Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2019. Advanced threat predictions for 2020

Nothing is more difficult than making predictions. Rather than trying to gaze into a crystal ball, we will be making educated guesses based on what has happened during the last 12 months, to see where we can see trends that might be exploited in the near future. This is what we think might happen...

Cryptominers, ransomware among top malware in IR engagements in Q4

By David Liebenberg and Kendall McKay. This summer’s most popular malware families were commonly seen, unsophisticated attacks, with phishing being the top infection vector, according to Cisco Talos Incident Response CTIR data. In addition to threat actors repeatedly deploying common threats like...

McDonalds-Themed Facebook Ads Serve Up Banking Trojans

The Mispadu banking trojan is using a McDonalds malvertising tactic to ultimately steal payment-card data and online banking information. Written in Delphi, Mispadu targets Brazil and Mexico, uses pop-up windows and contains backdoor functionality. According to researchers at ESET, Mispadu spread...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: Ramnit Banking Trojan

Ramnit Banking Trojan was first discovered in 2010 and is still evolving and staying actively as the second rank on the top banking trojan list in October 2019 as from the source post. It may be distributing via malvertising, exploit kit, spear-phishing campaign or others method to infect on the...

New Group of Hackers Targeting Businesses with Financially Motivated Cyber Attacks

Security researchers have tracked down activities of a new group of financially-motivated hackers that are targeting several businesses and organizations in Germany, Italy, and the United States in an attempt to infect them with backdoor, banking Trojan, or ransomware malware. Though the new...

New Group of Hackers Targeting Businesses with Financially Motivated Cyber Attacks

Security researchers have tracked down activities of a new group of financially-motivated hackers that are targeting several businesses and organizations in Germany, Italy, and the United States in an attempt to infect them with backdoor, banking Trojan, or ransomware malware. Though the new...

Threat Actor Impersonates USPS to Deliver Backdoor Malware

A new threat actor has been found impersonating the U.S. Postal Service USPS and other government agencies to deliver and install backdoor malware to various organizations in Germany, Italy and the United States, according to new research. The campaigns, which researchers from cybersecurity firm...

Threat Roundup for November 1 to November 8

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Nov. 1 and Nov. 8. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Emotet Resurgence Continues With New Tactics, Techniques and Procedures

The notorious banking trojan Emotet, that mysteriously disappeared over the summer, returned last month dropping a new collection of malware including information stealers, email harvesters, self-propagation mechanisms and ransomware. But since the malware returned from its hiatus, there was no...

The vulnerability of the eMail component of the Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking system allows a perpetrator to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the eMail component of the Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking system relates to the lack of protection for operational data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to gain unauthorized access to protected information using the HTTP protoc...

The vulnerability of the Payments component in the Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking system allows a perpetrator to compromise the integrity of the protected information.

The vulnerability of the Payments component in Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking’ remote banking system is related to insufficient access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to compromise the integrity of the protected information using the HTTP protocol...

NCR Barred Mint, QuickBooks from Banking Platform During Account Takeover Storm

Banking industry giant NCR Corp. NYSE: NCR late last month took the unusual step of temporarily blocking third-party financial data aggregators Mint and QuickBooks Online from accessing Digital Insight, an online banking platform used by hundreds of financial institutions. That ban, which came in...

The vulnerability of the Loan Calculator sub-component of the Oracle Banking Digital Experience component in the bank analytics system’s simulation model, allowing a perpetrator to access the ability to modify, add, or delete data.

The vulnerability of the Loan Calculator sub-component of the Oracle Banking Digital Experience component of the banking analytics system’s simulation model, Oracle Financial Services Applications, is related to lack of access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor t...

UniCredit Suffers Third Breach Despite Investing Billions in Cybersecurity

Despite investing 2.4 billion euros since 2016 to upgrade its cybersecurity profile, Italian banking institution UniCredit has suffered its third recent data breach, this time impacting 3 million customers. The company said in a short data breach announcement on its website that names, telephone...

Threat Source newsletter (Oct. 24, 2019)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Never assume that a malware family is really dead. We’ve done it time and time again with things like Emotet, and Gustuff is proving it...

Gustuff return, new features for victims

By Vitor Ventura with contributions from Chris Neal. Executive summary The Gustuff banking trojan is back with new features, months after initially appearing targeting financial institutions in Australia. Cisco Talos first reported on Gustuff in April. Soon after, the actors behind Gustuff starte...

Threat Roundup for October 11 to October 18

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Oct. 11 and Oct. 18. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

CVE-2019-3019

Vulnerability in the Oracle Banking Digital Experience product of Oracle Financial Services Applications component: Loan Calculator. Supported versions that are affected are 18.1, 18.2, 18.3 and 19.1. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to...

CVE-2019-3019

Vulnerability in the Oracle Banking Digital Experience product of Oracle Financial Services Applications component: Loan Calculator. Supported versions that are affected are 18.1, 18.2, 18.3 and 19.1. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to...

CVE-2019-2980

Vulnerability in the Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking product of Oracle Financial Services Applications component: eMail. Supported versions that are affected are 12.0.2 and 12.0.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle...