APT28 Targets Hospitality Sector, Presents Threat to Travelers

FireEye has moderate confidence that a campaign targeting the hospitality sector is attributed to Russian actor APT28. We believe this activity, which dates back to at least July 2017, was intended to target travelers to hotels throughout Europe and the Middle East. The actor has used several...

APT28 Targets Hospitality Sector, Presents Threat to Travelers

FireEye has moderate confidence that a campaign targeting the hospitality sector is attributed to Russian actor APT28. We believe this activity, which dates back to at least July 2017, was intended to target travelers to hotels throughout Europe and the Middle East. The actor has used several...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0142

QEMU, possibly before 2.0.0, allows local users to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and crash via a zero value in the 1 tracks field to the seektosector function in block/parallels.c or 2 extentsize field in the bochs function in block/bochs.c...

Trump Hotels Hit By 3rd Card Breach in 2 Years

Maybe some of you missed this amid all the breach news recently I know I did, but Trump International Hotels Management LLC last week announced its third credit-card data breach in the past two years. I thought it might be useful to see these events plotted on a timeline, because it suggests that...

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. SEL-3620 and SEL-3622

CVSS v3 7.2 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/Low skill level to exploit. Vendor: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. SEL Equipment: SEL-3620, SEL-3622 Vulnerability: Improper Access Control AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following versions of SEL-3620 and SEL-3622, an Ethernet Security Gateway, are...

Attack on Critical Infrastructure Leverages Template Injection

Contributors: Sean Baird, Earl Carter, Erick Galinkin, Christopher Marczewski & Joe Marshall Executive SummaryAttackers are continually trying to find new ways to target users with malware sent via email. Talos has identified an email-based attack targeting the energy sector, including nuclear...

EternalPetya – yet another stolen piece in the package?

Since June 27th we have been investigating the outbreak of the new Petya-like malware armed with an infector similar to WannaCry. Since day one, various contradicting theories started popping up. Some believed that this malware is a rip-off of the original Petya, while others think that it is...

Average Bug Bounty Payments Growing

HackerOne said Monday its average dollar payouts to participants are up, and cross site scripting vulnerabilities cause the biggest headaches for companies. The bug bounty platform provider culled data from the past four years, analyzing 50,000 reported bugs and more than $17 million in payouts t...

Siemens XHQ

CVSS v3 6.5 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: Siemens Equipment: XHQ Vulnerability: Improper Access Control AFFECTED PRODUCTS Siemens reports that the vulnerability affects the following versions of the XHQ operations intelligence product line: XHQ 4: All version...

AWS Public Sector Summit 2017: Cloud Super Powers and Security

Coalfire recently returned from the Amazon Web Services AWS Public Sector Summit, held in Washington, D.C., which addresses some of the most pressing issues todays leaders face around security, governance and compliance, and more. While Coalfire has attended the show in the past, we were especial...

How IOC Sharing Will Help Us Build a More Secure Healthcare Sector

At Trend Micro we work hard every day to reduce the risk posed by cyber attacks from hacktavists, transnational cybercriminals, and cyber espionage groups. Nowhere is this more pertinent than in the healthcare industry, where everything from data breaches to ransomware attacks impacting medical...

President’s Cybersecurity Executive Order

On May 11, 2017, President Trump released the Presidential Executive Order on Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure. This E.O. -- while stand alone in focus --should be seen in the context of a greater move in the Executive Branch to elevate the awareness...

Schneider Electric VAMPSET

CVSS v3 5.6 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit. Vendor: Schneider Electric Equipment: VAMPSET Vulnerability: Memory Corruption AFFECTED PRODUCTS Schneider Electric reports that the vulnerability affects the following VAMPSET setting and configuration software products: VAMPSET, versions prior ...

Cyber Espionage is Alive and Well: APT32 and the Threat to Global Corporations

Cyber espionage actors, now designated by FireEye as APT32 OceanLotus Group, are carrying out intrusions into private sector companies across multiple industries and have also targeted foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. FireEye assesses that APT32 leverages a unique suite of...

Cyber Espionage is Alive and Well: APT32 and the Threat to Global Corporations

Cyber espionage actors, now designated by FireEye as APT32 OceanLotus Group, are carrying out intrusions into private sector companies across multiple industries and have also targeted foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. FireEye assesses that APT32 leverages a unique suite of...

PHOENIX CONTACT mGuard

CVSS v3 8.6 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit Vendor: PHOENIX CONTACT Equipment: mGuard Vulnerabilities: Resource Exhaustion, Improper Authentication AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following versions of mGuard, a network device, are affected: mGuard firmware versions 8.3.0 to 8.4....

Dridex and Locky Return Via PDF Attachments in Latest Campaigns

Dridex and Locky, two prolific malware families that made waves in 2016 after being distributed in several high-volume spam campaigns, have returned after a brief hiatus. FireEye observed a decline in the volume of Dridex and Locky in the latter half of 2016, but we recently observed two new larg...

Dridex and Locky Return Via PDF Attachments in Latest Campaigns

Dridex and Locky, two prolific malware families that made waves in 2016 after being distributed in several high-volume spam campaigns, have returned after a brief hiatus. FireEye observed a decline in the volume of Dridex and Locky in the latter half of 2016, but we recently observed two new larg...

Ransomware, Cyberespionage Dominate Verizon DBIR

Ransomware dominated malware-related data breaches investigated by Verizon last year, appearing in 71 percent of cases, according to the annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR released Thursday. Compared to last year’s DBIR report, ransomware attacks are up 50 percent. Still, Veriz...

xDedic Market Spilling Over With School Servers, PCs

Nearly two-thirds of servers and PCs peddled on the xDedic underground marketplace belong to schools and universities, and most are based in the United States. In a recent analysis of xDedic, Flashpoint found that besides the education sector, PC and servers tied to healthcare and legal firms mak...