APT trends report Q1 2021

For four years, the Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat APT activity. The summaries are based on our threat intelligence research and provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and discussed in...

Password manager hijacked to deliver malware in supply chain attack

In the latest example of a supply chain attack, cybercriminals delivered malware to customers of the business password manager Passwordstate by breaching its developer’s networks and then deploying a fraudulent update last week, said Passwordstate’s maker, Click Studios. Though the number of...

A week in security (April 19 – 25)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we interviewed Youssef Sammouda, a 21-year-old bug bounty hunter who is focused on finding vulnerabilities on Facebook. We looked into the CodeCov supply-chain attack, the vulnerabilities in Pulse Secure VPN that are being actively exploited by attackers, and the...

CVE-2021-20695

Improper following of a certificate's chain of trust vulnerability in DAP-1880AC firmware version 1.21 and earlier allows a remote authenticated attacker to gain root privileges via unspecified vectors...

Input validation

Improper following of a certificate's chain of trust vulnerability in DAP-1880AC firmware version 1.21 and earlier allows a remote authenticated attacker to gain root privileges via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2021-20695

Improper following of a certificate's chain of trust vulnerability in DAP-1880AC firmware version 1.21 and earlier allows a remote authenticated attacker to gain root privileges via unspecified vectors...

CISA and NIST Release New Interagency Resource: Defending Against Software Supply Chain Attacks

A software supply chain attack—such as the recent SolarWinds Orion attack—occurs when a cyber threat actor infiltrates a software vendor’s network and employs malicious code to compromise the software before the vendor sends it to their customers. The compromised software can then further...

CVE-2021-21224

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 90.0.4430.85 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page. Recent assessments: gwillcox-r7 at June 17, 2021 3:06pm UTC reported: According to...

FBI-DHS-CISA Joint Advisory on Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Cyber Operations

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and CISA have released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA addressing Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR cyber actors—also known as Advanced Persistent Threat 29 APT 29, the Dukes, CozyBear, and Yttrium—continued...

Passwordstate Password Manager Update Hijacked to Install Backdoor on Thousands of PCs

Click Studios, the Australian software company behind the Passwordstate password management application, has notified customers to reset their passwords following a supply chain attack. The Adelaide-based firm said a bad actor used sophisticated techniques to compromise the software's update...

gsSMTP-Csrf2Xss2RCE

GetSimple CMS My SMTP Contact Plugin = v1.1.1 - CSRF to Stor...

CVE-2021-2253

Vulnerability in the Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning product of Oracle Supply Chain component: Core. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1 and 12.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Advanced Supply Cha...

CVE-2021-2253

Vulnerability in the Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning product of Oracle Supply Chain component: Core. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1 and 12.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Advanced Supply Cha...

Design/Logic Flaw

Vulnerability in the Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning product of Oracle Supply Chain component: Core. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1 and 12.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Advanced Supply Cha...

CVE-2021-2220

Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise SCM eProcurement product of Oracle PeopleSoft component: Manage Requisition Status. The supported version that is affected is 9.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise PeopleSoft...

CVE-2021-2253

Vulnerability in the Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning product of Oracle Supply Chain component: Core. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1 and 12.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Advanced Supply Cha...

CVE-2021-2253

Vulnerability in the Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning product of Oracle Supply Chain component: Core. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1 and 12.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Advanced Supply Cha...

CVE-2021-2253

CVE-2021-2253 affects Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning (Oracle Supply Chain) Core in versions 12.1 and 12.2. The vulnerability arises in the core component, enabling an unauthenticated attacker to compromise via HTTP over network access, potentially leading to unauthorized creation, deletion...

Spotlight on Cybercriminal Supply Chains

An examination of cybercrime ecosystems reveals it mirrors legitimate financial organization and market systems. “Cybercriminals need to move money and pay employees in their organization just like any other company,” said Derek Manky Chief Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at Fortinet’...

5 Ways Your Software Supply Chain is Out to Get You, Part 2: Exploit Third Party Applications

In Part 1 of this series, we explained how and why our software supply chain transfers an extraordinary amount of risk downstream to the organizations and users that trust and depend on it. We also presented evidence suggesting that 2021 may well be the year of the Software Supply Chain attack...