Volatile Cedar APT Group First Operating Out of Lebanon

An APT group with its sights on selective targets, most of those in Israel, has been using an elusive malware implant to steal data from groups with state and political interests. The gang, called Volatile Cedar by researchers at Check Point Software Systems, has been working since 2012 and could...

Vulnerability: CVE-2 0 1 5-0 9 3 2-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

ANTLabs is a very popular gateway device. It is usually installed in hotels, conference centres and other places for guests to provide WIFI service. It is usually tied in a room for billing purposes. If you are in a hotel Use it, then you should be especially familiar with such devices...

Threat warning: a lot of ubnt devices is Backdoor-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

This article elaborated: the discovery of a hacker attack, intrusion analysis, counter hack Server, successfully obtain permission and complete evidence of the whole process. Such an invasion is now also very much, especially for a specific system of orientation, but“blind scan”in the attack...

AntLabs InnGate security vulnerability patch

ANTLabs today is expected to roll out patches for a vulnerability in its InnGate Internet gateways that are popular in hospitality and convention locations. The gateways provide temporary Internet access to hotel guests or conference attendees using kiosks, for example. The vulnerability...

Debian DLA-58-3 : apt robustness improvements

The recent security updates to apt make apt bug 710924 1 much easier to trigger. Affected users see '416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable' errors during a apt-get update operation. With the 0.8.10.3+squeeze7 upload the fix for this error that was originally introduced in version 0.9.12 2 is now...

Debian DLA-53-1 : apt security update

It was discovered that APT, the high level package manager, does not properly invalidate unauthenticated data CVE-2014-0488, performs incorrect verification of 304 replies CVE-2014-0487 and does not perform the checksum check when the Acquire::GzipIndexes option is used CVE-2014-0489. NOTE: Tenab...

Equation APT Group Attack Platform A Study in Stealth

Spies thrive only when they’re able to quietly infiltrate targets and slither away unnoticed; this principle is the same whether we’re talking about the physical world, or digital. The recently uncovered Equation APT group is prime example of the investment nation-state sponsored attackers make i...

Patched Windows Machines Exposed to Stuxnet LNK Flaw All Along

A five-year-old Microsoft patch for the .LNK vulnerability exploited by Stuxnet failed to properly protect Windows machines, leaving them exposed to exploits since 2010. Microsoft today is expected to release a security bulletin, MS15-020, patching the vulnerability CVE-2015-0096. It is unknown...

New Analytics Tool Defines Language Used Malicious Domains

OpenDNS has gone public with a new tool that uses a blend of analytics principles found outside information security to create a threat model for detecting domains used in criminal and state-sponsored hacking campaigns. NLPRank is not ready for production, said OpenDNS director of security resear...

Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure Seek Operational Intel

In most critical industries—petroleum refineries or energy utilities, for example—there is very little in the way of proprietary information. Refining crude oil into gasoline requires science, not a secret sauce. Same goes for power generation. So why are advanced attackers using the same data...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the 2015 Security Analyst Summit

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss their takeaways from the SAS 2015 conference, including the Equation Group APT analysis, hacking car washes, indexing the dark web and hacking home appliances. Download: digitalunderground187.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Costin Raiu on the Equation Group APT

CANCUN–Dennis Fisher talks with Costin Raiu of the Kaspersky Lab GReAT team about the researcher behind the Equation Group campaign, the group’s capabilities and why they seem to have gone dark now. READ Massive Decades Long Cyberespionage Campaign Uncovered READ Inside nls933w.dll, the Equation...

Encryption and Silence Can be Targets' Best Assets

CANCUN–Things are getting real these days for executives, researchers, journalists and others involved in the security community. Targeted surveillance is a reality for many in the community, and researchers and activists are trying now to help them assess and address that threat to their privacy...

Inside nls_933w.dll, the Equation APT Persistence Module

CANCUN – The names called out like beacons from the screen: Samsung; Seagate; Western Digital; Hitachi; Maxtor. Hardware makers were in the crosshairs of the Equation APT group and it was perhaps the worst possible scenario imagined by researchers looking at the frightening and extensive storehou...

APT Groups Emerging in Middle East

CANCUN–Since security researchers and vendors began exposing the inner workings of APT groups a few years ago, virtually all of the operations that have been made public have been the work of attackers in Europe, Asia or North America. But recently, groups in the Middle East have joined the game ...

Hackers' Op-Sec Failures Important Clues to Uncover APT Gangs

CANCUN – Sophistication, resourcefulness and ingenuity are characteristics usually associated with state-sponsored espionage hacker groups. But they’re certainly not infallible. Like most detective work, security analysts generally are able to toss back the covers on APT campaigns and major...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Ghost Vulnerability, the Regin/NSA Correlation and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the Ghost glibc vulnerability and its repercussions, the Apple iOS and OSX patches, the link between the Regin APT platform and the NSA. Plus Super Bowl predictions! Music by Chris Gonsalves Download: digitalunderground182.mp3...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3143-1 (virtualbox - security update)

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in VirtualBox, a x86 virtualisation solution, which might result in denial of service. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb3143.nasl 6609 2017-07-07 12:05:59Z cfischer $ Auto-generated from advisory DSA 3143-1 using nvtgen 1.0 Script version: 1.0 Author:...

Regin Cyberespionage Malware Platform Modules Disclosed

The Regin malware platform used to steal secrets from government agencies, banks and GSM network operators caught the attention of security experts who called it one of the most advanced attack platforms that has been studied, surpassing Flame, Duqu, even Stuxnet. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab sai...

2015 Computer Security Risks and Trends to Watch

P4ssw0rds got you down? POODLEs Bashing you over the head giving you Heartbleed? Well, bad puns aside, 2014 was a rough year and you can surely expect more of the same in 2015—with a few new twists. Hackers will still chase credit card numbers and point-of-sale systems, but they’ve got their eye ...