ShadowBrokers' Leak Has 'Strong Connection' to Equation Group

A high-stakes game of attribution started by a group claiming to have a cache of exploits belonging to the Equation Group took a somewhat definitive turn Tuesday afternoon. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab yesterday confirmed a connection between the tools currently up for auction by the ShadowBroker...

Breach Forces Password Change on Oracle MICROS PoS Customers

Oracle is alerting customers it found malicious code in some of its MICROS point-of-sale systems and is requiring they change account passwords. The security measures come on the heels of reports the world’s No. 3 PoS service succumbed to a security breach perpetrated by the Carbanak gang. The...

Kaspersky Lab Bug Bounty Program Launches

LAS VEGAS – Kaspersky Lab today at Black Hat USA 2016 announced the launch of a public bug bounty, one of the few offered by a software vendor in the computer security industry. The bounty begins tomorrow on the HackerOne platform, and the first phase will run for six months. The company said tha...

Attributing Advanced Attacks Remains Challenge For Researchers

Amid the connections being made between the Russian government and the attack on the Democratic National Committee DNC, researchers on Tuesday reminded us of the challenges security experts have in correctly attributing advanced attacks. In a wide-ranging Reddit AMA, members of Kaspersky Lab’s...

91 Percent of Public-Facing ICS Components Are Remotely Exploitable

We live in an increasingly connected world, but even in an age when DDoS attacks can take entire airlines offline, many critically sensitive industrial control systems ICS are still connected to the internet. A pair of reports released today by Kaspersky Lab reveal how dire the situation really i...

'Dropping Elephant' APT Attackers Targets Old Windows Flaws

Don’t judge an APT by its exploits alone. That’s the takeaway from a report that details a unique advanced persistent threat that leverages a kludge of unsophisticated, outdated and rudimentary attack tools to conduct cyber espionage. The target of the attacks are government and diplomatic agenci...

On the Rise of Ransomware, Bitcoin Phishing, and Exploit Kits

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the news of the week, including a Bitcoin phishing campaign, the Kaspersky Lab ransomware report, misconfigured email servers, and a decline in Angler exploit kit traffic. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapJune242016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Ransomware A Two-Year Nightmare in the Making

The scourge of ransomware over the past two years has been impressive – and not in a good way. The number of frustrated computer users locked out of their PCs is at an all-time high with no signs of the ransomware epidemic relenting. According to security experts, the last two years have seen an...

xDedic Hacked Servers Market May Be Larger Than Originally Thought

New data anonymously shared with Kaspersky Lab researchers may enlarge the scope of and provide additional context to the hacked RDP servers for sale on the now defunct xDedic marketplace. The underground marketplace was disclosed in a report published last Tuesday describing an eBay-style platfo...

Mobile Triada and Horde Variants Bypass Android Security

Two mobile variants of Triada and Horde malware have been spotted in the wild by Check Point Software Technologies researchers who warn the latest samples have adopted dangerous new techniques including the ability to evade Google’s security on some OS versions. The Android Trojan called Triada,...

Adobe Patches Flash Zero Day Under Attack by APT Group

Adobe on Thursday patched a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player that has been used in targeted attacks carried out by a new APT group operating primarily against high-profile victims in Russia and Asia. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab privately disclosed the flaw to Adobe after exploits against t...

Fix Coming for Flash Vulnerability Under Attack

Adobe today said it will patch Flash Player this week, addressing a vulnerability being exploited in “limited, targeted attacks.” The flaw, CVE-2016-4171, exists in versions of Flash prior to, and including, 21.0.0.242 on Windows, Macintosh, Linux and ChromeOS platforms. “Successful exploitation...

Updated CryptXXX Ransomware Big Money Potential

CryptXXX ransomware has received a major overhaul by its authors, putting it on the fast track to unseat Locky as top moneymaker for criminals. Researchers at Proofpoint said that on May 26, cybercriminals released an updated CryptXXX 3.100 version of the ransomware that includes a new StillerX...

Arrests Made In $45M Russian Bank Hack

Russian law enforcement has made 50 arrests in connection with a five-year operation to steal three billion rubles just shy of $45 million USD from the country’s largest bank, Sberbank. The hackers are alleged to have exploited websites, including popular news sites, to infect victims with the Lu...

APT Groups Exploiting Patch Microsoft Office Flaw CVE-2015-2545

A Microsoft Office vulnerability patched six months ago continues to be a valuable tool for APT gangs operating primarily in Southeast Asia and the Far East. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab today published a report describing how attackers continue to flourish exploiting CVE-2015-2545, a remote code...

New Decryptor Unlocks CryptXXX Ransomware

When exploits kits, in particular Angler, spread ransomware infections, people get nervous. The latest strain to appear in the virulent Angler kit is CryptXXX, which researchers at Proofpoint and Fox IT tied to the same group dropping old-school Reveton ransomware and Bedep click-fraud malware...

Santiago Pontiroli and Roberto Martinez on ATM Jackpotting

Threatpost editor Mike Mimoso talks with Roberto Martinez and Santiago Pontiroli, researchers with Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT about ATM malware, jackpotting, and why it works so well in Latin America...

Angler Exploit Kit Attacks Silverlight Vulnerability

Exploits for a vulnerability in Microsoft Silverlight have found their way into the dangerous Angler Exploit Kit a little more than a month after it was patched. French security researcher Kafeine said he was able to get independent confirmation from researchers at Kaspersky Lab that the exploit...

Linux Mint Website Hacked, ISOs Replaced with Backdoored Versions

Attackers managed to hijack the website of the Linux Mint operating system to push a backdoored ISO image of the software to users over the weekend. The developers behind the software, one of, if not the most popular Linux distribution, are unsure what the hackers are aiming to achieve by the mov...

Siemens SIPROTEC Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities (Update B)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 5.3 ATTENTION : Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor : Siemens Equipment : SIPROTEC 4 and SIPROTEC Compact Vulnerabilities : Information Exposure 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the updated advisory titled ICSA-16-140-02...