ALPINE-CVE-2020-25696

A flaw was found in the psql interactive terminal of PostgreSQL in versions before 13.1, before 12.5, before 11.10, before 10.15, before 9.6.20 and before 9.5.24. If an interactive psql session uses \gset when querying a compromised server, the attacker can execute arbitrary code as the operating...

Kubernetes: Private RSA key and Server key exposed on the GitHub repository

Report Submission Form Summary: I was searching for sensitive data in Kubernetes repository where I found these private keys. These are private RSA key and private server key, which could be used for unauthorized access. Steps To Reproduce: VISIT THESE LINKS Repository : kubernetes / kubernetes...

Elderly China Chopper Tool Still Going Strong in Multiple Campaigns

A nine-year-old web shell used for providing remote access to web servers for cyberattackers is staying very active despite its advanced age in cyber-years, anyway. Researchers said they’ve spotted it being used in several recent campaigns – all with disparate goals. The tool, known as China...

Tron Foundation: Private Key exposed in Travis Log can Compromise all the test servers.

REQUIRED: 1. Summary of the bug Summary: Private key is printed in Travis Console log https://travis-ci.org/tronprotocol/java-tron/builds/361945077L4101 Github provides information of test servers https://github.com/tronprotocol/java-tron/blob/24575f0d835b00850b89c620e276fb61c791508d/deploy.sh...

Lazarus Group Widens Tactics in Cryptocurrency Attacks

North Korea-linked APT Lazarus Group has been spotted targeting the cryptocurrency business again, adding Apple users to the mix by using PowerShell scripts to control macOS malware, and honing its Windows strategy. The campaign has been active since at least November 2018, according to an analys...

Cryptocurrency businesses still being targeted by Lazarus

It's hardly news to anyone who follows cyberthreat intelligence that the Lazarus APT group targets financial entities, especially cryptocurrency exchanges. Financial gain remains one of the main goals for Lazarus, with its tactics, techniques, and procedures constantly evolving to avoid detection...

Police Shut Down xDedic – An Online Market for Cyber Criminals

In an international operation involving law enforcement authorities from the U.S. and several European countries, feds have shut down an online underground marketplace and arrested three suspects in Ukraine. Dubbed xDedic, the illegal online marketplace let cybercriminals buy, sell or rent out...

Not So Cozy: An Uncomfortable Examination of a Suspected APT29 Phishing Campaign

Introduction FireEye devices detected intrusion attempts against multiple industries, including think tank, law enforcement, media, U.S. military, imagery, transportation, pharmaceutical, national government, and defense contracting. The attempts involved a phishing email appearing to be from the...

Spoofed SEC Emails Distribute Evolved DNSMessenger

This post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Colin Grady, with contributions from Dave Maynor and @Simpo13.Executive SummaryCisco Talos previously published research into a targeted attack that leveraged an interesting infection process using DNS TXT records to create a bidirectional command and...

An Army of Thousands of Hacked Servers Found Mining Cryptocurrencies

A new botnet consisting of more than 15,000 compromised servers has been used to mine various cryptocurrencies, earning its master around $25,000 per month. Mining cryptocurrencies can be a costly investment, as it requires an enormous amount of computing power, but cybercriminals have found an...

Details Around Romanian Phishing Kit Creator, Campaign Revealed

Researchers explained how they traced a cybercriminal’s tracks through a series of proxies, compromised web servers, and poorly secured routers. The suspect hasn’t been apprehended yet, but could be behind a larger campaign, they said. Peter Kruse and Jan Kaastrup, researchers with Denmark’s CSIS...

Credit Card Data and Other Information Targeted in Netflix Phishing Campaign

Introduction Through FireEye’s Email Threat Prevention ETP solution, FireEye Labs discovered a phishing campaign in the wild targeting the credit card data and other personal information of Netflix users primarily based in the United States. This campaign is interesting because of the evasion...

Design/Logic Flaw

EMC Avamar Data Store ADS and Avamar Virtual Edition AVE versions 7.3 and older contain a vulnerability that may expose the Avamar servers to potentially be compromised by malicious users...

Unmasking xDedic's Black Market for Servers and PCs

LAS VEGAS — Black market machine trading of PC and server resources is maturing at alarming speeds. Underground networks such as xDedic have fine-tuned their compute platform to the point where they are almost indistinguishable to legitimate networks such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. Tho...

xDedic Hacked Servers Market May Be Larger Than Originally Thought

New data anonymously shared with Kaspersky Lab researchers may enlarge the scope of and provide additional context to the hacked RDP servers for sale on the now defunct xDedic marketplace. The underground marketplace was disclosed in a report published last Tuesday describing an eBay-style platfo...

Iowa State Hacked--To Mine Bitcoins

It’s an odd week these days when there isn’t a data breach at some university or college. These institutions are prime targets for attackers for several reasons, not the least of which are their open network environments and databases bulging with personal information. But now attackers are looki...

Ruby on Rails Exploit Harvests IRC Botnet

Developers who have not updated their Ruby on Rails installations with a five-month-old security patch would do well to secure the Web development framework now. Exploit code has surfaced for CVE-2013-0156 that is being used to build a botnet of compromised servers. Exploit code has been publicly...

Department of Energy Compromised in Sophisticated Attack

Hackers targeted and compromised computer networks at United States Department of Energy headquarters in Washington DC two weeks ago, according to a report published by the Washington Free Beacon earlier this morning. DoE officials confirmed the attack and are currently investigating the incident...

Bank DDoS Attacks Using Compromised Web Servers as Bots

A rash of politically and socially motivated distributed denial-of-service attacks against major U.S. banks has been able to intermittently disrupt online and mobile banking services. The attackers have been able to fire unprecedented amounts of traffic at the likes of Wells Fargo, Bank of Americ...

Operation High Roller Banked on Fast-Flux Botnet to Steal Millions

A fraud ring that attacked financial transfer systems in an attempt to get at wealthy high-end banking customers used a complicated web of malware and compromised servers in several countries to walk off with an estimated $78 million earlier this year. While the attacks targeted financial systems...