New Hacking Campaign Targeting Ukrainian Government with IcedID Malware

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has warned of a new wave of social engineering campaigns delivering IcedID malware and leveraging Zimbra exploits with the goal of stealing sensitive information. Attributing the IcedID phishing attacks to a threat cluster named UAC-0041, th...

Feds: APTs Have Tools That Can Take Over Critical Infrastructure

Threat actors have built and are ready to deploy tools that can take over a number of widely used industrial control system ICS devices, which spells trouble for critical infrastructure providers—particularly those in the energy sector, federal agencies have warned. In a joint advisory, the...

CVE-2021-22797

A CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory 'Path Traversal vulnerability exists that could cause malicious script to be deployed in an unauthorized location and may result in code execution on the engineering workstation when a malicious project file is loaded in the...

CVE-2021-22797

A CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory 'Path Traversal vulnerability exists that could cause malicious script to be deployed in an unauthorized location and may result in code execution on the engineering workstation when a malicious project file is loaded in the...

Path traversal

A CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory 'Path Traversal vulnerability exists that could cause malicious script to be deployed in an unauthorized location and may result in code execution on the engineering workstation when a malicious project file is loaded in the...

Siemens TIA Portal Access Control Error Vulnerability

SIMATIC STEP 7 TIA Portal is the engineering software for configuring and programming SIMATIC controllers. An access control error vulnerability exists in Siemens TIA Portal, which can be exploited by an attacker to achieve elevation of privilege...

GHSA-CMFH-8F8R-FJ96 Phoenix Arbitrary URL Redirect

The Phoenix team designed Phoenix.Controller.redirect/2 to protect against redirects allowing user input to redirect to an external URL where your application code otherwise assumes a local path redirect. This is why the :to option is used for “local” URL redirects and why you must pass the...

Phoenix Arbitrary URL Redirect

The Phoenix team designed Phoenix.Controller.redirect/2 to protect against redirects allowing user input to redirect to an external URL where your application code otherwise assumes a local path redirect. This is why the :to option is used for “local” URL redirects and why you must pass the...

Improper access control

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC STEP 7 TIA Portal V15 All versions, SIMATIC STEP 7 TIA Portal V16 All versions V16 Update 5, SIMATIC STEP 7 TIA Portal V17 All versions V17 Update 2. An attacker could achieve privilege escalation on the web server of certain devices due to improper...

Debian DLA-2980-1 : zabbix - LTS security update

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-2980 advisory. Several security vulnerabilities have been discovered in zabbix, a network monitoring solution. An authenticated user can create a link with reflected Javascript...

Hamas-linked Hackers Targeting High-Ranking Israelis Using 'Catfish' Lures

A threat actor with affiliations to the cyber warfare division of Hamas has been linked to an "elaborate campaign" targeting high-profile Israeli individuals employed in sensitive defense, law enforcement, and emergency services organizations. "The campaign operators use sophisticated social...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-39038, CVE-2021-23450) in IBM WebSphere Application Server may impact IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) products based on IBM Jazz technology

Summary IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management ELM products based on IBM Jazz technology may integrate with IBM WebSphere Application Server WAS. Please review the following WAS Bulletins CVE-2021-39038, CVE-2021-23450 and take corrective actions. Vulnerability Details Refer to the security bulleti...

Hackers Distributing Fake Shopping Apps to Steal Banking Data of Malaysian Users

Threat actors have been distributing malicious applications under the guise of seemingly harmless shopping apps to target customers of eight Malaysian banks since at least November 2021. The attacks involved setting up fraudulent but legitimate-looking websites to trick users into downloading the...

Attackers Spoof WhatsApp Voice-Message Alerts to Steal Info

Attackers are spoofing voice message notifications from WhatsApp in a malicious phishing campaign that uses a legitimate domain to spread an info-stealing malware, researchers have found. Researchers at cloud email security firm Armorblox discovered the malicious campaign targeting Office 365 and...

North Korean Hackers Distributing Trojanized DeFi Wallet Apps to Steal Victims' Crypto

The North Korean state-backed hacking crew, otherwise known as the Lazarus Group, has been attributed to yet another financially motivated campaign that leverages a trojanized decentralized finance DeFi wallet app to distribute a fully-featured backdoor onto compromised Windows systems. The app,...

Hackers Increasingly Using 'Browser-in-the-Browser' Technique in Ukraine Related Attacks

A Belarusian threat actor known as Ghostwriter aka UNC1151 has been spotted leveraging the recently disclosed browser-in-the-browser BitB technique as part of their credential phishing campaigns exploiting the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian conflict. The method, which masquerades as a legitimate domain ...

A Blockchain Primer and Bored Ape Headscratcher – Podcast

Why in the world would a collection of nonfungible token NFT gorilla avatars called the Bored Ape Yacht Club BAYC, run by 30-somethings using aliases like “Emperor Tomato Ketchup” and “No Sass” and adored by celebrities, spiral on up to a multibillion-dollar valuation …and, by the way, how can yo...

Content Injection

Content Injection is an attack that injects arbitrary characters into a web page. When an application does not properly handle user-supplied data, an attacker can supply content to a web application, typically via a parameter value which is then reflected in the page. This attack is typically use...

Experts Detail Virtual Machine Used by Wslink Malware Loader for Obfuscation

Cybersecurity researchers have shed more light on a malicious loader that runs as a server and executes received modules in memory, laying bare the structure of an "advanced multi-layered virtual machine" used by the malware to fly under the radar. Wslink, as the malicious loader is called, was...

CVE-2021-22797

CVE-2021-22797 is a CWE-22 path traversal vulnerability in Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Control Expert (incl. Unity Pro), EcoStruxure Process Expert, and SCADAPack RemoteConnect for x70. The root cause is improper validation of a user-supplied path when loading a malicious project file, which c...