Tokyo Olympics Postponed, But 5G Security Lessons Shine

The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were officially postponed this week amid the ongoing, pandemic spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The Games will be moved to 2021, but in the meantime, technological innovation around the event will continue. More specifically, postponed or not, the...

WHO Targeted in Espionage Attempt, COVID-19 Cyberattacks Spike

The World Health Organization WHO has attracted the notice of cybercriminals as the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic continues to play out, with a doubling of attacks recently, according to officials there. Problematically, evidence has also now apparently surfaced that the DarkHotel APT group has tri...

[サイバーセキュリティ月間2020] マイクロソフトのセキュリティに関する情報発信サイトのまとめ

わたしたちセキュリティレスポンスチームは、日本政府が定める「サイバーセキュリティ月間」に賛同し、本ブ...

This Week in Security News: 10,000 Users Affected by Leak from Misconfigured AWS Cloud Storage and Massive U.S. Property and Demographic Database Exposes 200 Million Records

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how the data of train commuters in the U.K. who were using the free Wi-Fi in Network Rail-managed stations was unintentionally...

Omron PLC CJ Series

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Omron Equipment: PLC CJ Series Vulnerability: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could cause a denial-of-service condition. 3...

Roaming Mantis, part V

Kaspersky has continued to track the Roaming Mantis campaign. The group's attack methods have improved and new targets continuously added in order to steal more funds. The attackers' focus has also shifted to techniques that avoid tracking and research: whitelist for distribution, analysis...

Coronavirus Campaigns Spread Emotet, Malware

As the coronavirus originating in the Wuhan province of China continues to stir widespread fears about a global public health crisis, some see an opportunity in the outbreak. A recent spate of malicious, botnet-driven emails is using the coronavirus as a theme, according to telemetry from IBM...

Threat Source newsletter (Jan. 30, 2020)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Be sure to pay close attention Tuesday for some changes we have coming to Snort.org. We’ll spare you the details for now, but please bea...

Getting a VPN in Japan

By David Balaban Virtual private networks VPN are very popular in Japan however.... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Getting a VPN in Japan...

japan.travel Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1049113 Security Researcher yassinehmimou2 Helped patch 68 vulnerabilities Received 2 Coordinated Disclosure badges , a holder of 2 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting japan.travel website and its users. Following...

Omron PLC CJ and CS Series

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.6 ATTENTION : Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor : Omron Equipment : PLC CJ and CS Series Vulnerabilities : Authentication Bypass by Spoofing, Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay, Unrestricted Externally Accessible Lock 2. UPDATE This updated...

japan.travel Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1032474 Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website...

Fancy Bear Targets Sporting, Anti-Doping Orgs As 2020 Olympics Loom

At least 16 anti-doping authorities and sporting organizations around the world have been hit by cyberattacks as the world begins to gear up for the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, which kick off July 2020. The attacks, which began Sept. 16, have been linked to infamous Russian threat group Fancy Bea...

MITSUBISHI PLC suffers from denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2019-37109)

MITSUBISHI PLC is a programmable controller product of Mitsubishi Electric Japan. A denial of service vulnerability exists in MITSUBISHI PLC, which can be exploited by an attacker to cause a denial of service...

FunkyBot Malware Intercepts Android Texts, 2FA Codes

An Android malware dubbed “FunkyBot” has started making the scene in Japan, operated by the same attackers responsible for the FakeSpy malware. It intercepts SMS messages sent to and from infected devices. According to FortiGuard Labs, the malware named after logging strings found in the...

japan-toy-museum.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-926218 Security Researcher geeknik Helped patch 8938 vulnerabilities Received 8 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 21 recommendations , a holder of 8 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting japan-toy-museum.org websit...

Fuji Electric FRENIC Loader

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 4.4 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: Fuji Electric Equipment: FRENIC Loader Vulnerability: Out-of-Bounds Read 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow information disclosure. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1 AFFECTED PRODUCTS...

Mitsubishi Electric FR Configurator2

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.1 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: Mitsubishi Electric Equipment: Mitsubishi Electric FR Configurator2 Vulnerabilities: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference, Uncontrolled Resource Consumption 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation...

Intercept SaaS Services with the Akamai EAA Client

I was quite fortunate to visit Tokyo for the first time last year, and it was an unforgettable experience to explore all the sights and sounds around the Ginza district and to interact with the very friendly Japanese people. It wasn't all play, though -- and I had to get some real work done as...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Tea Bags

It's pu'er tea -- from Japan. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...