U.S. Pipeline Ransomware Attackers Go Dark After Servers and Bitcoin Are Seized

Just as Colonial Pipeline restored all of its systems to operational status in the wake of a crippling ransomware incident a week ago, DarkSide, the cybercrime syndicate behind the attack, claimed it lost control of its infrastructure, citing a law enforcement seizure. All the dark web sites...

CVE-2021-24195

Low privileged users can use the AJAX action 'cppluginsdobuttonjoblatercallback' in the Login as User or Customer User Switching WordPress plugin before 1.8, to install any plugin including a specific version from the WordPress repository, as well as activate arbitrary plugin from then blog, whic...

Ransomware Going for $4K on the Cyber-Underground

In the cybercriminal underground, ransomware samples and builders are going for anywhere between $300 to $4,000, with ransomware-as-a-service rentals costing $120 to $1,900 per year. That’s according to an analysis by Kaspersky of the three main underground forums where ransomware is circulated...

Threat spotlight: DarkSide, the ransomware used in the Colonial Pipeline attack

Late last week, the business network systems of Colonial Pipeline, the biggest supplier of fuels on the East Coast of the United States, were compromised due to a ransomware attack, forcing the company to temporarily shut down its operations while investigations are underway. Monday morning,...

How ViacomCBS Digital delivers uninterrupted content streaming to millions of fans without compromising security: Lessons for enterprise CISOs

Each day, ViacomCBS Digital sees a growing surge in digital content demand—from MTV and Comedy Central to CBS Sports, rushing across its Paramount+ formerly CBS All Access streaming platform. Delivering digital content to millions of users on a daily basis doesn’t happen on its own—it makes it to...

Avaddon ransomware campaign prompts warnings from FBI, ACSC

Both the Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have issued warnings about an ongoing cybercrime campaign that is using Avaddon ransomware. The FBI states that is has received notifications of unidentified cyber actors using Avaddon ransomware against...

CVE-2021-27611

CVE-2021-27611 affects SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP versions 700, 701, 702, 730, 731. The vulnerability enables a high-privileged, local attacker to inject malicious code by executing an ABAP report on a local SAP system, with potential data access/overwrite and denial of service. Root cause cited acros...

Shining a Light on DARKSIDE Ransomware Operations

Update May 14: Mandiant has observed multiple actors cite a May 13 announcement that appeared to be shared with DARKSIDE RaaS affiliates by the operators of the service. This announcement stated that they lost access to their infrastructure, including their blog, payment, and CDN servers, and wou...

CVE-2021-23008

On version 15.1.x before 15.1.3, 14.1.x before 14.1.4, 13.1.x before 13.1.4, 12.1.x before 12.1.6, and all versions of 16.0.x and 11.6.x., BIG-IP APM AD Active Directory authentication can be bypassed via a spoofed AS-REP Kerberos Authentication Service Response response sent over a hijacked KDC...

Authentication flaw

On version 15.1.x before 15.1.3, 14.1.x before 14.1.4, 13.1.x before 13.1.4, 12.1.x before 12.1.6, and all versions of 16.0.x and 11.6.x., BIG-IP APM AD Active Directory authentication can be bypassed via a spoofed AS-REP Kerberos Authentication Service Response response sent over a hijacked KDC...

CVE-2021-32471

Insufficient input validation in the Marvin Minsky 1967 implementation of the Universal Turing Machine allows program users to execute arbitrary code via crafted data. For example, a tape head may have an unexpected location after the processing of input composed of As and Bs instead of 0s and 1s...

A Rust-based Buer Malware Variant Has Been Spotted in the Wild

Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed a new malspam campaign distributing a fresh variant of a malware loader called "Buer" written in Rust, illustrating how adversaries are constantly honing their malware toolsets to evade analysis. Dubbed "RustyBuer," the malware is propagated via email...

Benefits of Building a Multi-prong Mousetrap for WAF Policies with ML

The reason behind buying a market-leading Web Application Firewall WAF is to protect your website and web applications from malicious attacks, plus complying with industry or regional data and privacy standards. In addition to the typical OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, WAFs need to address a litan...

CVE-2021-22669

Incorrect permissions are set to default on the ‘Project Management’ page of WebAccess/SCADA portal of WebAccess/SCADA Versions 9.0.1 and prior, which may allow a low-privileged user to update an administrator’s password and login as an administrator to escalate privileges on the system...

CVE-2021-0265 Contrail Insights: The REST API implementation allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute commands as root.

An unvalidated REST API in the AppFormix Agent of Juniper Networks AppFormix allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute commands as root on the host running the AppFormix Agent, when certain preconditions are performed by the attacker, thus granting the attacker full control over the...

WordPress Login as User or Customer (User Switching) plugin <= 1.7 - Arbitrary Plugin Installation and Activation vulnerability

Arbitrary Plugin Installation and Activation vulnerability discovered by Bugbang in WordPress Login as User or Customer User Switching plugin versions = 1.7. Solution Update the WordPress Login as User or Customer User Switching plugin to the latest available version at least 1.8...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2017:2174-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2017:2299-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:0008-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2017:2131-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...