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...

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...

MongoDB warns customers about data breach after cyberattack

Database provider MongoDB has posted a security notice about a security incident in which attackers obtained unauthorized access to some of its corporate systems. The targeted system contained customer names, phone numbers, and email addresses among other customer account metadata, including syst...

HTML/CSS Injection

HTML/CSS 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 us...

PikaBot distributed via malicious search ads

During this past year, we have seen an increase in the use of malicious ads malvertising and specifically those via search engines, to drop malware targeting businesses. In fact, browser-based attacks overall have been a lot more common if we include social engineering campaigns. Criminals have...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for git (EulerOS-SA-2023-3431)

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...

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...

Design/Logic Flaw

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...

CVE-2023-46144

CVE-2023-46144 affects Phoenix Contact PLCnext Engineer and PLCnext Control devices. Description: a download of code without integrity check allows a remote attacker with low privileges to compromise the integrity of the affected engineering station and connected devices. Root cause: missing inte...

PT-2023-29874 · Plcnext · Plcnext

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: PLCnext products affected versions not specified Description: A download of code without integrity check issue in PLCnext products allows a remote attacker with low privileges to compromise integrity on the affected engineering station and th...

system-engineering-tool.com Improper Access Control vulnerability OBB-3812617

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...

Lazarus Group Using Log4j Exploits to Deploy Remote Access Trojans

The notorious North Korea-linked threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been attributed to a new global campaign that involves the opportunistic exploitation of security flaws in Log4j to deploy previously undocumented remote access trojans RATs on compromised hosts. Cisco Talos is tracking...

Webinar — Psychology of Social Engineering: Decoding the Mind of a Cyber Attacker

In the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, one method stands out for its chilling effectiveness – social engineering. But why does it work so well? The answer lies in the intricate dance between the attacker's mind and human psychology. Our upcoming webinar, "Think Like a Hacker, Defend Like a...

New PoolParty Process Injection Techniques Outsmart Top EDR Solutions

A new collection of eight process injection techniques, collectively dubbed PoolParty, could be exploited to achieve code execution in Windows systems while evading endpoint detection and response EDR systems. SafeBreach researcher Alon Leviev said the methods are "capable of working across all...

NCP Engineering Secure Enterprise Client Security Vulnerability

Ncp Engineering NCP engineering Secure Enterprise Client is a VPN Virtual Private Network client application from the German company Ncp Engineering. A security vulnerability exists in NCP engineering Secure Enterprise Client versions prior to 12.22, which stems from the presence of insecure file...