Microsoft Takes Legal Action to Disrupt Cybercriminals' Illegal Use of Cobalt Strike Tool

Microsoft said it teamed up with Fortra and Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center Health-ISAC to tackle the abuse of Cobalt Strike by cybercriminals to distribute malware, including ransomware. To that end, the tech giant's Digital Crimes Unit DCU revealed that it secured a court order i...

The Uniquely American Future of US Authoritarianism

The GOP-fueled far right differs from similar movements around the globe, thanks to the country’s politics, electoral system, and changing demographics...

Operation Soft Cell: Chinese Hackers Breach Middle East Telecom Providers

Telecommunication providers in the Middle East are the subject of new cyber attacks that commenced in the first quarter of 2023. The intrusion set has been attributed to a Chinese cyber espionage actor associated with a long-running campaign dubbed Operation Soft Cell based on tooling overlaps...

Operation Soft Cell: Chinese Hackers Breach Middle East Telecom Providers

Telecommunication providers in the Middle East are the subject of new cyber attacks that commenced in the first quarter of 2023. The intrusion set has been attributed to a Chinese cyber espionage actor associated with a long-running campaign dubbed Operation Soft Cell based on tooling overlaps...

LockBit 3.0 Ransomware: Inside the Cyberthreat That's Costing Millions

U.S. government agencies have released a joint cybersecurity advisory detailing the indicators of compromise IoCs and tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs associated with the notorious LockBit 3.0 ransomware. "The LockBit 3.0 ransomware operations function as a Ransomware-as-a-Service RaaS...

Patch Tuesday - March 2023

Microsoft is offering fixes for 101 security issues for March 2023 Patch Tuesday, including two zero-day vulnerabilities; the most interesting of the two zero-day vulnerabilities is a flaw in Outlook which allows an attacker to authenticate against arbitrary remote resources as another user...

When Partial Protection is Zero Protection: The MFA Blind Spots No One Talks About

Multi-factor Authentication MFA has long ago become a standard security practice. With a wide consensus on its ability to fend off more than 99% percent of account takeover attacks, it's no wonder why security architects regard it as a must-have in their environments. However, what seems to be le...

When Partial Protection is Zero Protection: The MFA Blind Spots No One Talks About

Multi-factor Authentication MFA has long ago become a standard security practice. With a wide consensus on its ability to fend off more than 99% percent of account takeover attacks, it's no wonder why security architects regard it as a must-have in their environments. However, what seems to be le...

Lazarus Group Exploits Zero-Day Vulnerability to Hack South Korean Financial Entity

The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been observed weaponizing flaws in an undisclosed software to breach a financial business entity in South Korea twice within a span of a year. While the first attack in May 2022 entailed the use of a vulnerable version of a certificate software that's wide...

New EX-22 Tool Empowers Hackers with Stealthy Ransomware Attacks on Enterprises

A new post-exploitation framework called EXFILTRATOR-22 aka EX-22 has emerged in the wild with the goal of deploying ransomware within enterprise networks while flying under the radar. "It comes with a wide range of capabilities, making post-exploitation a cakewalk for anyone purchasing the tool,...

Lateral movement risks in the cloud and how to prevent them – Part 3: from compromised cloud resource to Kubernetes cluster takeover

In this third blog post, we will discuss lateral movement risks from the cloud to Kubernetes. We will explain attacker TTPs, and outline best practices for cloud builders and defenders to help secure their cloud environments and mitigate risk...

Lazarus Group Likely Using New WinorDLL64 Backdoor to Exfiltrate Sensitive Data

A new backdoor associated with a malware downloader named Wslink has been discovered, with the tool likely used by the notorious North Korea-aligned Lazarus Group, new findings reveal. The payload, dubbed WinorDLL64 by ESET, is a fully-featured implant that can exfiltrate, overwrite, and delete...

Hydrochasma: New Threat Actor Targets Shipping Companies and Medical Labs in Asia

Shipping companies and medical laboratories in Asia have been the subject of a suspected espionage campaign carried out by a never-before-seen threat actor dubbed Hydrochasma. The activity, which has been ongoing since October 2022, "relies exclusively on publicly available and living-off-the-lan...

K42219132: OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-6309

Security Advisory Description statem/statem.c in OpenSSL 1.1.0a does not consider memory-block movement after a realloc call, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service use-after-free or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TLS session. CVE-2016-6309 Impact There is no...

Researchers Warn of Critical Security Bugs in Schneider Electric Modicon PLCs

Security researchers have disclosed two new vulnerabilities affecting Schneider Electric Modicon programmable logic controllers PLCs that could allow for authentication bypass and remote code execution. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-45788 CVSS score: 7.5 and CVE-2022-45789 CVSS score: 8.1, are...

Researchers Warn of Critical Security Bugs in Schneider Electric Modicon PLCs

Security researchers have disclosed two new vulnerabilities affecting Schneider Electric Modicon programmable logic controllers PLCs that could allow for authentication bypass and remote code execution. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-45788 CVSS score: 7.5 and CVE-2022-45789 CVSS score: 8.1, are...

SUSE CVE-2013-5613

Use-after-free vulnerability in the PresShell::DispatchSynthMouseMove function in Mozilla Firefox before 26.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.2, Thunderbird before 24.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.23 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service heap memory corruption via...

SUSE CVE-2013-6622

Use-after-free vulnerability in the HTMLMediaElement::didMoveToNewDocument function in core/html/HTMLMediaElement.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 31.0.1650.48, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving the...

SUSE CVE-2014-7929

Use-after-free vulnerability in the HTMLScriptElement::didMoveToNewDocument function in core/html/HTMLScriptElement.cpp in the DOM implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact...

SUSE CVE-2015-1218

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the DOM implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger movement of a SCRIPT element to different documents,...