GHSA-GQ4G-FPC9-VJFQ Webauthn: SimpleFakeCredentialGenerator with an empty secret produces predictable fake credentials, weakening username enumeration protection

Impact Webauthn\SimpleFakeCredentialGenerator is the library-provided default implementation of the FakeCredentialGenerator interface. It returns a stable list of decoy PublicKeyCredentialDescriptor objects for a given username so that an assertion request for an unknown user looks the same as a...

Russia-Aligned Hackers Abuse Viber to Target Ukrainian Military and Government

The Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0184 has been observed targeting Ukrainian military and government entities by leveraging the Viber messaging platform to deliver malicious ZIP archives. "This organization has continued to conduct high-intensity intelligence gathering activities again...

Advancing Honeywords for Real-World Authentication Security

Introduced by Juels and Rivest in 2013, Honeywords, which are decoy passwords stored alongside a real password, appear to be a proactive method to help detect password credentials misuse. However, despite over a decade of research, this technique has not been adopted by major authentication...

Oyster Backdoor Spreading via Trojanized Popular Software Downloads

A malvertising campaign is leveraging trojanized installers for popular software such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Teams to drop a backdoor called Oyster aka Broomstick and CleanUpLoader. That's according to findings from Rapid7, which identified lookalike websites hosting the malicious payload...

Iranian APT Group OilRig Using New Menorah Malware for Covert Operations

Sophisticated cyber actors backed by Iran known as OilRig have been linked to a spear-phishing campaign that infects victims with a new strain of malware called Menorah. "The malware was designed for cyberespionage, capable of identifying the machine, reading and uploading files from the machine,...

Facebook Tracks APT32 OceanLotus Hackers to IT Company in Vietnam

Cybersecurity researchers from Facebook today formally linked the activities of a Vietnamese threat actor to an IT company in the country after the group was caught abusing its platform to hack into people's accounts and distribute malware. Tracked as APT32 or Bismuth, OceanLotus, and Cobalt Kitt...

Open Source Deception Framework: DejaVU

Deception techniques if deployed well can be very effective for organizations to improve network defense and can be a useful arsenal for blue teams to detect attacks at very early stage of cyber kill chain. But the challenge we have seen is deploying, managing and administering decoys across larg...

Honey Encryption Deceives Hackers with Plausible Data

Traps are constantly set on the Internet to snare hackers in order to research their behavior and tactics. Many of these traps are honeypots or honeynets that take the form of deliberately unpatched computers or infrastructure exposed to the Internet that lure attackers to break in while their...