Ongoing Social Engineering Campaign Linked to Black Basta Ransomware Operators

Co-authored by Rapid7 analysts Tyler McGraw, Thomas Elkins, and Evan McCann Executive Summary Rapid7 has identified an ongoing social engineering campaign that has been targeting multiple managed detection and response MDR customers. The incident involves a threat actor overwhelming a user's emai...

Ongoing Social Engineering Campaign Linked to Black Basta Ransomware Operators

Co-authored by Rapid7 analysts Tyler McGraw, Thomas Elkins, and Evan McCann Executive Summary Rapid7 has identified an ongoing social engineering campaign that has been targeting multiple managed detection and response MDR customers. The incident involves a threat actor overwhelming a user's emai...

Malicious Android Apps Pose as Google, Instagram, WhatsApp to Steal Credentials

Malicious Android apps masquerading as Google, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, and X formerly Twitter have been observed to steal users' credentials from compromised devices. "This malware uses famous Android app icons to mislead users and trick victims into installing the malicious app on their...

Security Bulletin: The IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Management is impacted by vulnerabilties in Apache Xerces2

Summary Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Apache Xerces2, which is used in IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management - IBM Jazz. This bulletin contains information regarding vulnerabilities and remediation actions. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2022-23437 DESCRIPTION: Apache Xerces2...

Security Bulletin: The IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Engineering product using IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to a denial of service (CVE-2024-27268)

Summary IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to a denial of service with the servlet-3.1, servlet-4.0, servlet-5.0, or servlet-6.0 feature with the HTTP/2 protocol enabled. Following IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Engineering products are vulnerable to this risk, it has been address...

Security Bulletin: The IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Engineering product using IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to a denial of service (CVE-2024-22353)

Summary IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to a denial of service with the openidConnectClient-1.0 or socialLogin-1.0 feature enabled. Following IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Engineering products are vulnerable to this attack, it has been addressed in this bulletin: Jazz...

APT42 Hackers Pose as Journalists to Harvest Credentials and Access Cloud Data

The Iranian state-backed hacking outfit called APT42 is making use of enhanced social engineering schemes to infiltrate target networks and cloud environments. Targets of the attack include Western and Middle Eastern NGOs, media organizations, academia, legal services and activists, Google Cloud...

Hackers Leak COVID-19 Data of 820K Dominicans, Including Vaccination Info

By Deeba Ahmed A massive data leak of 820,000 Dominicans' personal information including COVID vaccination status has been leaked online puting individuals at risk of identity theft, scams, and social engineering attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Leak...

Financial cyberthreats in 2023

Money is what always attracts cybercriminals. A significant share of scam, phishing and malware attacks is about money. With trillions of dollars of digital payments made every year, it is no wonder that attackers target electronic wallets, online shopping accounts and other financial assets,...

NSA, FBI Alert on N. Korean Hackers Spoofing Emails from Trusted Sources

The U.S. government on Thursday published a new cybersecurity advisory warning of North Korean threat actors' attempts to send emails in a manner that makes them appear like they are from legitimate and trusted parties. The joint bulletin was published by the National Security Agency NSA, the...

R Programming Language implementations are vulnerable to arbitrary code execution during deserialization of .rds and .rdx files

Overview A vulnerability in the R language that allows for arbitrary code to be executed directly after the deserialization of untrusted data has been discovered. This vulnerability can be exploited through RDS R Data Serialization format files and .rdx files. An attacker can create malicious RDS...

Bogus npm Packages Used to Trick Software Developers into Installing Malware

An ongoing social engineering campaign is targeting software developers with bogus npm packages under the guise of a job interview to trick them into downloading a Python backdoor. Cybersecurity firm Securonix is tracking the activity under the name DEVPOPPER, linking it to North Korean threat...

U.S. Treasury Sanctions Iranian Firms and Individuals Tied to Cyber Attacks

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC on Monday sanctioned two firms and four individuals for their involvement in malicious cyber activities on behalf of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cyber Electronic Command IRGC-CEC from at least 2016 to April 202...

Assessing the Y, and How, of the XZ Utils incident

High-end APT groups perform highly interesting social engineering campaigns in order to penetrate well-protected targets. For example, carefully constructed forum responses on precision targeted accounts and follow-up "out-of-band" interactions regarding underground rail system simulator software...

Using Legitimate GitHub URLs for Malware

Interesting social-engineering attack vector: McAfee released a report on a new LUA malware loader distributed through what appeared to be a legitimate Microsoft GitHub repository for the "C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS," known as vcpkg. The attacker is exploiting a property of...

Security Bulletin: The IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Engineering product using IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (CVE-2024-27270)

Summary IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to cross-site scripting with the servlet-6.0 feature enabled. Following IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Engineering products are vulnerable to this attack, it has been addressed in this bulletin: Jazz Foundation, IBM Engineering Test...

Security Bulletin: Security fixes available for The IBM® Engineering System Design Rhapsody products on IBM Jazz Technology

Summary The IBM® Engineering System Design Rhapsody 9.0.1 iFix006 and The IBM® Engineering System Design Rhapsody 9.0.2 iFix002 contains fixes which was identified as a vulnerability during OSS scan. These version contain upgraded version of guava-28.0-jre.jar CVE-2020-8908, httpclient-4.0.jar...

VectorKernel - PoCs For Kernelmode Rootkit Techniques Research

PoCs for Kernelmode rootkit techniques research or education. Currently focusing on Windows OS. All modules support 64bit OS only. NOTE Some modules use ExAllocatePool2 API to allocate kernel pool memory. ExAllocatePool2 API is not supported in OSes older than Windows 10 Version 2004. If you want...

SUSE CVE-2024-3838

Inappropriate implementation in Autofill in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.60 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious app to perform UI spoofing via a crafted app. Chromium security severity: Medium...

The Windows Registry Adventure #1: Introduction and research results

Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk, Google Project Zero In the 20-month period between May 2022 and December 2023, I thoroughly audited the Windows Registry in search of local privilege escalation bugs. It all started unexpectedly: I was in the process of developing a coverage-based Windows kernel fuzzer...