Attackers Target Porn Site Goers in ‘Malsmoke’ Zloader Attack

Cybercriminals are tricking adult website visitors – including sites such as bravoporn.com and xhamster.com – in malvertising attacks that redirect victims to malicious websites serving up malware. The campaign, which is part of a larger malvertising effort dubbed “malsmoke”, has been tracked...

Malsmoke operators abandon exploit kits in favor of social engineering scheme

Exploit kits continue to be used as a malware delivery platform. In 2020, weve observed a number of different malvertising campaigns leading to RIG, Fallout, Spelevo and Purple Fox, among others. And, in September, we put out a blog post detailing a surge in malvertising via adult websites. One o...

Life of Maze ransomware

In the past year, Maze ransomware has become one of the most notorious malware families threatening businesses and large organizations. Dozens of organizations have fallen victim to this vile malware, including LG, Southwire, and the City of Pensacola. The history of this ransomware began in the...

Phishers Capitalize on Headlines with Breakneck Speed

The speed with which phishers are able to adapt to new messaging based on the latest headlines is accelerating, according to the Proofpoint Threat Research Team, which was able to track backend data from a recent voter-registration scam to uncover just how quickly cybercriminals can pivot to...

Critical Flash Player Flaw Opens Adobe Users to RCE

Adobe is warning of a critical vulnerability in its Flash Player application for users on Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS operating systems. The vulnerability is the only flaw released this month as part of Adobe’s regularly scheduled patches markedly less than the 18 flaws addressed during it...

Buffer overflow in deprecated USB HALs and stack overflow in USB enumeration

Impact 1 If an application is making use of the deprecated kit protocol HALs as the communication channel to the target device an attacker can masquerade as a device and return malformed packets of arbitrary length which the protocol stack will write to the stack. HALs intended for production use...

Malvertising campaigns come back in full swing

Malvertising campaigns leading to exploit kits are nowhere near as common these days. Indeed, a number of threat actors have moved on to other delivery methods instead of relying on drive-by downloads. However, occasionally we see spikes in activity that are noticeable enough that they highlight ...

PhishingKitTracker - Let's Track Phishing Kits To Give To Research Community Raw Material To Stud

An extensible and freshly updated collection of phishingkits for forensics and future analysis topped with simple stats Disclaimer This repository holds a collection of Phishing Kits used by criminals to steal user information. Almost every file into the raw folder is malicious so I strongly...

Chinese Hackers Have Pillaged Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry

A campaign called Operation Skeleton Key has stolen source code, software development kits, chip designs, and more...

Adobe Prompts Users to Uninstall Flash Player As EOL Date Looms

With Flash Player’s Dec. 31, 2020 kill date quickly approaching, Adobe said that it will start prompting users to uninstall the software in the coming months. The End of Life EOL timeline has been a long time coming. Adobe first announced in July 2017 that it will no longer update or distribute...

CVE-2020-2783

Vulnerability in the Oracle Outside In Technology product of Oracle Fusion Middleware component: Outside In Filters. Supported versions that is affected is 8.5.4. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Outside In...

CVE-2019-19300

A vulnerability has been identified in Development/Evaluation Kits for PROFINET IO: EK-ERTEC 200, Development/Evaluation Kits for PROFINET IO: EK-ERTEC 200P, KTK ATE530S, SIDOOR ATD430W, SIDOOR ATE530S COATED, SIDOOR ATE531S, SIMATIC ET 200AL IM 157-1 PN 6ES7157-1AB00-0AB0, SIMATIC ET 200eco PN, ...

Code injection

A vulnerability has been identified in Development/Evaluation Kits for PROFINET IO: EK-ERTEC 200 All versions, Development/Evaluation Kits for PROFINET IO: EK-ERTEC 200P All versions, KTK ATE530S All versions, SIDOOR ATD430W All versions, SIDOOR ATE530S COATED All versions, SIDOOR ATE531S All...

CVE-2019-19300

A vulnerability has been identified in Development/Evaluation Kits for PROFINET IO: EK-ERTEC 200, Development/Evaluation Kits for PROFINET IO: EK-ERTEC 200P, KTK ATE530S, SIDOOR ATD430W, SIDOOR ATE530S COATED, SIDOOR ATE531S, SIMATIC ET 200AL IM 157-1 PN 6ES7157-1AB00-0AB0, SIMATIC ET 200eco PN, ...

CVE-2019-19300

The CVE-2019-19300 vulnerability affects Siemens Industrial products (e.g., KTK/ SIDOO R, SIMATIC ET200 platforms, ET 200SP Open Controller, S7-1500/1200/300/400 families, SINAMICS, and related PROFINET components) due to the Interniche-based TCP stack. The issue is uncontrolled resource consumpt...

COVID-19 Phishing: Exploiting a Global Pandemic

It's sad to think criminals are hard at work taking advantage of the extraordinary stress the world's population is currently experiencing. But they are. New phishing scams exploiting anxiety about COVID-19 are trending upward. Akamai's Carrier Data Science and Threat Research teams analyzing...

Copycat criminals abuse Malwarebytes brand in malvertising campaign

While exploit kit activity has been fairly quiet for some time now, we recently discovered a threat actor creating a copycat—fake—Malwarebytes website that was used as a gate to the Fallout EK, which distributes the Raccoon stealer. The few malvertising campaigns that remain are often found on...

Ransomware Maze

ARCHIVED STORY Ransomware Maze Alexandre Mundo · MAR 26, 2020 Overview The Maze ransomware, previously known in the community as “ChaCha ransomware”, was discovered on May the 29th 2019 by Jerome Segura1. The main goal of the ransomware is to crypt all files that it can in an infected system and...

Ransomware Maze

ARCHIVED STORY Ransomware Maze Alexandre Mundo · MAR 26, 2020 Overview The Maze ransomware, previously known in the community as “ChaCha ransomware”, was discovered on May the 29th 2019 by Jerome Segura1. The main goal of the ransomware is to crypt all files that it can in an infected system and...

Ransomware Maze

ARCHIVED STORY Ransomware Maze Alexandre Mundo · MAR 26, 2020 Overview The Maze ransomware, previously known in the community as “ChaCha ransomware”, was discovered on May the 29th 2019 by Jerome Segura1. The main goal of the ransomware is to crypt all files that it can in an infected system and...