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IBM Cognos Controller XML External Entity Injection Vulnerability
IBM Cognos Controller is a suite of business intelligence and planning solutions from IBM in the United States. The product features process automation, financial audit control, and the creation and management of financial reports. IBM Cognos Controller suffers from an XML external entity injecti...
Conti Leaks: Examining the Panama Papers of Ransomware | Trellix
Conti Leaks: Examining the Panama Papers of Ransomware By John Fokker, Jambul Tologonov · March 31, 2022 Introduction It isn’t often the whole world gets an inside look of the business operations of a top tier cybercriminal group. Very early on in the Russian-Ukrainian Crisis the predominantly...
[Security Nation] David Rogers on IoT Security Legislation
!\Security Nation\ David Rogers on IoT Security Legislationhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/03/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with David Rogers, CEO at Copper Horse Ltd., about the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure PST...
Rapid7 Announces Partner of the Year Awards 2022 Winners
It’s with immense pleasure that we announce today the winners of the Rapid7 Partner of the Year Awards 2022. All our category winners have achieved exceptional growth, demonstrating dedication and collaboration to the Rapid7 Partner Program throughout the year. We’re very proud to share our...
Another Chinese Hacking Group Spotted Targeting Ukraine Amid Russia Invasion
A Chinese-speaking threat actor called Scarab has been linked to a custom backdoor dubbed HeaderTip as part of a campaign targeting Ukraine since Russia embarked on an invasion last month, making it the second China-based hacking group after Mustang Panda to capitalize on the conflict. "The...
Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity
Artificial Intelligence AI and Machine Learning ML are essentials in modern cybersecurity. Both can automated the process of analyzing internet content and categorize it while identifying and mitigating threats such as malware, ransomware, phishing and botnets. AI and ML technologies are constant...
North Korean Hackers Exploited Chrome Zero-Day to Target Fintech, IT, and Media Firms
Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG on Thursday disclosed that it acted to mitigate threats from two distinct government-backed attacker groups based in North Korea that exploited a recently-uncovered remote code execution flaw in the Chrome web browser. The campaigns, once again "reflective of th...
Cyber Threat Intelligence: Risk Management Strategies
The ever-expanding attack surface of the cloud calls for effective cyber risk management to enable enterprises to innovate and meet business objectives. Discover how to better understand, communicate, and mitigate cyber risk across the enterprise...
SIEM and XDR: What’s Converging, What’s Not
Let’s start with the conclusion: Security incident and event management SIEM isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Today, most security analysts are using their SIEMs for detection and response, making it the core tool within the security operations center SOC. SIEM aggregates and monitors critical...
White House urges US businesses: Protect against potential Russian cyberattacks
On Monday, the White House told US business leaders to toughen up their cybersecurity defenses against a potential cyberattack from Russia. "The Biden-Harris Administration has warned repeatedly about the potential for Russia to engage in malicious cyber activity against the United States in...
Trellix Global Defenders: LAPSUS$ Data Breaches and Proactive Protections
Trellix Global Defenders: LAPSUS$ Data Breaches and Proactive Protections By Taylor Mullins · March 23, 2022 Trellix is continuing to monitor the threat activity related to the LAPSUS$ threat group and their recent breaches of large organizations such as NVIDIA, Samsung, Microsoft, and Okta. This...
Trellix Global Defenders: LAPSUS$ Data Breaches and Proactive Protections
Trellix Global Defenders: LAPSUS$ Data Breaches and Proactive Protections By Taylor Mullins · March 23, 2022 Trellix is continuing to monitor the threat activity related to the LAPSUS$ threat group and their recent breaches of large organizations such as NVIDIA, Samsung, Microsoft, and Okta. This...
DEV-0537 criminal actor targeting organizations for data exfiltration and destruction
March 24, 2022 update - As Microsoft continues to track DEV-0537’s activities, tactics, and tools, were sharing new detection, hunting, and mitigation information to give you additional insights on remaining vigilant against these attacks. In recent weeks, Microsoft Security teams have been...
Pro-Ukraine ‘Protestware’ Pushes Antiwar Ads, Geo-Targeted Malware
Researchers are tracking a number of open-source "protestware" projects on GitHub that have recently altered their code to display "Stand with Ukraine" messages for users, or basic facts about the carnage in Ukraine. The group also is tracking several code packages that were recently modified to...
WordPress Core 5.9.0 / 5.9.1 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
Contributor+ Stored Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability Description: Contributor+ Stored XSS Affected Versions: WordPress Core 5.9.0-5.9.1 CVE ID: Pending CVSS Score: 8.0 High CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Fully Patched Version: 5.9.2 Researcher/s: Ben Bidner WordPress...
CVE-2022-0847 aka Dirty Pipe vulnerability in Linux kernel
Last week, security researcher Max Kellermann discovered a high severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel, which was assigned the designation CVE-2022-0847. It affects the Linux kernels from 5.8 through any version before 5.16.11, 5.15.25 and 5.10.102, and can be used for local privilege...
Blunting RDP brute-force attacks with rate limiting
Thanks to the Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence Team for the information they provided for this article. Not long ago, guessing a Windows Remote Desktop Protocol RDP password successfully was widely regarded as ransomware operators number one choice for breaching a target. It attracted a lot of...
WordPress 5.9.2 Security Update Fixes XSS and Prototype Pollution Vulnerabilities
Last night, just after 6pm Pacific time, on Thursday March 10, 2022, the WordPress core team released WordPress version 5.9.2, which contains security patches for a high-severity vulnerability as well as two medium-severity issues. The high-severity issue affects version 5.9.0 and 5.9.1 and allow...
Ransomware: February 2022 review
The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team continuously monitors the threat landscape to stay on top of existing and emerging attacks. In this February 2022 ransomware review, we go over some the most successful ransomware incidents based on both open source and dark web intelligence. BlackByte...
