Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 13 June – 19 June 2022

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 798 53 1 109 4 13 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The first week of June 2022 witnessed the discovery of 798 vulnerabilities out of which ...

How Akamai Works with Internet Organizations

Learn about a few of the internet organizations, who are developing standards and best practices, that Akamai works with to help foster innovation...

Exposing POLONIUM activity and infrastructure targeting Israeli organizations

Microsoft successfully detected and disabled attack activity abusing OneDrive by a previously undocumented Lebanon-based activity group Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC tracks as POLONIUM. The associated indicators and tactics were used by the OneDrive team to improve detection of attac...

Exposing POLONIUM activity and infrastructure targeting Israeli organizations

Microsoft successfully detected and disabled attack activity abusing OneDrive by a previously undocumented Lebanon-based activity group Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC tracks as POLONIUM. The associated indicators and tactics were used by the OneDrive team to improve detection of attac...

Understanding compliance platform capabilities: black box automation has its limitations

Compliance is hard. It is not a "black box" of opaque inputs and outputs, where systems and data are hidden and where users are oblivious to their inner workings. There has yet to be a product made that can magically produce all the evidence sufficient for testing and verification across the wide...

Hacktivists Expanding DDoS Attacks as Part of International Cyber Warfare Strategy

In April 2022 it was reported that pro-Russian hacktivist group, KILLNET, carried out a series of Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks against a number of websites including the United Nations UN, The Organization for Security and Cooperation OSCE an organization founded in Finland, and oth...

Chicago students lose data to ransomware attackers

Chicago Public Schools CPS disclosed on Friday that students may have had their data taken in a ransomware incident involving one of its vendors. The ransomware attack happened last December at Battelle for Kids BfK, based in Columbus Ohio, which develops services to provide innovation in schools...

US Warns Firms About North Korean Hackers Posing as IT Workers

By Deeba Ahmed US government has warned organizations to beware of hackers in the guise of IT freelancers claiming to be… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US Warns Firms About North Korean Hackers Posing as IT Workers...

4 Steps to Prepare for Open Enrollment: Ready for Takeoff?

Preparing for open enrollment is a key part of running efficient healthcare organizations, but it's difficult to know where to start. Learn which steps to take...

katello Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

A cross-site scripting XSS flaw was found in the katello component of Satellite. An attacker with privilege to create/edit organizations and locations is able to execute a XSS attacks against other users through the Subscriptions or the Red Hat Repositories wizards. This can possibly lead to...

katello Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

A cross-site scripting XSS flaw was found in the katello component of Satellite. An attacker with privilege to create/edit organizations and locations is able to execute a XSS attacks against other users through the Subscriptions or the Red Hat Repositories wizards. This can possibly lead to...

Anatomy of a Security Update

The Microsoft Security Response Center is part of the defender community and on the front line of security response for our customers and the company. Our mission is to protect customers and Microsoft from current and emerging threats related to security and privacy. We monitor threats and provid...

CANs Reinvent LANs for an All-Local World

In an article I wrote over a year ago called “Securing the New Normal of Network Access,” I presented four access scenarios that modern organizations needed to enable users to stay securely connected and protected in the new normal of a work-from-anywhere world. Of course, “new” is a relative ter...

Mahara has unspecified vulnerabilities

Mahara is a free and open source Web-based electronic archive management system from Mahara. security vulnerabilities exist in versions prior to Mahara 20.10.5, 21.04.4, 21.10.2 and 22.04.0, which stem from the fact that sites in the application with isolated organizations are vulnerable to attac...

GitHub Says Recent Attack Involving Stolen OAuth Tokens Was "Highly Targeted"

Cloud-based code hosting platform GitHub described the recent attack campaign involving the abuse of OAuth access tokens issued to Heroku and Travis CI as "highly targeted" in nature. "This pattern of behavior suggests the attacker was only listing organizations in order to identify accounts to...

Chinese "Override Panda" Hackers Resurface With New Espionage Attacks

A Chinese state-sponsored espionage group known as Override Panda has resurfaced in recent weeks with a new phishing attack with the goal of stealing sensitive information. "The Chinese APT used a spear-phishing email to deliver a beacon of a Red Team framework known as 'Viper,'" Cluster25 said i...

Mahara 安全漏洞

Mahara is a free and open source Web-based electronic archive management system from Mahara. security vulnerabilities exist in versions prior to Mahara 20.10.5, 21.04.4, 21.10.2 and 22.04.0, which stem from the fact that sites in the application with isolated organizations are vulnerable to attac...

Get To Know John Fokker

Meet John Fokker Head of Cyber Investigations for Trellix Threat Labs By Trellix · April 28, 2022 This blog was written by Michael Alicea At Trellix, we celebrate and champion our people. This week, I sat down with John Fokker, Head of Cyber Investigations for Trellix Threat Labs and one of the...

OldGremlin, a threat actor targeting Russian organizations with phishing emails since 2020

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here After almost a year, OldGremlin made a comeback in March 2022 by resuming their malicious email campaigns against two Russian organizations. Over the last two years, OldGremlin has carried out 13 malicious email campaigns...

Weekly Threat Digest: 4 – 10 April 2022

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 438 3 3 53 16 54 The second week of April 2022 witnessed the discovery of 438 vulnerabilities out of which 3 gaine...