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Deep Panda deploys new rootkit “Fire Chili” by exploiting Log4shell in VMware horizon
THREAT LEVEL: Red For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Deep Panda, a Chinese APT group, took advantage of the well-known Log4Shell vulnerability in VMware Horizon servers to deploy a backdoor, rootkit, and steal sensitive data. This threat actor is primarily targeting firms in the...
North Korean state-sponsored threat actor Lazarus Group exploiting Chrome Zero-day vulnerability
THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here For more than a month before a fix was available, North Korean state hackers known as Lazarus group exploited a zero-day, remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2022-0609 in Google Chromes web browser. The attack mainly targe...
Iranian state-sponsored APT group MuddyWater targeting organizations via malicious executables
THREAT LEVEL: Red. United States Cyber Command USCYBERCOM has warned of an ongoing cyber attack by Iranian state sponsored actor named as MuddyWater. This APT group is currently targeting Middle Eastern countries and has also targeted European and North American nations. The Iranian-backed...
Security Bulletin: Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is affected by an OpenShift security vulnerability (CVE-2021-3636)
Summary Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is affected by an OpenShift security vulnerability that allows an attacker to masquerade as a trusted in-cluster service CVE-2021-3636. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2021-3636 Description: It was found in OpenShift, before version 4.8, that the generated...
Mozilla Firefox Security Advisory (MFSA2013-68) - Linux
This host is missing a security update for Mozilla Firefox. Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; y...
Candiru: Another Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer
Citizen Lab has identified yet another Israeli company that sells spyware to governments around the world: Candiru. From the report: Summary: Candiru is a secretive Israel-based company that sells spyware exclusively to governments. Reportedly, their spyware can infect and monitor iPhones,...
Microsoft Teams: Very Bad Tabs Could Have Led to BEC
Attackers could have stepped through a yawning security hole in the Microsoft Teams chat service that would have let them masquerade as a targeted company’s employee, by reading and sending email on their behalf. On Monday, Tenable’s Evan Grant explained in a post that he found the bug in Microso...
Phishing Emails Used to Deploy KONNI Malware
Summary This Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise framework for all referenced threat actor techniques. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has observed cyber actors using emails containi...
Windows GravityRAT Malware Now Also Targets macOS and Android Devices
A Windows-based remote access Trojan believed to be designed by Pakistani hacker groups to infiltrate computers and steal users' data has resurfaced after a two-year span with retooled capabilities to target Android and macOS devices. According to cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, the malware — dubbe...
Rapid7 Releases Q2 2020 Quarterly Threat Report
It’s hard to believe it’s already the end of September, and with it comes Rapid7’s Q2 2020 Quarterly Threat Report. As in previous quarters, our Rapid7 research team produced this report by analyzing the data from our internet telemetry-gathering systems Project Sonar and Project Heisenberg, as...
CVE-2020-7381
In Rapid7 Nexpose installer versions prior to 6.6.40, the Nexpose installer calls an executable which can be placed in the appropriate directory by an attacker with access to the local machine. This would prevent the installer from distinguishing between a valid executable called during a Securit...
CVE-2020-2023
Kata Containers doesn't restrict containers from accessing the guest's root filesystem device. Malicious containers can exploit this to gain code execution on the guest and masquerade as the kata-agent. This issue affects Kata Containers 1.11 versions earlier than 1.11.1; Kata Containers 1.10...
CVE-2020-12691
An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 15.0.1, and 16.0.0. Any authenticated user can create an EC2 credential for themselves for a project that they have a specified role on, and then perform an update to the credential user and project, allowing them to masquerade as another user...
CVE-2020-12691
An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 15.0.1, and 16.0.0. Any authenticated user can create an EC2 credential for themselves for a project that they have a specified role on, and then perform an update to the credential user and project, allowing them to masquerade as another user...
Information Disclosure
libvirt is vulnerable to information disclosure. It was found that libvirt created insecure iptables rules on the host when a guest system was configured for IP masquerading, allowing the guest to use privileged ports on the host when accessing network resources. A privileged guest user could use...
CVE-2019-11331
Network Time Protocol NTP, as specified in RFC 5905, uses port 123 even for modes where a fixed port number is not required, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct off-path attacks. Mitigation On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and later, switching from ntp to chrony is recommended. Amo...
ATT&CK +osquery = Love
I had the ability to live-stream MITRE's ATT&CKcon, a two-day event where organizations came together as a community to share their best practices with leveraging the ATT&CK framework. At this conference, Scott Lundgren, Chief Architect at Carbon Black ,presented “ATT&CK + osquery = Love,” where ...
Researchers discover vulnerabilities in smart assistants’ voice commands
Virtual personal assistants VPA, also known as smart assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant, are in the spotlight for vulnerabilities to attack. Take, for example, that incident about an Oregon couple’s Echo smart speaker inadvertently recording their conversation and sending it to...
