WARNING: Hackers Exploit Unpatched Pulse Secure 0-Day to Breach Organizations

If Pulse Connect Secure gateway is part of your organization network, you need to be aware of a newly discovered critical zero-day authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2021-22893 that is currently being exploited in the wild and for which there is no patch available yet. At least two threat...

Check Your Pulse: Suspected APT Actors Leverage Authentication Bypass Techniques and Pulse Secure Zero-Day

Executive Summary Mandiant recently responded to multiple security incidents involving compromises of Pulse Secure VPN appliances. This blog post examines multiple, related techniques for bypassing single and multifactor authentication on Pulse Secure VPN devices, persisting across upgrades, and...

Targeted Malware Reverse Engineering Workshop follow-up. Part 1

On April 8, 2021, we conducted a webinar with Ivan Kwiatkowski and Denis Legezo, Senior Security Researchers from our Global Research & Analysis Team GReAT, who gave live workshops on practical disassembling, decrypting and deobfuscating authentic malware cases, moderated by GReATs own Dan Demete...

Biden Races to Shore Up Power Grid Against Hacks

President Biden is putting the final details on a plan to encourage American electric utilities to strengthen their cybersecurity protections against hackers in the next 100 days, amid increasing cyberattacks. The White House push to boost electrical grid security comes in the wake of a report th...

AppleJeus: Analysis of North Korea’s Cryptocurrency Malware

Summary This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. This joint advisory is the result of analytic efforts among the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI,...

Unpatched MS Exchange servers hit by cryptojacking malware

By Waqas Threat actors are looking for vulnerable, unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers and installing cryptocurrency mining malware on them. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Unpatched MS Exchange servers hit by cryptojacking malware...

Detecting the "Next" SolarWinds-Style Cyber Attack

The SolarWinds attack, which succeeded by utilizing the sunburst malware, shocked the cyber-security industry. This attack achieved persistence and was able to evade internal systems long enough to gain access to the source code of the victim. Because of the far-reaching SolarWinds deployments, t...

Hacking Operational Technology for Defense: Lessons Learned From OT Red Teaming Smart Meter Control Infrastructure

High-profile security incidents in the past decade have brought increased scrutiny to cyber security for operational technology OT. However, there is a continued perception across critical infrastructure organizations that OT networks are isolated from public networks—such as the Internet. In...

Hackers Tampered With APKPure Store to Distribute Malware Apps

APKPure, one of the largest alternative app stores outside of the Google Play Store, was infected with malware this week, allowing threat actors to distribute Trojans to Android devices. In a supply-chain attack similar to that of German telecommunications equipment manufacturer Gigaset, the...

Data from 500M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale Online

Personal data from more than 500 million LinkedIn users has been posted for sale online in yet another incident of threat actors scraping data from public profiles and slinging it online for potential cybercriminal misuse. Hackers posted an archive containing data they said includes LinkedIn IDs,...

Iron Tiger APT Updates Toolkit With Evolved SysUpdate Malware

This blog details how Iron Tiger threat actors have updated their toolkit with an updated SysUpdate malware variant that now uses five files in its infection routine instead of the usual three...

Attackers Targeting Fortinet Devices and SAP Applications

The following blog was co-authored by Caitlin Condon and Bob Rudis, also known in his own words as “some caveman from Maine.” Last week, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the FBI published a joint alert to warn users that APT threat actors were likely exploiting...

Hackers Exploit Unpatched VPNs to Install Ransomware on Industrial Targets

Unpatched Fortinet VPN devices are being targeted in a series of attacks against industrial enterprises in Europe to deploy a new strain of ransomware called "Cring" inside corporate networks. At least one of the hacking incidents led to the temporary shutdown of a production site, said...

Crossing the Line: When Cyberattacks Become Acts of War

The Cold War concept isn’t outdated. In the decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the battleground has simply shifted from conflicts between ideological proxy governments to cyberspace. And the opponents have grown from a few primary nations into a broad range of sovereign threat actors. Th...

SAP warns of malicious activity targeting unpatched systems

A timely warning to keep systems patched has appeared, via a jointly-released report from Onapsis and SAP. The report details how threat actors are “targeting and potentially exploiting unprotected mission-critical SAP applications”. Some of the vulnerabilities used were weaponised fewer than 72...

Facebook: Stolen Data Scraped from Platform in 2019

The leak of personal data from more than 533 million Facebook users was scraped from their profiles by malicious actors because of a security flaw in the company’s platform prior to September 2019, the social media giant said Tuesday. Threat actors posted that data to a public hacker forum over t...

Fake LinkedIn job offers scam spreading More_eggs backdoor

By Waqas According to researchers, threat actors are using zip files to trick LinkedIn users into executing the Moreeggs backdoor. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake LinkedIn job offers scam spreading Moreeggs backdoor...

Authentication flaw

The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder WordPress plugin before 4.1.7 was being actively exploited to by malicious actors to bypass authentication, allowing unauthenticated users to log in as any user including admin by just providing the related username, as well as create accounts with...

CVE-2021-24175 The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder < 4.1.7 - Authentication Bypass

The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder WordPress plugin before 4.1.7 was being actively exploited to by malicious actors to bypass authentication, allowing unauthenticated users to log in as any user including admin by just providing the related username, as well as create accounts with...

Hackers exploiting critical vulnerabilities in Fortinet VPN – FBI-CISA

By Deeba Ahmed According to CISA and the FBI, advanced persistent threat APT nation-state actors are exploiting known vulnerabilities in the Fortinet FortiOS. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers exploiting critical vulnerabilities in Fortinet VPN - FBI-CISA...