Hackers Using Malicious IIS Server Module to Steal Microsoft Exchange Credentials

Malicious actors are deploying a previously undiscovered binary, an Internet Information Services IIS webserver module dubbed "Owowa," on Microsoft Exchange Outlook Web Access servers with the goal of stealing credentials and enabling remote command execution. "Owowa is a C-developed .NET v4.0...

How to Buy Precious Patching Time as Log4j Exploits Fly

Sure, Apache got a patch out fast when the Log4j logging library vulnerability – aka Javageddon or “up there with Shellshock” – exploded last week. But emergency patches take days best-case scenario or weeks to install: plenty of time for attackers to do their worst. Which they lickety-split did,...

Best practices for AI security risk management

Today, we are releasing an AI security risk assessment framework as a step to empower organizations to reliably audit, track, and improve the security of the AI systems. In addition, we are providing new updates to Counterfit, our open-source tool to simplify assessing the security posture of AI...

Best practices for AI security risk management

Today, we are releasing an AI security risk assessment framework as a step to empower organizations to reliably audit, track, and improve the security of the AI systems. In addition, we are providing new updates to Counterfit, our open-source tool to simplify assessing the security posture of AI...

NICKEL targeting government organizations across Latin America and Europe

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC has observed NICKEL, a China-based threat actor, targeting governments, diplomatic entities, and non-governmental organizations NGOs across Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and North America. MSTIC has been tracking NICKEL since 2016...

NICKEL targeting government organizations across Latin America and Europe

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC has observed NICKEL, a China-based threat actor, targeting governments, diplomatic entities, and non-governmental organizations NGOs across Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and North America. MSTIC has been tracking NICKEL since 2016...

ScarCruft APT Mounts Desktop/Mobile Double-Pronged Spy Attacks

The North Korea-linked ScarCruft advanced persistent threat APT group has developed a fresh, multiplatform malware family for attacking North Korean defectors, journalists and government organizations involved in Korean Peninsula affairs. Since 2019, ScarCruft aka APT37 or Temp.Reaper has been...

ScarCruft surveilling North Korean defectors and human rights activists

The ScarCruft group also known as APT37 or Temp.Reaper is a nation-state sponsored APT actor we first reported in 2016. ScarCruft is known to target North Korean defectors, journalists who cover North Korea-related news and government organizations related to the Korean Peninsula, between others...

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

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...