The US Watches Warily for Russia-Ukraine Tensions to Spill Over

Conversations with more than a dozen senior cybersecurity leaders in both the public and private sector outline the major areas of risk...

LolZarus: Lazarus Group Incorporating Lolbins into Campaigns

Qualys Threat Research has identified a new Lazarus campaign using employment phishing lures targeting the defence sector. The identified variants target job applicants for Lockheed Martin. This blog details the markers of this campaign, including macro content, campaign flow and phishing themes ...

Trellix Global Defenders: BlackCat Ransomware as a Service - The Cat is certainly out of the bag!

Trellix Global Defenders: BlackCat Ransomware as a Service - The Cat is certainly out of the bag! By Trellix · February 8, 2022 Research Contributions and Analysis: Filippo Sitzia This story was written by Arnab Roy Threat Summary Blackcat also known as ALPHV/Noberus is a Ransomware as a Service...

SolarMarker Malware Uses Novel Techniques to Persist on Hacked Systems

In a sign that threat actors continuously shift tactics and update their defensive measures, the operators of the SolarMarker information stealer and backdoor have been found leveraging stealthy Windows Registry tricks to establish long-term persistence on compromised systems. Cybersecurity firm...

Researchers Uncover New Iranian Hacking Campaign Targeting Turkish Users

Details have emerged about a previously undocumented malware campaign undertaken by the Iranian MuddyWater advanced persistent threat APT group targeting Turkish private organizations and governmental institutions. "This campaign utilizes malicious PDFs, XLS files and Windows executables to deplo...

MoleRats APT Launches Spy Campaign on Bankers, Politicians, Journalists

Malicious files doctored up to look like legitimate content related to the Israeli-Palestine conflict are being used to target prominent Palestinians, as well as activists and journalists in Turkey, with spyware. That’s according to a disclosure from Zscaler, which attributes the cyberattacks to...

Molerats Hackers Hiding New Espionage Attacks Behind Public Cloud Infrastructure

An active espionage campaign has been attributed to the threat actor known as Molerats that abuses legitimate cloud services like Google Drive and Dropbox to host malware payloads and for command-and-control and the exfiltration of data from targets across the Middle East. The cyber offensive is...

U.S. Sanctions 4 Ukrainians for Working with Russia to Destabilize Ukraine

The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday announced sanctions against four current and former Ukrainian government officials for engaging in "Russian government-directed influence activities" in the country, including gathering sensitive information about its critical infrastructure. The agency sa...

Organizations Face a ‘Losing Battle’ Against Vulnerabilities

After a banner year for vulnerabilities and cyberattacks in 2021, organizations believe they are fighting a “losing battle” against security vulnerabilities and threats, “despite the billions of dollars spent collectively on cybersecurity technology,” according to an annual security report from...

Siemens SIPROTEC 5 Devices

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Siemens Equipment: SIPROTEC 5 products Vulnerability : Improper Input Validation 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated attacker to read device...

The 2021 Naughty and Nice Lists: Cybersecurity Edition

Editor’s note: We had planned to publish our Hacky Holidays blog series throughout December 2021 – but then Log4Shell happened, and we dropped everything to focus on this major vulnerability that impacted the entire cybersecurity community worldwide. Now that it’s 2022, we’re feeling in need of...

Philips Engage Software

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 2.6 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely Vendor: Philips Equipment: Engage Software Vulnerability: Improper Access Control 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow improper viewing read-only of business contact information. 3. TECHNICAL...

PYSA Emerges as Top Ransomware Actor in November

PYSA, which is also known by Mespinoza, has overtaken Conti as the top ransomware threat group for the month of November. It joined Lockbit, which has dominated the space since August. According to NCC Group’s November insights on the ransomware sector, PYSA increased its market share with a 50...

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 5.0 Can’t Be Started or Installed After Upgrade to Windows 11

Challenge After upgrading to Windows 11, the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows service may fail to start. The following errors can be found in C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Endpoint\Svc.VeeamEndpointBackup.log: Error Failed to start service. Error Error occurred during LocalDB instance startup: SQL Server...

Cyber Command Publicly Joins Fight Against Ransomware Groups

Cybercriminals who launch attacks on critical U.S. companies are going to be targeted by the branch of the military known as Cyber Command, and everyone has been put on notice. Gen. Paul Nakasone, who heads up Cyber Command, told the New York Times this weekend that his team isn’t just going afte...

Hitachi Energy RTU500 series BCI

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Hitachi Energy Equipment: RTU500 series Bidirectional Communication Interface BCI Vulnerability: Improper Input Validation 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a...

NSA and CISA Release Guidance on Securing 5G Cloud Infrastructures

CISA has announced the joint National Security Agency NSA and CISA publication of the second of a four-part series, Security Guidance for 5G Cloud Infrastructures. Part II: Securely Isolate Network Resources examines threats to 5G container-centric or hybrid container/virtual network, also known ...

Iranian targeting of IT sector on the rise

Iranian threat actors are increasing attacks against IT services companies as a way to access their customers’ networks. This activity is notable because targeting third parties has the potential to exploit more sensitive organizations by taking advantage of trust and access in a supply chain...

Open Finance — 5 Reasons to Consider Akamai

The increased use of smart devices, improved connectivity, and today’s hyper demanding customers are driving the need for digital transformation in the finance sector. Emerging technologies like open banking are creating new opportunities for both incumbent banks and fintechs...

Hitachi Energy Relion 670/650/SAM600-IO

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.1 Vendor: Hitachi Energy Equipment: Relion 670/650/SAM600-IO Vulnerability: Insecure Default Initialization of Resource 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could hijack existing TCP sessions to inject packets of their choosing or cause...