Managing Risk During the CrowdStrike Global Tech Outage

Managing Risk During the CrowdStrike Global Tech Outage By Mo Cashman & Trellix Advanced Research Center · July 19, 2024 Updated: July 25, 2024 How it Happened A defective content update provided by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike caused Microsoft Windows systems to crash, disrupting airline trave...

Critical Update: CrushFTP Zero-Day Flaw Exploited in Targeted Attacks

Users of the CrushFTP enterprise file transfer software are being urged to update to the latest version following the discovery of a security flaw that has come under targeted exploitation in the wild. "CrushFTP v11 versions below 11.1 have a vulnerability where users can escape their VFS and...

Chinese Hackers Operate Undetected in U.S. Critical Infrastructure for Half a Decade

The U.S. government on Wednesday said the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as Volt Typhoon had been embedded into some critical infrastructure networks in the country for at least five years. Targets of the threat actor include communications, energy, transportation, and water and...

Cloudflare Breach: Nation-State Hackers Access Source Code and Internal Docs

Cloudflare has revealed that it was the target of a likely nation-state attack in which the threat actor leveraged stolen credentials to gain unauthorized access to its Atlassian server and ultimately access some documentation and a limited amount of source code. The intrusion, which took place...

Aembit Teams Up with CrowdStrike for Secure Workload Access

By cyberwire Aembit Announces New Workload IAM Integration with CrowdStrike to Help Enterprises Secure Workload-to-Workload Access. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Aembit Teams Up with CrowdStrike for Secure Workload Access...

New PoolParty Process Injection Techniques Outsmart Top EDR Solutions

A new collection of eight process injection techniques, collectively dubbed PoolParty, could be exploited to achieve code execution in Windows systems while evading endpoint detection and response EDR systems. SafeBreach researcher Alon Leviev said the methods are "capable of working across all...

Researchers Unveil GuLoader Malware's Latest Anti-Analysis Techniques

Threat hunters have unmasked the latest tricks adopted by a malware strain called GuLoader in an effort to make analysis more challenging. "While GuLoader's core functionality hasn't changed drastically over the past few years, these constant updates in their obfuscation techniques make analyzing...

Iran-Linked Imperial Kitten Cyber Group Targeting Middle East's Tech Sectors

A group with links to Iran targeted transportation, logistics, and technology sectors in the Middle East, including Israel, in October 2023 amid a surge in Iranian cyber activity since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war. The attacks have been attributed by CrowdStrike to a threat actor it tracks...

Microsoft Error Reporting Local Privilege Elevation Exploit

This Metasploit module takes advantage of a bug in the way Windows error reporting opens the report parser. If you open a report, Windows uses a relative path to locate the rendering program. By creating a specific alternate directory structure, we can coerce Windows into opening an arbitrary...

Microsoft Error Reporting Local Privilege Elevation

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Microsoft Error Reporting Local Privilege Elevation Vulnerability', 'Description' = %q This module takes advantage of a bug in the way Windows...

Exploit for Link Following in Microsoft

CVE-2023-36874 Windows Error Reporting LPE BOF Introductio...

North Korean State-Sponsored Hackers Suspected in JumpCloud Supply Chain Attack

An analysis of the indicators of compromise IoCs associated with the JumpCloud hack has uncovered evidence pointing to the involvement of North Korean state-sponsored groups, in a style that's reminiscent of the supply chain attack targeting 3CX. The findings come from SentinelOne, which mapped o...

Microsoft 365 MSO 2305 Build 16.0.16501.20074 Remote Code Execution

Title: Microsoft 365 MSO Version 2305 Build 16.0.16501.20074 64-bit Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Author: nu11secur1ty Date: 04.17.2023 Vendor: https://www.microsoft.com/ Software: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/ Reference:...

CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor Installed (MacOSX)

Binary data crowdstrikefalconsensormacosinstalled.nbin...

New 'MichaelKors' Ransomware-as-a-Service Targeting Linux and VMware ESXi Systems

A new ransomware-as-service RaaS operation called MichaelKors has become the latest file-encrypting malware to target Linux and VMware ESXi systems as of April 2023. The development points to cybercriminal actors increasingly setting their eyes on the ESXi, cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said in ...

Operation ChattyGoblin: Hackers Targeting Gambling Firms via Chat Apps

A gambling company in the Philippines was the target of a China-aligned threat actor as part of a campaign that has been ongoing since October 2021. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET is tracking the series of attacks against Southeast Asian gambling companies under the name Operation ChattyGoblin...

Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution

Title: Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Author: nu11secur1ty Date: 04.14.2023 Vendor: https://www.microsoft.com/ Software: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/word?activetab=tabs%3afaqheaderregion3 Reference:...

Hackers Using Self-Extracting Archives Exploit for Stealthy Backdoor Attacks

An unknown threat actor used a malicious self-extracting archive SFX file in an attempt to establish persistent backdoor access to a victim's environment, new findings from CrowdStrike show. SFX files are capable of extracting the data contained within them without the need for dedicated software...

North Korea Hacking Cryptocurrency Sites with 3CX Exploit

News: Researchers at Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky today revealed that they identified a small number of cryptocurrency-focused firms as at least some of the victims of the 3CX software supply-chain attack thats unfolded over the past week. Kaspersky declined to name any of those victim...

CrowdStrike Falcon AGENT 6.44.15806 - Uninstall without Installation Token Vulnerability

Exploit Title: CrowdStrike Falcon AGENT 6.44.15806 - Uninstall without Installation Token Exploit Author: Walter Oberacher, Raffaele Nacca, Davide Bianchin, Fortunato Lodari, Luca Bernardi Deda Cloud Cybersecurity Team Vendor Homepage: https://www.crowdstrike.com/ Author Homepage:...