COVID-19 Data-Sharing App Leaked Healthcare Worker Info

A platform used by healthcare workers in the Philippines designed to share data about COVID-19 cases contained multiple flaws that exposed healthcare worker data and could potentially could have leaked patient data. Vulnerabilities found in both the COVID-KAYA platform’s web and Android apps...

North Korean Hackers Used 'Torisma' Spyware in Job Offers-based Attacks

A cyberespionage campaign aimed at aerospace and defense sectors in order to install data gathering implants on victims' machines for purposes of surveillance and data exfiltration may have been more sophisticated than previously thought. The attacks, which targeted IP-addresses belonging to...

Operation North Star: Summary Of Our Latest Analysis | McAfee Blogs

Operation North Star: Summary Of Our Latest Analysis By Trellix · NOV 05, 2020 McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research ATR today released research that uncovers previously undiscovered information on how Operation North Star evaluated its prospective victims and launched attacks on organizations in...

Operation North Star: Summary Of Our Latest Analysis | McAfee Blogs

Operation North Star: Summary Of Our Latest Analysis By Trellix · NOV 05, 2020 McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research ATR today released research that uncovers previously undiscovered information on how Operation North Star evaluated its prospective victims and launched attacks on organizations in...

Operation North Star: Behind The Scenes | McAfee Blogs

ARCHIVED STORY Operation North Star: Behind The Scenes Christiaan Beek · NOV 05, 2020 Executive Summary It is rare to be provided an inside view on how major cyber espionage campaigns are conducted within the digital realm. The only transparency afforded is a limited view of victims, a malware...

Ransomware Activity Targeting the Healthcare and Public Health Sector

Summary This advisory was updated to include information on Conti, TrickBot, and BazarLoader, including new IOCs and Yara Rules for detection. This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® version 7 framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise version 7 f...

TAU Threat Advisory: Imminent Ransomware threat to U.S. Healthcare and Public Health Sector

The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA issued a joint alert this week with regards to an imminent cybercrime threat to US hospitals and healthcare providers. The alert was coauthored by CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the...

FBI, DHS Warn Of Possible Major Ransomware Attacks On Healthcare Systems

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, Departments of Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services HHS issued a joint alert Wednesday warning of an "imminent" increase in ransomware and other cyberattacks against hospitals and healthcare providers. "Malicious cyber actors are targeting t...

FASTCash 2.0: North Korea's BeagleBoyz Robbing Banks

Summary This Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise framework for all referenced threat actor techniques. This joint advisory is the result of analytic efforts among the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

Georgia Election Data Hit in Ransomware Attack

Ransomware gangs have officially entered the 2020 election fray, with reports of one of the first breaches of the voting season, on Hall County, Ga. The county’s database of voter signatures was impacted in the attack along with other government systems. Although the county said the voting proces...

B. Braun OnlineSuite

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.6 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low and high skill level to exploit Vendor: B. Braun Melsungen AG Equipment: OnlineSuite Vulnerabilities: Relative Path Traversal, Uncontrolled Search Path Element, Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File 2. RISK...

Hitachi ABB Power Grids XMC20 Multiservice-Multiplexer

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.1 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Hitachi ABB Power Grids Equipment: XMC20 Multiservice-Multiplexer Vulnerability: Improper Authentication 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to...

FIN11 Cybercrime Gang Shifts Tactics to Double-Extortion Ransomware

The FIN11 financial crime gang is shifting its tactics from phishing and credential-theft to ransomware, researchers said. According to FireEye Mandiant researchers, FIN11 is notable for its “sheer volume of activity,” known to run up to five disparate wide-scale email phishing campaigns per week...

Chinese APT Group Targets Media, Finance, and Electronics Sectors

Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday uncovered a new espionage campaign targeting media, construction, engineering, electronics, and finance sectors in Japan, Taiwan, the U.S., and China. Linking the attacks to Palmerworm aka BlackTech — likely a China-based advanced persistent threat APT —...

Govt. Services Firm Tyler Technologies Hit in Apparent Ransomware Attack

Tyler Technologies, a Texas-based company that bills itself as the largest provider of software and technology services to the United States public sector, is battling a network intrusion that has disrupted its operations. The company declined to discuss the exact cause of the disruption, but the...

U.S. Treasury Sanctions Hacking Group Backed by Iranian Intelligence

The U.S. government on Thursday imposed sweeping sanctions against an Iranian threat actor backed by the country's Ministry of Intelligence and Security MOIS for carrying out malware campaigns targeting Iranian dissidents, journalists, and international companies in the telecom and travel sectors...

CISA Releases Emergency Directive on Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released Emergency Directive ED 20-04 addressing a critical vulnerability— CVE-2020-1472—affecting Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol. An unauthenticated attacker with network access to a domain controller could exploit this...

California Elementary Kids Kicked Off Online Learning by Ransomware

As students head back to the classroom, the spate of ransomware attacks against schools is continuing. The latest is a strike against a California school district that closed down remote learning for 6,000 elementary school students, according to city officials. The cyberattack, against the Newha...

FBI adds 5 Chinese APT41 hackers to its Cyber's Most Wanted List

The United States government today announced charges against 5 alleged members of a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group and 2 Malaysian hackers that are responsible for hacking more than 100 companies throughout the world. Named as APT41 and also known as 'Barium,' 'Winnti, 'Wicked Panda,' and...

Siemens Spectrum Power

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 3.7 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely Vendor: Siemens Equipment: Spectrum Power Vulnerabilities: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information, Exposure of Information Through Directory Listing 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow...