Malware Attack on Aviation Sector Uncovered After Going Unnoticed for 2 Years

A targeted phishing campaign aimed at the aviation industry for two years may be spearheaded by a threat actor operating out of Nigeria, highlighting how attackers can carry out small-scale cyber offensives for extended periods of time while staying under the radar. Cisco Talos dubbed the malware...

Biden Announces Cybersecurity Initiative Partnership

The announcement marks the US’s extensive collaboration with various private and education sector leaders to address the rising cyber threats in the country...

CISA Insights on Risk Considerations for Managed Service Provider Customers

CISA has released a new CISA Insights, Risk Considerations for Managed Service Provider Customers MSPs, which provides Managed Service Provider MSP customers a framework for reducing risk. This framework is designed for government and private sector organizations of all sizes, and it suggests...

Microsoft, Google to Invest $30 Billion in Cybersecurity Over Next 5 Years

Google and Microsoft said they are pledging to invest a total of $30 billion in cybersecurity advancements over the next five years, as the U.S. government partners with private sector companies to address threats facing the country in the wake of a string of sophisticated malicious cyber activit...

US government and private sector agree to invest time, money in cybersecurity

In the wake of several high-profile ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure and major organizations in the last few months, President Biden met with private sector and education leaders to discuss a whole-of-nation effort needed to address cybersecurity threats and bolster the nation’s...

Largest DDoS attack ever reported gets hoovered up by Cloudflare

On the Cloudflare blog, the American web infrastructure behemoth that provides content delivery network CDN and DDoS mitigation services reports that it detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second rps DDoS attack. To put that number in perspective. The company reports that this is...

IT threat evolution Q2 2021

Targeted attacks The leap of a Cycldek-related threat actor It is quite common for Chinese-speaking threat actors to share tools and methodologies: one such example is the infamous "DLL side-loading triad": a legitimate executable, a malicious DLL to be side-loaded by it and an encoded payload,...

Hack Back Is Still Wack

Every year or two, we see a policy proposal around authorizing private-sector hack back. The latest of these is legislation from two U.S. Senators, Daines and Whitehouse, and it would require the U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS to “conduct a study on the potential benefits and risks of...

Black Hat: New CISA Head Woos Crowd With Public-Private Task Force

LAS VEGAS – Just weeks after the U.S. Senate confirmed Jen Easterly to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the new director spoke at Black Hat USA 2021 on Thursday, albeit virtually, announcing a major public-private partnership to fight cybercrime. Called the Joint...

Design/Logic Flaw

Vulnerability in the Oracle Public Sector Financials International product of Oracle E-Business Suite component: Authorization. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1.1-12.1.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle...

Chinese Gas Pipeline Intrusion Campaign, 2011 to 2013

Summary This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework, Version 9. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. Note: CISA released technical information, including indicators of compromise IOCs,...

CVE-2021-2363

CVE-2021-2363 affects Oracle E-Business Suite’s Oracle Public Sector Financials (International) with the Authorization vulnerability in versions 12.1.1–12.1.3. The underlying issue enables a low-privilege, network-accessing attacker (HTTP) to perform unauthorized creates, deletes, or modification...

CVE-2021-2363

Vulnerability in the Oracle Public Sector Financials International product of Oracle E-Business Suite component: Authorization. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1.1-12.1.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle...

CVE-2021-2363

Vulnerability in the Oracle Public Sector Financials International product of Oracle E-Business Suite component: Authorization. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1.1-12.1.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle...

Oracle E-Business Suite 输入验证错误漏洞

Oracle E-Business Suite is an extension of the original Application ERP, including ERP Enterprise Resource Planning, HR Human Resource Management, CRM Customer Relationship Management, and other management software collection, is seamlessly integrated with a management suite.Oracle Public Sector...

Protecting customers from a private-sector offensive actor using 0-day exploits and DevilsTongue malware

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC alongside the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC has uncovered a private-sector offensive actor, or PSOA, that we are calling SOURGUM in possession of now-patched, Windows 0-day exploits CVE-2021-31979 and CVE-2021-33771. Private-sector offensiv...

Oil & Gas Targeted in Year-Long Espionage Campaign

A sophisticated campaign targeting large international companies in the oil and gas sector has been underway for more than a year, researchers said, spreading common remote access trojans RATs for cyber-espionage purposes. According to Intezer analysis, spear-phishing emails with malicious...

MacOS Targeted in WildPressure APT Malware Campaign

Threat actors known as WildPressure have added a macOS malware variant to their latest campaign targeting energy sector businesses, while enlisting compromised WordPress websites to carry out attacks. Novel malware, initially identified in March 2020 and dubbed Milum, has now been retooled with a...

WildPressure targets the macOS platform

New findings Our previous story regarding WildPressure was dedicated to their campaign against industrial-related targets in the Middle East. By keeping track of their malware in spring 2021, we were able to find a newer version. It contains the C++ Milum Trojan, a corresponding VBScript variant...

Kaseya Attack Fallout: CISA, FBI Offer Guidance

The REvil cybergang is taking credit for Friday’s massive ransomware attack against managed service provider Kaseya Ltd. The criminals behind the attack claim it infected 1 million systems tied to Kaseya services and are demanding $70 million in bitcoin in exchange for a decryption key. Federal...