Improving security for mobile devices: CISA issues guides

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released two actionable Capacity Enhancement Guides CEGs to help users and organizations improve mobile device cybersecurity. Consumers One of the guides is intended for consumers. There are an estimated 294 million smart phone users i...

CISA Releases Capacity Enhancement Guides to Enhance Mobile Device Cybersecurity for Consumers and Organizations

CISA has released actionable Capacity Enhancement Guides CEGs to help users and organizations improve mobile device cybersecurity. The CEG: Mobile Device Cybersecurity Checklist for Consumers provides steps for consumers, including using strong authentication and enabling automatic operating syst...

Time to Act: Bridging the Gap in Cloud Automation Adoption

Ready or not, the cloud is here. Across the board, an overwhelming majority of organizations recognize the value of the cloud. According to a recent survey conducted by Rapid7, 90% of respondents believe that cloud operations are critical to the competitiveness of their business. Analysts agree —...

Iran's Lyceum Hackers Target Telecoms, ISPs in Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Africa

A state-sponsored threat actor allegedly affiliated with Iran has been linked to a series of targeted attacks aimed at internet service providers ISPs and telecommunication operators in Israel, Morocco, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia, as well as a ministry of foreign affairs MFA in Africa, new finding...

Apostrophe licensing issue vulnerability

Apostrophe is a full-featured open source Cms built with Node.js by Apostrophe, Inc. designed to empower organizations by combining contextual editing and headless architecture in a full-stack Js environment.Apostrophe CMS is vulnerable to an authorization issue in versions 2.63.0 through 3.3.1,...

Wanted! US offers $10m bounty for ransomware kingpins

The US State Department is offering a massive $10 million reward if you can help bring DarkSide to justice. The U.S. Department of State announces a reward offer of up to $10,000,000 for information leading to the identification or location of any individuals who holds a key leadership position i...

The biggest update you’ll barely see

Its been more than 10 years since ThreadFix had its first lines of code written by its creator, Dan Cornell, as a means of solving a very pervasive issue in the application security space. While it quickly became a popular talking point at conferences and app sec parties they exist!, it was never...

CISA Issues BOD 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

CISA has issued Binding Operational Directive BOD 22-01, Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, to establish specific timeframes for federal civilian agencies to remediate vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited by known adversaries. To support this Directive,...

Strategy for the Office Anywhere

Organizations must deploy a remote working strategy that suits the office anywhere model CIOs need to demonstrate leadership as we move out of lockdown into a new model of working in which the office is wherever the employee is. It’s time to build on this initial success and embed a remote workin...

Galette Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Galette is open source a membership management web application for non-profit organizations. Galette suffers from a cross-site scripting vulnerability in versions prior to 0.9.5 that stems from a lack of checksum filtering of user-supplied and output data. An attacker could store malicious...

CVE-2021-21319

Galette is a membership management web application geared towards non profit organizations. In versions prior to 0.9.5, malicious javascript code can be stored to be displayed later on self subscription page. The self subscription feature can be disabled as a workaround this is the default state...

CVE-2021-21319 Several stored XSS

Galette is a membership management web application geared towards non profit organizations. In versions prior to 0.9.5, malicious javascript code can be stored to be displayed later on self subscription page. The self subscription feature can be disabled as a workaround this is the default state...

CVE-2021-21319

Galette (Open Source membership management app) versions before 0.9.5 are affected by cross-site scripting issues. The vulnerability stems from malicious JavaScript that can be displayed/executed in user-facing pages: stored on the self-subscription flow and, on login and password pages, it can b...

Microsoft Digital Defense Report shares new insights on nation-state attacks

Microsoft is proud to promote Cybersecurity Awareness Month as part of our ongoing commitment to security for all. Year-round, Microsoft tracks nation-state threat activities to help protect organizations and individuals from these advanced persistent actors. We’re constantly improving our...

Russian-speaking cybercrime evolution: What changed from 2016 to 2021

Experts at Kaspersky have been investigating various computer incidents on a daily basis for over a decade. Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime worlds modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime worl...

Lyceum APT Returns, This Time Targeting Tunisian Firms

The Lyceum threat group has resurfaced, this time with a weird variant of a remote-access trojan RAT that doesn’t have a way to talk to a command-and-control C2 server and might instead be a new way to proxy traffic between internal network clusters. Kaspersky’s Mark Lechtik – senior security...

Cybersecurity Experts Warn of a Rise in Lyceum Hacker Group Activities in Tunisia

A threat actor, previously known for striking organizations in the energy and telecommunications sectors across the Middle East as early as April 2018, has evolved its malware arsenal to strike two entities in Tunisia. Security researchers at Kaspersky, who presented their findings at the...

Attack Campaigns Ramp Up for Organizations Down Under

DDoS and AppSec attacks impacting the ANZ region Australia and New Zealand have been in the headlines of late, with several high profile companies seeing prolonged outages and leading to speculation as to whether the region is being specifically targeted? Let’s take a closer look at the types of...

Serverless protection for execution environments made easy

Serverless computing is transforming the way we build, ship, automate, and scale applications. With no infrastructure to manage, organizations can move from ideation to market faster, with virtually no operational overhead. Consequently, these enterprises can now focus on just the code that serve...

New APT ChamelGang Targets Russian Energy, Aviation Orgs

A new APT group has emerged that’s specifically targeting the fuel and energy complex and aviation industry in Russia, exploiting known vulnerabilities like Microsoft Exchange Server’s ProxyShell and leveraging both new and existing malware to compromise networks. Researchers at security firm...