Ransomware’s New Swindle: Triple Extortion

Ransomware attacks are exploding at a staggering rate, and so are the ransoms being demanded. Now experts are warning against a new threat — triple extortion — which means that attackers are expanding out to demand payments from customers, partners and other third parties related to the initial...

Transparent Tribe APT expands its Windows malware arsenal

By Asheer Malhotra, Justin Thattil and Kendall McKay. Transparent Tribe, also known as APT36 and Mythic Leopard, continues to create fake domains mimicking legitimate military and defense organizations as a core component of their operations. Cisco Talos' previous research has mainly linked this...

What We Know About the DarkSide Ransomware and the US Pipeline Attack

Trend Micro Research found dozens of DarkSide ransomware samples in the wild and investigated how the ransomware group operates and what organizations it typically targets...

Joint NCSC-CISA-FBI-NSA Cybersecurity Advisory on Russian SVR Activity

CISA has joined with the United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre NCSC, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the National Security Agency NSA, in releasing a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR tactics, techniques, and procedures. Further TTPs...

Phishing Attacks Spawn Three New Malware Strains

Two waves of global financial phishing attacks that swamped at least 50 organizations in December have delivered three new malware families, according to a report from FireEye’s Mandiant cybersecurity team. On Tuesday, the team said that they’ve dubbed the hitherto-unseen malware strains...

Codecov Releases New Detections for Supply Chain Compromise

CISA is aware of a compromise of the Codecov software supply chain in which a malicious threat actor made unauthorized alterations of Codecov’s Bash Uploader script, beginning on January 31, 2021. Upon discovering the compromise on April 1, 2021, Codecov immediately remediated the affected script...

LuckyMouse Hackers Target Banks, Companies and Governments in 2020

An adversary known for its watering hole attacks against government entities has been linked to a slew of newly detected intrusions targeting various organizations in Central Asia and the Middle East. The malicious activity, collectively named "EmissarySoldier," has been attributed to a threat...

Chinese Hackers Attacking Military Organizations With New Backdoor

Bad actors with suspected ties to China have been behind a wide-ranging cyberespionage campaign targeting military organizations in Southeast Asia for nearly two years, according to new research. Attributing the attacks to a threat actor dubbed "Naikon APT," cybersecurity firm Bitdefender laid ou...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in ASRock Terminal Security Management System

ASRock Terminal Security Management System is an integrated terminal security product solution for governmental and enterprise organizations. The product integrates anti-virus, terminal security control, terminal access, terminal audit, peripheral control, EDR and other functions, and is compatib...

Take action! Multiple Pulse Secure VPN vulnerabilities exploited in the wild

Pulse Secure has alerted customers to the existence of an exploitable chain of attack against its Pulse Connect Secure PCS appliances. PCS provides Virtual Private Network VPN facilities to businesses, which use them to prevent unauthorized access to their networks and services. Cybersecurity...

CVE-2021-30478

An issue was discovered in Zulip Server before 3.4. A bug in the implementation of the canforgesender permission previously isapisuperuser resulted in users with this permission being able to send messages appearing as if sent by a system bot, including to other organizations hosted by the same...

Ransomware disrupts food supply chain, Exchange exploitation suspected

When malware found its way into the network of Bakker Logistiek, a company specializing in the transport and warehousing of food and other products, on the night of 4 to 5 April, its IT systems ground to a halt. And, along with them, the reception of orders from clients, and the delivery of goods...

Using Aviary to Analyze Post-Compromise Threat Activity in M365 Environments

Aviary is a new dashboard that CISA and partners developed to help visualize and analyze outputs from its Sparrow detection tool released in December 2020. Sparrow helps network defenders detect possible compromised accounts and applications in Azure/Microsoft O365 environments. CISA created...

Crossing the Line: When Cyberattacks Become Acts of War

The Cold War concept isn’t outdated. In the decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the battleground has simply shifted from conflicts between ideological proxy governments to cyberspace. And the opponents have grown from a few primary nations into a broad range of sovereign threat actors. Th...

SAP Bugs Under Active Cyberattack

Active cyberattacks on known vulnerabilities in SAP systems could lead to full control of unsecured SAP applications, researchers are warning. Adversaries are carrying out a range of attacks, according to an alert from SAP and security firm Onapsis issued Tuesday – including theft of sensitive...

Ransom Gangs Emailing Victim Customers for Leverage

Some of the top ransomware gangs are deploying a new pressure tactic to push more victim organizations into paying an extortion demand: Emailing the victims customers and partners directly, warning that their data will be leaked to the dark web unless they can convince the victim firm to pay up...

COVID-19 and HIPAA Enforcement Discretion Leaves Healthcare Organizations Vulnerable to Ransomware Attacks

Patient engagement is a term that has been discussed in healthcare for years. But now, its an urgent priority as providers work to vaccinate millions of Americans. The COVID-19 pandemic has put increased pressure on healthcare providers to ramp up digital communications with patients regarding...

CISA Releases Supplemental Direction on Emergency Directive for Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities

CISA has issued supplemental direction to Emergency Directive ED 21-02: Mitigate Microsoft Exchange On-Premises Product Vulnerabilities providing additional forensic triage and server hardening, requirements for federal agencies. Specifically, this update directs federal departments and agencies ...

CISA Releases Supplemental Guidance on Emergency Directive for Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities

CISA has issued supplemental direction to Emergency Directive ED 21-02: Mitigate Microsoft Exchange On-Premises Product Vulnerabilities providing additional forensic triage and server hardening, requirements for federal agencies. Specifically, this update directs federal departments and agencies ...

PYSA, the ransomware attacking schools

The education sector’s cybersecurity problem has compounded in the last few months. A recent warning from the FBI, in mid-March, put schools in the US and UK on notice of increased attacks from the threat actors behind the PYSA ransomware. If this is the first time you’ve heard of this family, re...