Malicious Package

Overview dca-http-searcher is a malicious package. The package's name is based on existing repositories, namespaces, or components used by popular companies in an effort to trick employees into downloading it, also known as 'dependency confusion'. Therefore, you're only vulnerable if this package...

Malicious Package

Overview yb-mongoengine is a malicious package. The package's name is based on existing repositories, namespaces, or components used by popular companies in an effort to trick employees into downloading it, also known as 'dependency confusion'. Therefore, you're only vulnerable if this package wa...

Kevin Mitnick Hacked California Law in 1983

Early in his career, Kevin Mitnick successfully hacked California law. He told me the story when he heard about my new book, which he partially recounts his 2012 book, Ghost in the Wires. The setup is that he just discovered that theres warrant for his arrest by the California Youth Authority, an...

Exploit for Use After Free in Linux Linux_Kernel

CVE-2022-32250-LPE LPE exploit for CVE-2022-32250 - a Use-Afte...

Introducing kernel sanitizers on Microsoft platforms

As part of Microsoft’s commitment to continuously raise security baselines, we have been introducing innovations to the foundation of the chip-to-cloud security outlined in the Windows 11 Security Book. Strong foundational security enables us to build defenses from the ground up and develop...

Trellix Advanced Research Center patches 61,000 vulnerable open-source projects

Trellix Advanced Research Center Patches 61,000 Vulnerable Open-Source Projects By Trellix · January 23, 2023 This blog was written by Douglas McKee Late last year, the Trellix Advanced Research Center team uncovered a vulnerability in Python’s tarfile module. As we dug in, we realized this was...

Trellix Advanced Research Center patches 61,000 vulnerable open-source projects

Trellix Advanced Research Center Patches 61,000 Vulnerable Open-Source Projects By Trellix · January 23, 2023 This blog was written by Douglas McKee Late last year, the Trellix Advanced Research Center team uncovered a vulnerability in Python’s tarfile module. As we dug in, we realized this was...

The Small but Mighty Danger of Echo Chamber Extremism

Research shows that relatively few people exist in perfectly sealed-off media bubbles—but they’re still having an outsize impact on US politics...

Welcome to the Era of Internet Blackouts

New research from Cloudflare shows that connectivity disruptions are becoming a problem around the globe, pointing toward a troubling new normal...

Gamaredon Group Launches Cyberattacks Against Ukraine Using Telegram

The Russian state-sponsored cyber espionage group known as Gamaredon has continued its digital onslaught against Ukraine, with recent attacks leveraging the popular messaging app Telegram to strike military and law enforcement sectors in the country. "The Gamaredon group's network infrastructure...

Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Shut Down: 11 Million Phones Targeted

By Waqas The ad fraud was discovered while the researchers were investigating an iOS application that had been heavily impacted by an app spoofing attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Shut Down: 11 Million Phones Targeted...

Exploit for Improper Input Validation in Zohocorp Manageengine_Access_Manager_Plus

CVE-2022-47966 POC for CVE-2022-47966 affecting the following...

Mikko Hypponen’s opinion on the technological revolution

By Owais Sultan Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at WithSecure Formerly F-Secure, is considered one of the best cybersecurity speakers in… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mikko Hypponens opinion on the technological revolution...

Exploit for Out-of-bounds Write in Linux Linux_Kernel

This is a PoC exploit for CVE-2022-0995, a heap out-of-bounds write in the watchqueue Linux kernel component. The exploit targets Ubuntu 21.10 with kernel 5.13.0-37. It uses the same technique described in a Google Security Research writeup for CVE-2021-22555. The exploit is not 100% reliable and...

ChatGPT-Written Malware

I dont know how much of a thing this will end up being, but we are seeing ChatGPT-written malware in the wild. …within a few weeks of ChatGPT going live, participants in cybercrime forums--­some with little or no coding experience­--were using it to write software and emails that could be used fo...

Russian Hackers Targeted Three US Nuclear Research Labs

By Deeba Ahmed The attacks, according to Reuters' report, happened between August and September 2022. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian Hackers Targeted Three US Nuclear Research Labs...

Year in Review: Rapid7 Cybersecurity Research

Welcome to 2023, a year that sounds so futuristic it is hard to believe it is real. But real it is, and make no mistake, threat actors are still out there, working hard to get into networks the world over. So, at the start of the new year, I am reminded of two particular phrases: Those who do not...

Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer

A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can--although they have not yet done so--break 2048-bit RSA. This is something to take seriously. It might not be correct, but its not obviously wrong. We have long known from Shors algorithm that factoring with a quant...

BitRAT Now Sharing Sensitive Bank Data as a Lure

Introduction In June of 2022 Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU wrote an in-depth report on Redline, a commercial off the shelf infostealer that spreads via fake cracked software hosted on Discord’s content delivery network. Since then, we have continued to track similar threats to identify their...

Qualys Threat Research Unit: Threat Thursdays, December 2022

Welcome to the fourth edition of the Qualys Threat Research Unit’s TRU “Threat Research Thursday”, where we collect and curate notable new tools, techniques, procedures, threat intelligence, cybersecurity news, malware attacks, and more. This also happens to be the last edition for the year...