Automatic disruption of human-operated attacks through containment of compromised user accounts

Our experience and insights from real-world incidents tell us that the swift containment of compromised user accounts is key to disrupting hands-on-keyboard attacks, especially those that involve human-operated ransomware. In these attacks, lateral movement follows initial access as the next...

Automatic disruption of human-operated attacks through containment of compromised user accounts

Our experience and insights from real-world incidents tell us that the swift containment of compromised user accounts is key to disrupting hands-on-keyboard attacks, especially those that involve human-operated ransomware. In these attacks, lateral movement follows initial access as the next...

CVE-2023-45349

Atos Unify OpenScape 4000 Assistant V10 R1 before V10 R1.34.7, 4000 Assistant V10 R1.42.0, 4000 Assistant V10 R0, 4000 Manager V10 R1 before V10 R1.34.7, 4000 Manager V10 R1.42.0, and 4000 Manager V10 R0 expose sensitive information that may allow lateral movement to the backup system via AShbr...

CVE-2023-45349

Atos Unify OpenScape 4000 Assistant V10 R1 before V10 R1.34.7, 4000 Assistant V10 R1.42.0, 4000 Assistant V10 R0, 4000 Manager V10 R1 before V10 R1.34.7, 4000 Manager V10 R1.42.0, and 4000 Manager V10 R0 expose sensitive information that may allow lateral movement to the backup system via AShbr...

CVE-2023-45349

Atos Unify OpenScape 4000 Assistant V10 R1 before V10 R1.34.7, 4000 Assistant V10 R1.42.0, 4000 Assistant V10 R0, 4000 Manager V10 R1 before V10 R1.34.7, 4000 Manager V10 R1.42.0, and 4000 Manager V10 R0 expose sensitive information that may allow lateral movement to the backup system via AShbr...

Design/Logic Flaw

Atos Unify OpenScape 4000 Assistant V10 R1 before V10 R1.34.7, 4000 Assistant V10 R1.42.0, 4000 Assistant V10 R0, 4000 Manager V10 R1 before V10 R1.34.7, 4000 Manager V10 R1.42.0, and 4000 Manager V10 R0 expose sensitive information that may allow lateral movement to the backup system via AShbr...

CVE-2023-45349

Atos Unify OpenScape 4000 Assistant V10 R1 before V10 R1.34.7, 4000 Assistant V10 R1.42.0, 4000 Assistant V10 R0, 4000 Manager V10 R1 before V10 R1.34.7, 4000 Manager V10 R1.42.0, and 4000 Manager V10 R0 expose sensitive information that may allow lateral movement to the backup system via AShbr...

CVE-2023-45349

Atos Unify OpenScape 4000 Assistant V10 R1 before V10 R1.34.7, 4000 Assistant V10 R1.42.0, 4000 Assistant V10 R0, 4000 Manager V10 R1 before V10 R1.34.7, 4000 Manager V10 R1.42.0, and 4000 Manager V10 R0 expose sensitive information that may allow lateral movement to the backup system via AShbr...

Atos Unify OpenScape Security Vulnerability

Atos Unify OpenScape is a native SIP-based real-time Voice over IP system from Atos Unify. A security vulnerability exists in Atos Unify OpenScape that originates from a lateral move to a backup system via AShbr...

Guyana Governmental Entity Hit by DinodasRAT in Cyber Espionage Attack

A governmental entity in Guyana has been targeted as part of a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Jacana. The activity, which was detected by ESET in February 2023, entailed a spear-phishing attack that led to the deployment of a hitherto undocumented implant written in C++ called...

Microsoft Warns of Cyber Attacks Attempting to Breach Cloud via SQL Server Instance

Microsoft has detailed a new campaign in which attackers unsuccessfully attempted to move laterally to a cloud environment through an SQL Server instance. "The attackers initially exploited a SQL injection vulnerability in an application within the target's environment," security researchers...

Defending new vectors: Threat actors attempt SQL Server to cloud lateral movement

Microsoft security researchers recently identified a campaign where attackers attempted to move laterally to a cloud environment through a SQL Server instance. This attack technique demonstrates an approach weve seen in other cloud services such as VMs and Kubernetes cluster, but not in SQL Serve...

Defending new vectors: Threat actors attempt SQL Server to cloud lateral movement

Microsoft security researchers recently identified a campaign where attackers attempted to move laterally to a cloud environment through a SQL Server instance. This attack technique demonstrates an approach weve seen in other cloud services such as VMs and Kubernetes cluster, but not in SQL Serve...

Path Traversal

NATS nats-server is vulnerable to Path Traversal. The vulnerability is caused by a missing validation check while constructing filenames for account synchronization, which happens in the system account, allowing arbitrary file write as the user running NATS by anyone who can publish arbitrary...

Incorrect Verifier Branch Pruning Logic Leads To Arbitrary Read/Write In Linux Kernel and Lateral Privilege Escalation

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Mysterious 'Sandman' Threat Actor Targets Telecom Providers Across Three Continents

A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed Sandman has been attributed to a set of cyber attacks targeting telecommunication providers in the Middle East, Western Europe, and the South Asian subcontinent. Notably, the intrusions leverage a just-in-time JIT compiler for the Lua programming...

CVE-2023-2163 Incorrect Verifier Branch Pruning Logic Leads To Arbitrary Read/Write In Linux Kernel and Lateral Privilege Escalation

Incorrect verifier pruning in BPF in Linux Kernel =5.4 leads to unsafe code paths being incorrectly marked as safe, resulting in arbitrary read/write in kernel memory, lateral privilege escalation, and container escape...

Peach Sandstorm password spray campaigns enable intelligence collection at high-value targets

Since February 2023, Microsoft has observed password spray activity against thousands of organizations carried out by an actor we track as Peach Sandstorm HOLMIUM. Peach Sandstorm is an Iranian nation-state threat actor who has recently pursued organizations in the satellite, defense, and...

2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API7:2023 Server Side Request Forgery

Welcome to the 8th post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API7:2023 Server Side Request Forgery SSRF. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the...

China-Linked Flax Typhoon Cyber Espionage Targets Taiwan's Key Sectors

A nation-state activity group originating from China has been linked to cyber attacks on dozens of organizations in Taiwan as part of a suspected espionage campaign. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence team is tracking the activity under the name Flax Typhoon, which is also known as Ethereal Panda...