Indian Energy Company Tata Power's IT Infrastructure Hit By Cyber Attack

Tata Power Company Limited, India's largest integrated power company, on Friday confirmed it was targeted by a cyberattack. The intrusion on IT infrastructure impacted "some of its IT systems," the company said in a filing with the National Stock Exchange NSE of India. It further said it has take...

Splunk Resource Permission Assignment Error Vulnerability

Splunk is a suite of data collection and analysis software from Splunk, Inc. The software is primarily used to collect, index, and analyze the data it generates, including data generated by all IT systems and infrastructure physical, virtual machines, and cloud.A resource privilege assignment err...

Report: Missouri Governor’s Office Responsible for Teacher Data Leak

Missouri Governor Mike Parson made headlines last year when he vowed to criminally prosecute a journalist for reporting a security flaw in a state website that exposed personal information of more than 100,000 teachers. But Missouri prosecutors now say they will not pursue charges following...

CISA Releases Final Version of Guidance: IPv6 Considerations for TIC 3.0

CISA has released the final version of Internet Protocol version 6 IPv6 Considerations for Trusted Internet Connections TIC 3.0. This guidance supports the federal government-wide deployment and use of the modernized network protocol. The final version includes feedback provided during the public...

Exploit for Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Siemens 6Bk1602-0Aa12-0Tp0_Firmware

log4j-CVE-2021-44228 On December 5, 2021, Apache identified a...

COVID-19 vaccine appointment system attacked in Italy

In another cyberattack on a healthcare system, threat-actors have tried to throw a wrench into the ongoing COVID-19 vaccine roll-out in the region of Lazio, Italy. The large and densely populated region is the countrys second most populous and includes the countrys capital, Rome. On Sunday the...

JBS Paid $11M to REvil Gang Even After Restoring Operations

JBS Foods paid the equivalent of $11 million in ransom after a cyber-attack that forced the company to shut down some operations in the United States and Australia over the Memorial Day weekend. The company made the payment to cybercriminals to ensure the protection of its data and mitigate any...

Cyberattack Forces Meat Producer to Shut Down Operations in U.S., Australia

The world’s largest meat distributor shut down some operations in both the United States and Australia over the Memorial Day weekend after a cyberattack on its IT systems that could have a significant effect on the food supply chain if not resolved quickly. Attackers targeted several servers...

Major U.S. Pipeline Crippled in Ransomware Attack

A ransomware attack has halted pipeline activities for the Colonial Pipeline Co., which supplies the East Coast with roughly 45 percent of its liquid fuels. In a statement released on Saturday, Colonial Pipeline said it has temporarily halted pipeline operations in response to a cyberattack...

Ransomware Attack Foils IoT Giant Sierra Wireless

A ransomware attack on leading internet-of-things IoT manufacturer Sierra Wireless this week ground its production activity to a halt and froze various other internal operations. The Canadian multinational manufacturer creates a broad array of communications equipment – from gateways to routers,...

Facebook Tracks APT32 OceanLotus Hackers to IT Company in Vietnam

Cybersecurity researchers from Facebook today formally linked the activities of a Vietnamese threat actor to an IT company in the country after the group was caught abusing its platform to hack into people's accounts and distribute malware. Tracked as APT32 or Bismuth, OceanLotus, and Cobalt Kitt...

Security Blueprints of Many Companies Leaked in Hack of Swedish Firm Gunnebo

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. In August, Gunnebo said it had successfully thwarted a ransomware attack, but this week it emerge...

Unique Threats to Operational Technology and Cyber Physical Systems

In this latest episode of our Eye on Security podcast, I talk all about the world of operational technology OT and cyber physical systems with one of our foremost experts on the topic: Nathan Brubaker, Senior Manager of Analysis for Mandiant Threat Intelligence. Nathan kicked off our chat by...

Theft of CIA's 'Vault 7' Secrets Tied to 'Woefully Lax" Security

A just-released report on the 2016 Central Intelligence Agency CIA data breach, which led to the Vault 7 document dump on WikiLeaks, blames “woefully lax” security by the nation’s top spy agency. The conclusions were part of an internal 2017 Department of Justice DoJ report on the CIA breach. On...

SAE IT-systems FW-50 Remote Telemetry Unit Path Traversal Vulnerability

The SAE IT-systems FW-50 Remote Telemetry Unit is a remote terminal unit RTU from SAE IT-systems, Germany. A path traversal vulnerability exists in the SAE IT-systems FW-50 Remote Telemetry Unit. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability with a specially crafted request to view the file structur...

SAE IT-systems FW-50 Remote Telemetry Unit Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

The SAE IT-systems FW-50 Remote Telemetry Unit is a remote terminal unit RTU from SAE IT-systems, Germany. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the SAE IT-systems FW-50 Remote Telemetry Unit, which originates from the program failing to properly validate user input. A remote attacker...

CVE-2020-10634

SAE IT-systems FW-50 Remote Telemetry Unit RTU. A specially crafted request could allow an attacker to view the file structure of the affected device and access files that should be inaccessible...

CVE-2020-10630

SAE IT-systems FW-50 Remote Telemetry Unit RTU. The software does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in the output used as a webpage that is served to other users...

Design/Logic Flaw

SAE IT-systems FW-50 Remote Telemetry Unit RTU. A specially crafted request could allow an attacker to view the file structure of the affected device and access files that should be inaccessible...

Design/Logic Flaw

SAE IT-systems FW-50 Remote Telemetry Unit RTU. The software does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in the output used as a webpage that is served to other users...