China Accuses U.S. of Fabricating Volt Typhoon to Hide Its Own Hacking Campaigns

China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center CVERC has doubled down on claims that the threat actor known as Volt Typhoon is a fabrication of the U.S. and its allies. The agency, in collaboration with the National Engineering Laboratory for Computer Virus Prevention Technology, went ...

North Korean Nation-State Actors Exposed in JumpCloud Hack After OPSEC Blunder

North Korean nation-state actors affiliated with the Reconnaissance General Bureau RGB have been attributed to the JumpCloud hack following an operational security OPSEC blunder that exposed their actual IP address. Google-owned threat intelligence firm Mandiant attributed the activity to a threa...

Alcatel Lucent Omnivista 8770 RCE Vulnerability - Active Check

Alcatel Lucent Omnivista 8770 is prone to a remote command execution RCE vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

CVE-2016-9796

The CVE-2016-9796 issue affects Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista 8770 (versions 2.0–3.0). The root cause is an authentication bypass that allows an attacker to query GIOP interfaces over TCP port 30024 and invoke methods (AddJobSet, AddJob, ExecuteNow) to run arbitrary commands with NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM p...