Exploit Reseller Offering Up To $2.5 Million For Android Zero-Days

Well, there's some good news for hackers and vulnerability hunters, though terrible news for Google, Android device manufacturers, and their billions of users worldwide. The zero-day buying and selling industry has recently taken a shift towards Android operating system, offering up to $2.5 milli...

NCSC Releases UK Cyber Incident Trends Report

The United Kingdom UK National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released a report detailing cyber incident trends in the UK from October 2018 to April 2019. The report provides technical guidance on how to defend against, and recover from, the following cyber threats: ransomware, phishing,...

Ransomware Hits Dental Data Backup Service Offering Ransomware Protection

THIS WEEK IN THE IRONIC NEWS: DDS Safe, an online cloud-based data backup system that hundreds of dental practice offices across the United States are using to safeguard medical records and other information of their patients from ransomware attacks has been hit with ransomware. Provided by two...

Ransomware Hits Dental Data Backup Service Offering Ransomware Protection

THIS WEEK IN THE IRONIC NEWS: DDS Safe, an online cloud-based data backup system that hundreds of dental practice offices across the United States are using to safeguard medical records and other information of their patients from ransomware attacks has been hit with ransomware. Provided by two...

In-the-wild iOS Exploit Chain 5

Posted by Ian Beer, Project Zero TL;DR This exploit chain is a three way collision between this attacker group, Brandon Azad from Project Zero, and @S0rryMybad from 360 security. On November 17th 2018, @S0rryMybad used this vulnerability to win $200,000 USD at the TianFu Cup PWN competition...

In-the-wild iOS Exploit Chain 4

Posted by Ian Beer, Project Zero TL;DR This exploit chain supported iOS 12-12.1, although the two vulnerabilities were unpatched when we discovered the chain in the wild. It was these two vulnerabilities which we reported to Apple with a 7-day deadline, leading to the release of iOS 12.1.4. The...

The Shady Secrets of Shadow Networks

Shadow networks are side channels to traditional networks, undetected and working quietly in the background alongside what the traditional network was designed to do. Command and Control sometimes referred to as C2 servers maintain links with compromised end points IoT, PCs, Printers etc within a...

IT threat evolution Q2 2019

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns More about ShadowHammer In March, we published the results of our investigation into a sophisticated supply-chain attack involving the ASUS Live Update Utility, used to deliver BIOS, UEFI and software updates to ASUS laptops and desktops. The attackers added...

Choice Hotels Breach Showcases Need for Shared Responsibility Model

Hospitality giant Choice Hotels fell victim to hackers this week, thanks to a MongoDB database that was left open to the internet containing 700,000 customer records. The situation highlights supply-chain data-security risk, given that the data was being held by a third-party vendor — and brings ...

The Hidden Bee infection chain, part 1: the stegano pack

About a year ago, we described the Hidden Bee miner delivered by the Underminer Exploit Kit. Hidden Bee has a complex and multi-layered internal structure that is unusual among cybercrime toolkits, making it an interesting phenomenon on the threat landscape. That's why we're dedicating a series o...

Black Hat 2019: Addressing Supply-Chain Risk Starts with People, Microsoft Says

LAS VEGAS – Supply-chain attacks have nabbed headlines lately thanks to high-profile incidents like the Wipro news last April, where attackers were able to compromise the staffing agency’s network and pivot to their customers. That incident pointed out that supply-chain risk should be thought of ...

Supply-Chain Attack against the Electron Development Platform

Electron is a cross-platform development system for many popular communications apps, including Skype, Slack, and WhatsApp. Security vulnerabilities in the update system allows someone to silently inject malicious code into applications. From a news article: At the BSides LV security conference o...

APT41: A Dual Espionage and Cyber Crime Operation

Today, FireEye Intelligence is releasing a comprehensive report detailing APT41, a prolific Chinese cyber threat group that carries out state-sponsored espionage activity in parallel with financially motivated operations. APT41 is unique among tracked China-based actors in that it leverages...

Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #8

Black Hat kicks off in a few days, and for Qualys customers still planning their schedule we have our weekly recommendation from among the conference’s many training courses and research briefings: The Enemy Within: Modern Supply Chain Attacks. Speaker Eric Doerr, General Manager of the Microsoft...

Oracle Supply Chain Products Suite Demantra Demand Management Component Access Control Error Vulnerability

Oracle Supply Chain Products Suite is a suite of supply chain solutions from Oracle Corporation. The product provides value chain planning, value chain execution, product lifecycle management, etc. Demantra Demand Management is one of the components used to manage supply chain demand. An access...

Rockstar Games: Image Injection on `/bully/anniversaryedition` may lead to FB's OAuth Token Theft.

In this report, the researcher identified a chain of attacks that could result in sensitive token leakage, such as Oauth tokens. The attack would begin with an image injection exploit on the page at https://www.rockstargames.com/bully/anniversaryedition. That exploit was the focus of this...

Oracle Demantra Demand Management Arbitrary File Execution Vulnerability

Oracle Supply Chain Products Suite is a suite of supply chain solutions from Oracle Corporation. The product provides value chain planning, value chain execution, product lifecycle management, etc. Demantra Demand Management is one of the components used to manage supply chain demand. A security...

CVE-2019-2733

Vulnerability in the Oracle Demantra Demand Management component of Oracle Supply Chain Products Suite subcomponent: Product Security. The supported version that is affected is 7.3.1.5.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise...

CVE-2019-2732

Vulnerability in the Oracle Demantra Demand Management component of Oracle Supply Chain Products Suite subcomponent: Product Security. The supported version that is affected is 7.3.1.5.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise...

Buffer overflow

Vulnerability in the Oracle Demantra Demand Management component of Oracle Supply Chain Products Suite subcomponent: Product Security. The supported version that is affected is 7.3.1.5.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise...