Malicious npm Code Packages Built for Hijacking Discord Servers

A series of malicious packages in the Node.js package manager npm code repository are looking to harvest Discord tokens, which can be used to take over unsuspecting users’ accounts and servers. The npm repository is an open-source home for JavaScript developers to share and reuse code blocks. The...

Was threat actor KAX17 de-anonymizing the Tor network?

A mysterious threat actor has run thousands of malicious servers in entry, middle, and exit positions of the Tor network. Tracked as KAX17, the threat actor ran at its peak more than 900 malicious servers part of the Tor network, which typically tends to hover around a daily total of up to...

VPS Hosting Vs. Dedicated Servers – Which Is Better?

By Owais Sultan When you’re an owner of a particular brand or service, it is highly likely you’ll create a website that will serve as an advertisement for everything that you provide. If done the right way, as time goes by, this site is supposed to attract lots of new visitors. If that happens, y...

New Secured-core servers are now available from the Microsoft ecosystem to help secure your infrastructure

In the current pandemic-driven remote work environments, security has become increasingly important. Earlier this year, Colonial Pipeline, one of the leading suppliers of fuel on the East Coast of the United States, was hit by a ransomware attack.1 This caused a massive disruption of the fuel...

CVE-2021-22955

A unauthenticated denial of service vulnerability exists in Citrix ADC 13.0-83.27, 12.1-63.22 and 11.1-65.23 when configured as a VPN Gateway or AAA virtual server could allow an attacker to cause a temporary disruption of the Management GUI, Nitro API, and RPC communication...

BlackByte ransomware exploits Microsoft Servers ProxyShell Vulnerabilities

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. BlackByte ransomware is targeting organizations with unpatched ProxyShell vulnerabilities. Proxy Shell was addressed by hive pro threat researcher in the previous advisory released on August 24. ProxyShell is a combination of...

Someone Is Running Lots of Tor Relays

Since 2017, someone is running about a thousand -- 10% of the total -- Tor servers in an attempt to deanonymize the network: Grouping these servers under the KAX17 umbrella, Nusenu says this threat actor has constantly added servers with no contact details to the Tor network in industrial...

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in snipe/snipe-it

Description Admin users on the external network can perform blind POST-based SSRF issue requests on behalf of the server into the internal network via the Slack Integration Performing portscans 1: Go to Slack Integrations 2: Use http://127.0.0.1:1337 as the Slack Endpoint. See the error message:...

New Payment Data Stealing Malware Hides in Nginx Process on Linux Servers

E-commerce platforms in the U.S., Germany, and France have come under attack from a new form of malware that targets Nginx servers in an attempt to masquerade its presence and slip past detection by security solutions. "This novel code injects itself into a host Nginx application and is nearly...

AT&T Takes Steps to Mitigate Botnet Found Inside Its Network

AT&T is taking action to take down a botnet that had set up shop inside its network, infecting 5,700 VoIP servers that route traffic from enterprise customers to upstream mobile providers. Researchers from Netlab, a network security division of Chinese tech giant Qihoo 360, first discovered what...

Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers abused in new phishing campaign

By Waqas The noteworthy aspect of this phishing campaign is that the emails were sent as replies to previously sent messages, due to which these appeared legit. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers abused in new phishing campaign...

WIRTE Hacker Group Targets Government, Law, Financial Entities in Middle East

Government, diplomatic entities, military organizations, law firms, and financial institutions primarily located in the Middle East have been targeted as part of a stealthy malware campaign as early as 2019 by making use of malicious Microsoft Excel and Word documents. Russian cybersecurity compa...

ScarCruft surveilling North Korean defectors and human rights activists

The ScarCruft group also known as APT37 or Temp.Reaper is a nation-state sponsored APT actor we first reported in 2016. ScarCruft is known to target North Korean defectors, journalists who cover North Korea-related news and government organizations related to the Korean Peninsula, between others...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-5013-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CronRAT: A New Linux Malware That's Scheduled to Run on February 31st

Researchers have unearthed a new remote access trojan RAT for Linux that employs a never-before-seen stealth technique that involves masking its malicious actions by scheduling them for execution on February 31st, a non-existent calendar day. Dubbed CronRAT, the sneaky malware "enables server-sid...

Updated rsh packages fix security vulnerability

In NetKit through 0.17, rcp.c in the rcp client allows remote rsh servers to bypass intended access restrictions via the filename of . or an empty filename. The impact is modifying the permissions of the target directory on the client side. This is similar to CVE-2018-20685. CVE-2019-7282 An issu...

Password usage analysis of brute force attacks on honeypot servers

As Microsoft’s Head of Deception, Ross Bevington is responsible for setting up and maintaining honeypots that look like legitimate systems and servers. Honeypot systems are designed to pose as an attractive target for attackers. Sometimes they are left vulnerable to create a controllable and safe...

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

concrete5/concrete5 is vulnerable to server-side request forgery. The vulnerability exists through the local IP importing in 'file.php' which allows an attacker to read the files from private local LAN servers and exploit the local network apps...

HSTS Missing From HTTPS Server (RFC 6797) for DDC servers

Security team running Nessus scans are reporting they are being notified of a finding on their controllers - HSTS Missing From HTTPS Server - Nessus Plugin ID 84502 which is a medium finding...

openSUSE 15 Security Update : bind (openSUSE-SU-2021:3773-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:3773-1 advisory. - In BIND 9.3.0 - 9.11.35, 9.12.0 - 9.16.21, and versions 9.9.3-S1 - 9.11.35-S1 and 9.16.8-S1 - 9.16.21-S1 of BIND Supported Preview Edition, as wel...