APT trends report Q1 2021

For four years, the Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat APT activity. The summaries are based on our threat intelligence research and provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and discussed in...

Don't Risk Getting Caught by Kr3pto Phishing Kits

Akamai's threat research team recently published a report showing that a new phishing toolkit named Kr3pto was targeting UK banking customers. A phishing kit is an all-in-one software package that lets just about anyone create and launch phishing attacks designed to steal user data by posing as a...

5 Ways Your Software Supply Chain is Out to Get You, Part 2: Exploit Third Party Applications

In Part 1 of this series, we explained how and why our software supply chain transfers an extraordinary amount of risk downstream to the organizations and users that trust and depend on it. We also presented evidence suggesting that 2021 may well be the year of the Software Supply Chain attack...

Active Exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Zero-Day (CVE-2021-22893)

On Tuesday, April 20, 2021, security firm FireEye published detailed analysis of multiple threat campaigns targeting Ivanti’s Pulse Connect Secure VPN. According to FireEye’s analysis, threat actors have been leveraging multiple techniques to bypass single- and multi-factor authentication on Puls...

Pulse Secure Critical Zero-Day Security Bug Under Active Exploit

A critical zero-day security vulnerability in Pulse Secure VPN devices has been exploited by nation-state actors to launch cyberattacks against U.S. defense, finance and government targets, as well as victims in Europe, researchers said. Download “The Evolution of Ransomware” to gain valuable...

3 Zero-Day Exploits Hit SonicWall Enterprise Email Security Appliances

SonicWall has addressed three critical security vulnerabilities in its hosted and on-premises email security ES product that are being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-20021 and CVE-2021-20022, the flaws were discovered and reported to the company by FireEye's Mandiant subsidia...

Zero-Day Exploits in SonicWall Email Security Lead to Enterprise Compromise

In March 2021, Mandiant Managed Defense identified three zero-day vulnerabilities in SonicWall’s Email Security ES product that were being exploited in the wild. These vulnerabilities were executed in conjunction to obtain administrative access and code execution on a SonicWall ES device. The...

Kaswara Modern VC Addons (0-day) - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload

The plugin allows unauthenticated arbitrary file upload via the 'uploadFontIcon' AJAX action. The supplied zipfile being unzipped in the wp-content/uploads/kaswara/fontsicon directory with no checks for malicious files such as PHP. The vendor has been unresponsive to both the reporter and Envato,...

Delta Electronics CNCSoft ScreenEditor

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Low attack complexity Vendor: Delta Industrial Automation Equipment: CNCSoft ScreenEditor Vulnerability: Out-of-bounds Read 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow arbitrary code execution. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1...

Google Project Zero Cuts Bug Disclosure Timeline to a 30-Day Grace Period

Google Project Zero will now give organizations a 30-day grace period to patch zero-day flaws it discovers in a new disclosure policy revealed this week aimed at speeding up the time it takes for patches to be adopted. Known for discovering a number of high-profile zero days—in Google’s own...

Could the Microsoft Exchange breach be stopped?

A look at the latest Microsoft zero-day exploits and how Trend Micro could help protect you...

RHEL 8 : RHV Manager (ovirt-engine) 4.4.z [ovirt-4.4.5] 0-day security, enhance (Moderate) (RHSA-2021:1186)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1186 advisory. The ovirt-engine package provides the manager for virtualization environments. This manager enables admins to define hosts and networks, as...

Microsoft Has Busy April Patch Tuesday with Zero-Days, Exchange Fixes

Microsoft had its hands full Tuesday snuffing out five zero-day vulnerabilities, a flaw under active attack and applying more patches to its problem-plagued Microsoft Exchange Server software. In all, Microsoft released patches for 110 security holes, 19 classified critical in severity and 88...

Update Your Chrome Browser to Patch 2 New In-the-Wild 0-Day Exploits

Google on Tuesday released a new version of Chrome web-browsing software for Windows, Mac, and Linux with patches for two newly discovered security vulnerabilities for both of which it says exploits exist in the wild, allowing attackers to engage in active exploitation. One of the two flaws...

NSA Discovers New Vulnerabilities Affecting Microsoft Exchange Servers

In its April slate of patches, Microsoft rolled out fixes for a total of 114 security flaws, including an actively exploited zero-day and four remote code execution bugs in Exchange Server. Of the 114 flaws, 19 are rated as Critical, 88 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity...

Could the Microsoft Exchange breach be stopped?

A look at the latest Microsoft zero-day exploits and how Trend Micro could help protect you...

Threat Actors Targeting Cybersecurity Researchers

Google and Microsoft recently published reports on advanced persistent threat APT actors targeting cybersecurity researchers. The APT actors are using fake social media profiles and legitimate-looking websites to lure security researchers into visiting malicious websites to steal information,...

Zero-day vulnerability in Desktop Window Manager (CVE-2021-28310) used in the wild

While analyzing the CVE-2021-1732 exploit originally discovered by the DBAPPSecurity Threat Intelligence Center and used by the BITTER APT group, we discovered another zero-day exploit we believe is linked to the same actor. We reported this new exploit to Microsoft in February and after...

Researcher release PoC exploit for 0-day in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera

By Deeba Ahmed The issue was demonstrated at the Pwn2Own 2021 hacking contest in which researchers won $100,000 for exploiting this flaw in Chrome and Edge. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Researcher release PoC exploit for 0-day in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera...

Chrome Zero-Day Exploit Posted on Twitter

A researcher has dropped working exploit code for a zero-day remote code execution RCE vulnerability on Twitter, which he said affects the current versions of Google Chrome and potentially other browsers, like Microsoft Edge, that use the Chromium framework. Security researcher Rajvardhan Agarwal...