A week in security (July 26 – August 1)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: OSX.XLoader hides little except its main purpose: What we learned in the installation process. The Clubhouse database “breach” is likely a non-breach. Here’s why. Kaseya Unitrends has unpatched vulnerabilities that could help attackers expand a breach. UDP Technolo...

FBI: Cybercriminals Eyeing Broadcast Disruption at Tokyo Olympics

The Tokyo Olympics, set to open Friday night, are already being targeted by threat actors — however, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division has issued a chilling warning the Games’ TV broadcast is likely to be plagued by attacks, since it will be the only way to view events now that...

A week in security (May 31 – June 6)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at an interesting trend in facial recognition technology—hint: its a slow fade, the latest ransomware attacks on JBS and Steamship Authority, Cobalt Strike, a Coronavirus phishing campaign, WhatsApp’s decision to not limit app functionalities for...

Tokyo Olympics Postponed, But 5G Security Lessons Shine

The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were officially postponed this week amid the ongoing, pandemic spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The Games will be moved to 2021, but in the meantime, technological innovation around the event will continue. More specifically, postponed or not, the...

Threat Source newsletter (Jan. 30, 2020)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Be sure to pay close attention Tuesday for some changes we have coming to Snort.org. We’ll spare you the details for now, but please bea...

The Evidence That Links Russia’s Most Brazen Hacking Efforts

From the 2017 French election to the Olympics to NotPetya, the same group's fingerprints have appeared again and again...

Fancy Bear Targets Sporting, Anti-Doping Orgs As 2020 Olympics Loom

At least 16 anti-doping authorities and sporting organizations around the world have been hit by cyberattacks as the world begins to gear up for the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, which kick off July 2020. The attacks, which began Sept. 16, have been linked to infamous Russian threat group Fancy Bea...

Russian Hackers Targeting Anti-Doping Agencies Ahead of 2020 Tokyo Olympics

As Japan gears up for the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo for the next year, the country needs to brace itself for sophisticated cyberattacks, especially from state-sponsored hackers. Microsoft has issued a short notice, warning about a new wave of highly targeted cyberattacks by a group o...

Russian Hackers Targeting Anti-Doping Agencies Ahead of 2020 Tokyo Olympics

As Japan gears up for the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo for the next year, the country needs to brace itself for sophisticated cyberattacks, especially from state-sponsored hackers. Microsoft has issued a short notice, warning about a new wave of highly targeted cyberattacks by a group o...

Russian Hackers Are Still Targeting the Olympics

Fancy Bear has attacked 16 anti-doping agencies around the world, indicating that its Olympics grudge is far from over...

Japan to Hunt Down Citizens' Insecure IoT Devices

The Japanese government is taking the problem of insecure IoT devices into its own hands, with what some say is an audacious plan to carry out wide-scale penetration testing on its citizens’ gadgets. The country’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology NICT has been taske...

olympics.com.au XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-706247 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| olympics.com.au Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| hidden...

radiology-olympics.info XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-662411 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| radiology-olympics.info Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Hackers Who Hit Winter Olympics 2018 Are Still Alive and Kicking

Remember the 'Olympic Destroyer' cyber attack? The group behind it is still alive, kicking and has now been found targeting biological and chemical threat prevention laboratories in Europe and Ukraine, and a few financial organisation in Russia. Earlier this year, an unknown group of notorious...

DDoS attacks in Q1 2018

News overview In early January, it was reported that an amateur hacker had come close to pulling off a botnet attack using "improvised" materials. Armed with information gleaned from hacker forums, the DIYer created a Trojan using a zero-day exploit in Huawei routers and released it online. The...

OlympicDestroyer is here to trick the industry

A couple of days after the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, we received information from several partners, on the condition of non-disclosure TLP:Red, about a devastating malware attack on the Olympic infrastructure. A quick peek inside the malware revealed a...

Olympic Destroyer: A False Flag Confusion Bomb

CANCUN, Mexico – A postmortem of the Olympic Destroyer malware used in the PyeongChang Olympics attack reveals a deliberate attempt by adversaries to plant a false flags when it comes to attribution, according to researchers. Days after the crippling attack on the backend networks tied to the...

Mobile Menace Monday: Olympics app has more ads than games

An app claiming to live stream the 2018 Winter Olympics but really serving up a blizzard of ads had a short run on Google Play. It was uploaded to the Play store on February 8, 2018. Since then, it's been removed. The last known existence of it on the store was a cached snapshot from February 10...

Russians Hacked the Olympics

Two weeks ago, I blogged about the myriad of hacking threats against the Olympics. Last week, the Washington Post reported that Russia hacked the Olympics network and tried to cast the blame on North Korea. Of course, the evidence is classified, so there's no way to verify this claim. And while t...

Russia hacked Winter Olympics & framed N.Korea in false-flag attack: US

By Carolina On February 9th, 2017, during the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russia hacked Winter Olympics & framed N.Korea in false-flag attack: US...