Tales From the Trenches; a Lockbit Ransomware Story

ARCHIVED STORY Tales From the Trenches; a Lockbit Ransomware Story By ATR Operational Intelligence Team · APR 30, 2020 Co-authored by Marc RiveroLopez. In collaboration with Northwave As we highlighted previously across two blogs, targeted ransomware attacks have increased massively over the past...

WildPressure targets industrial-related entities in the Middle East

In August 2019, Kaspersky discovered a malicious campaign distributing a fully fledged C++ Trojan that we call Milum. All the victims we registered were organizations from the Middle East. At least some of them are related to industrial sector. Our Kaspersky Threat Attribution Engine KTAE doesn't...

CSI: Evidence Indicators for Targeted Ransomware Attacks - Part II | McAfee Blogs

CSI: Evidence Indicators for Targeted Ransomware Attacks – Part II Christiaan Beek · FEB 20, 2020 In our first article we discussed the growing pattern of targeted ransomware attacks where the first infection stage is often an info-stealer kind of malware used to gain credentials/access to...

Targeted Ransomware Attacks Hit Several Spanish Companies

Everis , one of the largest IT consulting companies in Spain, suffered a targeted ransomware attack on Monday, forcing the company to shut down all its computer systems until the issue gets resolved completely. Ransomware is a computer virus that encrypts files on an infected system until a ranso...

Experts on demand: Your direct line to Microsoft security insight, guidance, and expertise

Microsoft Threat Experts is the managed threat hunting service within Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection ATP that includes two capabilities: targeted attack notifications and experts on demand. Today, we are extremely excited to share that experts on demand is now generally available a...

Threat landscape for smart buildings

The Kaspersky Industrial Cybersecurity Conference 2019 takes place this week in Sochi, the seventh such conference dedicated to the problems of industrial cybersecurity. Among other things, the conference will address the security of automation systems in buildings — industrial versions of the no...

Facing the cold chills

Have you ever felt the cold chill in your spine when the “fix engine” light comes on in your car? How about when one of your children turns pale and gets their first fever? It’s a feeling of helplessness and concern regarding what could be wrong. Then there’s the feeling of relief that comes with...

Privilege Escalation

Linux kernel is vulnerable to privilege escalation vulnerability. The vulnerability exists in an unknown function of the component Speculative Execution. An attacker could execute and/ read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks...

WhatsApp fix goes live after targeted attack on human rights lawyer

If you use WhatsApp, you’ll want to update both app and device as soon as possible due to a freshly-discovered exploit. The vulnerability was found in Google Android, Apple iOS, and Microsoft Windows Phone builds of the app. Unlike many mobile attacks, potential victims aren’t required to install...

Evil TeamViewer Attacks Under the Guise of the U.S. State Department

UPDATE A targeted, email-borne attack against embassy officials and government finance authorities globally is making use of a malicious attachment disguised as a top-secret U.S. document. It weaponizes TeamViewer, the popular remote-access and desktop-sharing software, to gain full control of th...

Citrix Data Breach – Iranian Hackers Stole 6TB of Sensitive Data

Popular enterprise software companyCitrix that provides services to the U.S. military, the FBI, many U.S. corporations, and various U.S. government agencies disclosed last weekend a massive data breach of its internal network by "international cyber criminals." Citrix said it was warned by the FB...

Citrix Data Breach – Iranian Hackers Stole 6TB of Sensitive Data

Popular enterprise software company Citrix that provides services to the U.S. military, the FBI, many U.S. corporations, and various U.S. government agencies disclosed last weekend a massive data breach of its internal network by "international cyber criminals." Citrix said it was warned by the F...

Innovative Phishing Tactic Makes Inroads Using Azure Blob

A fresh tactic for phishing Office 365 users employs credential-harvesting forms hosted on Azure Blob storage – signed with legitimate Microsoft SSL certificates to lend an air of legitimacy. Azure Blob Storage is a cloud storage solution for hosting unstructured data such as images, video or tex...

Zomato: IDOR to delete images from other stores

Summary: The parameter photoids in below request is vulnerable to IDOR /php/clientmanagehandler?██████████&case=remove-active-photo Description: Since there is no check for resid or ownership I was able to delete Gerben's image by just using the photoid from his store. This is a problem because i...

Triout Malware Carries Out Extensive, Targeted Android Surveillance

A mobile spyware for Android was disclosed today, with extensive, advanced surveillance capabilities that suggest that a sophisticated actor is pulling the strings. Using a recently discovered malware dubbed Triout, bad actors are tapping into the proliferating footprint of Android-based...

Black Hat 2018: Google Bug Hunter Urges Apple to Change its iOS Security Culture

LAS VEGAS – Prolific Google bug hunter Ian Beer ripped into Apple on Wednesday, urging the iPhone maker to change its culture when it comes to iOS security. He said the company suffers from an all-too-common affliction of patching an iOS bug, but not fixing the systemic roots that contribute to t...

Singapore's Largest Healthcare Group Hacked, 1.5 Million Patient Records Stolen

Singapore's largest healthcare group, SingHealth, has suffered a massive data breach that allowed hackers to snatch personal information on 1.5 million patients who visited SingHealth clinics between May 2015 and July 2018. SingHealth is the largest healthcare group in Singapore with 2 tertiary...

Data exfiltration techniques

Data exfiltration is the last stage of the kill chain in a generally targeted attack on an organisation. Whilst many excellent papers and tools are available for various techniques this is our attempt to pull all these together. This could also be used as a crib sheet for fellow pen testers who a...

Stellar.org: Admin panel of https://www.stellar.org/wp-admin/

https://www.stellar.org/wp-admin/ link has various operations which should not be accessible to an anonymous user. As admin panel is accessible an attacker can use this information in targeted attack and he can bruteforce the username and password. on the other side server information is easily...

Private Message PHP Script 2.0 - Cross-Site Scripting

Private Message PHP Script 2.0 - Cross-Site Scripting Exploit Title: Private Message PHP Script 2.0 - Persistent Cross-Site scripting Date: 2018-05-20 Exploit Author: Borna nematzadeh L0RD Vendor Homepage: https://codecanyon.net/item/private-message-php-script/21027192?srank=1 Version: 2.0 Tested...