Microsoft OneNote Used To Sidestep Phishing Detection

A phishing campaign was recently discovered leveraging OneNote, Microsoft’s digital notebook that automatically saves and syncs notes, to bypass detection tools and download malware onto victims’ systems. The attacker was utilizing OneNote as a way to easily experiment with various lures that...

The vulnerability of the DNS BIND server, related to data processing errors, allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the DNS BIND server is related to data processing errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service failures...

Ransomware Against the Machine: How Adversaries are Learning to Disrupt Industrial Production by Targeting IT and OT

Since at least 2017, there has been a significant increase in public disclosures of ransomware incidents impacting industrial production and critical infrastructure organizations. Well-known ransomware families like WannaCry, LockerGoga, MegaCortex, Ryuk, Maze, and now SNAKEHOSE a.k.a. Snake /...

AZORult spreads as a fake ProtonVPN installer

AZORult has its history. However, a few days ago, we discovered what appears to be one of its most unusual campaigns: abusing the ProtonVPN service and dropping malware via fake ProtonVPN installers for Windows. Screenshot of a fake ProtonVPN website The campaign started at the end of November 20...

Denial of service

Symantec Endpoint Protection SEP and Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition SEP SBE, prior to 14.2 RU2 MP1 and prior to 14.2.5569.2100 respectively, may be susceptible to a denial of service vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby a threat actor attempts to tie up the resourc...

Managed Defense: The Analytical Mindset

When it comes to cyber security managed services or otherwise, you’re ultimately reliant on analyst expertise to keep your environment safe. Products and intelligence are necessary pieces of the security puzzle to generate detection signal and whittle down the alert chaff, but in the end, an...

U.N. Hack Stemmed From Microsoft SharePoint Flaw

Hackers breached the United Nations network in July by exploiting a Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability, according to reports. The breach, which appears to be an espionage operation, reportedly gave the hackers access to an estimated 400 GB of sensitive data. The breach was swept under the rug by...

Zoom Fixed Flaw Opening Meetings to Hackers

NEW ORLEANS – Enterprise video conferencing firm Zoom has issued a bevy of security fixes after researchers said the company’s platform used weak authentication that made it possible for adversaries to join active meetings. The issue stems from Zoom’s conference meetings not requiring a “meeting...

Vivin Nets Thousands of Dollars Using Cryptomining Malware

A recently uncovered threat actor, dubbed Vivin, has made thousands of U.S. dollars through a large-scale cryptomining campaign. Vivin is unique due to its longevity — the threat actor has been active since at least 2017 — and researchers with Cisco Talos point to Vivin as a good example of why...

Breaking down a two-year run of Vivin’s cryptominers

News Summary There is another large-scale cryptomining attack from an actor we are tracking as "Vivin" that has been active since at least November 2017. "Vivin" has consistently evolved over the past few years, despite having poor operational security and exposing key details of their campaign. ...

Citrix Accelerates Patch Rollout For Critical RCE Flaw

Citrix has quickened its rollout of patches for a critical vulnerability CVE-2019-19781 in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller ADC and Citrix Gateway products, on the heels of recent proof-of-concept exploits and skyrocketing exploitation attempts. Several versions of the products still...

Dropbox: Local Privilege Escalation on Dropbox Desktop for Windows

This report describes a local privilege escalation in the Dropbox automatic updater process on Windows. It would allow a malicious actor who had already gained non-admin access to a Windows computer to obtain admin privileges, if Dropbox had previously been installed with admin privileges. This...

DeathRansom Campaign Linked to Malware Cornucopia

An ongoing DeathRansom malware campaign has been found by researchers to be part of a larger collection of malicious offensives, all carried out by an actor going by the nickname “scat01.” According to Artem Semenchenko and Evgeny Ananin at FortiGuard Labs, evidence found on Russian underground...

The vulnerability of the Kubernetes cluster management software lies in insufficient validation of input data, allowing attackers to compromise the confidentiality and integrity of the protected information.

The vulnerability of the Kubernetes cluster management software exists due to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to compromise the confidentiality and integrity of the protected information...

CVE-2019-18380

Symantec Industrial Control System Protection ICSP, versions 6.x.x, may be susceptible to an unauthorized access issue that could potentially allow a threat actor to create or modify application user accounts without proper authentication...

Authentication flaw

Symantec Industrial Control System Protection ICSP, versions 6.x.x, may be susceptible to an unauthorized access issue that could potentially allow a threat actor to create or modify application user accounts without proper authentication...

CVE-2019-18380

Symantec Industrial Control System Protection ICSP, versions 6.x.x, may be susceptible to an unauthorized access issue that could potentially allow a threat actor to create or modify application user accounts without proper authentication...

Symantec ICSP Unauthorized Access

SUMMARY Symantec has released an update to address an issue that was discovered in the Industrial Control System Protection ICSP product. AFFECTED PRODUCTS Industrial Control System Protection ICSP --- CVE | Affected Versions | Remediation CVE-2019-18380 | ICSP 6.x.x | Upgrade to ICSP 6.1.1.123...

CVE-2019-6672

On BIG-IP AFM 15.0.0-15.0.1, 14.0.0-14.1.2, and 13.1.0-13.1.3.1, when bad-actor detection is configured on a wildcard virtual server on platforms with hardware-based sPVA, the performance of the BIG-IP AFM system is degraded...

CVE-2019-6672

On BIG-IP AFM 15.0.0-15.0.1, 14.0.0-14.1.2, and 13.1.0-13.1.3.1, when bad-actor detection is configured on a wildcard virtual server on platforms with hardware-based sPVA, the performance of the BIG-IP AFM system is degraded...