Learn How Hackers Can Hijack Your Online Accounts Even Before You Create Them

Malicious actors can gain unauthorized access to users' online accounts via a new technique called "account pre-hijacking," latest research has found. The attack takes aim at the account creation process that's ubiquitous in websites and other online platforms, enabling an adversary to perform a...

APT Cyber Tools Targeting ICS/SCADA Devices

Summary Actions to Take Today to Protect ICS/SCADA Devices: • Enforce multifactor authentication for all remote access to ICS networks and devices whenever possible. • Change all passwords to ICS/SCADA devices and systems on a consistent schedule, especially all default passwords, to device-uniqu...

Researchers Find New Malware Attacks Targeting Russian Government Entities

An unknown advanced persistent threat APT group has been linked to a series of spear-phishing attacks targeting Russian government entities since the onset of the Russo-Ukrainian war in late February 2022. "The campaigns ... are designed to implant a Remote Access Trojan RAT that can be used to...

CVE-2022-29249

JavaEZ is a library that adds new functions to make Java easier. A weakness in JavaEZ 1.6 allows force decryption of locked text by unauthorized actors. The issue is NOT critical for non-secure applications, however may be critical in a situation where the highest levels of security are required...

CVE-2022-29249

CVE-2022-29249 affects the JavaEZ library. The issue is limited to v1.6 and enables a force decryption of locked text due to weak cryptography in the unlock/decrypt flow. Pre-1.6 is unaffected. A fix is available in release 1.7; upgrading is the advised remediation. Public disclosures and advisor...

CVE-2022-29249 Reversible One-Way Hash and Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm in io.github.javaezlib.JavaEZ

JavaEZ is a library that adds new functions to make Java easier. A weakness in JavaEZ 1.6 allows force decryption of locked text by unauthorized actors. The issue is NOT critical for non-secure applications, however may be critical in a situation where the highest levels of security are required...

CVE-2022-29249 Reversible One-Way Hash and Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm in io.github.javaezlib.JavaEZ

JavaEZ is a library that adds new functions to make Java easier. A weakness in JavaEZ 1.6 allows force decryption of locked text by unauthorized actors. The issue is NOT critical for non-secure applications, however may be critical in a situation where the highest levels of security are required...

PT-2022-19496 · Javaez · Javaez

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: JavaEZ version 1.6 Description: A weakness in JavaEZ allows force decryption of locked text by unauthorized actors. The issue may be critical in situations where the highest levels of security are required, but it is not critical for non-secu...

Utilizing the Adaptive Defense Model Against Information Stealers

Trellix Global Defenders: Utilizing the Adaptive Defense Model Against Information Stealers By Taylor Mullins · May 23, 2022 Trellix is continuing to observe the continued growth in usage and general availability of Information Stealers that have the functionality to collect passwords, cookies,...

380K Kubernetes API Servers Exposed to Public Internet

More than 380,000 Kubernetes API servers allow some kind of access to the public internet, making the popular open-source container-orchestration engine for managing cloud deployments an easy target and broad attack surface for threat actors, researchers have found. The Shadowserver Foundation...

Cytrox's Predator Spyware Targeted Android Users with Zero-Day Exploits

Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG on Thursday pointed fingers at a North Macedonian spyware developer named Cytrox for developing exploits against five zero-day aka 0-day flaws, four in Chrome and one in Android, to target Android users. "The 0-day exploits were used alongside n-day exploits as...

VMWare vulnerabilities are actively being exploited, CISA warns

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an Emergency Directive ED 22-03 and released a Cybersecurity Advisory CSA about ongoing, and expected exploitation of multiple vulnerabilities in several VMware products. Chaining unpatched VMware vulnerabilities The title of the...

Microsoft Warns of "Cryware" Info-Stealing Malware Targeting Crypto Wallets

Microsoft is warning of an emerging threat targeting internet-connected cryptocurrency wallets, signaling a departure in the use of digital coins in cyberattacks. The tech giant dubbed the new threat "cryware," with the attacks resulting in the irreversible theft of virtual currencies by means of...

JGraph draw.io 输入验证错误漏洞

JGraph draw.io is a configurable chart/whiteboard visualization application for JGraph. A security vulnerability exists in JGraph draw.io prior to version 18.0.7 that originates from exposing sensitive information to an unauthorized Actor...

CISA Issues Emergency Directive and Releases Advisory Related to VMware Vulnerabilities

CISA has issued Emergency Directive ED 22-03 and released a Cybersecurity Advisory CSA in response to active and expected exploitation of multiple vulnerabilities in the following VMware products: VMware Workspace ONE Access Access, VMware Identity Manager vIDM, VMware vRealize Automation vRA,...

Threat Actors Exploiting F5 BIG IP CVE-2022-1388

CISA and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center MS-ISAC have released the joint Cybersecurity Advisory Threat Actors Exploiting F5 BIG-IP CVE-2022-1388 in response to active exploitation of CVE-2022-1388, which affects F5 Networks BIG-IP devices. The vulnerability allows an...

Long lost @ symbol gets new life obscuring malicious URLs

Threat actors have rediscovered an old and little-used feature of web URLs, the innocuous @ symbol we usually see in email addresses, and started using it to obscure links to their malicious websites. Researchers from Perception Point noticed it being used in a cyberattack against multiple...

Weak Security Controls and Practices Routinely Exploited for Initial Access

The cybersecurity authorities of the United States, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom have issued a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA on 10 routinely exploited weak security controls, poor configurations, and bad practices that allow malicious actors to compromise...

Custom PowerShell RAT targets Germans seeking information about the Ukraine crisis

This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi and Jérôme Segura Populations around the world—and in Europe in particular—are following the crisis in Ukraine very closely, and with events unfolding on a daily basis, people are hungry for information. Although all countries have reasons to be...

F5 BIG-IP vulnerability is now being used to disable servers

As we reported a few days ago, a F5 BIG-IP vulnerability listed as CVE-2022-1388 is actively being exploited. But now researchers have noticed that attackers arent just taking control of the vulnerable servers but also making them unusable by destroying the device’s file system. F5 BIG-IP The...