Evolving trends in Iranian threat actor activity – MSTIC presentation at CyberWarCon 2021

Over the past year, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC has observed a gradual evolution of the tools, techniques, and procedures employed by malicious network operators based in Iran. At CyberWarCon 2021, MSTIC analysts presented their analysis of these trends in Iranian nation state...

Better Together: XDR, SOAR, Vulnerability Management, and External Threat Intelligence

One of the biggest challenges with both incident response and vulnerability management is not just the raw number of incidents and vulnerabilities organizations need to triage and manage, but the fact that it's often difficult to separate the critical incidents and vulnerabilities from the minor...

AzureHunter - A Cloud Forensics Powershell Module To Run Threat Hunting Playbooks On Data From Azure And O365

A Powershell module to run threat hunting playbooks on data from Azure and O365 for Cloud Forensics purposes. Getting Started 1. Check that you have the right O365 Permissions The following roles are required in Exchange Online, in order to be able to have read only access to the UnifiedAuditLog:...

Hackers Increasingly Using HTML Smuggling in Malware and Phishing Attacks

Threat actors are increasingly banking on the technique of HTML smuggling in phishing campaigns as a means to gain initial access and deploy an array of threats, including banking malware, remote administration trojans RATs, and ransomware payloads. Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team...

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a suite of ERP business solutions for multinational organizations. The product includes financial management, production management and business intelligence management. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Dynamics 365, which can be exploited by an...

Operationalizing Threat Intelligence with User-Driven Automation

Security operations centers SOCs and threat analysts are struggling with ever-increasing and growing cyberthreats. Massive volumes of data created every second lead to new vulnerabilities and attack vectors. How do SOCs and incident response teams keep up with the threats happening across the...

Over 1 Million Sites Impacted by Vulnerability in Starter Templates Plugin

On October 4, 2021, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for the Starter Templates plugin, which is installed on over 1 Million WordPress websites. The full name of the WordPress plugin is “Starter Templates — Elementor, Gutenberg & Beaver Builder...

Iran's Lyceum Hackers Target Telecoms, ISPs in Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Africa

A state-sponsored threat actor allegedly affiliated with Iran has been linked to a series of targeted attacks aimed at internet service providers ISPs and telecommunication operators in Israel, Morocco, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia, as well as a ministry of foreign affairs MFA in Africa, new finding...

How Artificial intelligence (AI) Stops Cybercriminals

By Owais Sultan When you factor in the increasing sophistication of Artificial intelligence AI, cybercrime represents one of the gravest threats to human civilization. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Artificial intelligence AI Stops Cybercriminals...

Security Researchers Reveal Activity Targeting ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus

On September 16, CISA released a joint alert on exploitation of a vulnerability CVE-2021-40539 in ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus. On November 8, security researchers from Palo Alto Networks and Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC released separate reports on targeted attacks against...

Zebra2104 Initial Access Broker Supports Rival Malware Gangs, APTs

Three separate threat groups are all using a common initial access broker IAB to enable their cyberattacks, according to researchers – a finding that has revealed a tangled web of related attack infrastructure underpinning disparate and in some cases rival malware campaigns. The BlackBerry Resear...

CVE-2017-16651

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CVE-2021-31599

An issue was discovered in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho through 9.1 and Pentaho Business Intelligence Server through 7.x. A reports .prpt file allows the inclusion of BeanShell scripts to ease the production of complex reports. An authenticated user can run arbitrary code...

Default configuration

An issue was discovered in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho through 9.1 and Pentaho Business Intelligence Server through 7.x. The Security Model has different layers of Access Control. One of these layers is the applicationContext security, which is defined in the applicationContext-spring-security.xml...

Code injection

An issue was discovered in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho through 9.1 and Pentaho Business Intelligence Server through 7.x. A reports .prpt file allows the inclusion of BeanShell scripts to ease the production of complex reports. An authenticated user can run arbitrary code...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho through 9.1 and Pentaho Business Intelligence Server through 7.x. They implement a series of web services using the SOAP protocol to allow scripting interaction with the backend server. An authenticated user regardless of privileges can list all...

CVE-2021-31602

Hitachi Vantara Pentaho (through 9.1) and Pentaho BI Server (through 7.x) are affected by CVE-2021-31602, an authentication bypass caused by the applicationContext-spring-security.xml security layer. An unauthenticated user can extract information without valid credentials. NVD lists CVSS v3.1 ba...

CVE-2021-31601

CVE-2021-31601 affects Hitachi Vantara Pentaho (9.1 and earlier Pentaho BI Server 7.x/9.1) where the SOAP web services expose a Data Source Management service. An authenticated user (even with low privileges) can enumerate credentials and connection details for all data sources via the /pentaho/w...

CVE-2021-31600

Hitachi Vantara Pentaho (through 9.1 and Pentaho BI Server 7.x) exposes an access-control flaw in SOAP web services that allows any authenticated user to enumerate usernames. The vulnerable components are the web services exposed by /pentaho/webservices/userRoleListService and /pentaho/ServiceAct...

CVE-2021-31599

Vulnerability summary: CVE-2021-31599 affects Hitachi Vantara Pentaho (Pentaho BI Server 7.x and Pentaho Business Analytics up to 9.1). Affected component is the Pentaho Report Bundles (.prpt); the BeanShell scripting feature inside PRPT reports can be exploited by an authenticated user to execut...