A deep dive into the most interesting incident response cases of last year

In 2023, Kasperskys Global Emergency Response Team GERT participated in services around the world that allowed our experts to gain insight into various threats and techniques used by APT groups, common crimeware and, in some cases, internal adversaries. As we highlighted in our annual report, the...

Cisco SSL VPN Bruteforce Login Utility

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Cisco SSL VPN Bruteforce Login Utility', 'Description' = % This module scans for Cisco SSL VPN web login portals and performs login brute force t...

VMWare Enumerate User Accounts

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'VMWare Enumerate User Accounts', 'Description' = %Q This module will log into the Web API of VMWare and try to enumerate all the user accounts. I...

CLSA-2024-1724754216 Fix CVE(s): CVE-2023-52760, CVE-2024-35835, CVE-2024-39484, CVE-2024-39487

CVE-url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-39487 - bonding: Fix out-of-bounds read in bondoptionarpiptargetsset CVE-url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-52760 - gfs2: Fix slab-use-after-free in gfs2qddealloc CVE-url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-39484 - mmc: davinci: Don't strip...

OESA-2024-2029 kernel security update

The Linux Kernel, the operating system core itself. Security Fixes: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mlxsw: spectrumacltcam: Fix stack corruption When tc filters are first added to a net device, the corresponding local port gets bound to an ACL group in the...

New Qilin Ransomware Attack Uses VPN Credentials, Steals Chrome Data

The threat actors behind a recently observed Qilin ransomware attack have stolen credentials stored in Google Chrome browsers on a small set of compromised endpoints. The use of credential harvesting in connection with a ransomware infection marks an unusual twist, and one that could have cascadi...

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48921

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/fair: Fix fault in reweightentity Syzbot found a GPF in reweightentity. This has been bisected to commit 4ef0c5c6b5ba "kernel/sched: Fix schedfork access an invalid schedtaskgroup" There is a race between schedpostfork and...

CVE-2022-48910

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ipv6: ensure we call ipv6mcdown at most once There are two reasons for addrconfnotify to be called with NETDEVDOWN: either the network device is actually going down, or IPv6 was disabled on the interface. If either of them...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48910

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ipv6: ensure we call ipv6mcdown at most once There are two reasons for addrconfnotify to be called with NETDEVDOWN: either the network device is actually going down, or IPv6 was disabled on the interface. If either of them...

GO-2022-1014 CRI-O incorrect handling of supplementary groups may lead to sensitive information disclosure in github.com/cri-o/cri-o

CRI-O incorrect handling of supplementary groups may lead to sensitive information disclosure in github.com/cri-o/cri-o...

New macOS Malware TodoSwift Linked to North Korean Hacking Groups

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new macOS malware strain dubbed TodoSwift that they say exhibits commonalities with known malicious software used by North Korean hacking groups. "This application shares several behaviors with malware we've seen that originated in North Korea DPRK —...

CVE-2022-48894 iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Don't unregister on shutdown

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Don't unregister on shutdown Similar to SMMUv2, this driver calls iommudeviceunregister from the shutdown path, which removes the IOMMU groups with no coordination whatsoever with their users - shutdown methods...

The State of Ransomware

Palo Alto Networks published its semi-annual report on ransomware. From the Executive Summary: Unit 42 monitors ransomware and extortion leak sites closely to keep tabs on threat activity. We reviewed compromise announcements from 53 dedicated leak sites in the first half of 2024 and found 1,762...

SUSE CVE-2024-43830

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: leds: trigger: Unregister sysfs attributes before calling deactivate Triggers which have trigger specific sysfs attributes typically store related data in trigger-data allocated by the activate callback and freed by the deactivat...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-43830

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: leds: trigger: Unregister sysfs attributes before calling deactivate Triggers which have trigger specific sysfs attributes typically store related data in trigger-data allocated by the activate callback and freed by the deactivat...

OpenAI Blocks Iranian Influence Operation Using ChatGPT for U.S. Election Propaganda

OpenAI on Friday said it banned a set of accounts linked to what it said was an Iranian covert influence operation that leveraged ChatGPT to generate content that, among other things, focused on the upcoming U.S. presidential election. "This week we identified and took down a cluster of ChatGPT...

Rapid7’s Ransomware Radar Report Shows Threat Actors are Evolving …Fast.

Few issues keep cybersecurity professionals up at night more than the threat of ransomware. The ubiquity of targets, the relative organization of threat actors, and their multiple paths of entry make combating ransomware particularly formidable. But there is one more facet to this threat that mak...

CVE-2024-2232

The lacks CSRF checks allowing a user to invite any user to any group including private groups...

CVE-2024-2232

The lacks CSRF checks allowing a user to invite any user to any group including private groups...

CVE-2024-2232 Himer - Social Questions and Answers < 2.1.3 - CSRF While Sending the Invites

The lacks CSRF checks allowing a user to invite any user to any group including private groups...