Researchers Link 'Sharpshooter' Cyber Attacks to North Korean Hackers

Security researchers have finally, with "high confidence," linked a previously discovered global cyber espionage campaign targeting critical infrastructure around the world to a North Korean APT hacking group. Thanks to the new evidence collected by researchers after analyzing a command-and-contr...

Researchers Link 'Sharpshooter' Cyber Attacks to North Korean Hackers

Security researchers have finally, with "high confidence," linked a previously discovered global cyber espionage campaign targeting critical infrastructure around the world to a North Korean APT hacking group. Thanks to the new evidence collected by researchers after analyzing a command-and-contr...

Architecting DNS for DDoS Durability and Resilience

My business depends on my domain name being 100% available. How do I ensure my domain name is durable to attack and resilient during Internet stress? After many years of hard work from many Internet engineers and system administrators, Akamai Technologies has been working towards DNS infrastructu...

Enhancing API Gateway With Request Throttling to Manage Overconsumption

API traffic is exploding online and across the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform. APIs are the connective tissue among organizations driving innovative and integrated digital experiences. As these experiences are mission critical for organizations to monetize partnerships, create connections for...

RSAC 2019: New Operation Sharpshooter Data Reveals Higher Complexity, Scope

SAN FRANCISCO – An insidious reconnaissance campaign discovered in 2018, dubbed Operation Sharpshooter, is much more widespread than previously thought, researchers said. Operation Sharpshooter was first disclosed in December 2018, using a never-before-seen implant framework to infiltrate global...

Necurs Botnet Evolves to Hide in the Shadows, with New Payloads

Necurs, the prolific and globally dispersed spam and malware distribution botnet, has been spotted using a fresh hiding technique to avoid detection while quietly adding more bots to its web. According to research from Black Lotus Labs, which is telecom and ISP provider CenturyLink’s network...

Don’t Let Security Needs Halt Your Digital Transformation. Imperva FlexProtect Offers Agile Security for any Enterprise.

Is your enterprise in the midst of a digital transformation? Of course it is. Doing business in today’s global marketplace is more competitive than ever. Automating your business processes and infusing them with always-on, real-time applications and other cutting-edge technology is key to keeping...

'Cloudborne' IaaS Attack Allows Persistent Backdoors in the Cloud

An attack scenario affecting various cloud providers could allow an attacker to implant persistent backdoors for data theft into bare-metal cloud servers, which would be able to remain intact as the cloud infrastructure moves from customer to customer. This opens the door to a wide array of attac...

Product update: Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform 2.5 Update 3 (2.5.0-1605)

This update provides stability and usability fixes. Vulnerability id: VSTOR-19098 With erasure coding, write operations are blocked after two or more nodes fail, even if the cluster has enough disks available. Vulnerability id: VSTOR-19326 Unable to list buckets via CLI after bucket removal via...

CVE-2018-11938

CVE-2018-11938 affects Qualcomm/Snapdragon components (e.g., IPQ8074, MSM89xx, SDx series, etc.) via improper input validation of an HLOS argument, causing potential buffer overflows and unexpected behavior. Root cause is input validation failure in the argument path from HLOS; impact could invol...

CVE-2018-11864

CVE-2018-11864 affects Qualcomm Snapdragon family devices (multiple SKUs) where bytes can be written to fuses from the Secure region and later read by the high-level OS. The description lists affected products/SoCs (e.g., IPQ8074, MDM9xxx, SD 210–SD 835, SDM/SD series, etc.) and indicates the iss...

CVE-2018-11820

Use of non-time constant memcmp function creates side channel that leaks information and leads to cryptographic issues in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT,...

Input validation

A vulnerability in the Identity Services Engine ISE integration feature of Cisco Prime Infrastructure PI could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack against the Secure Sockets Layer SSL tunnel established between ISE and PI. The vulnerability is due to...

CVE-2019-1659

A vulnerability in the Identity Services Engine ISE integration feature of Cisco Prime Infrastructure PI could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack against the Secure Sockets Layer SSL tunnel established between ISE and PI. The vulnerability is due to...

CVE-2019-1659

A vulnerability in the Identity Services Engine ISE integration feature of Cisco Prime Infrastructure PI could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack against the Secure Sockets Layer SSL tunnel established between ISE and PI. The vulnerability is due to...

CVE-2019-1659

CVE-2019-1659 describes a certificate-validation flaw in the Cisco Prime Infrastructure (PI) SSL tunnel when the PI server is integrated with Identity Services Engine (ISE). The issue arises from improper validation of the server SSL certificate, enabling an unauthenticated, remote attacker to pe...

CVE-2019-1659 Cisco Prime Infrastructure Certificate Validation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Identity Services Engine ISE integration feature of Cisco Prime Infrastructure PI could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack against the Secure Sockets Layer SSL tunnel established between ISE and PI. The vulnerability is due to...

CVE-2019-1659 Cisco Prime Infrastructure Certificate Validation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Identity Services Engine ISE integration feature of Cisco Prime Infrastructure PI could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack against the Secure Sockets Layer SSL tunnel established between ISE and PI. The vulnerability is due to...

Cisco Prime Infrastructure SSL Certificate Validation Security Bypass Vulnerability

Cisco Prime Infrastructure is a network management tool that supports full lifecycle management of the entire network infrastructure from a single graphical interface. An SSL certificate validation security bypass vulnerability exists in the Identity Services Engine ISE integration feature of Cis...

Cisco Prime Infrastructure Certificate Validation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Identity Services Engine ISE integration feature of Cisco Prime Infrastructure PI could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack against the Secure Sockets Layer SSL tunnel established between ISE and PI. The vulnerability is due to...