Navigating Insider Risks: Are your Employees Enabling External Threats?

Attacks on your network are often meticulously planned operations launched by sophisticated threats. Sometimes your technical fortifications provide a formidable challenge, and the attack requires assistance from the inside to succeed. For example, in 2022, the FBI issued a warning1 that SIM swap...

CRYSTALRAY Hackers Infect Over 1,500 Victims Using Network Mapping Tool

A threat actor that was previously observed using an open-source network mapping tool has greatly expanded their operations to infect over 1,500 victims. Sysdig, which is tracking the cluster under the name CRYSTALRAY, said the activities have witnessed a tenfold surge, adding it includes "mass...

Ever Wonder How Hackers Really Steal Passwords? Discover Their Tactics in This Webinar

In today's digital age, passwords serve as the keys to our most sensitive information, from social media accounts to banking and business systems. This immense power brings with it significant responsibility—and vulnerability. Most people don't realize their credentials have been compromised unti...

New Ransomware Group Exploiting Veeam Backup Software Vulnerability

A now-patched security flaw in Veeam Backup & Replication software is being exploited by a nascent ransomware operation known as EstateRansomware. Singapore-headquartered Group-IB, which discovered the threat actor in early April 2024, said the modus operandi involved the exploitation of...

GootLoader Malware Still Active, Deploys New Versions for Enhanced Attacks

The malware known as GootLoader continues to be in active use by threat actors looking to deliver additional payloads to compromised hosts. "Updates to the GootLoader payload have resulted in several versions of GootLoader, with GootLoader 3 currently in active use," cybersecurity firm Cybereason...

Exploit for Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Siemens 6Bk1602-0Aa12-0Tp0_Firmware

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PT-2024-10234 · Sap · Sapsetup

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: SAP Setup affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to a DLL injection vulnerability in SAPSetup, which could allow an attacker with local user privileges or access to a compromised corporate user's Windows account to...

China-Linked Hackers Used ROOTROT Webshell in MITRE Network Intrusion

The MITRE Corporation has offered more details into the recently disclosed cyber attack, stating that the first evidence of the intrusion now dates back to December 31, 2023. The attack, which came to light last month, singled out MITRE's Networked Experimentation, Research, and Virtualization...

PT-2024-12933 · Undefined · Undefined

OSINT CTI Qlik Sense Users - Adversary Tactics: - Initial Access: CVE-2023-412662, CVE-2023-412653 - RMMs: ManageEngine UEMS, Zoho Assist, DWAgent - Lateral Mov: RDP & PuTTY Link8 - Exfil: WizTree & Rclone - Impact: Cactus Ransomware https://t.co/gt0dhuFniS...

State-Sponsored Hackers Exploit Two Cisco Zero-Day Vulnerabilities for Espionage

A new malware campaign leveraged two zero-day flaws in Cisco networking gear to deliver custom malware and facilitate covert data collection on target environments. Cisco Talos, which dubbed the activity ArcaneDoor, attributed it as the handiwork of a previously undocumented sophisticated...

TotalCloud Insights: Safeguarding Your Cloud Database from SQL Server Threats and Lateral Movement Risks

Introduction In todays tech-driven world, cloud computing has completely changed how businesses store and manage their data. It offers many advantages, like flexibility, scalability, and cost savings, making it a go-to choice for organizations of all sizes. Keeping your data secure, especially in...

How Red Team Exercises Increases Your Cyber Health

Delve into the world of red team exercises, their vital role in enhancing organizational security through simulated cyberattacks, including tactics like phishing and lateral movement within networks, and understand the need for regular testing and improvement to counter evolving threats effective...

CVE-2024-25029

IBM Personal Communications (PCOMM) v14.x–v15.x is vulnerable to remote code execution and local privilege escalation via a Windows service, allowing an unauthenticated network attacker to execute commands with SYSTEM privileges due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-25029. Supported affected vers...

Top MITRE ATT&CK Tactics and Techniques Leveraged in 2023

The Qualys Threat Research Unit has mapped vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to the MITRE ATT&CK framework tactics and techniques to help you get the attacker’s view. They have also analyzed vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across all our customers to find the top tactics and techniques...

Learn How to Build an Incident Response Playbook Against Scattered Spider in Real-Time

In the tumultuous landscape of cybersecurity, the year 2023 left an indelible mark with the brazen exploits of the Scattered Spider threat group. Their attacks targeted the nerve centers of major financial and insurance institutions, culminating in what stands as one of the most impactful...

U.S. State Government Network Breached via Former Employee's Account

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has revealed that an unnamed state government organization's network environment was compromised via an administrator account belonging to a former employee. "This allowed the threat actor to successfully authenticate to an internal...

CVE-2024-24821

Composer is a dependency Manager for the PHP language. In affected versions several files within the local working directory are included during the invocation of Composer and in the context of the executing user. As such, under certain conditions arbitrary code execution may lead to local...

CVE-2024-24821

CVE-2024-24821 affects Composer (PHP dependency manager). In affected versions, local directory files can be included during invocation, enabling arbitrary code execution from the executing user context and potentially leading to local privilege escalation, lateral movement, or malicious code exe...

New Zardoor backdoor used in long-term cyber espionage operation targeting an Islamic organization

By Jungsoo An, Wayne Lee and Vanja Svajcer. Cisco Talos discovered a new, stealthy espionage campaign that has likely persisted since at least March 2021. The observed activity affects an Islamic non-profit organization using backdoors for a previously unreported malware family we have named...

Midnight Blizzard Exploiting Legacy OAuth for Lateral Movement

Summary: Midnight Blizzard exploited a legacy test OAuth application with elevated access due to a common password and lack of multi-factor authentication MFA. The attackers leveraged this access to move laterally within Microsofts network, potentially exfiltrating data and gaining broader contro...