APT annual review: What the world’s threat actors got up to in 2020

We track the ongoing activities of more than 900 advanced threat actors; you can find our quarterly overviews here, here and here. Here we try to focus on what we consider to be the most interesting trends and developments of the last 12 months. This is based on our visibility in the threat...

IBM Releases Report on Cyber Actors Targeting the COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain

IBM X-Force has released a report on malicious cyber actors targeting the COVID-19 cold chain—an integral part of delivering and storing a vaccine at safe temperatures. Impersonating a biomedical company, cyber actors are sending phishing and spearphishing emails to executives and global...

Multiple Botnets Exploiting Critical Oracle WebLogic Bug — PATCH NOW

Multiple botnets are targeting thousands of publicly exposed and still unpatched Oracle WebLogic servers to deploy crypto miners and steal sensitive information from infected systems. The attacks are taking aim at a recently patched WebLogic Server vulnerability, which was released by Oracle as...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: ███ on https://████ enable ███ scraping, injection, stored XSS

Summary: An open ████████ at the ████████ system enables quick and easy scraping of ███ without authentication nor authorization. Description: The █████ includes an open set of ██████endpoints at https://██████████. Any individual can execute requests on these endpoints without authorization nor...

Advanced Persistent Threat Actors Targeting U.S. Think Tanks

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. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FB...

CVE-2020-29074

scan.c in x11vnc 0.9.16 uses IPCCREAT|0777 in shmget calls, which allows access by actors other than the current user...

CVE-2020-29074

scan.c in x11vnc 0.9.16 uses IPCCREAT|0777 in shmget calls, which allows access by actors other than the current user...

Design/Logic Flaw

scan.c in x11vnc 0.9.16 uses IPCCREAT|0777 in shmget calls, which allows access by actors other than the current user...

CVE-2020-29074

scan.c in x11vnc 0.9.16 uses IPCCREAT|0777 in shmget calls, which allows access by actors other than the current user...

CVE-2020-29074

scan.c in x11vnc 0.9.16 uses IPCCREAT|0777 in shmget calls, which allows access by actors other than the current user...

CVE-2020-29074

scan.c in x11vnc 0.9.16 uses IPCCREAT|0777 in shmget calls, which allows access by actors other than the current user...

Google Services Weaponized to Bypass Security in Phishing, BEC Campaigns

A spike in recent phishing and business email compromise BEC attacks can be traced back to criminals learning how to exploit Google Services, according to research from Armorblox. Social distancing has driven entire businesses into the arms of the Google ecosystem looking for a reliable, simple w...

Don't Let DDoS Extortionists Deliver a KO Punch

Since mid-August, a variety of threat actors and copycats alike have been targeting organizations across all industries globally, threatening impending DDoS attacks unless Bitcoin is paid out. It's apparent, as the campaign rages on, that some businesses must be paying the extortion demands, --...

Don't Let DDoS Extortionists Deliver a KO Punch

Since mid-August, a variety of threat actors and copycats alike have been targeting organizations across all industries globally, threatening impending DDoS attacks unless Bitcoin is paid out. It's apparent, as the campaign rages on, that some businesses must be paying the extortion demands, --...

CVE-2020-7568

A CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability exists in Modicon M221 all references, all versions that could allow non sensitive information disclosure when the attacker has captured the traffic between EcoStruxure Machine - Basic software and Modicon M221...

Advanced Threat predictions for 2021

Trying to make predictions about the future is a tricky business. However, while we dont have a crystal ball that can reveal the future, we can try to make educated guesses using the trends that we have observed over the last 12 months to identify areas that attackers are likely to seek to exploi...

Purgalicious VBA: Macro Obfuscation With VBA Purging

Malicious Office documents remain a favorite technique for every type of threat actor, from red teamers to FIN groups to APTs. In this blog post, we will discuss "VBA Purging", a technique we have increasingly observed in the wild and that was first publicly documented by Didier Stevens in Februa...

Cyberattacks targeting health care must stop

In recent months, we’ve detected cyberattacks from three nation-state actors targeting seven prominent companies directly involved in researching vaccines and treatments for COVID-19. The targets include leading pharmaceutical companies and vaccine researchers in Canada, France, India, South Kore...

Cyberattacks targeting health care must stop

In recent months, we’ve detected cyberattacks from three nation-state actors targeting seven prominent companies directly involved in researching vaccines and treatments for COVID-19. The targets include leading pharmaceutical companies and vaccine researchers in Canada, France, India, South Kore...

It's universal: We all love to exchange gifts. Singles' Day and Diwali are two more reasons to do so.

There is scientific evidence that humans secrete "feel good" chemicals in their brain, such as serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin, while giving. So it's no wonder that many of us look forward to the holidays. Online mobile shopping trends for Singles' Day and Diwali certainly confirm that. Sadly,...