Thousands Download Malicious npm Libraries Impersonating Legitimate Tools

Threat actors have been observed uploading malicious typosquats of legitimate npm packages such as typescript-eslint and @types/node that have racked up thousands of downloads on the package registry. The counterfeit versions, named @typescripteslinter/eslint and types-node, are engineered to...

Exploring vulnerable Windows drivers

This post is the result of research into the real-world application of the Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver BYOVD technique along with Cisco Talos' series of posts about malicious Windows drivers. Some of this research was presented at the AVAR conference in Chennai at the beginning of December...

2024 Threat Landscape Statistics: Ransomware Activity, Vulnerability Exploits, and Attack Trends

Now that we’ve reached the end of another year, you may be looking around the cybersecurity infosphere and seeing a glut of posts offering “hot takes” on the 2024 threat landscape and predictions about what’s coming next. At Rapid7, we don’t truck in hot takes, but rather, cold hard facts. Stayin...

BIT-NODE-MIN-2024-22018

A vulnerability has been identified in Node.js, affecting users of the experimental permission model when the --allow-fs-read flag is used. This flaw arises from an inadequate permission model that fails to restrict file stats through the fs.lstat API. As a result, malicious actors can retrieve...

Something to Read When You Are On Call and Everyone Else is at the Office Party

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. The new head of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, Richard Horne, recently remarked that there is a "clearly widening gap between, on the one hand, the threat and our exposure to it and, on the other, the defences that are in...

Researchers Uncover Espionage Tactics of China-Based APT Groups in Southeast Asia

A suspected China-based threat actor has been linked to a series of cyber attacks targeting high-profile organizations in Southeast Asia since at least October 2023. The espionage campaign targeted organizations in various sectors spanning government ministries in two different countries, an air...

Gafgyt Malware Targeting Docker Remote API Servers

Our researchers identified threat actors exploiting misconfigured Docker servers to spread the Gafgyt malware. This threat traditionally targets IoT devices; this new tactic signals a change in its behavior...

Why Cybercriminals Are Not Necessarily Embracing AI

As published in HackerNoon and featured as a “Top 20 Best Read Article” for AI. Introduction The rapid advancement of AI has offered powerful tools for malware detection, but it has also introduced new avenues for adversarial attacks. As an example, recently OpenAI reported threat actors abusing...

Horns&Hooves campaign delivers NetSupport RAT and BurnsRAT

Recent months have seen a surge in mailings with lookalike email attachments in the form of a ZIP archive containing JScript scripts. The script files – disguised as requests and bids from potential customers or partners – bear names such as "Запрос цены и предложения от Индивидуального...

CVE-2024-53860 Potential Abuse for Sending Arbitrary Emails in sp-php-email-handler

sp-php-email-handler is a PHP package for handling contact form submissions. Messages sent using this script are vulnerable to abuse, as the script allows anybody to specify arbitrary email recipients and include user-provided content in confirmation emails. This could enable malicious actors to...

A Bag of RATs: VenomRAT vs. AsyncRAT

Introduction Remote access tools RATs have long been a favorite tool for cyber attackers, since they enable remote control over compromised systems and facilitate data theft, espionage, and continuous monitoring of victims. Among the well-known RATs are VenomRAT and AsyncRAT. These are open-sourc...

CVE-2024-11088 Simple Membership <= 4.5.5 - Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The Simple Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.5 via the WordPress core search feature. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data from posts that have been restricted to...

NodeStealer Malware Targets Facebook Ad Accounts, Harvesting Credit Card Data

Threat hunters are warning about an updated version of the Python-based NodeStealer that's now equipped to extract more information from victims' Facebook Ads Manager accounts and harvest credit card data stored in web browsers. "They collect budget details of Facebook Ads Manager accounts of the...

Hackers Hijack Unsecured Jupyter Notebooks to Stream Illegal Sports Broadcasts

Malicious actors are exploiting misconfigured JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebooks to conduct stream ripping and enable sports piracy using live streaming capture tools. The attacks involve the hijack of unauthenticated Jupyter Notebooks to establish initial access, and perform a series of actions...

CVE-2024-6068

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the affected products when parsing DFT files. Local threat actors can exploit this issue to disclose information and to execute arbitrary code. To exploit this vulnerability a legitimate user must open a malicious DFT file...

CVE-2024-6068 Input Validation Vulnerability exists in Arena® Input Analyzer

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the affected products when parsing DFT files. Local threat actors can exploit this issue to disclose information and to execute arbitrary code. To exploit this vulnerability a legitimate user must open a malicious DFT file...

CVE-2024-6068 Input Validation Vulnerability exists in Arena® Input Analyzer

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the affected products when parsing DFT files. Local threat actors can exploit this issue to disclose information and to execute arbitrary code. To exploit this vulnerability a legitimate user must open a malicious DFT file...

Lunary 信息泄露漏洞

lunary is lunary open source a production toolkit for LLM . lunary suffers from an information disclosure vulnerability that stems from the fact that tokens can be exposed to unauthorized actors, allowing them to perform operations on behalf of the user. An attacker could exploit this vulnerabili...

Transforming Threat Actor Research into a Strong Defense Strategy

Transforming Threat Actor Research into a Strong Defense Strategy By James Murphy, Ale Houspanossian, Leandro Velasco LV and Ilya Kolmanovich · November 14, 2024 What does it take to transform threat actor research into detection engineering? If we look at threat intelligence at its core, then we...

CISA, FBI, NSA, and International Partners Release Joint Advisory on 2023 Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, National Security Agency NSA, and international partners released joint Cybersecurity Advisory, 2023 Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities. This advisory supplies details on the top Common...