North Korea's Cyber Heist: DPRK Hackers Stole $600 Million in Cryptocurrency in 2023

Threat actors affiliated with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea also known as North Korea have plundered at least $600 million in cryptocurrency in 2023. The DPRK "was responsible for almost a third of all funds stolen in crypto attacks last year, despite a 30% reduction from the USD 850...

Phoenix Contact PLCnext Control Integrity Check Fails to Identify Out-of-Band Logic Changes (CVE-2023-46144)

A download of code without integrity check vulnerability in PLCnext products allows an remote attacker with low privileges to compromise integrity on the affected engineering station and the connected devices. This plugin only works with Tenable.ot. Please visit...

Rapid7’s Data-Centric Approach to AI in Belfast

Authored by Stuart Millar and Ryan Wilson. Rapid7 has expanded significantly in Belfast since establishing a presence back in 2014, resulting in the company's largest R&D hub outside the US with over 350 people spread across eight floors in our Chichester Street office. There is a wide range of...

UAC-0050 Group Using New Phishing Tactics to Distribute Remcos RAT

The threat actor known as UAC-0050 is leveraging phishing attacks to distribute Remcos RAT using new strategies to evade detection from security software. "The group's weapon of choice is Remcos RAT, a notorious malware for remote surveillance and control, which has been at the forefront of its...

Microsoft disables ms-appinstaller after malicious use

In what might be conceived as one of Microsoft’s new year resolutions, it has disclosed that its turned off the ms-appinstaller protocol handler by default. The change is designed to make installing apps easier, but it also makes installing malware easier. Typically, an app needs to be on a devic...

CVE-2024-21633

Apktool is a tool for reverse engineering Android APK files. In versions 2.9.1 and prior, Apktool infers resource files' output path according to their resource names which can be manipulated by attacker to place files at desired location on the system Apktool runs on. Affected environments are...

Design/Logic Flaw

Apktool is a tool for reverse engineering Android APK files. In versions 2.9.1 and prior, Apktool infers resource files' output path according to their resource names which can be manipulated by attacker to place files at desired location on the system Apktool runs on. Affected environments are...

CVE-2024-21633

Apktool is a tool for reverse engineering Android APK files. In versions 2.9.1 and prior, Apktool infers resource files' output path according to their resource names which can be manipulated by attacker to place files at desired location on the system Apktool runs on. Affected environments are...

CVE-2024-21633

CVE-2024-21633 affects Apktool

RRJ Nueva Ecija Engineer Online Portal Security Vulnerability

RRJ Nueva Ecija Engineer Online Portal is an online portal for engineers from RRJ Nueva Ecija. A security vulnerability exists in RRJ Nueva Ecija Engineer Online Portal version 1.0, which stems from the file changepasswordteacher.php can lead to weak password requirements...

cuisine-ingenierie.fr Improper Access Control vulnerability OBB-3824427

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Financially motivated threat actors misusing App Installer

Since mid-November 2023, Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed threat actors, including financially motivated actors like Storm-0569, Storm-1113, Sangria Tempest, and Storm-1674, utilizing the ms-appinstaller URI scheme App Installer to distribute malware. In addition to ensuring that...

4 sneaky scams from 2023

In 2023, the public primarily confronted two varieties of online scams: the technical and the topical. Technical scams abuse legitimate aspects of modern internet infrastructure to lead users to illegitimate or compromised sites. A team of hackers can, say, boost their own info-stealing websites...

Microsoft addresses App Installer abuse

28 October 2024 Update Microsoft disabled the ms-appinstaller URI scheme handler by default in App Installer on 28 December 2023 as a security response to protect customers from attackers’ evolving techniques against previous safeguards for CVE-2021-43890. Microsoft is pleased to announce that we...

Blutter - Flutter Mobile Application Reverse Engineering Tool

Flutter Mobile Application Reverse Engineering Tool by Compiling Dart AOT Runtime Currently the application supports only Android libapp.so arm64 only. Also the application is currently work only against recent Dart versions. For high priority missing features, see TODO Environment Setup This...

Security Bulletin: The IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Engineering products using WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to information disclosure due to Apache Santuario (CVE-2023-44483)

Summary There is a vulnerability in the Apache Santuario library used by IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty when the wsSecurity-1.1, wsSecuritySaml-1.1 or samlWeb-2.0 feature is enabled. Following IBM® Engineering Lifecycle Engineering products are vulnerable to this attack, it has been...

Decoy Microsoft Word Documents Used to Deliver Nim-Based Malware

A new phishing campaign is leveraging decoy Microsoft Word documents as bait to deliver a backdoor written in the Nim programming language. "Malware written in uncommon programming languages puts the security community at a disadvantage as researchers and reverse engineers' unfamiliarity can hamp...

How Human Elements Impact Email Security

By Owais Sultan Human factors heavily influence email security, with individuals vulnerability to phishing and social engineering playing a crucial role… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Human Elements Impact Email Security...

CVE-2023-43870

When installing the Net2 software a root certificate is installed into the trusted store. A potential hacker could access the installer batch file or reverse engineer the source code to gain access to the root certificate password. Using the root certificate and password they could then create...

Are We Ready to Give Up on Security Awareness Training?

Some of you have already started budgeting for 2024 and allocating funds to security areas within your organization. It is safe to say that employee security awareness training is one of the expenditure items, too. However, its effectiveness is an open question with people still engaging in...