Microsoft: SolarWinds Attackers Downloaded Azure, Exchange Code

Threat actors downloaded some Microsoft Exchange and Azure code repositories during the sprawling SolarWinds supply-chain attack but did not use the company’s internal systems or products to attack other victims. That’s the final verdict this week by the tech giant now that it’s completed a...

SolarWinds Hackers Stole Some Source Code for Microsoft Azure, Exchange, Intune

Microsoft on Thursday said it concluded its probe into the SolarWinds hack, finding that the attackers stole some source code but confirmed there's no evidence that they abused its internal systems to target other companies or gained access to production services or customer data. The disclosure...

U.S. Accuses DPRK Hackers of Stealing Millions

The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted three North Korean computer programmers for their alleged participation in widespread, destructive cyberattacks as part of the advanced persistent threat APT known as Lazarus Group. The indictment broadens the scope of crimes that the DoJ has linked to...

SolarWinds Hack and the Case of DNS Security

It's not news that some of the top government agencies and companies in the world were victims of the SolarWinds attack. At this point, I can say it's the reason I didn't have a smoother transition back into work-life following a long vacation. As I understand it, the breaches happened after...

Oracle Linux 8 : dotnet (ELSA-2021-0474)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2021-0474 advisory. 2.1.521-1 - Update to .NET Core SDK 2.1.521 and Runtime 2.1.25 - Resolves: RHBZ1922272 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the...

Talking Emotet’s takedown with Adam Kujawa: Lock and Code S02E02

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to Adam Kujawa, security evangelist and director of Malwarebytes Labs, about Emotet, the former public enemy No. 1 in the cybercrime world. What began in 20...

Chinese Supply-Chain Attack on Computer Systems

Bloomberg News has a major story about the Chinese hacking computer motherboards made by Supermicro, Levono, and others. Its been going on since at least 2008. The US government has known about it for almost as long, and has tried to keep the attack secret: Chinas exploitation of products made by...

Malvertising campaign on PornHub and other top adult brands exposes users to tech support scams

Threat actors involved in tech support scams have been running a browser locker campaign from November 2020 until February 2021 on the worlds largest adult platforms including PornHub. The same group behind this campaign has been active for much longer and we believe is tied to previous schemes...

Florida Water Plant Hack: Leaked Credentials Found in Breach Database

Researchers say they found several stolen and leaked credentials for a Florida water-treatment plant, which was hacked last week. Researchers at CyberNews said they found 11 credential pairs linked to the Oldsmar water plant, in a 2017 compilation of stolen breach credentials. Meanwhile, they als...

Researcher’s audacious hack demonstrates new type of supply-chain attack

Often the most brilliant ideas are the most simple. The hard part is being the first one to come up with the idea and put it to use. One such brilliant yet simple idea belongs to Alex Birsan, a researcher who came up with a method to breach 35 big tech companies including Microsoft, Apple, Yelp,...

Credential Stuffing and Account Takeovers -- The Business View

Account takeovers ATOs, in which criminals impersonate legitimate account owners in order to take control of an account, cause tremendous pain for businesses in all industries. This pain may be monetary, such as losses from stolen accounts, but may also include a number of related problems, like...

golang: math/big: panic during recursive division of very large numbers

A flaw was found in the math/big package of Go's standard library that causes a denial of service. Applications written in Go that use math/big via cryptographic packages, including crypto/rsa and crypto/x509, are vulnerable and can potentially cause panic via a crafted certificate chain. The...

Oracle Linux 8 : dotnet3.1 (ELSA-2021-0471)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2021-0471 advisory. 3.1.112-1.0.1 - Update patch to support 8.3 [email protected] - support OL release scheme [email protected] 3.1.112-1 - Update to .NET...

dotnet: certificate chain building recursion Denial of Service

A flaw was found in dotnet. A recursion error when building X.509 certificate chains can lead to a stack overflow which could crash the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: .NET 5.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security and bugfix update

An update for rh-dotnet50-dotnet is now available for .NET on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

dotnet: certificate chain building recursion Denial of Service

A flaw was found in dotnet. A recursion error when building X.509 certificate chains can lead to a stack overflow which could crash the system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability...

Supply-Chain Hack Breaches 35 Companies, Including PayPal, Microsoft, Apple

An ethical hacker has demonstrated a novel supply-chain attack that breached the systems of more than 35 technology players, including Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix, Tesla and Uber, by exploiting public, open-source developer tools. The attack, devised by security researcher Alex...

Dependency Confusion Supply-Chain Attack Hit Over 35 High-Profile Companies

In what's a novel supply chain attack, a security researcher managed to breach over 35 major companies' internal systems, including that of Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix, Yelp, Tesla, and Uber, and achieve remote code execution. The technique, called dependency confusion or a...

Dependency Confusion Supply-Chain Attack Hit Over 35 High-Profile Companies

In what's a novel supply chain attack, a security researcher managed to breach over 35 major companies' internal systems, including that of Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix, Yelp, Tesla, and Uber, and achieve remote code execution. The technique, called dependency confusion or a...

RHEL 8 : dotnet (RHSA-2021:0474)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0474 advisory. .NET Core is a managed-software framework. It implements a subset of the .NET framework APIs and several new APIs, and it includes a CLR...