Obscured by Clouds: Insights into Office 365 Attacks and How Mandiant Managed Defense Investigates

With Business Email Compromises BECs showing no signs of slowing down, it is becoming increasingly important for security analysts to understand Office 365 O365 breaches and how to properly investigate them. This blog post is for those who have yet to dip their toes into the waters of an O365 BEC...

TikTok is being discouraged and the app may be banned

In recent news retail giant Amazon sent a memo to employees telling them to delete the popular social media app TikTok from their phones. In the memo it stated that the app would pose a security risk without going into details. Later the memo was withdrawn without an explanation except that it wa...

Podcast: Security Lessons Learned In Times of Uncertainty

Derek Manky With the coronavirus pandemic breaking out, and corporate workforces going remote, “uncertainty is a key word” for 2020, Derek Manky, Chief, Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs, said. The uncertain times led to an outpouring of cybercriminal...

CVE-2020-9077

HUAWEI P30 smart phones with versions earlier than 10.1.0.160C00E160R2P11 have an information exposure vulnerability. The system does not properly authenticate the application that access a specified interface. Attackers can trick users into installing malicious software to exploit this...

pfSense 2.4.4-p3 Cross Site Request Forgery

Exploit Title: pfSense 2.4.4-p3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Date: 2019-09-27 Exploit Author: ghostfh Vendor Homepage: https://www.pfsense.org/ Software Link: https://www.pfsense.org/download/index.html?section=downloads Version: Till 2.4.4-p3 Tested on: freebsd CVE : CVE-2019-16667 Vulnerability...

pfSense 2.4.4-p3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Exploit Title: pfSense 2.4.4-p3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Date: 2019-09-27 Exploit Author: ghostfh Vendor Homepage: https://www.pfsense.org/ Software Link: https://www.pfsense.org/download/index.html?section=downloads Version: Till 2.4.4-p3 Tested on: freebsd CVE : CVE-2019-16667 Vulnerability...

New Relic: One Click Remote Code Injection - *.blog.newrelic.com

With some social engineering, a WordPress admin could be convinced to click a malicious link to abuse a vulnerability in a WordPress plugin. This could lead to script execution or even code execution on the host. Vulnerability: A CSRF vulnerability has been found inside the Admin Panel leading to...

CVE-2020-7520

A CWE-601: URL Redirection to Untrusted Site 'Open Redirect' vulnerability exists in Schneider Electric Software Update SESU, V2.4.0 and prior, which could cause execution of malicious code on the victim's machine. In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker requires privileged access on...

Open redirect

A CWE-601: URL Redirection to Untrusted Site 'Open Redirect' vulnerability exists in Schneider Electric Software Update SESU, V2.4.0 and prior, which could cause execution of malicious code on the victim's machine. In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker requires privileged access on...

Security Bulletin: Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is affected by a Kubernetes API server security vulnerability (CVE-2019-11254)

Summary Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is affected by a security vulnerability in the Kubernetes API server that could lead to a denial of service vulnerability from malicious YAML payloads CVE-2019-11254 Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-11254 Description: Kubernetes is vulnerable to a denia...

Security Bulletin: Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is affected by a Kubernetes controller manager security vulnerability (CVE-2020-8555)

Summary Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is affected by a security vulnerability in the Kubernetes controller manager that could leak data to authorized users CVE-2020-8555 Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2020-8555 Description: Kubernetes is vulnerable to server-side request forgery, caused by a...

GReAT thoughts: Awesome IDA Pro plugins

The Global Research & Analysis Team here at Kaspersky has a tradition of meeting up once a month and sharing cutting-edge research, interesting techniques and useful tools. We recently took the unprecedented decision to make our internal meetings public for a few months and present them as a seri...

Lock and Code S1Ep11: Locating concerns of Bluetooth and beacon technology with Chris Boyd

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to Chris Boyd, lead malware intelligence analyst for Malwarebytes, about Bluetooth and beacon technology. Last month, cybersecurity experts warned the publi...

It’s baaaack: Public cyber enemy Emotet has returned

It was never a question of "if" but "when". After five months of absence, the dreaded Emotet has returned. Following several false alarms over the last few weeks, a spam campaign was first spotted on July 13 showing signs of a likely comeback. The Emotet botnets started pushing malspam actively o...

Twitter Hack Update: What We Know (and What We Don't)

UPDATED 7/18 at 12:50 p.m. ET Earlier this week, Twitter locked down thousands of verified accounts, including the accounts of Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Apple, Uber and others, after it became clear that hackers had been able to compromise them. The tip-off? Suddenly these high-profile...

Coordinated Twitter attack rakes in 100 grand

Update 7/18/2020 Twitter released an update about the situation and their investigation on their blog. Update 8/2/2020 ZDNet published a timeline based on the court documents released by the DOJ "Im feeling generous because of Covid-19. Ill double any BTC payment sent to my BTC address for the ne...

Zoom Addresses Vanity URL Zero-Day

A previously undisclosed bug in Zoom’s customizable URL feature has been addressed that could have offered a hacker a perfect social-engineering avenue for stealing credentials or sensitive information. Disclosed by Zoom and Check Point on Thursday, the security flaw existed in the “Vanity URL”...

A New Flaw In Zoom Could Have Let Fraudsters Mimic Organisations

In a report shared with The Hacker News, researchers at cybersecurity firm CheckPoint today disclosed details of a minor but easy-to-exploit flaw they reported in Zoom, the highly popular and widely used video conferencing software. The latest Zoom flaw could have allowed attackers mimic an...

A New Flaw In Zoom Could Have Let Fraudsters Mimic Organisations

In a report shared with The Hacker News, researchers at cybersecurity firm CheckPoint today disclosed details of a minor but easy-to-exploit flaw they reported in Zoom, the highly popular and widely used video conferencing software. The latest Zoom flaw could have allowed attackers mimic an...

Several High-Profile Accounts Hacked in the Biggest Twitter Hack of All Time

Social media platform Twitter, earlier today on Wednesday, was on fire after it suffered one of the biggest cyberattacks in its history. A number of high-profile Twitter accounts, including those of US presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Uber, and Apple...