Mustang Panda targets European diplomats using enhanced PlugX backdoor

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Mustang Panda, a Chinese cyberespionage group, has been targeting European diplomats with a revised version of the PlugX backdoor in an ongoing campaign linked to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The group, also known as...

Threat Source newsletter (Nov. 4, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers. A series of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server made waves earlier this year for coming under attack. And while they've come and gone from the headlines since then, attackers are still very much paying... This is only the...

Cloud security is an ongoing struggle to keep sensitive data safe. Is it getting any easier?

By Owais Sultan The latest cloud security breaches show that we have miles to go as we keep fighting to keep our sensitive data safe. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cloud security is an ongoing struggle to keep sensitive data safe. Is it getting any easier?...

FBI Had the REvil Decryption Key

The Washington Post reports that the FBI had a decryption key for the REvil ransomware, but didnt pass it along to victims because it would have disrupted an ongoing operation. The key was obtained through access to the servers of the Russia-based criminal gang behind the July attack. Deploying i...

Active Exploitation of Confluence Server & Confluence Data Center: CVE-2021-26084

This attack is ongoing. See the Updates section at the end of this post for new information as it comes to light. On August 25, 2021, Atlassian published details on CVE-2021-26084, a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center. The vulnerability...

Konni RAT variant targeting Russia in ongoing attack campaign

By Waqas So far, Konni RAT has managed to evade detection as only 3 security solutions on VirusTotal were able to detect the malware. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Konni RAT variant targeting Russia in ongoing attack campaign...

CVE-2018-5390

A flaw named SegmentSmack was found in the way the Linux kernel handled specially crafted TCP packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to trigger time and calculation expensive calls to tcpcollapseofoqueue and tcppruneofoqueue functions by sending specially modified packets within ongoing T...

On-Premises Exchange Server Vulnerabilities Resource Center – updated March 25, 2021

MSRC / By MSRC Team / March 2, 2021 On March 2nd, we released several security updates for Microsoft Exchange Server to address vulnerabilities that are being used in ongoing attacks. Due to the critical nature of these vulnerabilities, we recommend that customers protect their organizations by...

Agora Agora Video SDK Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Agora Agora Video SDK is an application from the American company Agora. It provides a feature to add real-time audio and video interaction to games, increasing the interactive features between players. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Agora Video SDK, which stems from a...

Microsoft Says SolarWinds Hackers Accessed Some of Its Source Code

Microsoft on Thursday revealed that the threat actors behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack were able to gain access to a small number of internal accounts and escalate access inside its internal network. The "very sophisticated nation-state actor" used the unauthorized access to view, but no...

Reverse Engineering Tools: Evaluating the True Cost

When sourcing software for business needs, what criteria should you follow? Price typically tops the list. And sure, free software, like the Linux OS, delivers cost savings, stability, flexibility and ongoing development. No argument there. But when it comes to decompilers, which are used for...

CVE-2020-3556

A vulnerability in the interprocess communication IPC channel of Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to cause a targeted AnyConnect user to execute a malicious script. The vulnerability is due to a lack of authentication to the IPC listene...

Security Advisory 0054

Security Advisory 0054 PDF Date: October 7th, 2020 Version: 1.0 Revision | Date | Changes ---|---|--- 1.0 | October 7th, 2020 | Initial Release The CVE-ID tracking this issue is: CVE-2020-15897 CVSSv3.1 Base Score: 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Description This advisory documen...

A New Hacking Group Hitting Russian Companies With Ransomware

As ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure continue to spike in recent months, cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new entrant that has been actively trying to conduct multistage attacks on large corporate networks of medical labs, banks, manufacturers, and software developers i...

Is Your AWS Data Secure and Compliant? Cloud Database Visibility in Minutes

Internal and external attackers are after your data. Regardless of where the data resides, cloud, or on-premises, you need to protect it. In some cases that data needs to be put under compliance controls. Data protection principles hold for data hosted in the cloud database as a service DBaaS. Fo...

Calling for security research in Azure Sphere, now generally available

Today, Microsoft released Azure Sphere into General Availability GA. Azure Sphere’s mission is to empower every organization on the planet to connect and create secured and trustworthy IoT devices. Azure Sphere is an end-to-end solution for securely connecting existing equipment and for creating...

Calling for security research in Azure Sphere, now generally available

Today, Microsoft released Azure Sphere into General Availability GA. Azure Sphere’s mission is to empower every organization on the planet to connect and create secured and trustworthy IoT devices. Azure Sphere is an end-to-end solution for securely connecting existing equipment and for creating...

acgih.ir Improper Access Control vulnerability

Security Researcher rhackoon Helped patch 9 vulnerabilities Received 0 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 2 recommendations , found a security vulnerability affecting acgih.ir website and its users. Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147...

The Great $50M African IP Address Heist

A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly...

IoT security will set innovation free: Azure Sphere general availability scheduled for February 2020

Today, at the IoT Solutions World Congress, we announced that Azure Sphere will be generally available in February of 2020. General availability will mark our readiness to fulfill our security promise at scale, and to put the power of Microsoft’s expertise to work for our customers every day—by...