Exploiting a Critical Spoofing Vulnerability in Windows CryptoAPI

Akamai researchers have analyzed a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's CryptoAPI that would allow an attacker to masquerade as a legitimate entity...

Batloader Malware Abuses Legitimate Tools, Uses Obfuscated JavaScript Files in Q4 2022 Attacks

We discuss the Batloader malware campaigns we observed in the last quarter of 2022, including our analysis of Water Minyades-related events This is the intrusion set we track behind the creation of Batloader...

CVE-2023-22479 KubePi vulnerable to session fixation attack

KubePi is a modern Kubernetes panel. A session fixation attack allows an attacker to hijack a legitimate user session, versions 1.6.3 and below are susceptible. A patch will be released in version 1.6.4...

FBI warns of imposter ads in search results

The FBI has issued a public notice which includes advice to block adverts. Why? Lets take a look. The bogus advert tightrope Its no secret that rogue ads have been a particular plague on the Internet for as far back as we can remember. From irritating pop ups and spinning "Youve won a prize"...

CVE-2022-3853

Cross-site Scripting XSS is a client-side code injection attack. The attacker aims to execute malicious scripts in a web browser of the victim by including malicious code in a legitimate web page or web application...

Iranian hacking group uses compromised email accounts to distribute MSP remote access tool

Researchers have uncovered a new campaign by hacking group MuddyWater, aka Static Kitten, in which a legitimate remote access tool is sent to targets from a compromised email account. The targets in this campaign are reportedly in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Qatar,...

CVE-2022-23748

mDNSResponder.exe is vulnerable to DLL Sideloading attack. Executable improperly specifies how to load the DLL, from which folder and under what conditions. In these scenarios, a malicious attacker could be using the valid and legitimate executable to load malicious files...

CVE-2022-41207

SAP Biller Direct allows an unauthenticated attacker to craft a legitimate looking URL. When clicked by an unsuspecting victim, it will use an unsensitized parameter to redirect the victim to a malicious site of the attacker's choosing which can result in disclosure or modification of the victim'...

Threat Actors Target AWS EC2 Workloads to Steal Credentials

We found malicious samples attempting to steal Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 Workloads' access keys and tokens via typosquatting and the abuse of legitimate tools...

CVE-2021-45925 Username Enumeration

Observable discrepancies in the login process allow an attacker to guess legitimate user names registered in the BMC. This issue affects: Lanner Inc IAC-AST2500A standard firmware version 1.10.0...

WIP19 targets IT service providers and telcos with custom malware

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary WIP19, a Chinese APT group is using legitimate and stolen certificates to sign malware, such as SQLMaggie, ScreenCap, and a credential dumper which it then used to target telecommunications and IT service...

CVE-2022-2795

By flooding the target resolver with queries exploiting this flaw an attacker can significantly impair the resolver's performance, effectively denying legitimate clients access to the DNS resolution service...

CVE-2022-2795

By flooding the target resolver with queries exploiting this flaw an attacker can significantly impair the resolver's performance, effectively denying legitimate clients access to the DNS resolution service...

CVE-2019-25076

The TSS Tuple Space Search algorithm in Open vSwitch 2.x through 2.17.2 and 3.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service delays of legitimate traffic via crafted packet data that requires excessive evaluation time within the packet classification algorithm for the MegaFlow cache, ak...

The nature of cyber incidents

Kaspersky provides incident response services and trainings to organizations around the world. In our annual incident response report, we share our observations and statistics based on investigation of real-life incidents. The report contains anonymized data collected by the Kaspersky Global...

Clever Phishing Scam Uses Legitimate PayPal Messages

Brian Krebs is reporting on a clever PayPal phishing scam that uses legitimate PayPal messaging. Basically, the scammers use the PayPal invoicing system to send the email. The email lists a phone number to dispute the charge, which is not PayPal and quickly turns into a request to download and...

CVE-2022-2569

The affected device stores sensitive information in cleartext, which may allow an authenticated user to access session data stored in the OAuth database belonging to legitimate users...

CVE-2022-2569 ARC Informatique PcVue

The affected device stores sensitive information in cleartext, which may allow an authenticated user to access session data stored in the OAuth database belonging to legitimate users...

VirusTotal Reveals Most Impersonated Software in Malware Attacks

Threat actors are increasingly mimicking legitimate applications like Skype, Adobe Reader, and VLC Player as a means to abuse trust relationships and increase the likelihood of a successful social engineering attack. Other most impersonated legitimate apps by icon include 7-Zip, TeamViewer,...

FBI Warns of Fake Cryptocurrency Apps Stealing Millions from Investors

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has warned of cyber criminals building rogue cryptocurrency-themed apps to defraud investors in the virtual assets space. "The FBI has observed cyber criminals contacting U.S. investors, fraudulently claiming to offer legitimate cryptocurrency investme...