Attack Surface Analysis Part 2: Penetration Testing

In this three-part series, we’ll explore key considerations and strategies for choosing an attack surface analysis strategy, and the ways it can be used to increase awareness of both technical and process-related risks. This is the second installment in our 2021 series around attack surface...

FIN7 Backdoor Masquerades as Ethical Hacking Tool

The notorious FIN7 cybercrime gang, a financially motivated group, is spreading a backdoor called Lizar under the guise of being a Windows pen-testing tool for ethical hackers. According to the BI.ZONE Cyber Threats Research Team, FIN7 is pretending to be a legitimate organization that hawks a...

Hackers From China Target Vietnamese Military and Government

A hacking group related to a Chinese-speaking threat actor has been linked to an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam. The attacks have been attributed with low confidence to the advanced persistent threat APT called Cycldek or Goblin Panda,...

New 5G Flaw Exposes Priority Networks to Location Tracking and Other Attacks

New research into 5G architecture has uncovered a security flaw in its network slicing and virtualized network functions that could be exploited to allow data access and denial of service attacks between different network slices on a mobile operator's 5G network. AdaptiveMobile shared its finding...

Security Analysis Clears TikTok of Censorship, Privacy Accusations

Nebulous privacy and censorship criticisms about video social-media app TikTok have been swirling for months. Security analysts from CitizenLab are the first to collect real data on the platform’s source code, and reported that TikTok meets reasonable standards of security and privacy. The...

Mimecast: SolarWinds Attackers Stole Source Code

Hackers who compromised Mimecast networks as part of the SolarWinds espionage campaign have swiped some of the security firm’s source code repositories, according to an update by the company. The email security firm initially reported that a certificate compromise in January was part of the...

Protecting Your Data from Cyber Extortion: Lessons from the Latest Mega-hack

At the end of last year, enterprise firewall company Accellion was the victim of a two-phase SQL injection attack that resulted in significant sensitive data breaches over the last number of months. This attack is important for several reasons. It underscores the rise in frequency of incidents...

Adobe Magento Commerce Cross Site Scripting

SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory ======================================================================= title: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS product: Adobe Magento Commerce vulnerable version: 2.4.2 fixed version: 2.4.2 CVE number: CVE-2021-21029 impact: Medium homepage:...

Exploit for Improper Input Validation in Cisco Adaptive_Security_Appliance_Software

Cisco-CVE-2020-3452-checker simple bash script of Cisco CVE-20...

Exploit for Path Traversal in F5 Big-Ip_Access_Policy_Manager

F5-BIG-IP-CVE-2020-5902-checker Simple bash script of F5 BIG-...

Emulation of Kernel Mode Rootkits With Speakeasy

In August 2020, we released a blog post about how the Speakeasy emulation framework can be used to emulate user mode malware such as shellcode. If you haven’t had a chance, give the post a read today. In addition to user mode emulation, Speakeasy also supports emulation of kernel mode Windows...

flatCore CMS XSS / File Disclosure / SQL Injection

SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory ======================================================================= title: Multiple Vulnerabilities product: flatCore CMS vulnerable version: 2.0.0 Build 139 fixed version: Release 2.0.0 Build 139 CVE number: CVE-2021-23835, CVE-2021-23836,...

MontysThree APT Takes Unusual Aim at Industrial Targets

SAS@Home 2020 – A series of highly targeted attacks by an APT group called MontysThree against industrial targets has been uncovered, with evidence that the campaign dates back to 2018. That’s according to researchers from Kaspersky, who noted that the group uses a variety of techniques to evade...

STRONTIUM: Detecting new patterns in credential harvesting

Microsoft has tied STRONTIUM to a newly uncovered pattern of Office365 credential harvesting activity aimed at US and UK organizations directly involved in political elections. Analysts from Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC and Microsoft Identity Security have been tracking this new...

Threat Roundup for August 7 to August 14

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Aug. 7 and Aug. 14. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

flatCore CMS 1.5.5 Cross Site Scripting / Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerabilities

Exploit for php platform in category web applications title: Multiple Vulnerabilities product: flatCore CMS vulnerable version: =1.5.5 fixed version: 1.5.7 CVE number: - impact: High homepage: https://flatcore.org/ found: 2020-03-28 by: Farhan Rahman Office Malaysia Azrul Ikhwan Zulkifli Office...

Namirial SIGNificant SignAnyWhere 6.10.x Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications ======================================================================= title: Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS Vulnerability product: Namirial SIGNificant SignAnyWhere vulnerable version: v6.10.60.25434 SSP v4.22.60.25434 v6.10.100.25817 SSP...

DJI Drone App Riddled With Privacy Issues, Researchers Allege

Leading commercial drone maker DJI is hitting back against researcher allegations that its Android mobile application is riddled with privacy holes. One includes that the app continues to run in the background even after it’s been closed and collects sensitive data from users without consent. The...

WonderCMS 3.1.0 XSS / Directory Traversal / File Upload Vulnerabilities

Exploit for php platform in category web applications title: Multiple Vulnerabilities product: WonderCMS vulnerable version: =3.1.0 fixed version: - CVE number: - impact: High homepage: https://www.wondercms.com/ found: 2020-04-30 by: Calvin Phang Office Singapore SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab An...

EQDKP Plus CMS 2.3.29 Cross Site Scripting

SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory ======================================================================= title: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS Vulnerability product: EQDKP Plus CMS vulnerable version: = 2.3.29 fixed version: 2.3.30 CVE number: - impact: Low homepage:...