What's New in InsightIDR: Q4 2021 in Review

More context and customization around detections and investigations, expanded dashboard capabilities, and more. This post offers a closer look at some of the recent releases in InsightIDR, our extended detection and response XDR solution, from Q4 2021. Over the past quarter, we delivered updates ...

McMenamins Data Breach Affects 12 Years of Employee Info

A ransomware attack on the McMenamins dining and hospitality empire in the Pacific Northwest came along with a data breach covering 12 years of employee data, the organization has confirmed. The Dec. 12 incident – which some have attributed to the Conti gang – forced McMenamins to shut down vario...

BSA-2021-1658

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2021-1658 Component : JDBC Appender in Apache Log4j Revision : 1.0 Apache Log4j2 versions 2.0-beta7 through 2.17.0 excluding security fix releases 2.3.2 and 2.12.4 are vulnerable to a remote code execution RCE attack when a configuration uses a JDBC Appender with a JNDI...

FBI traces and grabs back $150 million theft that was turned into bitcoins

On December 1, 2021, the Tokyo police arrested an employee of Sony Life Insurance on suspicion of fraudulently obtaining 17 billion yen through an illegal money transfer from an overseas unit. On the same day 3,879 bitcoins, worth about $150 million, were seized by law enforcement, and on the...

Cynet's MDR Offers Organizations Continuous Security Oversight

Today's cyber attackers are constantly looking for ways to exploit vulnerabilities and infiltrate organizations. To keep up with this evolving threat landscape, security teams must be on the lookout for potential risks around the clock. Since most organizations simply cannot afford to have 24x7...

Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response: interesting cases

Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response MDR provides advanced protection against the growing number of threats that bypass automatic security barriers. Its capabilities are backed by a high-professional team of security analysts operating all over the world. Each suspicious security event is...

Kronos crippled by ransomware, service may be out for weeks

Human resources platform provider UKG has put out a statement saying its fallen prey to ransomware that has disrupted the Kronos Private Cloud. It expects the service to be out for several weeks. The statement came after the company posted a message on the Kronos community message board, explaini...

Security Notice: NVIDIA Response to Log4j Vulnerabilities - December 2021

This notice is a response to the remote code execution vulnerabilities in the Log4j Java library, which is also known as Log4Shell. The CVE IDs of these vulnerabilities are as follows: CVE-2021-44228 CVE-2021-45046 CVE-2021-45105 NVIDIA is aware of these vulnerabilities and is evaluating their...

Citrix Security Advisory for CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046, CVE-2021-45105 and CVE-2021-44832.

Citrix is aware offourvulnerabilitiesaffectingApache Log4j2, threeof whichmayallowan attackertoexecute arbitrary code. Thesethreevulnerabilitieshavebeen given the followingidentifiers: CVE-2021-44228 CVE-2021-45046 CVE-2021-44832 Thefourthvulnerabilitymay allowan attackertocause a denial of...

Paragon Initiative Enterprises: Recaptcha Secret key Leaked

Greeting from @kashifinfo90, I hope Paragonie Security Team is doing great, Following Secret Keys are leaked: "secret-key": "6Ldy5BYTAAAAAPBh868BMm2nGZelOUyXJHTUE4no", "site-key": "6Ldy5BYTAAAAACk3Tj8wDUBLcVxSL2JXFBw-Dtj3" "secret-key": "6Ld27iETAAAAAF6tsd5SaoCgc5cFX-tkfHqx7FtX", "site-key":...

Hackers steal $120m from Badger Defi and $30m from MonoX

By Waqas MonoX security breach was caused by a bug in smart contracts meanwhile Badger is still investigating the incident. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers steal $120m from Badger Defi and $30m from MonoX...

Behind the unprecedented effort to protect customers against the NOBELIUM nation-state attack

This is the third in a four-part blog series on the NOBELIUM nation-state cyberattack. In December 2020, Microsoft began sharing details with the world about what became known as the most sophisticated nation-state cyberattack in history. Microsoft’s four-part video series “Decoding NOBELIUM” pul...

How to investigate service provider trust chains in the cloud

In a recent Microsoft blog post, we documented technical guidance for organizations to protect themselves from the latest NOBELIUM activity that was found to target technology service providers, which are privileged in their downstream customer tenants, as a method to gain access to their...

Msticpy - Microsoft Threat Intelligence Security Tools

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Python Security Tools. msticpy is a library for InfoSec investigation and hunting in Jupyter Notebooks. It includes functionality to: query log data from multiple sources enrich the data with Threat Intelligence, geolocations and Azure resource data extract Indicator...

Protect against phishing with Attack Simulation Training in Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Sophisticated cyberattacks are on the rise, with email phishing as the most common attack vector. We’ve seen it all over the news with stories like Hafnium that targeted Exchange servers1 or the Nobelium attack against SolarWinds,2 which show just how easy it is for bad actors to distribute a...

Protect against phishing with Attack Simulation Training in Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Sophisticated cyberattacks are on the rise, with email phishing as the most common attack vector. We’ve seen it all over the news with stories like Hafnium that targeted Exchange servers1 or the Nobelium attack against SolarWinds,2 which show just how easy it is for bad actors to distribute a...

Hoax Email Blast Abused Poor Coding in FBI Website

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation. According to an interview with the person who claimed responsibility for the hoax, the spam messages were sen...

Not Punny: Angling Direct Breach Cripples Retailer for Days

The U.K.’s largest fishing retailer, Angling Direct, experienced a system breach on Nov. 5 that resulted in their domain being redirected to Pornhub. The jokes almost wrote themselves, but days later the site is still down and the extent of the damage to the company’s bottom line is remains uncle...

Pirate Sports Streamer Gets Busted, Pivots to MLB Extortion

Demanding payment in exchange for not publicly disclosing a vulnerability isn’t the same as a bug bounty program; it’s extortion. A 30-year-old alleged sports content pirate in Minneapolis, Minn., has found himself on the receiving end of a criminal complaint alleging that he not only stole user...

Celebrity jewelry house Graff falls victim to ransomware

Data on countless celebrities, including politicians, is apparently now in the hands of ransomware attackers after a group using the Conti variant compromised systems of one of the world’s most exclusive jewelry houses, Graff. Despite what mathematicians like to think, there is an exception to...