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Newly patched VMware vulnerability exploited by Iranian espionage group, Rocket Kitten
THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here An Iranian cyber espionage gang known as Rocket Kitten has began delivering the Core Impact penetration testing tool on susceptible computers by exploiting a newly fixed severe vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE...
Hive Ransomware targets organizations with ProxyShell exploit
THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Hive Ransomware has been active since its discovery in June 2021, and it is constantly deploying different backdoors, including the Cobalt Strike beacon, on Microsoft Exchange servers that are vulnerable to ProxyShell...
Weekly Threat Digest: 11 – 17 April 2022
For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 765 14 1 2 6 25 The third week of April 2022 witnessed a huge spike on the discovery of 765 vulnerabilities out of...
Five Eyes Nations Warn of Russian Cyber Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure
The Five Eyes nations have released a joint cybersecurity advisory warning of increased malicious attacks from Russian state-sponsored actors and criminal groups targeting critical infrastructure organizations amidst the ongoing military siege on Ukraine. "Evolving intelligence indicates that the...
Design/Logic Flaw
The affected product is vulnerable to a network-based attack by threat actors sending unimpeded requests to the receiving server, which could cause a denial-of-service condition due to lack of heap memory resources...
2022 Cloud Misconfigurations Report: A Quick Look at the Latest Cloud Security Breaches and Attack Trends
Every year, Rapid7's team of cloud security experts and researchers put together a report to review data from publicly disclosed breaches that occurred over the prior year. The goal of this report is to unearth patterns and trends in cloud-related breaches and persistent exposures, so organizatio...
Analyzing Attempts to Exploit the Spring4Shell Vulnerability CVE-2022-22965 to Deploy Cryptocurrency Miners
Recently, we observed attempts to exploit the Spring4Shell vulnerability — a remote code execution bug, assigned as CVE-2022-22965 — by malicious actors to deploy cryptocurrency miners...
Karakurt Ensnares Conti, Diavol Ransomware Groups in Its Web
Researchers have found financial and technological links between the Karakurt cybercriminal group and two high-profile ransomware actors that signal a shift in business operations and an expansion of opportunities for the threat actors to target victims, they said. Karakurt—a financially motivate...
InsightCloudSec Supports the Recently Updated NSA/CISA Kubernetes Hardening Guide
The National Security Agency NSA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA recently updated their Kubernetes Hardening Guide, which was originally published in August 2021. With the help and feedback received from numerous partners in the cybersecurity community, this guide...
Feds: APTs Have Tools That Can Take Over Critical Infrastructure
Threat actors have built and are ready to deploy tools that can take over a number of widely used industrial control system ICS devices, which spells trouble for critical infrastructure providers—particularly those in the energy sector, federal agencies have warned. In a joint advisory, the...
U.S. Warns of APT Hackers Targeting ICS/SCADA Systems with Specialized Malware
The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of nation-state actors deploying specialized malware to maintain access to industrial control systems ICS and supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA devices. "The APT actors have developed custom-made tools for targeting ICS/SCADA devices," multiple...
Critical VMware Workspace ONE Access Flaw Under Active Exploitation in the Wild
A week after VMware released patches to remediate eight security vulnerabilities in VMware Workspace ONE Access, threat actors have begun to actively exploit one of the critical flaws in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-22954, the security shortcoming relates to a remote code execution vulnerability...
APT Actors Target ICS/SCADA Devices
CISA, the Department of Energy DOE, the National Security Agency NSA, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA, warning that certain advanced persistent threat APT actors have exhibited the capability to gain full system access to multiple...
Finding Attack Paths in Cloud Environments
The mass adoption of cloud infrastructure is fully justified by innumerable advantages. As a result, today, organizations' most sensitive business applications, workloads, and data are in the cloud. Hackers, good and bad, have noticed that trend and effectively evolved their attack techniques to...
Learn the latest cybersecurity techniques at the Microsoft Security Summit
In a world marked by change and uncertainty, innovation is more than a nice-to-have—it’s vital to any healthy organization. But fearless innovation becomes impossible when gaps in security can put those ideas at risk. Many organizations try to increase their defenses by piecing together a patchwo...
SharkBot Banking Trojan Resurfaces On Google Play Store Hidden Behind 7 New Apps
As many as seven malicious Android apps discovered on the Google Play Store masqueraded as antivirus solutions to deploy a banking trojan called SharkBot. "SharkBot steals credentials and banking information," Check Point researchers Alex Shamshur and Raman Ladutska said in a report shared with T...
Weekly Threat Digest: 28 March – 3 April 2022
For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 500 7 3 27 16 46 The fourth week of March 2022 witnessed the discovery of 500 vulnerabilities out of which 7 gaine...
MacOS SUHelper Root Privilege Escalation Vulnerability: A Deep Dive Into CVE-2022-22639
We discovered a now-patched vulnerability in macOS SUHelper, designated as CVE-2022-22639. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow malicious actors to gain root privilege escalation...
British Police Charge Two Teenagers Linked to LAPSUS$ Hacker Group
The City of London Police on Friday disclosed that it has charged two of the seven teenagers, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old, who were arrested last week for their alleged connections to the LAPSUS$ data extortion gang. "Both teenagers have been charged with: three counts of unauthorized access ...
