CVE-2009-3298

Mahara before 1.0.13, and 1.1.x before 1.1.7, allows remote authenticated institution administrators to reset a site administrator password via unspecified vectors...

How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets

Carding -- the underground business of stealing, selling and swiping stolen payment card data -- has long been the dominion of Russia-based hackers. Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market. But a flurry of innovati...

New Grandoreiro Banking Malware Variants Emerge with Advanced Tactics to Evade Detection

New variants of a banking malware called Grandoreiro have been found to adopt new tactics in an effort to bypass anti-fraud measures, indicating that the malicious software is continuing to be actively developed despite law enforcement efforts to crack down on the operation. "Only part of this ga...

A Scenario: Protecting a Financial Institution from External Threats With EASM

Background Carman Bank, a mid-sized financial institution, has experienced rapid growth over the past five years. As part of its expansion, the bank has significantly increased its digital presence by launching new online banking services, mobile applications, and integrating various third-party...

GHSA-GPRJ-3P75-F996 Globus `identity_provider` restriction ignored when used with `allow_all` in JupyterHub 5.0

Impact JupyterHub 5.0, when used with GlobusOAuthenticator, could be configured to allow all users from a particular institution only. The configuration for this would look like: python Require users to be using the "foo.horse" identity provider, often an institution or university...

CVE-2024-37300 Globus `identity_provider` restriction ignored when used with `allow_all` in JupyterHub 5.0

OAuthenticator is software that allows OAuth2 identity providers to be plugged in and used with JupyterHub. JupyterHub 5.0, when used with GlobusOAuthenticator, could be configured to allow all users from a particular institution only. This worked fine prior to JupyterHub 5.0, because allowall di...

Remote Monitoring & Management software used in phishing attacks

Remote Monitoring & Management RMM software, including popular tools like AnyDesk, Atera, and Splashtop, are invaluable for IT administrators today, streamlining tasks and ensuring network integrity from afar. However, these same tools have caught the eye of cybercriminals, who exploit them to...

New Cryptocurrency Mining Campaign Targets Linux Systems and IoT Devices

Internet-facing Linux systems and Internet of Things IoT devices are being targeted as part of a new campaign designed to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. "The threat actors behind the attack use a backdoor that deploys a wide array of tools and components such as rootkits and an IRC bot to steal...

IoT devices and Linux-based systems targeted by OpenSSH trojan campaign

Cryptojacking, the illicit use of computing resources to mine cryptocurrency, has become increasingly prevalent in recent years, with attackers building a cybercriminal economy around attack tools, infrastructure, and services to generate revenue from targeting a wide range of vulnerable systems,...

4 times students compromised school cybersecurity

For many students school can be a tough time, and we've all heard stories about bored or frustrated kids compromising school cybersecurity to change grades. Sometimes the students are celebrated, and other times it ends in them being expelled from school, or even prosecuted. Of course, these acts...

Wiz Receives Morgan Stanley Innovation Award at 20th Innovation Summit

Recognition in the Cyber category honors Wiz for its exceptional technology partnership with one of the world’s leading financial institutions...

Morgan Stanley's years-long "extensive failure" to protect customer data ends in huge fine

On Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC charged financial company Morgan Stanley a $35M fine for "the firm's extensive failures, over five years, to protect the personal identifying information, or PII, of approximately 15 million customers. The company agreed to settle the penalty...

When Efforts to Contain a Data Breach Backfire

Earlier this month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum Breached received a cease-and-desist letter from a cybersecurity firm. The missive alleged that an auction on the site for data stolen from 10 million customers of Mexicos second-largest bank was fake news and harming the banks...

AutoResponder - Carbon Black Response IR Tool

What is it? AutoResponder is a tool aimed to help people to carry out their Incident Response tasks WITH the help of Carbon Black Response's awesome capabilities and WITHOUT much bothering IT/System/Network Teams What can it do? Module | ✔️ / ❌ ---|--- Delete Files | ✔️ Delete Registry Values | ✔️...

Chinese APT Hackers Used Log4Shell Exploit to Target Academic Institution

A never-before-seen China-based targeted intrusion adversary dubbed Aquatic Panda has been observed leveraging critical flaws in the Apache Log4j logging library as an access vector to perform various post-exploitation operations, including reconnaissance and credential harvesting on targeted...

Researchers Uncover FIN8's New Backdoor Targeting Financial Institutions

A financially motivated threat actor notorious for setting its sights on retail, hospitality, and entertainment industries has been observed deploying a completely new backdoor on infected systems, indicating the operators are continuously retooling their malware arsenal to avoid detection and st...

I Am Parting With My Crypto Library

The time has come for me to find a new home for my paper cryptography library. Its about 150 linear feet of books, conference proceedings, journals, and monographs -- mostly from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. My preference is that it goes to an educational institution, but will consider a corporat...

Command Execution Vulnerability in the Single-Institution Online School System of Hefei Qifan Network Technology Co.

Hefei Qifan Network Technology Co., Ltd. is engaged in website construction, website optimization, web hosting, domain name registration and other network services. Hefei Qifan Network Technology Co., Ltd. single-agency online school system there is a command execution vulnerability, attackers ca...

British Airline EasyJet Suffers Data Breach Exposing 9 Million Customers' Data

British low-cost airline EasyJet today admitted that the company has fallen victim to a cyber-attack, which it labeled "highly sophisticated," exposing email addresses and travel details of around 9 million of its customers. In an official statement released today, EasyJet confirmed that of the 9...

When in Doubt: Hang Up, Look Up, & Call Back

Many security-conscious people probably think they'd never fall for a phone-based phishing scam. But if your response to such a scam involves anything other than hanging up and calling back the entity that claims to be calling, you may be in for a rude awakening. Here's how one security and...