Sea Turtle keeps on swimming, finds new victims, DNS hijacking techniques

By Danny Adamitis with contributions from Paul Rascagneres. Executive summary After several months of activity, the actors behind the "Sea Turtle" DNS hijacking campaign are not slowing down. Cisco Talos recently discovered new details that suggest they regrouped after we published our initial...

Threat Source (April 18): New attacks distribute Formbook, LokiBot

Newsletter compiled by Jonathan Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. If you haven’t yet, there’s still time to register for this year’s Talos Threat Research Summit — our second annual conference by...

New DNS Hijacking Attacks

DNS hijacking isn't new, but this seems to be an attack of unprecedented scale: Researchers at Cisco's Talos security division on Wednesday revealed that a hacker group it's calling Sea Turtle carried out a broad campaign of espionage via DNS hijacking, hitting 40 different organizations. In the...

State-Sponsored DNS Hijacking Infiltrates 40 Firms Globally

A newly-discovered state-sponsored campaign is targeting national security organizations across the Middle East and North Africa MENA – and elsewhere – with domain name system DNS hijacking attacks, used to scoop up credentials. The campaign, dubbed “Sea Turtle” by the Cisco Talos researchers who...

Beers with Talos Ep. #51: Sea Turtles yeeting packets

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. No. 51 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded April 12, 2019 — Today, we rip through a few other things to spend most of our time discussing Sea Turtle, the lates...

Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries

A mysterious new group called Sea Turtle targeted 40 organizations in a DNS hijacking spree...

CVE-2019-8418

SeaCMS 7.2 mishandles member.php?mod=repsw4 requests...

sea-m.banggood.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-702662 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| sea-m.banggood.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| hidd...

SeaCMS SQL Injection Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-08331)

SeaCMS Ocean CMS is a professional open source free PHP film and television system. SeaCMS 6.6.4 suffers from a SQL injection vulnerability, which can be exploited by attackers via the adminmakehtml.php topic parameter...

archive.northsearegion.eu XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-684102 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| archive.northsearegion.eu Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score...

SeaCMS SQL Injection Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-19865)

SeaCMS is a free and open source web content management system written in PHP. The system has been designed primarily to manage video-on-demand resources. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the 'order' parameter in SeaCMS version 6.64, which can be exploited by remote attackers to execute SQ...

CVE-2018-16348

SeaCMS V6.61 has XSS via the adminvideo.php vcontent parameter, related to the site name...

Friday Squid Blogging: New Tool for Grabbing Squid and other Fragile Sea Creatures

Interesting video of a robot grabber that's delicate enough to capture squid and even jellyfish in the ocean. 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 blog posting guidelines here...

CVE-2018-14517

SeaCMS 6.61 has two XSS issues in the adminconfig.php file via certain form fields...

CVE-2018-13445

An issue was discovered in SeaCMS 6.61. There is a CSRF vulnerability that can add a user account via adm1n/adminmanager.php?action=add...

Sea Lotus APT groups use CVE-2017-8570 vulnerability of the new sample and Association analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Sea Lotus（OceanLotus）APT gang is a highly organized, professional foreign national hacker group, the oldest by 360 days eye Labs discovered and disclosed. The organization since at least 2012 and 4 January will be for the Chinese government, research institutes, Maritime institutions, Maritime...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Prices Rise as Catch Decreases

In Japan: Last year's haul sank 15% to 53,000 tons, according to the JF Zengyoren national federation of fishing cooperatives. The squid catch has fallen by half in just two years. The previous low was plumbed in 2016. Lighter catches have been blamed on changing sea temperatures, which impedes t...

Friday Squid Blogging: Market Squid in Alaskan Waters

Rising sea temperatures is causing market squid to move north into Alaskan waters. 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 blog posting guidelines here...

metronome.ge XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-593634 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| metronome.ge Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Suspected Chinese Cyber Espionage Group (TEMP.Periscope) Targeting U.S. Engineering and Maritime Industries

Intrusions Focus on the Engineering and Maritime Sector Since early 2018, FireEye including our FireEye as a Service FaaS, Mandiant Consulting, and iSIGHT Intelligence teams has been tracking an ongoing wave of intrusions targeting engineering and maritime entities, especially those connected to...