ThreatList: Biggest Attack Targets

DO NOT SET LIVE The biggest verticals targeted by hackers in 2018, so far, are Education, Retail, Biotechnology, Construction, and Nonprofit Organizations. According to researchers at eSentire, attackers zeroed in on exploit attempts against the Education vertical, targeting consumer-grade router...

Olympic Destroyer Returns to Target Biochemical Labs

Olympic Destroyer, the threat actor that caused a crippling sabotage attack on the networks supporting this year’s Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, has resurfaced with a spy campaign – and with a wider target range. The new campaign began last month and is ongoing, employing spear-phishi...

Olympic Destroyer is still alive

In March 2018 we published our research on Olympic Destroyer, an advanced threat actor that hit organizers, suppliers and partners of the Winter Olympic Games 2018 held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Olympic Destroyer was a cyber-sabotage attack based on the spread of a destructive network worm. Th...

Feds Arrest 74 Email Fraudsters Involved in Nigerian BEC Scams

The United States Department of Justice announced Monday the arrest of 74 email fraudsters across three continents in a global crackdown on a large-scale business email compromise BEC scheme. The arrest was the result of a six-month-long operation dubbed "Operation Wire Wire" that involved the US...

Further Down the Trello Rabbit Hole

Last month's story about organizations exposing passwords and other sensitive data via collaborative online spaces at Trello.com only scratched the surface of the problem. A deeper dive suggests a large number of government agencies, marketing firms, healthcare organizations and IT support...

Over 115,000 Drupal Sites Still Vulnerable to Drupalgeddon2 Exploit

Hundreds of thousands of websites running on the Drupal CMS—including those of major educational institutions and government organizations around the world—have been found vulnerable to a highly critical flaw for which security patches were released almost two months ago. Security researcher Troy...

Panda Banking Trojan Diversifies into Cryptocurrency, Porn, Other Targets

The Panda banking trojan, a spin-off from the infamous Zeus malware, is widening its net to attack more than just financial services targets, as seen in three ongoing campaigns discovered in May. The Windows-focused Panda is far from the cuddly thing its name would suggest. It has a full arsenal ...

The Role of Sales & Channel in GDPR Compliance

As a part of our journey to General Data Protection Regulation GDPR compliance, we have looked across our business to ensure that all the different departments, employees and products are aligned with our compliance goals and have a solid understanding of the GDPR. Sales people and channel partne...

A Look Inside: Bug Bounties and Pen Testing

As more organizations turn to bug bounty programs, versus penetration testing, to weed out vulnerabilities in their products we ask Christie Terrill, partner at Bishop Fox, what she sees as the pros and cons of either approach. Threatpost’s Lindsey O’Donnell also asks Terrill what kind of compani...

Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti: attacks on servers

Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti is a widely known APT group active since at least 2010. The group tends to attack different companies with a strong focus on the energy and industrial sectors. Companies attacked by Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti are geographically distributed worldwide with a more...

A Cyber Engineering Primer: System Compliance and Hardening

Cybersecurity is a hot topic for just about everyone: it affects organizations as well as individuals, workers, and citizens. Each of us needs at least a basic understanding of how to safely use and protect the devices and systems that are a part of our day-to-day lives...

Operation Parliament, who is doing what?

Summary Kaspersky Lab has been tracking a series of attacks utilizing unknown malware since early 2017. The attacks appear to be geopolitically motivated and target high profile organizations. The objective of the attacks is clearly espionage – they involve gaining access to top legislative,...

memcached, now with extortion!

Over the past week, memcached reflection attacks have taken the DDoS scene by storm. With several attacks hitting organizations across many industries, including a record breaking 1.3Tbps attack against an Akamai customer. Akamai has observed a new trend in extortion attempts using memcached...

Revamp of ‘Pwned Passwords’ Boosts Privacy and Size of Database

Researcher Troy Hunt announced a major revamp of his Pwned Passwords tool that includes more passwords, added features and tightened privacy for organizations who want to check if their in-use passwords can easily be cracked. In V2 of Pwned Passwords, launched last week, Hunt updated his password...

The HITRUST CSF Version 9.1 Release – How It Could Apply to Your Organization

If youre familiar with the Health Information Trust Alliance HITRUST Common Security Framework CSF, then youre likely aware that HITRUST revises the CSF requirements twice annually to account for new regulations, technologies, and business models affecting the security of Protected Health...

How to mitigate rapid cyberattacks such as Petya and WannaCrypt

In the first blog post of this 3-part series, we introduced what rapid cyberattacks are and illustrated how rapid cyberattacks are different in terms of execution and outcome. In the second blog post, we provided some details on Petya and how it worked. In this final blog post, we will share:...

foreman: models with a 'belongs_to' association to an Organization do not verify association belongs to that Organization

It was found that foreman in Satellite 6 did not properly enforce access controls on certain resources. An attacker with access to the API and knowledge of the resource name can access resources in other organizations...

foreman: Information leak through organizations and locations feature

foreman before version 1.15.0 is vulnerable to an information leak through organizations and locations feature. When a user is assigned no organizations/locations, they are able to view all resources instead of none mirroring an administrator's view. The user's actions are still limited by their...

EPIC MyChart - X-Path Injection

Exploit Title: Epic Systems Corporation MyChart X-Path Injection Google Dork: MyChart® licensed from Epic Systems Corporation Date: 8/19/16 Exploit Author: Shayan Sadigh http://threat.tevora.com/author/shayan/ Vendor Homepage: https://www.epic.com/software Software Link: N/A Version: N/A Tested o...

This Week in Security News: Hackers and Ransoms

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, we saw discussion on the ransomware attacks plaguing institutions in the New Year, and emerging malware targeting Meltdown/Spectre patches...