found Infected

Despite the continual emergence of new cyber attacks because of misconfigured servers and applications, people continue to ignore security warnings. A massive malware campaign designed to target open Redis servers, about which researchers warned almost two months ago, has now grown and already...

Patching CVE-2017-7494 in Samba: It’s the Circle of Life

With the scent of scorched internet still lingering in the air from the WannaCry Ransomworm, today we see a new scary-and-potentially-incendiary bug hitting the twitter news. The vulnerability - CVE-2017-7494 - affects versions 3.5 released March 1, 2010 and onwards of Samba, the defacto standard...