Hackers Exploited Popular BillQuick Billing Software to Deploy Ransomware

Cybersecurity researchers on Friday disclosed a now-patched critical vulnerability in multiple versions of a time and billing system called BillQuick that's being actively exploited by threat actors to deploy ransomware on vulnerable systems. CVE-2021-42258, as the flaw is being tracked as,...

Feds Reportedly Hacked REvil Ransomware Group and Forced it Offline

The Russian-led REvil ransomware gang was felled by an active multi-country law enforcement operation that resulted in its infrastructure being hacked and taken offline for a second time earlier this week, in what's the latest action taken by governments to disrupt the lucrative ecosystem. The...

CVE-2021-42258

BQE BillQuick Web Suite 2018 through 2021 before 22.0.9.1 allows SQL injection for unauthenticated remote code execution, as exploited in the wild in October 2021 for ransomware installation. SQL injection can, for example, use the txtID aka username parameter. Successful exploitation can include...

Sql injection

BQE BillQuick Web Suite 2018 through 2021 before 22.0.9.1 allows SQL injection for unauthenticated remote code execution, as exploited in the wild in October 2021 for ransomware installation. SQL injection can, for example, use the txtID aka username parameter. Successful exploitation can include...

CVE-2021-42258

BillQuick Web Suite SQL Injection (CVE-2021-42258) affects BEQ BillQuick Web Suite 2018–2021 prior to 22.0.9.1. The vulnerability is an SQL injection in the txtID/username parameter that enables unauthenticated remote code execution, including the potential to run code as MSSQLSERVER$ via xp_cmds...

CVE-2021-42258

BQE BillQuick Web Suite 2018 through 2021 before 22.0.9.1 allows SQL injection for unauthenticated remote code execution, as exploited in the wild in October 2021 for ransomware installation. SQL injection can, for example, use the txtID aka username parameter. Successful exploitation can include...

CVE-2021-42258

BQE BillQuick Web Suite 2018 through 2021 before 22.0.9.1 allows SQL injection for unauthenticated remote code execution, as exploited in the wild in October 2021 for ransomware installation. SQL injection can, for example, use the txtID aka username parameter. Successful exploitation can include...

FIN7 Lures Unwitting Security Pros to Carry Out Ransomware Attacks

The financially motivated cybercrime gang behind the Carbanak backdoor malware, FIN7, has hit upon a genius idea for maximizing profit from ransomware: Hire real pen-testers to do some of their dirty work instead of striking partnerships with other criminals. According to a report from Gemini...

REvil Servers Shoved Offline by Governments

The REvil ransomware gang is unhappy, with its Happy Blog leak site and Tor payment site pushed offline yet again, this time by a multi-country battering ram. Relying on input from three private-sector cyber-experts working with the U.S. and one former official, Reuters reported on Thursday that...

Ransomware: Why do backups fail when you need them most?

Its widely known, and endlessly repeated, that the last, best line of defence against the potentially devastating effects of a ransomware attack is your backups. So why do we keep hearing things like this: Were also feeling relatively confident, we have a very good backup system … and then we fin...

Hackers Set Up Fake Company to Get IT Experts to Launch Ransomware Attacks

The financially motivated FIN7 cybercrime gang has masqueraded as yet another fictitious cybersecurity company called "Bastion Secure" to recruit unwitting software engineers under the guise of penetration testing in a likely lead-up to a ransomware scheme. "With FIN7's latest fake company, the...

CVE-2021-42258

BQE BillQuick Web Suite 2018 through 2021 before 22.0.9.1 allows SQL injection for unauthenticated remote code execution, as exploited in the wild in October 2021 for ransomware installation. SQL injection can, for example, use the txtID aka username parameter. Successful exploitation can include...

BEQ BillQuick Web Suite SQL注入漏洞

BEQ BillQuick Web Suite is a time and billing system from BEQ USA. BQE BillQuick Web Suite suffers from a SQL injection vulnerability that stems from BQE BillQuick Web Suite 2018 through 2021 allows SQL injection to be used for unauthenticated remote code execution, such as that exploited in the...

This Week in Security News – October 22, 2021

In this week in security news, learn about a new backdoor from PurpleFox that utilizes WebSockets for more secure communication the link between the Sinclair ransomware attack and the cybercrime group Evil Corp...

This Week in Security News – October 22, 2021

In this week in security news, learn about a new backdoor from PurpleFox that utilizes WebSockets for more secure communication the link between the Sinclair ransomware attack and the cybercrime group Evil Corp...

TA551 Shifts Tactics to Install Sliver Red-Teaming Tool

The criminal threat group known as TA551 has added the Sliver red-teaming tool to its bag of tracks – a move that may signal ramped up ransomware attacks ahead, researchers said. According to Proofpoint researchers, TA551 aka Shathak has been mounting cyberattacks that start with email thread...

Gigabyte Allegedly Hit by AvosLocker Ransomware

The AvosLocker ransomware gang is claiming that it breached tech giant Gigabyte and has leaked a sample of what it claims are files stolen from the Taiwanese company’s network. It’s offering to sell the rest. On Wednesday, the gang posted a “press release” announcing that it had purportedly gutte...

Defenders wanted—building the new cybersecurity professionals

As part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we published a special blog post earlier this week featuring real-world experiences shared by cybersecurity professionals: people with diverse backgrounds in law, academia, software development, and other seemingly unrelated fields. This topic is near and...

Your Best Defense Against Ransomware: Akamai + Guardicore

For decades, Akamai has been focused on solving tough problems for our customers. We started by addressing the challenges of the “World Wide Wait,” and quickly started to leverage our edge network’s scale, proximity to users, and expert operations staff to mitigate security threats for our...

Why is Cybersecurity Failing Against Ransomware?

Yes, security is hard – no one is ever 100 percent safe from the threats lurking out there. But how is it that time and time again, companies – big companies – are continuing to fall for ransomware attacks? Why aren’t we getting any better at preventing them? Let’s explore the main reasons why,...