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...

CVE-2022-24398

Under certain conditions SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform - versions 420, 430, allows an authenticated attacker to access information which would otherwise be restricted...

Authentication flaw

Under certain conditions SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform - versions 420, 430, allows an authenticated attacker to access information which would otherwise be restricted...

Iranian Hackers Targeting Turkey and Arabian Peninsula in New Malware Campaign

The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new swarm of attacks targeting Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula with the goal of deploying remote access trojans RATs on compromised systems. "The MuddyWater supergroup is highly motivated and can use unauthoriz...

Monthly Threat Digest: February 2022

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SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform 信息泄露漏洞

SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform is a suite of business intelligence software and enterprise performance solutions from SAP, Germany. The product features report generation, analytics, and data visualization. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in SAP Business Object...

CVE-2022-24398

Under certain conditions SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform - versions 420, 430, allows an authenticated attacker to access information which would otherwise be restricted...

Google Buys Cybersecurity Firm Mandiant for $5.4 Billion

Google is officially buying threat intelligence and incident response company Mandiant in an all-cash deal approximately valued at $5.4 billion, the two technology firms announced Tuesday. Mandiant is expected to be folded into Google Cloud upon the closure of the acquisition, which is slated to...

White House Executive Order – Navigating EDR Implementation

White House Executive Order – Navigating Endpoint Detection and Response EDR Implementation Tom Gann · March 08, 2022 This is the fourth in a series of blogs on the Biden Administration’s Executive Order EO on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. I encourage you to read those you may have missed...

White House Executive Order – Navigating EDR Implementation

White House Executive Order – Navigating Endpoint Detection and Response EDR Implementation Tom Gann · March 08, 2022 This is the fourth in a series of blogs on the Biden Administration’s Executive Order EO on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. I encourage you to read those you may have missed...

New Linux Kernel cgroups Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Escape Container

Details have emerged about a now-patched high-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel that could potentially be abused to escape a container in order to execute arbitrary commands on the container host. The shortcoming resides in a Linux kernel feature called control groups, also referred to a...

We’re Now Blocking 10,000 Requests Per Hour in Ukraine From Known Malicious IPs

48 hours ago we deployed our commercial real-time threat intelligence automatically, and for free, to all Ukrainian websites with the .UA top-level domain. That has made over 8,000 sites in Ukraine using the free version of Wordfence significantly more secure. At noon-UTC on March 2nd, those site...

Phishing Campaign Targeted Those Aiding Ukraine Refugees

Cyberattackers used a compromised Ukrainian military email address to phish EU government employees who’ve been involved in managing the logistics of refugees fleeing Ukraine, according to a new report. Ukraine has been at the center of an unprecedented wave of cyberattacks in recent weeks and...

Report: Nearly 75% of Infusion Pumps Affected by Severe Vulnerabilities

An analysis of data crowdsourced from more than 200,000 network-connected infusion pumps used in hospitals and healthcare entities has revealed that 75% of those medical devices contain security weaknesses that could put them at risk of potential exploitation. "These shortcomings included exposur...

Ukraine Universities Hacked As Russian Invasion Started

Note: This article has been updated to reflect that the hosting provider "Njalla", which routed the malicious traffic involved in this attack, is based in Sweden, not in Finland, although IP geolocation data indicates that the specific server that the traffic transited may be based in Finland. We...

The Conti ransomware leaks

On February 27, an individual with insights into the Conti ransomware group started leaking a treasure trove of data beginning with internal chat messages. Conti is responsible for a number of high profile attacks, including one against the Irish Healthcare system which has cost more than $48...

Ukraine Hit with Novel ‘FoxBlade’ Trojan Hours Before Invasion

“As tanks rolled into Ukraine, so did malware,” summarized humanitarian author Andreas Harsono, referring to the novel malware that Microsoft has named FoxBlade. On Monday, the company reported that its Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC had detected cyberattacks launched against Ukraine’s digital...

WordPress "Woocommerce Customer Reviews with Artificial Intelligence analyzis, with IBM Watson Tone Analyzer" plugin <= 1.0.0 - Toggle The Debug Mode via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Toggle The Debug Mode via Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability discovered in WordPress "Woocommerce Customer Reviews with Artificial Intelligence analyzis, with IBM Watson Tone Analyzer" plugin versions = 1.0.0. Solution No patched version available...

Cyberattacks Targeting Ukraine and HermeticWiper Protections

Trellix Global Defenders: Cyberattacks Targeting Ukraine and HermeticWiper Protections By Taylor Mullins · February 28, 2022 Trellix is monitoring the ongoing cyberattacks targeting the Ukraine and any threat activity targeting entities outside of the Ukraine. Trellix is continuing to add...

Trellix Global Defenders: Analysis and Protections for BlackByte Ransomware

Trellix Global Defenders: Analysis and Protections for BlackByte Ransomware By Taylor Mullins · February 28, 2022 BlackByte Ransomware has been in the news of late due to a successful attack against a National Football League NFL Franchise and a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory by the Federal Bureau ...