Iran-Linked MuddyWater Targets 100+ Organizations in Global Espionage Campaign

The Iranian nation-state group known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new campaign that has leveraged a compromised email account to distribute a backdoor called Phoenix to various organizations across the Middle East and North Africa MENA region, including over 100 government entities. The...

EUVD-2018-2248

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CVE-2018-10170

NordVPN 6.12.7.0 for Windows suffers from a SYSTEM privilege escalation vulnerability through the "nordvpn-service" service. This service establishes an NetNamedPipe endpoint that allows arbitrary installed applications to connect and call publicly exposed methods. The "Connect" method accepts a...

Octo2 Malware Uses Fake NordVPN, Chrome Apps to Infect Android Devices

Octo2 malware is targeting Android devices by disguising itself as popular apps like NordVPN and Google Chrome. This…...

ASUS and NordVPN Partner to Integrate VPN Service into Routers

Enhanced Security and Privacy for Users with Integrated NordVPN in ASUS Routers!...

Bing ad for NordVPN leads to SecTopRAT

Most of the malicious search ads we have seen have originated from Google, but threat actors are also abusing other search engines. Microsoft Bing is probably the second best target due to its close ties to the Windows ecosystem and Edge browser. In this blog post, we look at a very recent...

Nord Security: Subscription check bypass of NordVPN service

An issue was discovered in one of NordVPN's backend services that allowed users to bypass the subscription check and access the VPN service without a valid subscription. The exploitation of this issue required performing specific steps each time a user wanted to connect to the VPN service. The...

Spoofing Bug Highlights Cybersecurity for Digital Vaccine Passports

Three weeks after an independent researcher found a critical bug in the Services Australia COVID-19 digital vaccine certificate that would allow an attacker to falsify someone’s vaccine status, it still hasn’t been fixed. Researcher Richard Nelson looked into the security behind a new digital...

Nord Security: NordVPN Linux Client - Unsafe service file permissions leads to Local Privilege Escalation

The Linux package available in NordVPN's repository is affected by a permission issue in init script and systemd unit files that allows any user on the system to execute arbitrary command as root. Tested Version Tested version is the latest available on the repository, which is 3.10.0 and is...

New Crypto-Stealer ‘Panda’ Spreads via Discord

Yet another new information stealer – Panda Stealer – is being spread through a worldwide spam campaign. On Tuesday, Trend Micro researchers said that they first spotted the new stealer in April. The most recent wave of the spam campaign has had the biggest impact in Australia, Germany, Japan and...

It’s Easy to Become a Cyberattack Target, but a VPN Can Help

Even though data breaches top news headlines every other week, it’s still tempting to think that no one is interested in your data. But a hacker doesn’t need to target you in particular to get their hands on your most sensitive information. Let’s look at the cyber-threats out there and how a...

Masslogger Trojan Upgraded to Steal All Your Outlook, Chrome Credentials

A credential stealer infamous for targeting Windows systems has resurfaced in a new phishing campaign that aims to steal credentials from Microsoft Outlook, Google Chrome, and instant messenger apps. Primarily directed against users in Turkey, Latvia, and Italy starting mid-January, the attacks...

Nord Security: Possible RCE through Windows Custom Protocol on Windows client

Summary: The NordVPN windows client application registered two custom protocols NordVPN: and NordVPN.Notification: for process communication. This makes us are able to communicate with NordVPN.exe from web browser. After looking the executable binary, I noticed the class...

Bypassing MassLogger Anti-Analysis — a Man-in-the-Middle Approach

The FireEye Front Line Applied Research & Expertise FLARE Team attempts to always stay on top of the most current and emerging threats. As a member of the FLARE Reverse Engineer team, I recently received a request to analyze a fairly new credential stealer identified as MassLogger. Despite the la...

Nord Security: Account deletion requests not entirely honoured. Misinformation even after seeking clarification from customer support.

Summary: Requesting account deletion from NordVPN customer support that is supposed to have "removed your account from our database." does not truly remove account from database. Even after asking if critical information such a billing information is removed, which customer support confirms...

Nord Security: NordVPN Android Application privacy violation due to Google Advertising Identifier misuse

The researcher reported an issue regarding somewhat incorrect GAID usage integration in our application. The concerns were valid and properly addressed by our team...

Nord Security: Unauthorized User Can Delete Any User Account

DESCRIPTION: Your help desk allows creating tickets by email. Which means the user can send an email to the NordVPN support email to a add a new ticket to his activities. So when you send an email to [email protected] from your email address, this ticket will be created on the account that you...

Nord Security: Hard-coded API keys at NordVpn Android App

Hello NordVpn, APK Version : 4.6.2 API'S at res/values/strings.xml Google googleapikey = AIzaSyBySEqk7WWee9bxpw5BM1eJeUx1TWdHE Stripe stripepublishableapikey = pklivej1Mt911wyZwAhATA9TYdA8q2 Referance; https://stripe.com/docs/keys Impact Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information...