What's the State of Credential theft in 2023?

At a little overt halfway through 2023, credential theft is still a major thorn in the side of IT teams. The heart of the problem is the value of data to cybercriminals and the evolution of the techniques they use to get hold of it. The 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR revealed...

North Korean Hackers Suspected in New Wave of Malicious npm Packages

The npm package registry has emerged as the target of yet another highly targeted attack campaign that aims to entice developers into downloading malevolent modules. Software supply chain security firm Phylum told The Hacker News the activity exhibits similar behaviors to that of a previous attac...

The rise of AI-powered criminals: Identifying threats and opportunities

AIs influence is growing across the security space, bringing with it major implications for cybercriminals and defenders. The recent adoption of AI has raised significant concerns for cybersecurity due to the many ways that criminals can use AI for disruption and profit. Defenders and law...

Charming Kitten Targets Iranian Dissidents with Advanced Cyber Attacks

Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution BfV has warned of cyber attacks targeting Iranian persons and organizations in the country since the end of 2022. "The cyber attacks were mainly directed against dissident organizations and individuals – such as lawyers, journalists,...

NixImports - A .NET Malware Loader, Using API-Hashing To Evade Static Analysis

A .NET malware loader, using API-Hashing and dynamic invoking to evade static analysis How does it work? NixImports uses my managed API-Hashing implementation HInvoke, to dynamically resolve most of it's called functions at runtime. To resolve the functions HInvoke requires two hashes the typeHas...

ronald-engineering.nl Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3573008

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...

Siemens SICAM TOOLBOX II Critical Resource Privilege Assignment Error Vulnerability

SICAM TOOLBOX II is an engineering solution for plants and systems of all sizes. It allows data collection, data modeling, configuration and parameterization. It is used for process information engineering of automation and central control room systems. Siemens SICAM TOOLBOX II suffers from a...

Siemens SICAM TOOLBOX II Execution with Unnecessary Privileges Vulnerability

SICAM TOOLBOX II is an engineering solution for plants and systems of all sizes. It allows data collection, data modeling, configuration and parameterization. It is used for process information engineering of automation and central control room systems. Siemens SICAM TOOLBOX II has an Execute wit...

Boost identity protection with Axiad Cloud and Microsoft Entra ID

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. Passwords are a security weakness and phishing attacks to exploit accounts protected by passwords are on the rise. The last 12 months have seen an average of more than 4,000 password...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 31 July to 6 August 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs has recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, we identified a total of one executed attack, one instance of adversary activity, and thirteen vulnerabilities,...

North Korean Hackers Targets Russian Missile Engineering Firm

Two different North Korean nation-state actors have been linked to a cyber intrusion against NPO Mashinostroyeniya, a major Russian missile engineering company. Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne said it identified "two instances of North Korea related compromise of sensitive internal IT...

Behind the Scenes of a Tailor-Made Massive Phishing Campaign

A global phishing campaign caught our attention after one of our colleagues was targeted by, and nearly fell victim, to a social engineering attack. The campaign involved more than 800 different scam domains and impersonated around 340 legitimate companies all over the world – including well-know...

Improper Access Control

gitlab is vulnerable to Improper Access Control. The vulnerability exists due to a lack of validated access control, which allows an attacker to use social engineering to bypass the security controls...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

gitlab is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting XSS. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gather information about public GitLab projects, even if they are not authorized to access the projects. This information could be used to launch further attacks, such as phishing attacks or social...

New APT 29 Campaign Targets Organizations through Microsoft Teams

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary APT 29, a Russia-based threat actor, employs targeted social engineering via Microsoft Teams to steal credentials, leveraging compromised domains and convincing users to enter authentication codes,...

PenTales: A Badge, a Tag, and a Bunch of Unattended Chemicals; Why Physical Social Engineering Engagements are an Important Part of Security

At Rapid7 we love a good pen test story. So often they show the cleverness, skill, resilience, and dedication to our customer’s security that can only come from actively trying to break it! In this series, we’re going to share some of our favorite tales from the pen test desk and hopefully...

Microsoft Exposes Russian Hackers' Sneaky Phishing Tactics via Microsoft Teams Chats

Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed that it identified a set of highly targeted social engineering attacks mounted by a Russian nation-state threat actor using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chats. The tech giant attributed the attacks to a group it tracks as Midnight Blizza...

Cloudflare Public Bug Bounty: Yet Another CASB Integration Takeover of Active Integrations

A vulnerability was found in a cloud access security broker's Microsoft integration where an attacker could bypass confused deputy protections. By manipulating the casing of a tenant UUID, a new integration could be created that surfaced sensitive customer information. This issue was addressed by...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for shadow (EulerOS-SA-2023-2549)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Midnight Blizzard conducts targeted social engineering over Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified highly targeted social engineering attacks using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chats by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Midnight Blizzard previously tracked as NOBELIUM. This latest attack, combined with past activit...