CVE-2020-11738

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2020-12-18 22:18:46+00:00| seen| https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/wpduplicatorfileread.rb 2021-11-08 08:58:20+00:00| seen| MISP/f5030aca-7d5a-43a4-ae03-8f4ac8e85422 2021-11-20 09:53:52+00:00| seen...

Malware infected browser extensions stealing Chrome, Edge user data

By Waqas Avast noted that the malware is quite tricky and does not execute itself if the victim is a web developer as it will be easy for them to identify its malicious activities. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Malware infected browser extensions stealing Chrome, Edge...

Denail Of Service (DoS)

Polygen is vulnerable to denial of service. Precompiled grammar objects with world-writable permissions that are generated allows local users to cause a denial of service disk consumption and possibly perform other unauthorized activities...

What did DeathStalker hide between two ferns?

DeathStalker is a threat actor thats been active since at least 2012, and we exposed most of their past activities in a previous article, as well as during a GREAT Ideas conference in August 2020. The actor drew our attention in 2018 because of distinctive attack characteristics that didnt fit in...

Nation-State Hackers Caught Hiding Espionage Activities Behind Crypto Miners

A nation-state actor known for its cyber espionage campaigns since 2012 is now using coin miner techniques to stay under the radar and establish persistence on victim systems, according to new research. Attributing the shift to a threat actor tracked as Bismuth, Microsoft's Microsoft 365 Defender...

Demonstrate Commitment, Differentiate Services, Develop Opportunities

Everything's mobile -- especially today, when running a business is harder than ever -- and responsiveness is everything. Staying ahead of the curve means workers may need to operate in "always available" mode, relying on their phone for business-related tasks, regardless of where they may be. Th...

Cybercrime Moves to the Cloud to Accelerate Attacks Amid Data Glut

Cybercriminals are embracing cloud-based services and technologies in order to accelerate their attacks on organizations and better monetize their wares, researchers have found. This is largely driven by cybercriminals who sell access to what they call “clouds of logs,” which are caches of stolen...

Scams Ramp Up Ahead of Black Friday Cybercriminal Craze

The number of online holiday shoppers this year is expected to skyrocket due to the pandemic – and consequently, consumers can expect an onslaught of scams, phishing attacks and other malicious activities. The risk of infection is driving consumers to shop from the safety of their homes, rather...

Feds Seize $1B in Bitcoin from Silk Road

The feds have seized its largest stash ever of Bitcoin, originating from the notorious Silk Road underground marketplace. The federal coffers are now $1 billion richer. Silk Road was known for the place to go to broker illegal drugs, murder-for-hire, child pornography and malware – such as passwo...

NSA and CISA Recommend Immediate Actions to Reduce Exposure Across Operational Technologies and Control Systems

Summary Note: This Activity Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT&CK® framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise and ATT&CK for Industrial Control Systems frameworks for all referenced threat actor techniques and mitigations. Over recent months, cyber actors...

Getting around the cybersecurity talent shortage

More remote workers mean larger attack surfaces, and as cyber criminals take advantage of the rush to provision a remote workforce, the pain of the cybersecurity professionals shortage has become acute. Last year, the ISC2 Workforce Study identified a shortage of 561,000 cybersecurity professiona...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple SQL, code injection vulnerabilities in OpenSIS

Yuri Kramarz and Yves Younan discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw Cisco Talos researchers recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the OpenSIS software family. OpenSIS is a student information management system for K-12 students. It is available in commercial and open-sour...

Race condition

In updatePreferenceIntents of AccountTypePreferenceLoader, there is a possible confused deputy attack due to a race condition. This could lead to local escalation of privilege and launching privileged activities with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for...

APT trends report Q2 2020

For more than three years, the Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat APT activity. The summaries are based on our threat intelligence research and provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and...

Seeing the big picture: Deep learning-based fusion of behavior signals for threat detection

The application of deep learning and other machine learning methods to threat detection on endpoints, email and docs, apps, and identities drives a significant piece of the coordinated defense delivered by Microsoft Threat Protection. Within each domain as well as across domains, machine learning...

Smartwatch Hack Could Trick Dementia Patients into Overdosing

Researchers are warning vulnerabilities in a smartwatch application for dementia patients could allow an attacker to convince patients to overdose. The vulnerabilities stem from the SETracker application, which is developed by Chinese developer 3G Electronics based out of Shenzhen City. The app,...

Hackers Leaked 269 GB of U.S. Police and Fusion Centers Data Online

A group of hacktivists and transparency advocates has published a massive 269 GB of data allegedly stolen from more than 200 police departments, fusion centers, and other law enforcement agencies across the United States. Dubbed BlueLeaks, the exposed data leaked by the DDoSecrets group contains...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in Siemens LOGO! PLC

Alexander Perez-Palma of Cisco Talos and Emanuel Almeida of Cisco Systems discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco researchers recently discovered several vulnerabilities in the Siemens LOGO! PLC. The LOGO! allows users to control various automation projects, such as industria...

TAU Threat Analysis: Medusa Locker Ransomware

In recent weeks Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU has seen an increase in the number of infections attributed to the Medusa Locker ransomware family. There were notable traits exhibited by Medusa Locker in these attacks that warranted further investigation to determine behavioral tactics th...

UK Ad Campaign Seeks to Deter Cybercrime

The United Kingdom's anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. The ad campaign follows a similar initiative launched in late 2017 that academics say...