Threat Source newsletter (Sept. 16, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a rat! We've been tracking a series of trojans targeting the aviation industry, and trying to lure victims in by sending them spam related to flight itineraries and other transportation... This is on...

APT-C-36 Updates Its Spam Campaign Against South American Entities With Commodity RATs

We have continued tracking APT-C-36, also known as Blind Eagle, since our research on this threat actor in 2019. We share new findings of APT-C-36’s ongoing spam campaign targeting South American entities...

Fortinet FortiOS has an unspecified vulnerability (CNVD-2021-101140)

Fortinet FortiOS is a security operating system from Fortinet that is dedicated to the FortiGate network security platform. The system provides users with a variety of security features such as firewall, anti-virus, IPSec/SSLVPN, Web content filtering and anti-spam.Fortinet FortiOS has a security...

“FudCo” Spam Empire Tied to Pakistani Software Firm

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity briefly profiled "The Manipulaters," the name chosen by a prolific cybercrime group based in Pakistan that was very publicly selling spam tools and a range of services for crafting, hosting and deploying malicious email. Six years later, a review of the social media...

PT-2021-16039

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin versions prior to 2021.18 Description The issue allows high privilege users, such as admins, to set Cross-Site Scripting payloads in some settings, even when the...

Beware of COVID Pass scams

You’ve likely seen fake parcel delivery texts in the news recently, and we’ve covered a few of these ourselves. SMS missives claim a package is waiting to be delivered, and a small processing fee is required. There is no package; it’s a ruse to have people hand over their credit card details. It’...

 Cisco Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple Cisco products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. For updates addressing lower severity vulnerabilities, see the Cisco Security Advisories page. CISA encourages...

CVE-2021-1561

A vulnerability in the spam quarantine feature of Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, formerly Cisco Security Management Appliance SMA, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized access and modify the spam quarantine settings of another user. This vulnerability exists...

CVE-2021-1561

A vulnerability in the spam quarantine feature of Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, formerly Cisco Security Management Appliance SMA, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized access and modify the spam quarantine settings of another user. This vulnerability exists...

Code injection

A vulnerability in the spam quarantine feature of Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, formerly Cisco Security Management Appliance SMA, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized access and modify the spam quarantine settings of another user. This vulnerability exists...

CVE-2021-1561

Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager (formerly SMA) contains CVE-2021-1561: an authenticated remote attacker can gain unauthorized access to and modify another user’s spam quarantine settings due to improper restriction of the spam-quarantine feature. Exploitation involves sending malicious request...

CVE-2021-1561 Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager Spam Quarantine Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the spam quarantine feature of Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, formerly Cisco Security Management Appliance SMA, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized access and modify the spam quarantine settings of another user. This vulnerability exists...

CVE-2021-1561 Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager Spam Quarantine Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the spam quarantine feature of Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, formerly Cisco Security Management Appliance SMA, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized access and modify the spam quarantine settings of another user. This vulnerability exists...

CVE-2021-1561

A vulnerability in the spam quarantine feature of Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, formerly Cisco Security Management Appliance SMA, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized access and modify the spam quarantine settings of another user. This vulnerability exists...

Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager Spam Quarantine Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the spam quarantine feature of Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, formerly Cisco Security Management Appliance SMA, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized access and modify the spam quarantine settings of another user. This vulnerability exists...

PT-2021-5106

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager affected versions not specified Description A vulnerability in the spam quarantine feature could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized access and modify the spam quarantine settings of...

CVE-2021-1561: Authentication Bypass by Assumed-Immutable Data

A vulnerability in the spam quarantine feature of Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, formerly Cisco Security Management Appliance SMA, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized access and modify the spam quarantine settings of another user. This vulnerability exists...

Tokyo Olympics Leveraged in Cybercrime Attack

Just before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics, we confirmed an attack that directed users from a fake TV broadcast schedule page to browser notification spam...

Experts Shed Light On New Russian Malware-as-a-Service Written in Rust

A nascent information-stealing malware sold and distributed on underground Russian underground forums has been written in Rust, signalling a new trend where threat actors are increasingly adopting exotic programming languages to bypass security protections, evade analysis, and hamper reverse...

Friends Reunion Anchors Video Swindle

The second quarter saw a rise in entertainment lures for fraud and phishing, including one campaign capitalizing on the buzz around “Friends: The Reunion.” Researchers at Kaspersky found fake sites supposedly hosting video for the much-anticipated special episode of the popular sitcom, according ...