FBI, CISA warn of disinformation ahead of midterms

In less than four weeks, the balance of power in the US House of Representatives and Senate will be up for grabs, along with a host of gubernatorial seats, and positions at the state and municipal levels. With everyone preparing to cast their ballots, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and...

Chinese APT's favorite vulnerabilities revealed

In a joint cybersecurity advisory, the National Security Agency NSA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have revealed the top CVEs used by state-sponsored threat actors from China. The advisory aims to "inform federal and state,...

Modified WhatsApp App Caught Infecting Android Devices with Malware

An unofficial version of the popular WhatsApp messaging app called YoWhatsApp has been observed deploying an Android trojan known as Triada. The goal of the malware is to steal the keys that "allow the use of a WhatsApp account without the app," Kaspersky said in a new report. "If the keys are...

Winnti APT group docks in Sri Lanka for new campaign

In early August, the Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team identified a new attack targeting government entities in Sri Lanka. The threat actors used multiple layers of protection and techniques to make analysis harder and hide their final payload. However, based on tactic, techniques and...

Threat Actors Exploiting F5 BIG-IP CVE-2022-1388

Summary Actions for administrators to take today: • Do not expose management interfaces to the internet. • Enforce multi-factor authentication. • Consider using CISA’s Cyber Hygiene Services. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Multi-State Information Sharing &...

Black Basta Ransomware Gang Infiltrates networks via QAKBOT, Brute Ratel, and Cobalt Strike

We analyzed a QAKBOT-related case leading to a Brute Ratel C4 and Cobalt Strike payload that can be attributed to the threat actors behind the Black Basta ransomware...

Black Basta Ransomware Gang Infiltrates Networks via QAKBOT, Brute Ratel, and Cobalt Strike

We analyzed a QAKBOT-related case leading to a Brute Ratel C4 and Cobalt Strike payload that can be attributed to the threat actors behind the Black Basta ransomware...

NSA Alert: Topmost CVEs Actively Exploited By People’s Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actors

On October 6, 2022, the United States National Security Agency NSA released a cybersecurity advisory on the Chinese government—officially known as the People’s Republic of China PRC states-sponsored cyber actors activity to seek national interests. These malicious cyber activities attributed to t...

National Cyber Security Awareness Month: You Could Be the Biggest Threat to Your WordPress Site

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month in the U.S., and this year’s theme is “See Yourself in Cyber.” What is really being said by this theme is that we all have a role to play in cyber security, whether we work in the industry or not. With this in mind, the Cybersecurity and...

Exploitation of Unpatched Zero-Day Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration Suite (CVE-2022-41352)

Note: Zimbra release 9.0.0 P27 addressed this vulnerability on October 10, 2022. CVE-2022-41352 is an unpatched remote code execution vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration Suite discovered in the wild due to active exploitation. The vulnerability is due to the method cpio in which Zimbra’s...

node-fetch: exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor

A flaw was found in node-fetch. When following a redirect to a third-party domain, node-fetch was forwarding sensitive headers such as "Authorization," "WWW-Authenticate," and "Cookie" to potentially untrusted targets. This flaw leads to the exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized...

Top CVEs Actively Exploited by People’s Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actors   

CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the National Security Agency NSA have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA providing the top Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs used since 2020 by People’s Republic of China PRC state-sponsored cyber actors. PRC state-sponsored cybe...

OnionPoison – Fake Tor Browser Installer Spreading Malware Via YouTube

By Waqas Threat actors are using YouTube's video description feature to spread the fake Tor browser through a malicious website. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: OnionPoison - Fake Tor Browser Installer Spreading Malware Via YouTube...

Detecting and preventing LSASS credential dumping attacks

Obtaining user operating system OS credentials from a targeted device is among threat actors’ primary goals when launching attacks because these credentials serve as a gateway to various objectives they can achieve in their target organization’s environment, such as lateral movement. One techniqu...

Detecting and preventing LSASS credential dumping attacks

Obtaining user operating system OS credentials from a targeted device is among threat actors’ primary goals when launching attacks because these credentials serve as a gateway to various objectives they can achieve in their target organization’s environment, such as lateral movement. One techniqu...

Detecting and preventing LSASS credential dumping attacks

Obtaining user operating system OS credentials from a targeted device is among threat actors’ primary goals when launching attacks because these credentials serve as a gateway to various objectives they can achieve in their target organization’s environment, such as lateral movement. One techniqu...

eventsource: Exposure of Sensitive Information

A flaw was found in the EventSource NPM Package. The description from the source states the following message: "Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor." This flaw allows an attacker to steal the user's credentials and then use the credentials to access the legitimate website...

FBI, CISA, and NSA Reveal How Hackers Targeted a Defense Industrial Base Organization

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies on Tuesday disclosed that multiple nation-state hacking groups potentially targeted a "Defense Industrial Base DIB Sector organization's enterprise network" as part of a cyber espionage campaign. "Advanced persistent threat actors used an open-source...

Anyone who is malicious can front-run initialize transaction to set pool's initial price to a value that deviates quite a lot from market price, which discourages users from using the pool and makes the pool useless

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Calling the following initialize function sets the initial price for the pool. Setting the initial price to be similar to the current market price would encourage users to use the pool. Yet, the initialize transaction is vulnerable to front-running. For...

Qualys Response to ProxyNotShell Microsoft Exchange Server Zero-Day Threat Using Qualys Cloud Platform

On September 29, 2022, active attacks against Microsoft Exchange were reported by Vietnamese cybersecurity company GTSC. The researcher at GTSC reported two critical vulnerabilities now named “ProxyNotShell” in Microsoft Exchange Server via two advisories issued by Zero Day Initiative:...