A week in security (Sept 13 – Sept 19)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs Why backups aren’t a “silver bullet” against ransomware, with Matt Crape: Lock and Code S02E17 The many tentacles of Magecart Group 8 Apple releases emergency update: Patch, but don’t panic Update now! Google Chrome fixes two in-the-wild zero-days Parts of the Dark...

ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus has been abused in the wild due to a zero-day vulnerability

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. An APT actor is attempting to exploit a zero-day vulnerability in ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus, a self-service password management and single sign-on solution that poses a high risk to critical infrastructure companies,...

FBI and CISA warn of APT groups exploiting ADSelfService Plus

In a joint advisory the FBI, the United States Coast Guard Cyber Command CGCYBER, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA warn that advanced persistent threat APT cyber-actors may be exploiting a vulnerability in ManageEngines single sign-on SSO solution. The vulnerability...

FBI-CISA-CGCYBER Advisory on APT Exploitation of ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus Vulnerability

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, CISA, and Coast Guard Cyber Command CGCYBER have released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA detailing the active exploitation of an authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2021-40539 in Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus—a self-service password manageme...

APT-C-36 Updates Its Spam Campaign Against South American Entities With Commodity RATs

We have continued tracking APT-C-36, also known as Blind Eagle, since our research on this threat actor in 2019. We share new findings of APT-C-36’s ongoing spam campaign targeting South American entities...

SideWalk Backdoor Linked to China-Linked Spy Group ‘Grayfly’

The novel backdoor technique called SideWalk, seen in campaigns targeting US media and retailers late last month, has been tied to an adversary that’s been around for quite a while: namely, China-linked Grayfly espionage group. ESET researchers, who named and discovered the new “SparklingGoblin”...

How to prepare for CMMC compliance as a defense industrial base supplier using the Microsoft cloud

In 2020, the US Department of Defense DoD began the phased rollout of a new framework for protecting their supply chain, known as the defense industrial base DIB. This new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification1 CMMC system requires regular audits that will bolster the security of the DIB,...

How to prepare for CMMC compliance as a defense industrial base supplier using the Microsoft cloud

In 2020, the US Department of Defense DoD began the phased rollout of a new framework for protecting their supply chain, known as the defense industrial base DIB. This new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification1 CMMC system requires regular audits that will bolster the security of the DIB,...

Winning the Cyber-Defense Race: Understand the Finish Line

If you ask organizations about their top objectives, you will likely hear they need to increase visibility, reduce toolsets and adopt automation to counteract the cybersecurity skills gap. And what most don’t realize is that these initiatives are driven by hurdles the industry has created for...

US Media, Retailers Targeted by New SparklingGoblin APT

An emerging international cybergang is broadening its targets to include North American media firms, universities and one computer retailer. The advanced persistent threat APT group is new, according to researchers who dubbed it SparklingGoblin. Also new is a novel backdoor technique, called...

New SideWalk Backdoor Targets U.S.-based Computer Retail Business

A computer retail company based in the U.S. was the target of a previously undiscovered implant called SideWalk as part of a recent campaign undertaken by a Chinese advanced persistent threat group primarily known for singling out entities in East and Southeast Asia. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESE...

InkySquid State Actor Exploiting Known IE Bugs

The InkySquid advanced persistent threat APT group, which researchers have linked to the North Korean government, was caught launching watering hole attacks against a South Korean newspaper using known Internet Explorer vulnerabilities. New analysis from Volexity reported its team of researchers...

[The Lost Bots] Episode 3: Stories From the SOC

!\The Lost Bots\ Episode 3: Stories From the SOChttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence.jpg Welcome back to The Lost Bots, a vlog series where Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice Advisor Jeffrey Gardner talks all things security wi...

IT threat evolution Q2 2021

Targeted attacks The leap of a Cycldek-related threat actor It is quite common for Chinese-speaking threat actors to share tools and methodologies: one such example is the infamous "DLL side-loading triad": a legitimate executable, a malicious DLL to be side-loaded by it and an encoded payload,...

Fortinet FortiSandbox SQL注入漏洞

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from Fortinet, Inc. Fortinet FortiSandbox is vulnerable to SQL injection, a vulnerability that results from the product's failure to filter special characters in input data, which could be exploited to execute illegal...

Fortinet FortiSandbox Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from Fortinet, a US-based company. The appliance offers dual sandboxing technology, a dynamic threat intelligence system, a real-time control panel and reporting, etc. The Fortinet FortiSandbox is vulnerable to a buff...

Fortinet FortiSandbox Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from Fortinet, Inc. The appliance provides dual sandboxing technology, a dynamic threat intelligence system, a real-time control panel and reporting, etc. The Fortinet FortiSandbox contains a cross-site scripting...

Fortinet FortiSandbox OS Command Injection Vulnerability

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from Fortinet, a US-based company. The appliance provides dual sandbox technology, a dynamic threat intelligence system, real-time control panel and reporting, etc. Fortinet FortiSandbox has an operating system comman...

Fortinet FortiSandbox和Fortinet FortiAuthenticator拒绝服务漏洞

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance. Fortinet FortiAuthenticator is a centralized user identity management solution. denial-of-service vulnerability, which can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to put the device into an unresponsive state via...

Fortinet FortiSandbox Path Traversal Vulnerability

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from Fortinet, Inc. The appliance provides dual sandboxing technology, dynamic threat intelligence, a real-time control panel and reporting, etc. A path traversal vulnerability exists in Fortinet FortiSandbox that cou...