New Ransomware Mimic Emerges in the Wild, Abusing Legitimate Tool for Faster Encryption

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Mimic is a new ransomware that uses the APIs of a legitimate tool called Everything to encrypt target files and has multiple capabilities such as deleting shadow copies, terminating multiple applications...

New Mimic Ransomware Abuses Everything APIs for its Encryption Process

Trend Micro researchers discovered a new ransomware that abuses the APIs of a legitimate tool called Everything, a Windows filename search engine developed by Voidtools that offers quick searching and real-time updates for minimal resource usage...

Researchers Uncover Years-Long Mobile Spyware Campaign Targeting Uyghurs

A new wave of a mobile surveillance campaign has been observed targeting the Uyghur community as part of a long-standing spyware operation active since at least 2015, cybersecurity researchers disclosed Thursday. The intrusions, originally attributed to a threat actor named Scarlet Mimic back in...

PT-2022-23195 · Typo3 · Typo3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: TYPO3 versions prior to 7.6.58 ELTS TYPO3 versions prior to 8.7.48 ELTS TYPO3 versions prior to 9.5.37 ELTS TYPO3 versions prior to 10.4.32 TYPO3 versions prior to 11.5.16 Description: It has been discovered that observing response time durin...

Malicious Package

Overview mimic-server is a malicious package. The package's name is based on existing repositories, namespaces, or components used by popular companies in an effort to trick employees into downloading it, also known as 'dependency confusion'. Therefore, you're only vulnerable if this package was...

Malicious code in reuests (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 8595aba5fb09b2fb54831d18452e4a1980daf222f8ea4d62b50d29446419c309 Malicious packages typosquatting the popular requests package. payload execute a cryptomining malware...

CVE-2022-0070 Log4j hot patch package privilege escalation

Incomplete fix for CVE-2021-3100. The Apache Log4j hotpatch package starting with log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch-1.1-16 will now explicitly mimic the Linux capabilities and cgroups of the target Java process that the hotpatch is applied to...

Important: log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch

Issue Overview: The Apache Log4j hotpatch package starting with log4j-cve-2021-44228-hotpatch-1.1-16 will now explicitly mimic the Linux capabilities and cgroups of the target Java process that the hotpatch is applied to. In order to mimic the Linux capabilities of the target process, Amazon Linu...

CVE-2021-0232

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the Juniper Networks Paragon Active Assurance Control Center may allow an attacker with specific information about the deployment to mimic an already registered Test Agent and access its configuration including associated inventory details. If the issue...

Facebook Small Business Grants Spark Identity-Theft Scam

Cybercriminals are exploiting a $100 million Facebook grant program designed for small businesses impacted by the pandemic, to phish personal information and take over Facebook accounts. The perpetrators are trying to dupe people into thinking that the social network is handing out free money to...

BEWARE – New 'Creative' Phishing Attack You Really Should Pay Attention To

A cybersecurity researcher who last month warned of a creative phishing campaign has now shared details of a new but similar attack campaign with The Hacker News that has specifically been designed to target mobile users. Just like the previous campaign, the new phishing attack is also based on t...

Authorization Bypass

ceph is vulnerable to authorization bypass attacks. The vulnerability exists as a flaw was found in the way ceph mon handles user requests. Any authenticated ceph user having read access to ceph can delete, create ceph storage pools and corrupt snapshot images. Ceph branches master, mimic, lumino...

Social Security Number scammers are at it again

The Federal Trade Commission FTC once again sounded the alarm in mid-December about the latest Social Security Number SSN scam that continues to affect thousands of Americans. While most of us were only able to read about this type of scam in the past, the FTC now has an audio recording of an SSN...

Magecart Strikes Again, Siphoning Payment Info from Newegg

The Magecart threat actor, which just made headlines with the British Airways breach, has been racking up conquests lately and shows no signs of slowing down. This week, it added a new feather to its compromise cap: The Newegg online retailer. Newegg is a top online merchant with tens of millions...

Red Hat Ceph Weak Signature Vulnerability

Red Hat Ceph is a Linux PB-level distributed file system from Red Hat. The main goal of the system is to be designed as a distributed file system without a single point of failure based on POSIX Portable Operating System Interface, so that data can be fault-tolerant and seamlessly replicated.Ceph...

Authentication flaw

It was found that cephx authentication protocol did not verify ceph clients correctly and was vulnerable to replay attack. Any attacker having access to ceph cluster network who is able to sniff packets on network can use this vulnerability to authenticate with ceph service and perform actions...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1129

A flaw was found in the way signature calculation was handled by cephx authentication protocol. An attacker having access to ceph cluster network who is able to alter the message payload was able to bypass signature checks done by cephx protocol. Ceph branches master, mimic, luminous and jewel ar...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1128

It was found that cephx authentication protocol did not verify ceph clients correctly and was vulnerable to replay attack. Any attacker having access to ceph cluster network who is able to sniff packets on network can use this vulnerability to authenticate with ceph service and perform actions...

CVE-2018-1128

It was found that cephx authentication protocol did not verify ceph clients correctly and was vulnerable to replay attack. Any attacker having access to ceph cluster network who is able to sniff packets on network can use this vulnerability to authenticate with ceph service and perform actions...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1128

It was found that cephx authentication protocol did not verify ceph clients correctly and was vulnerable to replay attack. Any attacker having access to ceph cluster network who is able to sniff packets on network can use this vulnerability to authenticate with ceph service and perform actions...