Massive Cyber Attack Knocks Down Ukrainian Government Websites

No fewer than 70 websites operated by the Ukrainian government went offline on Friday for hours in what appears to be a coordinated cyber attack amid heightened tensions with Russia. "As a result of a massive cyber attack, the websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a number of other...

CVE-2014-4114

Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, and Windows RT Gold and 8.1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted OLE object in an Office document, as exploited in the wild with a...

Hackers Tied to Russia's GRU Targeted the US Grid for Years

A Sandworm-adjacent group has successfully breached US critical infrastructure a handful of times, according to new findings from the security firm Dragos...

Hackers Exploit IT Monitoring Tool Centreon to Target Several French Entities

Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor known as Sandworm has been linked to a three-year-long stealthy operation to hack targets by exploiting an IT monitoring tool called Centreon. The intrusion campaign — which breached "several French entities" — is said to have started in late 2017 and...

Hackers Exploit IT Monitoring Tool Centreon to Target Several French Entities

Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor known as Sandworm has been linked to a three-year-long stealthy operation to hack targets by exploiting an IT monitoring tool called Centreon. The intrusion campaign — which breached "several French entities" — is said to have started in late 2017 and...

France Ties Russia's Sandworm to a Multiyear Hacking Spree

A French security agency warns that the destructively minded group has exploited an IT monitoring tool from Centreon...

DOJ Charges 6 Sandworm APT Members in NotPetya Cyberattacks

The Department of Justice DOJ on Monday announced charges against six Russian nationals who are allegedly tied to the Sandworm APT. The threat group is believed to have launched several high-profile cyberattacks over the past few years – including the destructive NotPetya cyberattack that targete...

Exploit for OS Command Injection in Exim

Exim CVE Data Collection Data Collection Related to Exim Vuln...

Exploit for OS Command Injection in Exim

Exim CVE Data Collection Data Collection Related to Exim Vuln...

NSA Announces Sandworm Actors Exploiting Exim MTA Vulnerability (CVE-2019-10149)

The Exim MTA vulnerability, initially reported by Qualys in May 2019, is currently being exploited in the wild. Recently, the US National Security Agency NSA announced that Sandworm actors Russian hacker group have been actively exploiting the Exim Mail Transfer Agent vulnerability. Qualys releas...

NSA Warns of Sandworm Backdoor Attacks on Mail Servers

The Russia-linked APT group Sandworm has been spotted exploiting a vulnerability in the internet’s top email server software, according to the National Security Agency NSA. The bug exists in the Exim Mail Transfer Agent MTA software, an open-source offering used on Linux and Unix-like systems. It...

This Week in Security News: How the Cybercriminal Underground Has Changed in 5 Years and the NSA Warns of New Sandworm Attacks on Email Servers

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how, over the past five years, the cybercriminal underground has seen a major shift to new platforms, communications channels,...

NSA: Russia's Sandworm Hackers Have Hijacked Mail Servers

In a rare public warning, the US spy agency says the notorious arm of Russian military intelligence is targeting a known vulnerability in Exim...

CVE-2019-10149

Exim unauthenticated RCE with reports that it’s been used by Sandworm since August 2019 Recent assessments: ericalexanderorg at May 28, 2020 4:49pm UTC reported: Untested POC exists https://github.com/MNEMO-CERT/PoC—CVE-2019-10149Exim/blob/master/PoCCVE-2019-10149.py gwillcox-r7 at November 04,...

NSA Releases Advisory on Sandworm Actors Exploiting an Exim Vulnerability

The National Security Agency NSA has released a cybersecurity advisory on Russian advanced persistent threat APT group Sandworm exploiting a vulnerability—CVE-2019-10149—in Exim Mail Transfer Agent MTA software. An unauthenticated remote attacker can use this vulnerability to send a specially...

Russia's ‘Sandworm’ Hackers Also Targeted Android Phones

The Kremlin's uniquely dangerous hacker group has been trying new tricks...

The Story of Sandworm, the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

For three years, WIRED has tracked the elite and shadowy Russian vanguard of cyberwar...

IT threat evolution Q1 2019

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Go Zebrocy Zebrocy was first observed being used as a Sofacy backdoor in 2015. However, the collection of cases where this tool has been used mean that we consider it a subset of activity in its own right. On the basis of this threat actor's past behaviour, ...

Compromising vital infrastructure: the power grid

Where were you when the lights went out? That line became famous after the 1977 blackout in New York City. This power outage was caused by lightning and lasted for up to two days, depending on which part of New York you lived in. While in this case the power grid failure was a freak incident due ...

APT review of the year

What were the most interesting developments in terms of APT activity throughout the year and what can we learn from them? Not an easy question to answer; everybody has partial visibility and it's never possible to really understand the motivations of some attacks or the developments behind them...