The NSA on the Risks of Exposing Location Data

The NSA has issued an advisory on the risks of location data. Mitigations reduce, but do not eliminate, location tracking risks in mobile devices. Most users rely on features disabled by such mitigations, making such safeguards impractical. Users should be aware of these risks and take action bas...

NSA Releases Guidance on Limiting Location Data Exposure

The National Security Agency NSA has released an information sheet with guidance on how to limit location data exposure for National Security System NSS / Department of Defense DoD system users, as well as the general public. NSA outlines mobile device geolocation services and provides...

NSA Warns Smartphones Leak Location Data

Mobile devices expose location data in more ways than most people know, and turning off services such as Find My Phone, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth can help mitigate tracking, but are no silver bullet that prevents a third party from tracking users. That’s advice shared by U.S. top spy division, the...

EU sanctions hackers from China, Russia, North Korea who're wanted by the FBI

The Council of the European Union has imposed its first-ever sanctions against persons or entities involved in various cyber-attacks targeting European citizens, and its member states. The directive has been issued against six individuals and three entities responsible for or involved in various...

NSA Urgently Warns on Industrial Cyberattacks, Triconex Critical Bug

The U.S. National Security Agency NSA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA have issued an alert warning that adversaries could be targeting critical infrastructure across the U.S. Separately, ICS-CERT issued an advisory on a critical security bug in the Schneider Electric...

Cryptojacking botnet Prometei uses NSA exploit to steal data, mine Monero

By Waqas Prometei botnet targets Windows devices. Cisco Talos' threat intelligence team published a report revealing startling details of how cybercriminals are continually reinventing the way they can monetize their malicious tools and techniques. Reportedly, Cisco Talos researchers discovered a...

Lucifer malware infects Windows & launch DDoS attack using NSA exploits

By Waqas Lucifer malware is capable of launching DDoS attacks and... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Lucifer malware infects Windows & launch DDoS attack using NSA exploits...

Identifying a Person Based on a Photo, LinkedIn and Etsy Profiles, and Other Internet Bread Crumbs

Interesting story of how the police can identify someone by following the evidence chain from website to website. According to filings in Blumenthal's case, FBI agents had little more to go on when they started their investigation than the news helicopter footage of the woman setting the police c...

InvisiMole Group Resurfaces Touting Fresh Toolset, Gamaredon Partnership

The InvisiMole threat group has resurfaced in a new campaign, revealing a new toolset and a strategic collaboration with the high-profile Gamaredon advanced persistent threat APT group. InvisiMole was first uncovered by ESET in 2018, with cyberespionage activity dating back to 2013 in operations ...

Exploit for OS Command Injection in Exim

Exim CVE Data Collection Data Collection Related to Exim Vuln...

Exploit for OS Command Injection in Exim

Exim CVE Data Collection Data Collection Related to Exim Vuln...

NSA Warns of Sandworm Backdoor Attacks on Mail Servers

The Russia-linked APT group Sandworm has been spotted exploiting a vulnerability in the internet’s top email server software, according to the National Security Agency NSA. The bug exists in the Exim Mail Transfer Agent MTA software, an open-source offering used on Linux and Unix-like systems. It...

NSA: Russia's Sandworm Hackers Have Hijacked Mail Servers

In a rare public warning, the US spy agency says the notorious arm of Russian military intelligence is targeting a known vulnerability in Exim...

NSA Releases Advisory on Sandworm Actors Exploiting an Exim Vulnerability

The National Security Agency NSA has released a cybersecurity advisory on Russian advanced persistent threat APT group Sandworm exploiting a vulnerability—CVE-2019-10149—in Exim Mail Transfer Agent MTA software. An unauthenticated remote attacker can use this vulnerability to send a specially...

Critical Vulnerability in Citrix Application Delivery Controller, Gateway, and SD-WAN WANOP

Summary Note: As of January 24, 2020, Citrix has released all expected updates in response to CVE-2019-19781.1 On January 19, 2020, Citrix released firmware updates for Citrix Application Delivery Controller ADC and Citrix Gateway versions 11.1 and 12.0. On January 22, 2020, Citrix released...

Bart Gellman on Snowden

Bart Gellman's long-awaited at least by me book on Edward Snowden, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State, will finally be published in a couple of weeks. There is an adapted excerpt in the Atlantic. It's an interesting read, mostly about the government surveillance of hi...

Part two: Reverse engineering and patching with Ghidra

In the first installment of our three-part blog series we learned how to root the Flashforge Finder 3D printer and acquire its firmware. In this post, we will delve into reverse engineering and patching the software using the new open source NSA tool Ghidra, which rivals its expensive competitors...

NSA, ASD Release Guidance for Mitigating Web Shell Malware

The U.S. National Security Agency NSA and the Australian Signals Directorate ASD have jointly released a Cybersecurity Information Sheet CSI on mitigating web shell malware. Malicious cyber actors are increasingly deploying web shell malware on victim web servers to execute arbitrary system...

Authorities bust multi-million online Coronavirus face mask scam

By Deeba Ahmed The operation was carried out by Europol, NSA, and Interpol, etc., busting 1.5 million Euro Coronavirus face mask scam. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Authorities bust multi-million online Coronavirus face mask scam...

Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers Vulnerable to CVE-2020-0688

Microsoft Exchange Servers affected by a remote code execution vulnerability, known as CVE-2020-0688, continue to be an attractive target for malicious cyber actors. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system that is unpatched. Although Microsoft...