Exposed and vulnerable: Recent attacks highlight critical need to protect internet-exposed OT devices

Since late 2023, Microsoft has observed an increase in reports of attacks focusing on internet-exposed, poorly secured operational technology OT devices. Internet-exposed OT equipment in water and wastewater systems WWS in the US were targeted in multiple attacks over the past months by different...

Nuclearpond - A Utility Leveraging Nuclei To Perform Internet Wide Scans For The Cost Of A Cup Of Coffee

Nuclear Pond is used to leverage Nuclei in the cloud with unremarkable speed, flexibility, and perform internet wide scans for far less than a cup of coffee. It leverages AWS Lambda as a backend to invoke Nuclei scans in parallel, choice of storing json findings in s3 to query with AWS Athena, an...

More on NSO Group and Cytrox: Two Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturers

Citizen Lab published another report on the spyware used against two Egyptian nationals. One was hacked by NSO Groups Pegasus spyware. The other was hacked both by Pegasus and by the spyware from another cyberweapons arms manufacturer: Cytrox. We havent heard a lot about Cytrox and its Predator...

Over 115,000 Drupal Sites Still Vulnerable to Drupalgeddon2 Exploit

Hundreds of thousands of websites running on the Drupal CMS—including those of major educational institutions and government organizations around the world—have been found vulnerable to a highly critical flaw for which security patches were released almost two months ago. Security researcher Troy...

Project Sonar - Mo' Data, Mo' Research

Since its inception, Rapid7's Project Sonar has aimed to share the data and knowledge we've gained from our Internet scanning and collection activities with the larger information security community. Over the years this has resulted in vulnerability disclosures, research papers, conference...

WinREST Remote Privilege Escalation

So a year back I was massively scanning internet. This case ISPs IPs blocks where you can find easily at RIPE for example. Then I found some interesting hosts where SMB were open and the ACL is totally open to root file system with the same netbios name. All file system is writable. I was able to...

Scan of Internet for Compromised Cisco Routers Finds Fewer Than 100

A day after researchers detailed a technique that attackers are using to upload malicious firmware images to Cisco routers, academic researchers say they have scanned the entire IPv4 address space and discovered a total of 79 likely compromised routers. The researchers at the University of Michig...

Exposed Devices Used as Botnet to Scan Internet

A controversial Internet scanning project has come under fire for illegally accessing and running code on remote machines. The Internet Census 2012 project, revealed Sunday in a post to Seclists.org, discovered 420,000 embedded devices accessible using default credentials. The unnamed researcher...