Casting a Light on Shadow IT in Cloud Environments

What is Shadow IT? The term “Shadow IT” refers to the use of systems, devices, software, applications, and services without explicit IT approval. This typically occurs when employees adopt consumer products to increase productivity or just make their lives easier. This type of Shadow IT can be...

auditpolCIS - CIS Benchmark Testing Of Windows SIEM Configuration

CIS Benchmark testing of Windows SIEM configuration This is an application for testing the configuration of Windows Audit Policy settings against the CIS Benchmark recommended settings. A few points: The tested system was Windows Server 2019, and the benchmark used was also Windows Server 2019. T...

Tomiris called, they want their Turla malware back

Introduction We introduced Tomiris to the world in September 2021, following our investigation of a DNS-hijack against a government organization in the Commonwealth of Independent States CIS. Our initial report described links between a Tomiris Golang implant and SUNSHUTTLE which has been...

Wiz: First agentless cloud security vendor to attain CIS SecureSuite Vendor Certification for cloud-managed Kubernetes

Confidently ensure your Kubernetes environments are compliant with CIS Benchmarks for cloud-managed Kubernetes. Quickly generate compliance reports and remediate any issues without hassle...

RTM Locker: Emerging Cybercrime Group Targeting Businesses with Ransomware

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the tactics of a "rising" cybercriminal gang called "Read The Manual" RTM Locker that functions as a private ransomware-as-a-service RaaS provider and carries out opportunistic attacks to generate illicit profit. "The 'Read The Manual' Locker gang uses...

Rorschach Ransomware Emerges: Experts Warn of Advanced Evasion Strategies

Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a previously undocumented ransomware strain called Rorschach that's both sophisticated and fast. "What makes Rorschach stand out from other ransomware strains is its high level of customization and its technically unique features that have not be...

Risk Fact #5: Infrastructure Misconfigurations Open the Door to Ransomware

Qualys Blog Series – Threat Research Unit Report In this last blog of our series describing the top Risk Facts discovered in the 2023 Qualys TruRisk Research Report, we go under the hood to better understand Risk Fact 5: Infrastructure misconfigurations open the door to ransomware Misconfiguratio...

Talos uncovers espionage campaigns targeting CIS countries, embassies and EU health care agency

Cisco Talos has identified a new threat actor, which we are naming "YoroTrooper," that has been running several successful espionage campaigns since at least June 2022. YoroTroopers main targets are government or energy organizations in Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and other Commonwealth of...

scap-security-guide bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for scap-security-guide. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The scap-security-guide project provides a guide for configuratio...

Year In Review: Rapid7 InsightIDR

You’re in cybersecurity, so we’ll guess: 2022 crashed in with Log4Shell and, for the most part, got more challenging—never less. So, we kept making tangible improvements to InsightIDR, our cloud-native next-gen SIEM and XDR. We worked with some of our most forward-deployed practitioners: Rapid7...

Year in Review: Rapid7 Vulnerability Management

2022 began on a solemn note — many organizations across the globe were recovering from the Log4Shell zero-day vulnerability. For the InsightVM and Nexpose team, 2022 began with a lot of introspection on how we can add more value and keep meeting our customer needs in the best possible ways. This...

VMware vCenter vScalation Privilege Escalation

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'VMware vCenter vScalation Priv Esc', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a privilege escalation in vSphere/vCenter due to improper permission...

VMware vCenter vScalation Priv Esc

This module exploits a privilege escalation in vSphere/vCenter due to improper permissions on the /usr/lib/vmware-vmon/java-wrapper-vmon file. It is possible for anyone in the cis group to write to the file, which will execute as root on vmware-vmon service restart or host reboot. This module was...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel (GKE) vulnerabilities (USN-5648-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5648-1 advisory. It was discovered that the framebuffer driver on the Linux kernel did not verify size limits when changing font or screen size, leading to an out-of-...

CVE-2022-36780

Avdor CIS - crystal quality Credentials Management Errors. The product is phone call recorder, you can hear all the recorded calls without authenticate to the system. Attacker sends crafted URL to the system:...

Design/Logic Flaw

Avdor CIS - crystal quality Credentials Management Errors. The product is phone call recorder, you can hear all the recorded calls without authenticate to the system. Attacker sends crafted URL to the system:...

CVE-2022-36780 Avdor CIS - crystal quality Credentials Management Errors

Avdor CIS - crystal quality Credentials Management Errors. The product is phone call recorder, you can hear all the recorded calls without authenticate to the system. Attacker sends crafted URL to the system:...

CVE-2022-36780

The CVE-2022-36780 entry concerns Avdor CIS Crystal Quality Solutions (phone call recorder). The vulnerability is a credentials management flaw that allows unauthorized users to access recorded calls without authentication by sending a crafted URL to the system, for example: ip:port//V=2;Channell...

Experts Find Similarities Between New LockBit 3.0 and BlackMatter Ransomware

Cybersecurity researchers have reiterated similarities between the latest iteration of the LockBit ransomware and BlackMatter, a rebranded variant of the DarkSide ransomware strain that closed shop in November 2021. The new version of LockBit, called LockBit 3.0 aka LockBit Black, was released in...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: ACS 3.71 enhancement and security update

Updated images are now available for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security. The updated image includes bug fixes and feature improvements. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...