Friday Squid Blogging: Stable Quasi-Isodynamic Designs

Yet another SQUID acronym: "Stable Quasi-Isodynamic Design." It's a stellarator for a fusion nuclear power plant...

SideWinder APT Targets Maritime, Nuclear, and IT Sectors Across Asia, Middle East, and Africa

Maritime and logistics companies in South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa have become the target of an advanced persistent threat APT group dubbed SideWinder. The attacks, observed by Kaspersky in 2024, spread across Bangladesh, Cambodia, Djibouti, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates,...

North Korean Hackers Shift from Cyber Espionage to Ransomware Attacks

A North Korea-linked threat actor known for its cyber espionage operations has gradually expanded into financially-motivated attacks that involve the deployment of ransomware, setting it apart from other nation-state hacking groups linked to the country. Google-owned Mandiant is tracking the...

BlackCat Ransomware Raises Ante After FBI Disruption

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI disclosed today that it infiltrated the worlds second most prolific ransomware gang, a Russia-based criminal group known as ALPHV and BlackCat. The FBI said it seized the gangs darknet website, and released a decryption tool that hundreds of victim...

North Korean Hackers Targeting Europe and Latin America with Updated DTrack Backdoor

Hackers tied to the North Korean government have been observed using an updated version of a backdoor known as Dtrack targeting a wide range of industries in Germany, Brazil, India, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the U.S. "Dtrack allows criminals to upload, download, start ...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in IBM WebSphere Application Server shipped with Asset and Service Management (CVE-2017-1504)

Summary IBM WebSphere Application Server is shipped as a component of Maximo Asset Management, Maximo Asset Management Essentials, Maximo Industry Solutions including Maximo for Energy Optimization, Maximo for Government, Maximo for Nuclear Power, Maximo for Transportation, Maximo for Life...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in IBM WebSphere Application Server shipped with Asset and Service Management (CVE-2017-1137)

Summary IBM WebSphere Application Server is shipped as a component of Maximo Asset Management, Maximo Asset Management Essentials, Maximo Industry Solutions including Maximo for Energy Optimization, Maximo for Government, Maximo for Nuclear Power, Maximo for Transportation, Maximo for Life...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in IBM WebSphere Application Server shipped with Asset and Service Management (CVE-2015-4872, CVE-2015-4734, CVE-2015-5006)

Summary IBM WebSphere Application Server is shipped as a component of Maximo Asset Management, Maximo Asset Management Essentials, Maximo Industry Solutions including Maximo for Aviation, Maximo for Energy Optimization, Maximo for Government, Maximo for Nuclear Power, Maximo for Transportation,...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in IBM WebSphere Application Server shipped with Asset and Service Management (CVE-2015-1283)

Summary IBM WebSphere Application Server is shipped as a component of Maximo Asset Management, Maximo Asset Management Essentials, Maximo Industry Solutions including Maximo for Aviation, Maximo for Energy Optimization, Maximo for Government, Maximo for Nuclear Power, Maximo for Transportation,...

Security Bulletin: Security Vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Application Server (CVE-2015-4000) Affects Asset and Service Management

Summary The LogJam Attack on Diffie-Hellman ciphers CVE-2015-4000 may affect some configurations of IBM WebSphere Application Server. The vulnerability affects Maximo Asset Management, Maximo Asset Management Essentials, Maximo Industry Solutions including Maximo for Energy Optimization, Maximo f...

Spain Nabs Two For Allegedly Hacking Radiation Alert System

By Deeba Ahmed Spanish police have confirmed arresting two nuclear power employees suspected of hacking Spain’s radioactivity alert network RAR operated by the… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Spain Nabs Two For Allegedly Hacking Radiation Alert System...

Spanish Police Arrest 2 Nuclear Power Workers for Cyberattacking the Radiation Alert System

Spanish law enforcement officials have announced the arrest of two individuals in connection with a cyberattack on the country's radioactivity alert network RAR, which took place between March and June 2021. The act of sabotage is said to have disabled more than one-third of the sensors that are...

Security Bulletin: IBM Maximo Asset Management is vulnerable to Java Deserialization (CVE-2020-4521)

Summary IBM Maximo Asset Management is vulnerable to Java Deserialization. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2020-4521 DESCRIPTION: IBM Maximo Asset Management could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an unsafe deserialization in Java. By sendin...

Attacks on Ukraine communications are a major part of the war

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the war on the battlefield has been accompanied by cyber attacks. Those attacks against critical infrastructure have knocked out banking and defense platforms, mostly by targeting several communication systems. In a timeline set up by NetBlocks,...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in IBM WebSphere Application Server shipped with Asset and Service Management (CVE-2021-29736)

Summary IBM WebSphere Application Server is shipped as a component of Maximo Asset Management, Maximo Industry Solutions including Maximo for Nuclear Power, Maximo for Transportation, Maximo for Life Sciences, Maximo for Oil and Gas, and Maximo for Utilities, Maximo Adapter for Primavera,...

Security Bulletin: IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Quarterly CPU - April 2020

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Versions 7, and 8 that are used by Maximo Asset Management, Maximo Asset Management Essentials, Maximo Asset Management for Energy Optimization, Maximo Asset Management Essentials, Maximo Industry Solutions including...

A week in security (October 28 – November 3)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we celebrated the birth of the Internet 50 years ago, highlighted reports about the US Federal Trade Commission FTC filing a case against stalkerware developer Retina-X, issued a PSI on disaster donation scams, looked at the top cybersecurity challenged SMBs face,...

Hackers Target Indian Nuclear Power Plant – Everything We Know So Far

A story has been making the rounds on the Internet since yesterday about a cyber attack on an Indian nuclear power plant. Due to some experts commentary on social media even after lack of information about the event and overreactions by many, the incident received factually incorrect coverage...

IBM Maximo Asset Management CVE-2019-4512 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Description IBM Maximo Asset Management is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to obtain sensitive information that may lead to further attacks. Technologies Affected IBM Control Desk IBM Maximo Asset Management 7.6.1.1 IBM Maximo for Aviation IBM...

Chernobyl’s lessons for critical-infrastructure cybersecurity

This story originally ran on The Parallax on April 26, 2019. CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE, Ukraine—The stray dog looking directly at me was hard to resist. Her ears perked up, her fur appeared clean—free of mange, at any rate—and she held a large stick firmly between her jaws. She looked like a good...