Threat Actors Introduce Unique ‘Newbie’ Hacker Forum

A well-known private hacking forum has recently become more inclusive, introducing a new platform to help newbie threat actors flourish and hone their expertise, research has found. The discovery is unique, as private hacker forums tend to be the exclusive province of elite cybercriminals. Digita...

What to expect when you’re electing: Talos’ 2020 election security primer

By Jon Munshaw and Matt Olney. After the 2016 General Election, the talk was all around foreign meddling. Rumors swirled that some votes may have been changed or influenced by state-sponsored actors. Sanctions and accusations followed. Four years later, is the U.S. any more prepared to protect th...

GReAT Ideas follow-up

On June 17, we hosted our first "GReAT Ideas. Powered by SAS" session, in which several experts from our Global Research and Analysis Team shared insights into APTs and threat actors, attribution, and hunting IoT threats. Here is a brief summary of the agenda from that webinar: Linking attacks to...

CVE-2020-1350 Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution (SigRed)

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Windows Domain Name System servers when they fail to properly handle requests, aka ‘Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability’. Recent assessments: gwillcox-r7 at July 14, 2020 6:11pm UTC reported: Important Update: This is now supposed...

SCANdalous! (External Detection Using Network Scan Data and Automation)

Real Quick In case you’re thrown by that fantastic title, our lawyers made us change the name of this project so we wouldn’t get sued. SCANdalous—a.k.a. Scannah Montana a.k.a. Scanny McScanface a.k.a. “Scan I Kick It? Yes You Scan”—had another name before today that, for legal reasons, we’re...

Credit-Card Skimmer Has Unlikely Target: Microsoft ASP.NET Sites

Researchers have identified a credit-card skimming campaign that’s been active since mid-April that has a rather specific and unusual target: ASP.NET-based websites running on Microsoft Internet Information Services IIS servers. New research from Malwarebytes Labs recently uncovered the campaign,...

Microsoft Launches Free Linux Forensics and Rootkit Malware Detection Service

Microsoft has announced a new free-to-use initiative aimed at uncovering forensic evidence of sabotage on Linux systems, including rootkits and intrusive malware that may otherwise go undetected. The cloud offering, dubbed Project Freta, is a snapshot-based memory forensic mechanism that aims to...

CISA: Nation-State Attackers Likely to Take Aim at Palo Alto Networks Bug

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is warning that foreign hackers are likely to exploit a newly disclosed, critical vulnerability in a raft of Palo Alto Networks firewalls and enterprise VPN appliances, which allows for device takeover without authentication. The...

Dridex Malware

Summary This Alert is the result of recent collaboration between the Department of the Treasury Financial Sector Cyber Information Group CIG and the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network FinCEN to identify and share information with the financial services sector...

Publicly Available Tools Seen in Cyber Incidents Worldwide

Summary This report is a collaborative research effort by the cyber security authorities of five nations: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.12345 In it we highlight the use of five publicly available tools, which have been used for malicious purposes in...

CVE-2020-10272

MiR100, MiR200 and other MiR robots use the Robot Operating System ROS default packages exposing the computational graph without any sort of authentication. This allows attackers with access to the internal wireless and wired networks to take control of the robot seamlessly. In combination with...

Command injection

MiR100, MiR200 and other MiR robots use the Robot Operating System ROS default packages exposing the computational graph without any sort of authentication. This allows attackers with access to the internal wireless and wired networks to take control of the robot seamlessly. In combination with...

CVE-2020-10272 RVD#2554: MiR ROS computational graph presents no authentication mechanisms

MiR100, MiR200 and other MiR robots use the Robot Operating System ROS default packages exposing the computational graph without any sort of authentication. This allows attackers with access to the internal wireless and wired networks to take control of the robot seamlessly. In combination with...

CERT NZ Releases Advisory on Ransomware Campaign

The New Zealand Computer Emergency Response Team CERT NZ has released an advisory on a ransomware campaign leveraging remote access technologies. Malicious cyber actors are targeting organizations’ networks through remote access tools, such as Remote Desktop Protocol and virtual private networks,...

A Bug in Facebook Messenger for Windows Could've Helped Malware Gain Persistence

Cybersecurity researchers at Reason Labs, the threat research arm of security solutions provider Reason Labs, today disclosed details of a vulnerability they recently discovered in the Facebook Messenger application for Windows. The vulnerability, which resides in Messenger version 460.16, could...

Search hijackers change Chrome policy to remote administration

The latest type of installer in the saga of search hijacking changes a Chrome policy which tells users it can’t be removed because the browser is managed from the outside. As you can imagine, that has freaked out quite a few Chrome users. We have talked about the search hijacker’s business model ...

IC3 Releases Alert on Mobile Banking Apps

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has released an alert warning consumers of cyber risks associated with mobile banking apps. As more consumers rely on mobile apps for banking, malicious cyber actors are likely to increasingly target them with app-based banking Trojans and fake banking apps...

PT-2020-15932

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions D-Link DCS-2530L versions prior to 1.06.01 Hotfix D-Link DCS-2670L versions through 2.02 Description An issue exists on D-Link DCS-2530L and DCS-2670L devices. The unauthenticated /config/getuser endpoint allows for remote administrator passwo...

Unpatched Microsoft Systems Vulnerable to CVE-2020-0796

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is aware of publicly available and functional proof-of-concept PoC code that exploits CVE-2020-0796 in unpatched systems. Although Microsoft disclosed and provided updates for this vulnerability in March 2020, malicious cyber actors are...

New LNK attack tied to Higaisa APT discovered

This post was authored by Hossein Jazi and Jérôme Segura On May 29th, we identified an attack that we believe is part of a new campaign from an Advanced Persistent Threat actor known as Higaisa. The Higaisa APT is believed to be tied to the Korean peninsula, and was first disclosed by Tencent...