Cybersecurity Firm FireEye Got Hacked; Red-Team Pentest Tools Stolen

FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity firms in the world, said on Tuesday it became a victim of a state-sponsored attack by a "highly sophisticated threat actor" that stole its arsenal of Red Team penetration testing tools it uses to test the defenses of its customers. The company said it's...

Cybersecurity Firm FireEye Got Hacked; Red-Team Pentest Tools Stolen

FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity firms in the world, said on Tuesday it became a victim of a state-sponsored attack by a "highly sophisticated threat actor" that stole its arsenal of Red Team penetration testing tools it uses to test the defenses of its customers. The company said it's...

Getting ATT&CKed By A Cozy Bear And Being Really Happy About It: What MITRE Evaluations Are, and How To Read Them

Full disclosure: I am a security product testing nerd. I’ve been following the MITRE ATT&CK Framework for a while, and this week the results were released of the most recent evaluation using APT29 otherwise known as COZY BEAR. First, here’s a snapshot of the Trend eval results as I understand the...

The Dukes of Moscow

Overview APT29, also known as The Dukes or Cozy Bear, is a cyberespionage group active since at least 2008. It’s believed that the group operates either under the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR or the Russian Federal Security Service FSB. They primarily target western governments and...

Fake Cozy Bear Group Making DDoS Extortion Demands

A group calling themselves "Cozy Bear" has been emailing various companies with an extortion letter, demanding payment and threatening targeted DDoS attacks if their demands are not met...

Russia’s Cozy Bear Hackers Resurface With Clever New Tricks

Largely out of the spotlight since 2016, Cozy Bear hackers have been caught perpetrating a years-long campaign...

APT29 Re-Emerges After 2 Years with Widespread Espionage Campaign

A phishing campaign bent on espionage, believed to be launched by the nation-state threat group known as APT29, is targeting high-value targets across the think-tank, law enforcement, media, U.S. military, imagery, transportation, pharmaceutical, national government and defense contracting sector...

Russia's Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear Hackers May Have New Phishing Tricks

Two new reports show an uptick in sophisticated phishing attacks originating from—where else—Russia...

Cozy Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Cozy is a personal cloud platform. The platform features file storage and management, application backup, and schedule management. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Cozy. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain administrator access via JavaScript code in the 'url'...

CVE-2018-6824

Cozy version 2 has XSS allowing remote attackers to obtain administrative access via JavaScript code in the url parameter to the /api/proxy URI, as demonstrated by an XMLHttpRequest call with an 'email:"[email protected]"' request, which can be followed by a password reset...

CVE-2018-6824

Cozy version 2 has XSS allowing remote attackers to obtain administrative access via JavaScript code in the url parameter to the /api/proxy URI, as demonstrated by an XMLHttpRequest call with an 'email:"[email protected]"' request, which can be followed by a password reset...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

Cozy version 2 has XSS allowing remote attackers to obtain administrative access via JavaScript code in the url parameter to the /api/proxy URI, as demonstrated by an XMLHttpRequest call with an 'email:"email protected"' request, which can be followed by a password reset...

CVE-2018-6824

Cozy version 2 contains an XSS vulnerability that lets an attacker obtain administrative access through JavaScript code in the url parameter sent to /api/proxy, demonstrated by an XMLHttpRequest using email:"[email protected]" which can be followed by a password reset. The connected documents ...

CVE-2018-6824

Cozy version 2 has XSS allowing remote attackers to obtain administrative access via JavaScript code in the url parameter to the /api/proxy URI, as demonstrated by an XMLHttpRequest call with an 'email:"[email protected]"' request, which can be followed by a password reset...

APT29 Used Domain Fronting, Tor to Execute Backdoor

APT29, a/k/a Cozy Bear, has been utilizing a technique called domain fronting in order to secure backdoor access to targets for nearly two years running, experts said Monday. The nation state attackers have reportedly been pairing the anonymity software Tor with a Tor plugin that specializes in...

FBI-DHS Report Links Fancy Bear Gang to Election Hacks

In a report released Thursday the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Department of Homeland Security implicated Russian hacking group Fancy Bear in attacks against several election-related targets. According to the Joint Analysis Report, the hacking group Fancy Bear, believed to have ties...

Warning: Beware of Post-Election Phishing Emails Targeting NGOs and Think Tanks

Just a few hours after Donald Trump won the 2016 US Presidential Election, a hacking group launched a wave of cyber attacks targeting U.S.-based policy think-tanks with a new spear phishing campaign designed to fool victims into installing malware. The group of nation-state hackers, also known as...

DNC Hacked, Research on Trump Stolen

Two separate APT groups believed to have ties to the Russian government have been fingered in attacks against the Democratic National Committee resulting in the theft of research done by the DNC on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. Researchers at Crowdstrike, called in to investigate b...