Massive Cyber Attack Knocks Down Ukrainian Government Websites

No fewer than 70 websites operated by the Ukrainian government went offline on Friday for hours in what appears to be a coordinated cyber attack amid heightened tensions with Russia. "As a result of a massive cyber attack, the websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a number of other...

Log4Shell HTTP Header Injection Exploit

This Metasploit module will exploit an HTTP end point with the Log4Shell vulnerability by injecting a format message that will trigger an LDAP connection to Metasploit and load a payload. The Automatic target delivers a Java payload using remote class loading. This requires Metasploit to run an...

10chars-test (>=1.0.0 <=1.0.34), 10er10 (=0.23.0) +4040 more potentially affected by CVE-2022-0155 via follow-redirects (>=0.0.3 <=1.14.6)

follow-redirects NPM version =0.0.3, =1.0.0, =4.11.0, =0.3.11, =0.3.3, =0.3.0, =0.1.0, =1.6.1, =1.0.0, =2.0.0, =2.0.0-rc5, =2.0.0-rc7.0.6, =2.0.0-rc2, =2.0.0-rc3, =2.0.0-rc2, =2.0.0-rc.8.0.4 and more Source cves: CVE-2022-0155 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-74FJ-2J2H-C42Q...

2022 Cybersecurity Predictions from Lookout: Work From Anywhere Ends On-Premises Security

Lookout, an endpoint-to-cloud cyber security company, have put together their cyber security predictions for 2022. 1 — Cloud connectivity and cloud-to-cloud connectivity will amplify supply-chain breaches One area organizations need to continue to monitor in 2022 is the software supply chain. We...

EoL Systems Stonewalling Log4j Fixes for Fed Agencies

Last month, federal agencies were given a Christmas Eve deadline – Dec. 24 – to address the “extremely concerning” Log4j and other vulnerabilities. Nobody said it would be easy. Besides the difficulty of tracking down all instances of the ubiquitous Apache logging library, the job of patching the...

GHSA-GP6J-VX54-5PMF Incorrect validation of parties IDs leaks secret keys in Secret-sharing scheme

Summary In the threshold signature scheme, participants start by dividing secrets into shares using a secret sharing scheme. The Verifiable Secret Sharing scheme generates shares from the user’s IDs but does not properly validate them. Using a malicious ID will make other users reveal their secre...

North Korean Hackers Start New Year with Attacks on Russian Foreign Ministry

A North Korean cyberespionage group named Konni has been linked to a series of targeted attacks aimed at the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs MID with New Year lures to compromise Windows systems with malware. "This activity cluster demonstrates the patient and persistent nature o...

Card skimmers strike Sotheby’s in Brightcove supply chain attack

Over 100 real estate websites have been compromised by the same web skimmer in a supply chain attack. So what happened? On Monday, January 3, Palo Alto said it had found a supply chain attack that used a cloud video platform to distribute skimmer campaigns. The attacker injected the skimmer’s...

Broward Breach Highlights Healthcare Supply-Chain Problems

This week’s announcement by Florida’s Broward Health System that the most intimate medical data of 1,357,879 of its patients was breached in the fall should serve as a warning that the healthcare software supply chain will be a juicy target for cybercriminals as we head into 2022, researchers war...

Cloud video platform abused in web skimmer attack against real estate sites

By Deeba Ahmed New Web Skimmer Campaign Exploiting Cloud Video Distribution Supply Chain to Target Real Estate Sites. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cloud video platform abused in web skimmer attack against real estate sites...

Mitigation of Supply Chain Risks in Microsoft 365

In this blog we review five attack techniques exploited to compromise MS 365 tenants. Qualys SaaS Detection & Response can be used by both IT and security teams to assess these threats, and then to fix common misconfigurations, hardening supply chain defenses. Last October, news of Microsoft 365 ...

Hackers Target Real Estate Websites with Skimmer in Latest Supply Chain Attack

Threat actors leveraged a cloud video hosting service to carry out a supply chain attack on more than 100 real estate websites operated by Sotheby's Realty that involved injecting malicious skimmers to steal sensitive personal information. "The attacker injected the skimmer JavaScript codes into...

More than one historical lock-position may be represented by a single tokenId

Handle onewayfunction Vulnerability details Impact More than one historical lock-position may be represented by a single tokenId, violating the "uniqueness" property claimed by the xdefi-distribution repo's README.md. Proof of Concept The README.md says: The NFT's score is embedded in the tokenId...

FreeBSD : routinator -- multiple vulnerabilities (9c990e67-6e30-11ec-82db-b42e991fc52e)

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the 9c990e67-6e30-11ec-82db-b42e991fc52e advisory. - NLnet Labs Routinator prior to 0.10.2 happily processes a chain of RRDP repositories of...

2021 in Review, Part 4: 5 Cybersecurity Topics to Watch in 2022

One of the core principles of cybersecurity is not letting things “slip through the cracks”. An effective security posture depends on visibility. The more visibility you have into the environments where your data is, the more successful you will be in applying your organization’s security protoco...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2022-37450

Go Ethereum aka geth through 1.10.21 allows attackers to increase rewards by mining blocks in certain situations, and using a manipulation of time-difference values to achieve replacement of main-chain blocks, aka Riskless Uncle Making RUM, as exploited in the wild in 2020 through 2022...

The three most significant cyberattacks of 2021

People that predict tomorrow’s weather by looking at today’s are often right. Cloudy today? Itll probably be cloudy tomorrow. The same is often true for cybersecurity threats. Looking back at 2021 it looks a lot like 2020: A lot of ransomware attacks. So, when I was asked to write about the three...

Understanding Software Supply Chain and How to Secure It

By Owais Sultan A software supply chain is anything that goes into or has an influence on your code as it moves through your CI/CD pipeline from development to deployment. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Understanding Software Supply Chain and How to Secure It...

CVE-2021-44162

Chain Sea ai chatbot system’s specific file download function has path traversal vulnerability. The function has improper filtering of special characters in URL parameters, which allows a remote attacker to download arbitrary system files without authentication...

CVE-2021-44164

Chain Sea ai chatbot system’s file upload function has insufficient filtering for special characters in URLs, which allows a remote attacker to by-pass file type validation, upload malicious script and execute arbitrary code without authentication, in order to take control of the system or...