Budworm Hackers Resurface with New Espionage Attacks Aimed at U.S. Organization

An advanced persistent threat APT actor known as Budworm targeted a U.S.-based entity for the first time in more than six years, according to latest research. The attack was aimed at an unnamed U.S. state legislature, the Symantec Threat Hunter team, part of Broadcom Software, said in a report...

64,000 Additional Patients Impacted by Omnicell Data Breach - What is Your Data Breach Action Plan?

In April 2022, Omnicell reported a data breach affecting nearly 62,000 patients. The company has revealed that the incident has impacted an additional 64,000 individuals. This brings the total number of patients affected to over 126,000. Will you be the next victim like Omnicell? If you are...

The Latest Funding News and What it Means for Cyber Security in 2023

The White House has recently announced a $1 billion cyber security grant program that is designed to help state and local governments improve their cyber defenses, especially about protecting critical infrastructure. The recent executive order stems from the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that...

NSA Alert: Topmost CVEs Actively Exploited By People’s Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actors

On October 6, 2022, the United States National Security Agency NSA released a cybersecurity advisory on the Chinese government—officially known as the People’s Republic of China PRC states-sponsored cyber actors activity to seek national interests. These malicious cyber activities attributed to t...

Top CVEs Actively Exploited By People’s Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actors

Summary This joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA provides the top Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs used since 2020 by People’s Republic of China PRC state-sponsored cyber actors as assessed by the National Security Agency NSA, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, and Feder...

FBI, CISA, and NSA Reveal How Hackers Targeted a Defense Industrial Base Organization

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies on Tuesday disclosed that multiple nation-state hacking groups potentially targeted a "Defense Industrial Base DIB Sector organization's enterprise network" as part of a cyber espionage campaign. "Advanced persistent threat actors used an open-source...

Canadian Netwalker Ransomware Affiliate Sentenced to 20 Years in U.S. Prison

A former affiliate of the Netwalker ransomware has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in the U.S., a little over three months after the Canadian national pleaded guilty to his role in the crimes. Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, 35, has also been ordered to forfeit $21,500,000 that was illicitly...

Ransomware review: September 2022

Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence builds a monthly picture of ransomware activity by monitoring the information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web leak sites. This information represents victims who were successfully attacked but opted not to pay a ransom. This article is also availab...

Hitachi Energy Modular Switchgear Monitoring (MSM)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 5.0 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely Vendor: Hitachi Energy Equipment: Modular Switchgear Monitoring MSM Vulnerabilities: Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF, HTTP Response Splitting 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0148

Qemu before 2.0 block driver for Hyper-V VHDX Images is vulnerable to infinite loops and other potential issues when calculating BAT entries, due to missing bounds checks for blocksize and logicalsectorsize variables. These are used to derive other fields like 'sectorsperblock' etc. A user able t...

Ukraine Says Russia Planning Massive Cyberattacks on its Critical Infrastructures

The Ukrainian government on Monday warned of "massive cyberattacks" by Russia targeting critical infrastructure facilities located in the country and that of its allies. The attacks are said to be targeting the energy sector, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of...

Hitachi Energy APM Edge

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Low attack complexity/public exploits are available Vendor: Hitachi Energy Equipment: Lumada Asset Performance Management APM Edge Vulnerabilities: Out-of-Bounds Write and Improper Authentication 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this...

Hitachi Energy PROMOD IV

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.0 ATTENTION: Exploitable Remotely Vendor: Hitachi Energy Equipment: PROMOD IV Vulnerability: Improper Access Control 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to delete arbitrary files once the system is compromised...

SparklingGoblin Revamps SideWalk Backdoor for Linux Variant

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary SparklingGoblin aka Earth Baku State-backed Chinese hackers has integrated a Linux variant of the SideWalk backdoor. SparklingGoblin Threat actors typically target East and Southeast Asian countries, wit...

GSD-2022-1006115 btrfs: raid56: don't trust any cached sector in __raid56_parity_recover()

btrfs: raid56: don't trust any cached sector in raid56parityrecover This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v4.19.256 by commit...

GSD-2022-1005982 btrfs: raid56: don't trust any cached sector in __raid56_parity_recover()

btrfs: raid56: don't trust any cached sector in raid56parityrecover This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.4.211 by commit...

The Global DDoS Threat Landscape – September 2022

Every month in this space, we will post the State of the Global DDoS Threat Landscape blog on behalf of the Imperva Threat Research team. As DDoS attacks become more frequent, varied, and sophisticated, it is critical that we regularly communicate the Imperva Threat Research team’s findings and...

#StopRansomware: Vice Society

Summary Actions to take today to mitigate cyber threats from ransomware: • Prioritize and remediate known exploited vulnerabilities. • Train users to recognize and report phishing attempts. • Enable and enforce multifactor authentication. Note: This joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA is part of an...

#StopRansomware: Vice Society

Note: This joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA is part of an ongoing StopRansomware effort to publish advisories for network defenders that detail various ransomware variants and ransomware threat actors. These StopRansomware advisories include recently and historically observed tactics, techniques,...

MZ Automation libIEC61850

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 10.0 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: MZ Automation GmbH Equipment: libIEC61850 Vulnerabilities: Buffer Overflow, Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type, NULL Pointer Dereference 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these...