Iranian Hackers Exploiting VPN Flaws to Backdoor Organizations Worldwide

A new report published by cybersecurity researchers has unveiled evidence of Iranian state-sponsored hackers targeting dozens of companies and organizations in Israel and around the world over the past three years. Dubbed "Fox Kitten," the cyber-espionage campaign is said to have been directed at...

Spacelabs Xhibit Telemetry Receiver (XTR)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/Low skill level to exploit/Public exploits known Vendor: Spacelabs Equipment: Xhibit Telemetry Receiver Vulnerability: Improper Input Validation 2. RISK EVALUATION A remote code execution vulnerability called BlueKeep CVE-2019-0708...

Digi ConnectPort LTS 32 MEI

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 2.4 ATTENTION : Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor : Digi International Equipment : ConnectPort LTS 32 MEI Vulnerabilities : Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type, Cross-site Scripting 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these...

2019 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report

Today Imperva Research Labs, made up of senior researchers and industry experts who have been delivering sound and valid advice for over 15 years, is releasing a brand new Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report. The report is a statistical analysis of 3,643 network layer DDoS attacks throughout 2019...

Centreon 19.10.5 - Remote Command Execution

Exploit Title: Centreon 19.10.5 - Remote Command Execution Date: 2020-01-27 Exploit Author: Fabien AUNAY, Omri BASO Vendor Homepage: https://www.centreon.com/ Software Link: https://github.com/centreon/centreon Version: 19.10.5 Tested on: CentOS 7 CVE : - Centreon 19.10.5 Remote Command Execution...

Siemens SINEMA Server

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.9 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Siemens Equipment: SINEMA Server Vulnerability: Incorrect Privilege Assignment 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker with a valid session, with...

Oil-and-Gas APT Pivots to U.S. Power Plants.

A known APT group with ties to the Iran-linked APT33, dubbed Magnallium, has expanded its targeting from the global oil-and-gas industry to specifically include electric companies in North America. That’s according to a report from Dragos, released Thursday, which noted that the discovery is part...

Iran Targets Mideast Oil with ZeroCleare Wiper Malware

A freshly-discovered wiper malware dubbed “ZeroCleare” has been deployed to target the energy and industrial sectors in the Middle East. According to IBM’s X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services IRIS, ZeroCleare so-named because of the program database pathname of its binary file was...

Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

NIST has completed a study -- it was published last year, but I just saw it recently -- calculating the costs and benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard. From the conclusion: The result of performing that operation on the series of cumulated benefits extrapolated for the 169 survey...

Siemens Industrial Products Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Update I)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.4 ATTENTION: Exploitable locally Vendor: Siemens Equipment: Industrial Products Vulnerability: Improper privilege management 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the updated advisory titled ICSA-16-313-02 Siemens Industrial Products Local...

Operational resilience begins with your commitment to and investment in cyber resilience

Operational resilience cannot be achieved without a true commitment to and investment in cyber resilience. Global organizations need to reach the state where their core operations and services won’t be disrupted by geopolitical or socioeconomic events, natural disasters, and cyber events if they...

OSIsoft PI Web API

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely Vendor: OSIsoft LLC Equipment: OSIsoft PI Web API Vulnerabilities: Inclusion of Sensitive Information in Log Files, Protection Mechanism Failure 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow direct...

ThreatList: DMARC Adoption Nonexistent at 80% of Orgs

About 80 percent of company web domains don’t have standard email authentication protections in place. That’s according to 250ok’s Global DMARC Adoption 2019 report, which analyzed 25,700 domains in the education, e-commerce, legal, financial services, SaaS and nonprofit sectors, as well as the...

Schneider Electric Interactive Graphical SCADA System

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.0 Vendor: Schneider Electric Equipment: Interactive Graphical SCADA System IGSS Vulnerability: Out-of-Bounds Write 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution or crash the software. 3...

ICSA-19-192-03 Siemens TIA Administrator (TIA Portal)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.0 ATTENTION : Low skill level to exploit Vendor : Siemens Equipment : TIA Administrator TIA Portal Vulnerability : Improper Access Control 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an execution of some commands without proper...

Advantech WebAccess/SCADA

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Advantech Equipment: WebAccess/SCADA Vulnerabilities: Path Traversal, Stack-based Buffer Overflow, Heap-based Buffer Overflow, Out-of-bounds Read, Out-of-bounds Write, Untrusted Pointer Dereference...

TRISIS Group, Known for Physical Destruction, Targets U.S. Electric Companies

XENOTIME, the APT group behind the TRISIS industrial control system ICS event, has expanded its focus beyond the oil and gas industries, according to researchers. The group has recently been seen probing the networks of electric utility organizations in the U.S. and elsewhere – perhaps a precurso...

50k Servers Infected with Cryptomining Malware in Nansh0u Campaign

Up to 50,000 servers were infected over the past four months as part of a high-profile cryptojacking campaign, believed to orchestrated by Chinese-language adversaries. Researchers with Guardicore Labs, who disclosed the campaign Wednesday, said that the Nansh0u​ campaign named due to a text file...

Verizon’s DBIR Highlights Key Drivers of Security Risk

It’s that time of the year when Verizon updates us on the latest trends in the global threat landscape with its Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR. The findings in this year’s report are based on data provided by more than 70 sources including Qualys about more than 41,000 security incidents,...

Rockwell Automation Stratix 5950

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.6 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Rockwell Automation Equipment: Stratix 5950 Vulnerability: Improper Input Validation 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause an...