South Korean Citizen Detained in Russia on Cyber Espionage Charges

Russia has detained a South Korean national for the first time on cyber espionage charges and transferred from Vladivostok to Moscow for further investigation. The development was first reported by Russian news agency TASS. "During the investigation of an espionage case, a South Korean citizen Ba...

U.S. Cracks Down on Predatory Spyware Firm for Targeting Officials and Journalists

The U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC sanctioned two individuals and five entities associated with the Intellexa Alliance for their role in "developing, operating, and distributing" commercial spyware designed to target government officials, journalists, and poli...

Pegasus spyware creator ordered to reveal code used to spy on WhatsApp users

A California federal judge has ordered spyware maker NSO Group to hand over the code for Pegasus and other spyware products that were used to spy on WhatsApp users. Meta-owned WhatsApp has been fighting NSO in court since 2019, after Pegasus was allegedly used against 1,400 WhatsApp users over th...

CISA, NCSC-UK, and Partners Release Advisory on Russian SVR Actors Targeting Cloud Infrastructure

CISA, in partnership with UK National Cyber Security Centre NCSC and other U.S. and international partners released the joint advisory, SVR Cyber Actors Adapt Tactics for Initial Cloud Access. This advisory provides recent tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs used by Russian Foreign...

Leak Reveals the Unusual Path of ‘Urgent’ Russian Threat Warning

The US Congress was preparing to vote on a key foreign surveillance program last week. Then a wild Russian threat appeared...

Russian Government Software Backdoored to Deploy Konni RAT Malware

An installer for a tool likely used by the Russian Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs MID has been backdoored to deliver a remote access trojan called Konni RAT aka UpDog. The findings come from German cybersecurity company DCSO, which linked the activity as originating from t...

A first analysis of the i-Soon data leak

Data from a Chinese cybersecurity vendor that works for the Chinese government has exposed a range of hacking tools and services. Although the source is not entirely clear, it seems that a disgruntled staff member of the group leaked the information on purpose. The vendor, i-Soon aka Anxun is...

China-Linked Hackers Target Myanmar's Top Ministries with Backdoor Blitz

The China-based threat actor known as Mustang Panda is suspected to have targeted Myanmar's Ministry of Defence and Foreign Affairs as part of twin campaigns designed to deploy backdoors and remote access trojans. The findings come from CSIRT-CTI, which said the activities took place in November...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise also searched by Cozy Bear

Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE has disclosed that the state-sponsored actor known as Cozy Bear aka Midnight Blizzard, gained unauthorized access to HPE’s cloud-based email environment. This news comes only days after Microsoft broke very similar news that it got hacked by this same state sponsore...

PT-2023-31461 · Cesanta · Mjs

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Cesanta MJS versions 2.20.0 through 2.22.0 Description: The issue is related to an out-of-bounds read in the getprop builtin foreign function when a Built-in API name occurs in a substring of an input string. This can lead to a buffer overflo...

CISA and Partners Release Advisory on Russian SVR-affiliated Cyber Actors Exploiting CVE-2023-42793

Today, CISA—along with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, National Security Agency NSA, Polish Military Counterintelligence Service SKW, CERT Polska CERT.PL, and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC—released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA, Russian Foreign Intelligence Servi...

The vulnerability of the SEMCMS_Upfile.php script of the website management system used by SemCms’ foreign trade enterprises allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the SEMCMSUpfile.php script in the website management system used by SemCms foreign trade enterprises involves unlimited downloading of dangerous files. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code remotely...

SugarGh0st RAT A Customized Gh0st Variant in Cyber Espionage

Summary: A malicious campaign deploying the customized SugarGh0st RAT, likely orchestrated by a Chinese-speaking threat actor targeting the Uzbekistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and South Korean users. SugarGh0st, a variant of Gh0st RAT, exhibits advanced features for remote control, keylogging,...

New SugarGh0st RAT targets Uzbekistan government and South Korea

Cisco Talos recently discovered a malicious campaign that likely started as early as August 2023, delivering a new remote access trojan RAT we dubbed "SugarGh0st." We found evidence suggesting the threat actor is targeting the Uzbekistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and users in South Korea. We...

CVE-2023-44390 HtmlSanitizer vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in Foreign Content

HtmlSanitizer is a .NET library for cleaning HTML fragments and documents from constructs that can lead to XSS attacks. The vulnerability occurs in configurations where foreign content is allowed, i.e. either svg or math are in the list of allowed elements. In the case an application sanitizes us...

CVE-2023-44390 HtmlSanitizer vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in Foreign Content

HtmlSanitizer is a .NET library for cleaning HTML fragments and documents from constructs that can lead to XSS attacks. The vulnerability occurs in configurations where foreign content is allowed, i.e. either svg or math are in the list of allowed elements. In the case an application sanitizes us...

Political Disinformation and AI

Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence. Countries trying to influence each others elections entered a new era in 2016, when the Russians launched a series of social media disinformation campaigns targeting the US...

HtmlSanitizer vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in Foreign Content

Impact The vulnerability occurs in configurations where foreign content is allowed, i.e. either svg or math are in the list of allowed elements. Specifically, the requirements for the vulnerability are: 1. Allowing one foreign element: svg, or math 2. Comments or one raw text element: iframe,...

GHSA-43CP-6P3Q-2PC4 HtmlSanitizer vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in Foreign Content

Impact The vulnerability occurs in configurations where foreign content is allowed, i.e. either svg or math are in the list of allowed elements. Specifically, the requirements for the vulnerability are: 1. Allowing one foreign element: svg, or math 2. Comments or one raw text element: iframe,...

PT-2023-29225 · Unknown · Sanitize-Html

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: HtmlSanitizer versions prior to 8.0.723 HtmlSanitizer version 8.1.722-beta and earlier Description: The issue occurs in configurations where foreign content is allowed, specifically when svg or math are in the list of allowed elements. This...