New 'Moses Staff' Hacker Group Targets Israeli Companies With Destructive Attacks

A new politically-motivated hacker group named "Moses Staff" has been linked to a wave of targeted attacks targeting Israeli organizations since September 2021 with the goal of plundering and leaking sensitive information prior to encrypting their networks, with no option to regain access or...

Thawing Out the Chilling Effect Of DMCA Section 1201

The Copyright Office has issued the latest rules on exemptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA. Great news: Legal protections for independent security research have once again been meaningfully strengthened. On the whole, these protections are now significantly greate...

ChaosDB explained: Azure's Cosmos DB vulnerability walkthrough

This is the full story of the Azure ChaosDB Vulnerability that was discovered and disclosed by the Wiz Research Team, where we were able to gain complete unrestricted access to the databases of several thousand Microsoft Azure customers...

Microsoft OMI Management Interface Authentication Bypass Exploit

This Metasploit module demonstrates that by removing the authentication exchange, an attacker can issue requests to the local OMI management socket that will cause it to execute an operating system command as the root user. This vulnerability was patched in OMI version 1.6.8-1 released September...

vulhub

This repository is an offensive tool for vulnerability research and exploitation. It contains a collection of vulnerable applications and services, along with exploits and tools to demonstrate their vulnerabilities. The primary vulnerability targeted by this repository is not explicitly stated, b...

PyRDP - RDP Monster-In-The-Middle (Mitm) And Library For Python With The Ability To Watch Connections Live Or After The Fact

PyRDP is a Python Remote Desktop Protocol RDP Monster-in-the-Middle MITM tool and library. It features a few tools: RDP Monster-in-the-Middle Logs credentials used when connecting Steals data copied to the clipboard Saves a copy of the files transferred over the network Crawls shared drives in th...

Mekotio Banking Trojan Resurges with Tweaked Code, Stealthy Campaign

The Mekotio Latin American banking trojan is bouncing back after several of the gang that operates it were arrested in Spain. More than 100 attacks in recent weeks have featured a new infection routine, indicating that the group continues to actively retool. “The new campaign started right after...

Holiday Shopping Season is Upon Us: The State of Security Within eCommerce in 2021

The eCommerce industry has gone through years worth of changes in a matter of just a mere couple of months as the global pandemic emerged back in March of 2020. These changes have led to skyrocketing growth for the industry, with sales predicted to hit $4.921 trillion by the end of this year. And...

news.cancerresearchuk.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2225340

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

ICSwiki

This is an offensive tool for ICS Industrial Control Systems testing. It is a collection of scripts and tools for identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities in ICS protocols, specifically IEC-60870-5-104 and IEC-61850-8-1. The tool is designed to send identify requests and extract vendor name,...

Cybersecurity Trends & Predictions for CISOs

Jon Clay, VP of threat research at Trend Micro, predicts cybersecurity attacks CISOs need to prepare for...

Cybersecurity Trends & Predictions for CISOs

Jon Clay, VP of threat research at Trend Micro, predicts cybersecurity attacks CISOs need to prepare for...

UPDATE: EU’s Green Pass Vaccination ID Private Key Leaked or Forge

As of Thursday morning Eastern time, Adolf Hitler and Mickey Mouse could still validate their digital Covid passes, SpongeBob Squarepants was out of luck, and the European Union was investigating a leak of the private key used to sign the EU’s Green Pass vaccine passports. Two days earlier, on...

Threat Source newsletter (Oct. 28, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers. Most people know about chicken and waffles. But what about squirrel and waffles? They may not be the most appetizing brunch, but they are teaming up for one heck of a spam campaign. We have new research out... This is only the...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.02 : firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2021-0131)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.02, has firefox packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - Further techniques that built on the slipstream research combined with a malicious webpage could have exposed both an internal network's hosts as well as...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.02 : firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2021-0120)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.02, has firefox packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - Uninitialized Use in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 87.0.4280.88 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a...

Arbitrary command execution on Windows via qutebrowserurl: URL handler

Impact Starting with qutebrowser v1.7.0, the Windows installer for qutebrowser registers it as a handler for certain URL schemes. With some applications such as Outlook Desktop, opening a specially crafted URL can lead to argument injection, allowing execution of qutebrowser commands, which in tu...

GHSA-VW27-FWJF-5QXM Arbitrary command execution on Windows via qutebrowserurl: URL handler

Impact Starting with qutebrowser v1.7.0, the Windows installer for qutebrowser registers it as a handler for certain URL schemes. With some applications such as Outlook Desktop, opening a specially crafted URL can lead to argument injection, allowing execution of qutebrowser commands, which in tu...

Over 25% of Malicious JavaScript Is Being Obfuscated

Last year, Akamai released research on obfuscation techniques being used by cybercriminals to create malicious JavaScript. The code is unreadable, un-debuggable, and as a result, much more challenging to analyze and detect...

Forrester report suggests Imperva Data Protection delivers high value and rapid ROI

In mid-2021, Imperva commissioned Forrester Research to interview five current Imperva enterprise customers - two in the financial services industry and three in the insurance industry. The goal of the exercise was to gain insight into the economic impact of deploying the Imperva data security...