InvisiMole Hackers Target High-Profile Military and Diplomatic Entities

Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered the modus operandi of an elusive threat group that hacks into the high-profile military and diplomatic entities in Eastern Europe for espionage. The findings are part of a collaborative analysis by cybersecurity firm ESET and the impacted firms, resulting...

Android 'ActionSpy' Malware Targets Turkic Minority Group

Researchers have discovered a new Android spyware, dubbed ActionSpy, targeting victims across Tibet, Turkey and Taiwan. The spyware is distributed either via watering-hole websites or fake websites. Researchers believe ActionSpy is being used in ongoing campaigns to target Uyghur victims. The...

Indian IT Company Was Hired to Hack Politicians, Investors, Journalists Worldwide

A team of cybersecurity researchers today outed a little-known Indian IT firm that has secretly been operating as a global hackers-for-hire service or hacking-as-a-service platform. Based in Delhi, BellTroX InfoTech allegedly targeted thousands of high-profile individuals and hundreds of...

Espionage Group Hits U.S. Utilities with Sophisticated Spy Tool

The APT known as TA410 has added a modular remote-access trojan RAT to its espionage arsenal, deployed against Windows targets in the United States’ utilities sector. According to researchers at Proofpoint, the RAT, called FlowCloud, can access installed applications and control the keyboard,...

Steganography Anchors Pinpoint Attacks on Industrial Targets

A targeted series of attacks on suppliers of equipment and software for industrial enterprises is playing out globally, researchers said, hinging on phishing and a steganography tactic to hide malware on public, legitimate image resources. According to Kaspersky ICS CERT, the attacks seem bent on...

Turla APT Revamps One of Its Go-To Spy Tools

The Turla APT group has been spotted using an updated version of the ComRAT remote-access trojan RAT to attack governmental targets. Turla a.k.a. Snake, Venomous Bear, Waterbug or Uroboros, is a Russian-speaking threat actor known since 2014, but with roots that go back to 2004 and earlier,...

New ComRAT Malware Uses Gmail to Receive Commands and Exfiltrate Data

Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a new advanced version of ComRAT backdoor, one of the earliest known backdoors used by the Turla APT group, that leverages Gmail's web interface to covertly receive commands and exfiltrate sensitive data. "ComRAT v4 was first seen in 2017 and known still ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: log4net-2.0.8-10.fc30

log4net is a tool to help the programmer output log statements to a variety of output targets. log4net is a port of the excellent log4j framework to the .NET runtime...

Security Bulletin: IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM) could expose password hashes stored in system memory on target Windows systems that are discovered by TADDM

Summary IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager TADDM requires a local service account to communicate with Windows servers targets via WMI. WMI caches the password hash in memory on each target Windows system when using certain authentication methods. By TADDM design, and according to...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libvirt (SUSE-SU-2020:1277-1)

This update for libvirt fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : CVE-2020-10703: Fixed a daemon crash caused by pools without target paths bsc1168683. CVE-2020-12430: Fixed a memory leak in qemuDomainGetStatsIOThread bsc1170765. Non-security issues fixed : Support setting credit2...

Iranian APT Group Targets Governments in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia

Today, cybersecurity researchers shed light on an Iranian cyber espionage campaign directed against critical infrastructures in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bitdefender said the intelligence-gathering operations were conducted by Chafer APT also known as APT39 or Remix Kitten, a threat actor known fo...

HTTP Status Codes Command This Malware How to Control Hacked Systems

A new version of COMpfun remote access trojan RAT has been discovered in the wild that uses HTTP status codes to control compromised systems targeted in a recent campaign against diplomatic entities in Europe. The cyberespionage malware—traced to Turla APT with "medium-to-low level of confidence"...

SUSE-SU-2020:1208-1 Security update for libvirt

This update for libvirt fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2020-10703: Fixed a daemon crash caused by pools without target paths bsc1168683. - CVE-2020-12430: Fixed a memory leak in qemuDomainGetStatsIOThread bsc1170765. Non-security issues fixed: - Support setting credit2...

RHEL 8 : targetcli (RHSA-2020:1933)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1933 advisory. The targetcli package contains an administration shell for configuring Internet Small Computer System Interface iSCSI, Fibre Channel over Ethernet...

Threat actors release Troldesh decryption keys

Update: Kaspersky has updated their ShadeDecryptor tool to include decryption for the keys released by "shade team". You can download the tool and find instructions here. A GitHub user claiming to represent the authors of the Troldesh Ransomware calling themselves the “Shade team” published this...

New iPhone Zero-Day Discovered

Last year, ZecOps discovered two iPhone zero-day exploits. They will be patched in the next iOS release: Avraham declined to disclose many details about who the targets were, and did not say whether they lost any data as a result of the attacks, but said "we were a bit surprised about who was...

CVE-2019-14122

CVE-2019-14122 describes a memory failure in the SKB path when padding is not added correctly for low-memory or highly fragmented targets on Qualcomm Snapdragon Auto and Snapdragon Mobile (Saipan, SM8150, SM8250, SXR2130). The issue affects Qualcomm components with a High severity rating (per Qua...

Watering-Holes Target Asian Ethnic Victims with Flash Update Decoy

An extensive campaign has surfaced that targets Windows users belonging to a specific Asian religious and ethnic group. The attack making use of a series of watering-hole websites and a drive-by download gambit relying on fake Flash updates. According to analysis from Kaspersky, released on...

Nation-State Attacks Drop in Latest Google Analysis

Google has registered a significant drop in government-backed cyberattacks against its properties and the people who use its products. Google sends out warnings if it detects that an account is a target of government-backed phishing or malware attempts. For 2019, the internet giant sent almost...

shadowbroker-1

This repository, fengzihk/shadowbroker-1, contains a collection of exploits and tools leaked by the Shadow Brokers, a group known for releasing sensitive information. The repository includes a README file that lists various exploits, such as EARLYSHOVEL, EBBISLAND, ECHOWRECKER, EASYBEE, and...