Kasablanka Group's LodaRAT improves espionage capabilities on Android and Windows

By Warren Mercer, Chris Neal and Vitor Ventura. The developers of LodaRAT have added Android as a targeted platform.A new iteration of LodaRAT for Windows has been identified with improved sound recording capabilities.The operators behind LodaRAT tied to a specific campaign targeting Bangladesh,...

Detailed: Here's How Iran Spies on Dissidents with the Help of Hackers

Twin cyber operations conducted by state-sponsored Iranian threat actors demonstrate their continued focus on compiling detailed dossiers on Iranian citizens that could threaten the stability of the Islamic Republic, including dissidents, opposition forces, and ISIS supporters, and Kurdish native...

Detailed: Here's How Iran Spies on Dissidents with the Help of Hackers

Twin cyber operations conducted by state-sponsored Iranian threat actors demonstrate their continued focus on compiling detailed dossiers on Iranian citizens that could threaten the stability of the Islamic Republic, including dissidents, opposition forces, and ISIS supporters, and Kurdish native...

Kubernetes: Node Validation Admission does not observe all oldObject fields

Summary: The Validating Admission webhook for Node Objects is passing oldObject fields incorrectly on AdmissionReview.Request. It was identified initially in metadata.labels, but a list of impacted fields follows below: oldNode.Spec.PodCIDRs oldNode.Spec.ProviderID oldNode.Spec.ConfigSource...

SonicWall SMA 100 Series 10.x Firmware Zero-Day Vulnerability

A SQL-Injection vulnerability in the SonicWall SSLVPN SMA100 product allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to perform SQL query to access username password and other session related information. This vulnerability impacts SMA100 build version 10.x. Recent assessments: wvu-r7 at February 04, 20...

Credit card skimmer piggybacks on Magento 1 hacking spree

Back in the fall of 2020 threat actors started to massively exploit a vulnerability in the no-longer maintained Magento 1 software branch. As a result, thousands of e-commerce shops were compromised and many of them injected with credit card skimming code. While monitoring activities tied to this...

Unpacking the CVEs in the FireEye Breach – Start Here First

In a blog post on Dec. 22, 2020, Qualys revealed it has identified 7.5 million instances of vulnerability to the stolen FireEye Red Team assessment tools across an anonymized set of its 15,700-member customer base. Of the 7.5 million instances of vulnerability, 99.84% were caused by only 8 CVEs,...

Addressing the OT-IT Risk and Asset Inventory Gap

Cyber-espionage and exploitation from nation-state-sanctioned actors have only become more prevalent in recent years, with recent examples including the SolarWinds attack, which was attributed to nation-state actors with alleged Russian ties. There are suspicions that sensitive information has be...

Utah Ponders Making Online ‘Catfishing’ a Crime

Legislature introduced in Utah means it could soon be illegal there to pretend to be someone else when engaging in certain types of deceptive activities on the internet, a practice known as “catfishing.” The Online Impersonation Prohibition up for debate this week in the Utah House of...

CVE-2020-17522

When ORT now via atstccfg generates ipallow.config files in Apache Traffic Control 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 and 4.0.0 to 4.1.0, those files include permissions that allow bad actors to push arbitrary content into and remove arbitrary content from CDN cache servers. Additionally, these permissions are...

Code injection

When ORT now via atstccfg generates ipallow.config files in Apache Traffic Control 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 and 4.0.0 to 4.1.0, those files include permissions that allow bad actors to push arbitrary content into and remove arbitrary content from CDN cache servers. Additionally, these permissions are...

Breaking Down Joe Biden's $10B Cybersecurity 'Down Payment'

President Joe Biden laid out a series of cybersecurity initiatives last week at his inauguration, including earmarking $10 billion for various cybersecurity defense initiatives. Those included hiring key security personnel to support for the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency CISA. The...

Apple Kills MacOS Feature Allowing Apps to Bypass Firewalls

Apple has removed a contentious macOS feature that allowed some Apple apps to bypass content filters, VPNs and third-party firewalls. The feature, first uncovered in November in a beta release of the macOS Big Sur feature, was called “ContentFilterExclusionList” and included a list of at least 50...

NSA Releases Guidance on Encrypted DNS in Enterprise Environments  

The National Security Agency NSA has released an information sheet with guidance on adopting encrypted Domain Name System DNS over Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Transport Layer Security HTTPS, referred to as DNS over HTTPS DoH. When configured appropriately, strong enterprise DNS controls can...

Malicious Software Infrastructure Easier to Get and Deploy Than Ever

Simple to use and deploy offensive security tools, making it easier than ever for criminals with little technical know-how to get in on cybercrime are seeing a significant rise, researchers say. Recorded Future just released findings from its regular year-end observations of malicious...

CVE-2020-26972

The lifecycle of IPC Actors allows managed actors to outlive their manager actors; and the former must ensure that they are not attempting to use a dead actor they have a reference to. Such a check was omitted in WebGL, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This...

CVE-2020-26972

The lifecycle of IPC Actors allows managed actors to outlive their manager actors; and the former must ensure that they are not attempting to use a dead actor they have a reference to. Such a check was omitted in WebGL, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This...

Code injection

The lifecycle of IPC Actors allows managed actors to outlive their manager actors; and the former must ensure that they are not attempting to use a dead actor they have a reference to. Such a check was omitted in WebGL, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This...

CVE-2020-26972

The lifecycle of IPC Actors allows managed actors to outlive their manager actors; and the former must ensure that they are not attempting to use a dead actor they have a reference to. Such a check was omitted in WebGL, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This...

CVE-2020-26972

The lifecycle of IPC Actors allows managed actors to outlive their manager actors; and the former must ensure that they are not attempting to use a dead actor they have a reference to. Such a check was omitted in WebGL, resulting in a use-after-free and a potentially exploitable crash. This...