Google Launches New Open Source Bug Bounty to Tackle Supply Chain Attacks

Google on Monday introduced a new bug bounty program for its open source projects, offering payouts anywhere from $100 to $31,337 a reference to eleet or leet to secure the ecosystem from supply chain attacks. Called the Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program OSS VRP, the offering is...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Fabric OS firmware used by IBM b-type SAN directors and switches.

Summary Public disclosed vulnerability from OpenSSL in the Fabric OS FOS used by IBM b-type SAN directors and switches. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2021-4044 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by invalid handling of X509verifycert intern...

How 1-Time Passcodes Became a Corporate Liability

Phishers are enjoying remarkable success using text messages to steal remote access credentials and one-time passcodes from employees at some of the worlds largest technology companies and customer support firms. A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a...

How to Support Agile Development Through Cybersecurity Best Practices

Understanding other peoples problems It’s often said that people only notice cybersecurity when it fails, or when it gets in the way of them doing their jobs. Organizations, and especially software development teams, want to be able to develop quickly and easily to stay ahead of their competition...

CVE-2022-1016

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel in net/netfilter/nftablescore.c:nftdochain, which can cause a use-after-free. This issue needs to handle 'return' with proper preconditions, as it can lead to a kernel information leak problem caused by a local, unprivileged attacker...

Tentacles of ‘0ktapus’ Threat Group Victimize 130 Firms

Targeted attacks on Twilio and Cloudflare employees are tied to a massive phishing campaign that resulted in 9,931 accounts at over 130 organizations being compromised. The campaigns are tied to focused abuse of identity and access management firm Okta, which gained the threat actors the 0ktapus...

Okta Hackers Behind Twilio and Cloudflare Attacks Hit Over 130 Organizations

The threat actor behind the attacks on Twilio and Cloudflare earlier this month has been linked to a broader phishing campaign aimed at 136 organizations that resulted in a cumulative compromise of 9,931 accounts. The activity has been condemned 0ktapus by Group-IB because the initial goal of the...

Microsoft Uncovers New Post-Compromise Malware Used by Nobelium Hackers

The threat actor behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack has been linked to yet another "highly targeted" post-exploitation malware that could be used to maintain persistent access to compromised environments. Dubbed MagicWeb by Microsoft's threat intelligence teams, the development reiterates...

Kimsuky’s GoldDragon cluster and its C2 operations

Kimsuky also known as Thallium, Black Banshee and Velvet Chollima is a prolific and active threat actor primarily targeting Korea-related entities. Like other sophisticated adversaries, this group also updates its tools very quickly. In early 2022, we observed this group was attacking the media a...

Oracle Linux 9 : curl (ELSA-2022-6157)

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2022-6157 advisory. - fix unpreserved file permissions CVE-2022-32207 - fix HTTP compression denial of service CVE-2022-32206 Tenable has extracted the preceding descripti...

curl: HTTP compression denial of service

A vulnerability was found in curl. This issue occurs because the number of acceptable "links" in the "decompression chain" was unbounded, allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps. This flaw leads to a denial of service, either by mistake or by a...

MagicWeb: NOBELIUM’s post-compromise trick to authenticate as anyone

Updated August 26, 2022: Added instructions to enable collection of AD FS event logs in order to search for Event ID 501, and added a new resource for AD FS audit logging in Microsoft Sentinel. Microsoft security researchers have discovered a post-compromise capability we’re calling MagicWeb, whi...

curl: HTTP compression denial of service

A vulnerability was found in curl. This issue occurs because the number of acceptable "links" in the "decompression chain" was unbounded, allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps. This flaw leads to a denial of service, either by mistake or by a...

Ajax Load More < 5.5.4 - PHAR Deserialization via CSRF

The plugin does not validate user input before using it to generate a path, allowing attacker to fully control it and use any wrapper, such as PHAR which could lead to deserialisation if they can trick an admin to open a malicious link and a suitable gadget chain is present...

Pushing Open-Source Security Forward: Insights From Black Hat 2022

Open-source security has been a hot topic in recent years, and it's proven to be something of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, there's an understanding of the potential that open-source tools hold for democratizing security, making industry best practices accessible to more organizations an...

Malicious Package

Overview rmesse-utils is a malicious package. The package's name is based on existing repositories, namespaces, or components used by popular companies in an effort to trick employees into downloading it, also known as 'dependency confusion'. Therefore, you're only vulnerable if this package was...

Malicious Package

Overview npm-lylog is a malicious package. The package's name is based on existing repositories, namespaces, or components used by popular companies in an effort to trick employees into downloading it, also known as 'dependency confusion'. Therefore, you're only vulnerable if this package was...

Malicious Package

Overview runkit-ui is a malicious package. The package's name is based on existing repositories, namespaces, or components used by popular companies in an effort to trick employees into downloading it, also known as 'dependency confusion'. Therefore, you're only vulnerable if this package was...

Malicious Package

Overview paymentsos-client is a malicious package. The package's name is based on existing repositories, namespaces, or components used by popular companies in an effort to trick employees into downloading it, also known as 'dependency confusion'. Therefore, you're only vulnerable if this package...

@abacus-network/helloworld (>=0.2.1-alpha <=0.2.1-beta2), @alt-research/orbit-sdk-avail (>=0.9.1 <=0.9.11) +108 more potentially affected by CVE-2022-35961 via @openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeable (>=4.2.0 <=4.7.0)

@openzeppelin/contracts-upgradeable NPM version =4.2.0, =0.2.1-alpha, =0.9.1, =0.19.0-beta.0, =0.1.0-alpha, =0.24.2, =1.0.0, =0.6.0, =1.1.4-migration-beta.0, =1.0.0-beta.0, =1.0.0-upstream-0.19.0, =1.4.0, =1.5.0-beta.0 and more Source cves: CVE-2022-35961 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-4H98-2769-GH6H...