Pawn Storm: The Power of Social Engineering

In our latest report on Pawn Storm a.k.a. APT28, Fancy Bear, Strontium, etc., researchers expose the scope and scale of the cyber espionage group’s attacks but more importantly their cyber tradecraft. Our researchers have observed activity going back seven years targeting government, military,...

'Anonymous' FTP Servers Leaving Healthcare Data Exposed

Hackers craving personal health care information are targeting exposed FTP servers. The FBI issued a warning last week that focused on an increase in criminal activity targeting FTP servers used by medical and dental organizations that are configured to allow anonymous access without...

New Clues Surface on Shamoon 2's Destructive Behavior

Researchers on Monday reported progress in piecing together some of the missing pieces of the Shamoon 2 puzzle that have been eluding them when it comes to lateral network movement and execution of the Disttrack malware component used in past campaigns. Shamoon 2 uses a combination of legitimate...

SambaCry, the Seven Year Old Samba Vulnerability, is the Next Big Threat (for now)

As Samba is used as part of many organizations storage systems, we will discuss the impact of the vulnerability on organizations and home users...

Managing Printer Deployment Using Layers in the Unidesk Environment

While many brokering and persona management solutions provide mechanisms to manage printer deployment, you might find it easier to use Unidesk layers. Unidesk layers provide a flexible mechanism for managing printer deployments for different groups of users. When you use Unidesk layers to deploy...

SSAE No 18 effective for SOC reports dated May 1, 2017

The AICPA Auditing Standards Board ASB announces new changes for SOC reporting under SSAE No. 18 in April 2016. A description of the changes and what it means for service organizations is below. The AICPAs attestation standards contain the requirements and application guidance for performing and...

New “Fileless Malware” Targets Banks and Organizations Spotted in the Wild

More than a hundred banks and financial institutions across the world have been infected with a dangerous sophisticated, memory-based malware that's almost undetectable, researchers warned. Newly published report by the Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab indicates that hackers are targeting bank...

Foreman 1.1.x < 1.11.4 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Foreman is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:theforeman:foreman"; if...

OpenDoor - OWASP Directory Access Scanner

This application scans the site directories and find all possible ways to login, empty directories and entry points. Scans conducted in the dictionary that is included in this application. This software is written for informational purposes and is an open source product under the GPL license...

Microsoft Says Russian APT Group Behind Zero-Day Attacks

Microsoft has singled out Sofacy, an APT group long thought to have ties to Russia’s military intelligence arm GRU, as the entity behind targeted attacks leveraging Windows kernel and Adobe Flash zero days in targeted attacks. The group, which Microsoft calls Strontium, is also known as APT28, Ts...

CVE-2016-7078

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...

Plone CMS 4.3.11 / 5.0.6 XSS / Traversal / Open Redirection

Product Description Plone is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. Plone is positioned as an "Enterprise CMS" and is most commonly used for intranets and as part of the web presence of large organizations Systems Affected Product : Plone...

Potential Hurricane Matthew Phishing Scams

US-CERT warns users to remain vigilant for malicious cyber activity seeking to capitalize on interest in Hurricane Matthew. Users are advised to exercise caution in handling any email with subject line, attachments, or hyperlinks related to Hurricane Matthew, even if it appears to originate from ...

The Cost of a FedRAMP Assessment from a 3PAO Perspective

FedRAMP.gov recently published a blog titled How Much Does It Cost to Go Through FedRAMP? As a FedRAMP Third Party Assessment Organization 3PAO, we wanted to provide additional factors for consideration for organizations that are evaluating or pursuing a FedRAMP authorization...

SWIFT Warns Banks Of More Cyberattacks

Reports of additional attacks against banks that use SWIFT, the global financial transaction messaging network, came to light Wednesday. The attacks were reportedly persistent, sophisticated and in some cases successful, impacting an undisclosed number of financial institutions. It’s the latest...

CVE-2016-4475

The 1 Organization and 2 Locations APIs and UIs in Foreman before 1.11.4 and 1.12.x before 1.12.0-RC3 allow remote authenticated users to bypass organization and location restrictions and a read, b edit, or c delete arbitrary organizations or locations via unspecified vectors...

Operation Ghoul Targeting Middle Eastern Industrial, Engineering Organizations

Researchers today identified a series of ongoing targeted attacks primarily designed to steal sensitive corporate financial data from industrial and engineering organizations in the Middle East. The group behind the campaign, nicknamed Operation Ghoul by researchers at Kaspersky Lab’s Global...

foreman: API and UI actions/URLs not limited to the orgs/locations assigned

It was found that the foreman API and UI actions and URLs are not properly limited to the organizations and locations they were assigned to. This could allow an attacker to view and update other organizations and locations in the system that they should not be allowed to...

Unmasking xDedic's Black Market for Servers and PCs

LAS VEGAS — Black market machine trading of PC and server resources is maturing at alarming speeds. Underground networks such as xDedic have fine-tuned their compute platform to the point where they are almost indistinguishable to legitimate networks such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. Tho...

The International Incident &#8211; Gaining Control of a .int Domain Name With DNS Trickery

The .int or international TLD is perhaps one of the most exclusive extensions available on the Internet. The number of domains on the extension is so small it has it’s own Wikipedia page. Introduced around 27 years ago its primary purpose has been for international treaty organizations. The...