FBI warns of multiple ransomware attacks on same victim

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released a notification that highlights two trends emerging across the ransomware environment. The trends the FBI says it's noticed since July 2023 are: Multiple ransomware attacks on the same victim in close date proximity. New data destruction tactics...

CVE-2022-24350

An issue was discovered in IhisiSmm in Insyde InsydeH2O with kernel 5.0 through 5.5. IHISI function 0x17 verifies that the output buffer lies within the command buffer but does not verify that output data does not go beyond the end of the command buffer. In particular, the GetFlashTable function ...

CVE-2022-34878

SQL Injection vulnerability in User Stats interface /vicidial/userstats.php of VICIdial via the filedownload parameter allows attacker to spoof identity, tamper with existing data, allow the complete disclosure of all data on the system, destroy the data or make it otherwise unavailable, and beco...

Sql injection

SQL Injection vulnerability in AST Agent Time Sheet interface /vicidial/ASTagenttimesheet.php of VICIdial via the agent parameter allows attacker to spoof identity, tamper with existing data, allow the complete disclosure of all data on the system, destroy the data or make it otherwise unavailabl...

CVE-2022-34878

CVE-2022-34878 affects VICIdial (notably VICIdial 2.14b0.5 and related builds) via an authenticated SQL injection in the /vicidial/user_stats.php file_download parameter. Connected docs confirm concrete exploitation: multiple authenticated SQLi paths and a module exploiting this (e.g., VICIdial M...

CVE-2022-34876

CVE-2022-34876 is a SQL injection vulnerability in VICIdial 2.14b0.5 prior to SVN revision 3555. It affects vicidial/admin.php through modify_email_accounts, access_recordings, and agentcall_email, allowing an attacker to spoof identities, tamper or disclose data, destroy data, or assume database...

Onyx ransomware destroys files, and also the criminal circle of trust

Some ransomware authors seem to be whittling down their tenuous "circle of trust" style agreement with victims even further. Word has spread of an Onyx ransomware operation a variant of Chaos ransomware which is quite a bit more destructive than those impacted would be hoping for. However, all is...

North Korean state-sponsored threat actor Lazarus Group exploiting Chrome Zero-day vulnerability

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here For more than a month before a fix was available, North Korean state hackers known as Lazarus group exploited a zero-day, remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2022-0609 in Google Chromes web browser. The attack mainly targe...

Lapsus$ Data Kidnappers Claim Snatches From Microsoft, Okta

Both Microsoft and Okta are investigating claims by the new, precocious data extortion group Lapsus$ that the gang has breached their systems. Lapsus$ claimed to have gotten itself “superuser/admin” access to internal systems at authentication firm Okta. It also posted 40GB worth of files to its...

CVE-2021-46086

xzs-mysql = t3.4.0 is vulnerable to Insecure Permissions. The front end of this open source system is an online examination system. There is an unsafe vulnerability in the functional method of submitting examination papers. An attacker can use burpuite to modify parameters in the packet to destro...

CVE-2021-46086

xzs-mysql = t3.4.0 is vulnerable to Insecure Permissions. The front end of this open source system is an online examination system. There is an unsafe vulnerability in the functional method of submitting examination papers. An attacker can use burpuite to modify parameters in the packet to destro...

CVE-2021-31850

A denial-of-service vulnerability in Database Security DBS prior to 4.8.4 allows a remote authenticated administrator to trigger a denial-of-service attack against the DBS server. The configuration of Archiving through the User interface incorrectly allowed the creation of directories and files i...

CVE-2021-31850

A denial-of-service vulnerability in Database Security DBS prior to 4.8.4 allows a remote authenticated administrator to trigger a denial-of-service attack against the DBS server. The configuration of Archiving through the User interface incorrectly allowed the creation of directories and files i...

Denial of service

A denial-of-service vulnerability in Database Security DBS prior to 4.8.4 allows a remote authenticated administrator to trigger a denial-of-service attack against the DBS server. The configuration of Archiving through the User interface incorrectly allowed the creation of directories and files i...

CVE-2021-31850 Denial of Service in Database Security on Windows

A denial-of-service vulnerability in Database Security DBS prior to 4.8.4 allows a remote authenticated administrator to trigger a denial-of-service attack against the DBS server. The configuration of Archiving through the User interface incorrectly allowed the creation of directories and files i...

New Disk Wiping Malware Targets Israel

Apostle seems to be a new strain of malware that destroys data. In a post published Tuesday, SentinelOne researchers said they assessed with high confidence that based on the code and the servers Apostle reported to, the malware was being used by a newly discovered group with ties to the Iranian...

What role does data destruction play in cybersecurity?

When organization leaders think about cybersecurity, it's usually about which tools and practices they need to add to their stack—email protection, firewalls, network and endpoint security, employee awareness training, AI and machine-learning technology—you get the idea. What's not often consider...

Why DevOps is Becoming More Like DevSecOps

Editor's Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. In the year 2000, a Time magazine essay authored by Steward...

Hackers Destroyed VFEmail Service – Deleted Its Entire Data and Backups

What could be more frightening than a service informing you that all your data is gone—every file and every backup servers are entirely wiped out? The worst nightmare of its kind. Right? But that's precisely what just happened this week with VFEmail.net, a US-based secure email provider that lost...

New Shamoon Variant

A new variant of the Shamoon malware has destroyed significant amounts of data at a UAE "heavy engineering company" and the Italian oil and gas contractor Saipem. Shamoon is the Iranian malware that was targeted against the Saudi Arabian oil company, Saudi Aramco, in 2012 and 2016. We have no ide...