Cybercriminals Weaponizing Legitimate Advanced Installer Tool in Crypto-Mining Attacks

A legitimate Windows tool used for creating software packages called Advanced Installer is being abused by threat actors to drop cryptocurrency-mining malware on infected machines since at least November 2021. "The attacker uses Advanced Installer to package other legitimate software installers,...

A secondhand account of the worst possible timing for a scammer to strike

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Up until last week, I had never considered the timing of a scam to be important. Im so used to just swiping away emails or text messages at random times during the day that Id never considered what would happen if an adversary happene...

Cybercriminals target graphic designers with GPU miners

Cybercriminals are abusing Advanced Installer, a legitimate Windows tool used for creating software packages, to drop cryptocurrency-mining malware on infected machines. This activity has been ongoing since at least November 2021. The attacker uses Advanced Installer to package other legitimate...

Risk Fact #4: Malware in your Cloud means Exploitation is underway

Qualys Blog Series – 2023 TotalCloud Security Insights by the Threat Research Unit The 2023 TotalCloud Security Insights report from the Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU provides research insights, best practices, and detailed recommendations organized by five separate Risk Facts. The insights wil...

Agile Approach to Mass Cloud Credential Harvesting and Crypto Mining Sprints Ahead

Developers are not the only people who have adopted the agile methodology for their development processes. From 2023-06-15 to 2023-07-11, Permiso Security's p0 Labs team identified and tracked an attacker developing and deploying eight 8 incremental iterations of their credential harvesting malwa...

Malicious Campaigns Exploit Weak Kubernetes Clusters for Crypto Mining

Exposed Kubernetes K8s clusters are being exploited by malicious actors to deploy cryptocurrency miners and other backdoors. Cloud security firm Aqua, in a report shared with The Hacker News, said a majority of the clusters belonged to small to medium-sized organizations, with a smaller subset ti...

Beating the Challenge of Cloud Detection and Response with Qualys TotalCloud Deep Learning AI

Lets go beyond the limitations of configuration management-only, non-cloud-native EDR tools for threat detection & response using deep learning AI. The global adoption of cloud technology has supercharged agile innovation in virtually every business sector. As a result, organizations are now...

Hackers Target Apache Tomcat Servers for Mirai Botnet and Crypto Mining

Misconfigured and poorly secured Apache Tomcat servers are being targeted as part of a new campaign designed to deliver the Mirai botnet malware and cryptocurrency miners. The findings come courtesy of Aqua, which detected more than 800 attacks against its Tomcat server honeypots over a two-year...

Cryptojacking: Understanding and defending against cloud compute resource abuse

In cloud environments, cryptojacking – a type of cyberattack that uses computing power to mine cryptocurrency – takes the form of cloud compute resource abuse, which involves a threat actor compromising legitimate tenants. Cloud compute resource abuse could result in financial loss to targeted...

Python-Based PyLoose Fileless Attack Targets Cloud Workloads for Cryptocurrency Mining

A new fileless attack dubbed PyLoose has been observed striking cloud workloads with the goal of delivering a cryptocurrency miner, new findings from Wiz reveal. "The attack consists of Python code that loads an XMRig Miner directly into memory using memfd, a known Linux fileless technique,"...

Silentbob Campaign: Cloud-Native Environments Under Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed an attack infrastructure that's being used as part of a "potentially massive campaign" against cloud-native environments. "This infrastructure is in early stages of testing and deployment, and is mainly consistent of an aggressive cloud worm, designed to...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Spring Framework affects IBM Process Mining [CVE-2016-1000027]

Summary There is a vulnerability in Spring Framework that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system. The code is used by IBM Process Mining. This bulletin identifies the security fixes to apply to address the vulnerability. CVE-2016-1000027 Vulnerability Details...

[M] Mining rewards are not distributed to users

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Expected mining rewards in distributeRewards are not distributed due to a revert in purchaseOtherEarnings. Proof of Concept A missing mintVault implementation in transferFrom will inevitably cause a revert in purchaseOtherEarnings. This means expected...

Newly Uncovered ThirdEye Windows-Based Malware Steals Sensitive Data

A previously undocumented Windows-based information stealer called ThirdEye has been discovered in the wild with capabilities to harvest sensitive data from infected hosts. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, which made the discovery, said it found the malware in an executable that masqueraded as a PDF fil...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Tomcat affects IBM Process Mining . Multiple CVEs

Summary There is a vulnerability in Apache Tomcat that could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions and obtain sensitive information, The code is used by IBM Process Mining. This bulletin identifies the security fixes to apply to address the vulnerability. Vulnerability Details...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Spring Framework affects IBM Process Mining . CVE-2023-20873

Summary There is a vulnerability in Spring Boot that could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the system. The code is used by IBM Process Mining. This bulletin identifies the security fixes to apply to address the vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2023-20873...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Spring Security affects IBM Process Mining . CVE-2023-20862

Summary There is a vulnerability in Spring Security that could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions and remain authenticated after logout is performed. The code is used by IBM Process Mining. This bulletin identifies the security fixes to apply to address the vulnerability...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Spring Framework affects IBM Process Mining . CVE-2023-20863

Summary There is a vulnerability in Spring Framework that could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute a denial of service on the system. The code is used by IBM Process Mining. This bulletin identifies the security fixes to apply to address the vulnerability. Vulnerability Details...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Spring Security affects IBM Process Mining . CVE-2022-22978

Summary There is a vulnerability in Spring Security that could allow an remote attacker to bypass security restrictions and obtain access to the system. The code is used by IBM Process Mining. This bulletin identifies the security fixes to apply to address the vulnerability. Vulnerability Details...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 19 June to 25 June 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, the fact that there were a total of twelve attacks executed, taking advantage of seventeen different vulnerabilities ...