Introducing the In-the-Wild Series

This is part 1 of a 6-part series detailing a set of vulnerabilities found by Project Zero being exploited in the wild. To read the other parts of the series, head to the bottom of this post. At Project Zero we often refer to our goal simply as “make 0-day hard”. Members of the team approach this...

Researchers Find Links Between Sunburst and Russian Kazuar Malware

Cybersecurity researchers, for the first time, may have found a potential connection between the backdoor used in the SolarWinds hack to a previously known malware strain. In new research published by Kaspersky researchers today, the cybersecurity firm said it discovered several features that...

HPSBHF03711 rev. 3 - HP Sure Sense - Elevation of Privilege

Potential Security Impact Escalation of Privilege Source: HP, HP Product Security Response Team PSRT Reported By: Ammarit Thongthua, Nuttakorn Tungpoonsup, and Nattakit Intarasorn from Secure D Center Research Team VULNERABILITY SUMMARY HP has identified a potential security vulnerability in HP...

Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for Giant Squid by Collecting Environmental DNA

The idea is to collect and analyze random DNA floating around the ocean, and using that to figure out where the giant squid are. No one is sure if this will actually work. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blo...

Cockpit Version 234 - Server-Side Request Forgery (Unauthenticated)

Exploit Title: Cockpit Version 234 - Server-Side Request Forgery Unauthenticated Date: 08.01.2021 Exploit Author: Metin Yunus Kandemir Vendor Homepage: https://cockpit-project.org/ Version: v234 Tested on: Ubuntu 18.04 !/usr/bin/python3 import argparse import requests import sys import urllib3...

CVE-2020-26978

Using techniques that built on the slipstream research, a malicious webpage could have exposed both an internal network's hosts as well as services running on the user's local machine. This vulnerability affects Firefox 84, Thunderbird 78.6, and Firefox ESR 78.6...

CVE-2020-26978

CVE-2020-26978 is a Firefox/Thunderbird remote-info-exposure vulnerability. A malicious webpage could probe an internal network and access services on the user’s device due to slipstream-based techniques. Affected: Firefox < 84, Thunderbird < 78.6, Firefox ESR

CVE-2020-26978

Using techniques that built on the slipstream research, a malicious webpage could have exposed both an internal network's hosts as well as services running on the user's local machine. This vulnerability affects Firefox 84, Thunderbird 78.6, and Firefox ESR 78.6...

Hackers Using Fake Trump's Scandal Video to Spread QNode Malware

Cybesecurity researchers today revealed a new malspam campaign that distributes a remote access Trojan RAT by purporting to contain a sex scandal video of U.S. President Donald Trump. The emails, which carry with the subject line "GOOD LOAN OFFER!!," come attached with a Java archive JAR file...

Healthcare Industry Witnessed 45% Spike in Cyber Attacks Since Nov 20

Cyberattacks targeting healthcare organizations have spiked by 45% since November 2020 as COVID-19 cases continue to increase globally. According to a new report published by Check Point Research today and shared with The Hacker News, this increase has made the sector the most targeted industry b...

Google Speech-to-Text API Can Help Attackers Easily Bypass Google reCAPTCHA

A three-year-old attack technique to bypass Google's audio reCAPTCHA by using its own Speech-to-Text API has been found to still work with 97% accuracy. Researcher Nikolai Tschacher disclosed his findings in a proof-of-concept PoC of the attack on January 2. "The idea of the attack is very simple...

Klog Server 2.4.1 Command Injection

Exploit Title: Klog Server 2.4.1 - Command Injection Unauthenticated Date: 22.12.2020 Exploit Author: b3kc4t Mustafa GUNDOGDU Vendor Homepage: https://www.klogserver.com/ Version: 2.4.1 Tested On: Ubuntu 18.04 CVE: 2020-35729 Description:...

CVE-2021-3007

Laminas Project laminas-http before 2.14.2, and Zend Framework 3.0.0, has a deserialization vulnerability that can lead to remote code execution if the content is controllable, related to the destruct method of the Zend\Http\Response\Stream class in Stream.php. NOTE: Zend Framework is no longer...

WordPress Contact Form Submissions plugin <= 1.7 - Authenticated SQL Injection (SQLi) vulnerability

Authenticated SQL Injection SQLi vulnerability discovered by Sun research team in WordPress Contact Form Submissions plugin versions = 1.7. Solution Update the WordPress Contact Form Submissions plugin to the latest available version at least 1.7.1...

Digital Footprint Intelligence Report

Introduction The Digital Footprint Intelligence Service announces the results of research on the digital footprints of governmental, financial and industrial organizations for countries in the Middle East region: Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Suda...

Hackers Amp Up COVID-19 IP Theft Attacks

Attackers are looking to the healthcare space as a rich repository of intellectual property IP now more than ever, as critical research of COVID-19 therapeutics are developed and Pfizer, Moderna and other biotech firms begin to mass produce vaccines. Several incidents show that nation-states are...

Aura - Python Source Code Auditing And Static Analysis On A Large Scale

Aura is a static analysis framework developed as a response to the ever-increasing threat of malicious packages and vulnerable code published on PyPI. Project goals: provide an automated monitoring system over uploaded packages to PyPI, alert on anomalies that can either indicate an ongoing attac...

North Korean Hackers Trying to Steal COVID-19 Vaccine Research

Threat actors such as the notorious Lazarus group are continuing to tap into the ongoing COVID-19 vaccine research to steal sensitive information to speed up their countries' vaccine-development efforts. Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky detailed two incidents at a pharmaceutical company and a...

North Korean Hackers Trying to Steal COVID-19 Vaccine Research

Threat actors such as the notorious Lazarus group are continuing to tap into the ongoing COVID-19 vaccine research to steal sensitive information to speed up their countries' vaccine-development efforts. Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky detailed two incidents at a pharmaceutical company and a...

CVE-2020-28188

Remote Command Execution RCE vulnerability in TerraMaster TOS = 4.2.06 allow remote unauthenticated attackers to inject OS commands via /include/makecvs.php in Event parameter. Recent assessments: gwillcox-r7 at January 21, 2021 3:28am UTC reported: Noted as exploited in the wild by CheckPoint...