China-Taiwan Tensions Spark Surge in Cyberattacks on Taiwan

China-Taiwan Tensions Spark Surge in Cyberattacks on Taiwan By Daksh Kapur, Leandro Velasco · May 17, 2023 Figure 1 image from freepik.com “In the past few years, we noticed that geopolitical conflicts are one of the main drivers for cyber-attacks on a variety of industries and institutions...

Cassia Networks Access controller 安全漏洞

Cassia Networks Access Controller is an application from Cassia USA, Inc. Provides a powerful IoT network management solution. A security vulnerability exists in versions prior to Cassia Networks Access controller 2.1.1.2203171453. An attacker exploiting this vulnerability could enumerate all oth...

Researchers Uncover SideWinder's Latest Server-Based Polymorphism Technique

The advanced persistent threat APT actor known as SideWinder has been accused of deploying a backdoor in attacks directed against Pakistan government organizations as part of a campaign that commenced in late November 2022. "In this campaign, the SideWinder advanced persistent threat APT group us...

Ransomware attack on MSI led to compromised Intel Boot Guard private keys

On April 7, 2023 MSI Micro-Star International released a statement confirming a cyberattack on part of its information systems. While the statement does not reveal a lot of tangible information, this snippet is important: "MSI urges users to obtain firmware/BIOS updates only from its official...

WordPress Woo Custom Emails Plugin <= 2.2 is vulnerable to Broken Access Control

Software Woo Custom Emails Type Plugin Vulnerable versions = 2.2 Fixed in N/A OWASP Top 10 A5: Broken Access Control Classification Broken Access Control CVE CVE-2023-32507 Patch priority High CVSS severity High 7.3 Developer Claim ownership PSID d401968a61b0 Credits minhtuanact Required privileg...

MSI Data Breach: Private Code Signing Keys Leaked on the Dark Web

The threat actors behind the ransomware attack on Taiwanese PC maker MSI last month have leaked the company's private code signing keys on their dark website. "Confirmed, Intel OEM private key leaked, causing an impact on the entire ecosystem," Alex Matrosov, founder and CEO of firmware security...

Hackers Targeting Italian Corporate Banking Clients with New Web-Inject Toolkit DrIBAN

Italian corporate banking clients are the target of an ongoing financial fraud campaign that has been leveraging a new web-inject toolkit called drIBAN since at least 2019. "The main goal of drIBAN fraud operations is to infect Windows workstations inside corporate environments trying to alter...

N. Korean Kimsuky Hackers Using New Recon Tool ReconShark in Latest Cyberattacks

The North Korean state-sponsored threat actor known as Kimsuky has been discovered using a new reconnaissance tool called ReconShark as part of an ongoing global campaign. "ReconShark is actively delivered to specifically targeted individuals through spear-phishing emails, OneDrive links leading ...

GitLab 安全漏洞

GitLab is an open source, end-to-end software development platform from GitLab, Inc. with built-in version control, issue tracking, code review, CI/CD Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, and other features. GitLab suffers from a security vulnerability that stems from the ability for...

WordPress Emails & Newsletters with Jackmail Plugin <= 1.2.22 is vulnerable to CSV Injection

Software Emails & Newsletters with Jackmail Type Plugin Vulnerable versions = 1.2.22 Fixed in N/A OWASP Top 10 A1: Injection Classification CSV Injection CVE CVE-2022-46821 Patch priority Low CVSS severity Low 5.8 Developer Claim ownership PSID 513c44c8232d Credits Mika Required privilege...

WordPress Plugin Custom Post Type UI 跨站请求伪造漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language. The platform supports personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL servers.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. A cross-site request forgery vulnerability...

Test for emails sent from api - and manage findings

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Detailed description of the impact of this finding. Proof of Concept Provide direct links to all referenced code in GitHub. Add screenshots, logs, or any other relevant proof that illustrates the concept. Tools Used Recommended Mitigation Steps --- The...

Mobicint 授权问题漏洞

Mobicint is Mobicint's mobile and desktop service for financial institutions. A security vulnerability exists in Mobicint version v3, which stems from the ability to retrieve partial e-mail addresses and user-entered information via the forgotten-password API...

New Wave of QBot Attacks Detected via Malicious PDF Attachments

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A new wave of QBot banking Trojan attacks was identified in April 2023, utilizing malicious PDF attachments in emails written in various languages. To receive real-time threat advisories, please follow...

Automating Qakbot Detection at Scale With Velociraptor

In this blog, you will learn a practical methodology to extract configuration data from recent Qakbot samples. I will provide some background on Qakbot, then walk through decode themes in an easy to visualize manner. Additionally, I'll share a Velociraptor artifact to detect and automate the deco...

New QBot Banking Trojan Campaign Hijacks Business Emails to Spread Malware

A new QBot malware campaign is leveraging hijacked business correspondence to trick unsuspecting victims into installing the malware, new findings from Kaspersky reveal. The latest activity, which commenced on April 4, 2023, has primarily targeted users in Germany, Argentina, Italy, Algeria, Spai...

LLMs and Phishing

Heres an experiment being run by undergraduate computer science students everywhere: Ask ChatGPT to generate phishing emails, and test whether these are better at persuading victims to respond or click on the link than the usual spam. Its an interesting experiment, and the results are likely to...

Threat Roundup for March 31 to April 7

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between March 31 and April 7. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

MERCURY and DEV-1084: Destructive attack on hybrid environment

April 2023 update – Microsoft Threat Intelligence has shifted to a new threat actor naming taxonomy aligned around the theme of weather. MERCURY is now tracked as Mango Sandstorm and DEV-1084 is now tracked as Storm-1084. To learn more about the new taxonomy represents the origin, unique traits,...

Google TAG Warns of North Korean-linked ARCHIPELAGO Cyberattacks

A North Korean government-backed threat actor has been linked to attacks targeting government and military personnel, think tanks, policy makers, academics, and researchers in South Korea and the U.S. Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG is tracking the cluster under the name ARCHIPELAGO , which it...