Boost identity protection with Axiad Cloud and Microsoft Entra ID

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. Passwords are a security weakness and phishing attacks to exploit accounts protected by passwords are on the rise. The last 12 months have seen an average of more than 4,000 password...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 31 July to 6 August 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs has recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, we identified a total of one executed attack, one instance of adversary activity, and thirteen vulnerabilities,...

Behind the Scenes of a Tailor-Made Massive Phishing Campaign

A global phishing campaign caught our attention after one of our colleagues was targeted by, and nearly fell victim, to a social engineering attack. The campaign involved more than 800 different scam domains and impersonated around 340 legitimate companies all over the world – including well-know...

Improper Access Control

gitlab is vulnerable to Improper Access Control. The vulnerability exists due to a lack of validated access control, which allows an attacker to use social engineering to bypass the security controls...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

gitlab is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting XSS. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gather information about public GitLab projects, even if they are not authorized to access the projects. This information could be used to launch further attacks, such as phishing attacks or social...

New APT 29 Campaign Targets Organizations through Microsoft Teams

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary APT 29, a Russia-based threat actor, employs targeted social engineering via Microsoft Teams to steal credentials, leveraging compromised domains and convincing users to enter authentication codes,...

PenTales: A Badge, a Tag, and a Bunch of Unattended Chemicals; Why Physical Social Engineering Engagements are an Important Part of Security

At Rapid7 we love a good pen test story. So often they show the cleverness, skill, resilience, and dedication to our customer’s security that can only come from actively trying to break it! In this series, we’re going to share some of our favorite tales from the pen test desk and hopefully...

Microsoft Exposes Russian Hackers' Sneaky Phishing Tactics via Microsoft Teams Chats

Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed that it identified a set of highly targeted social engineering attacks mounted by a Russian nation-state threat actor using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chats. The tech giant attributed the attacks to a group it tracks as Midnight Blizza...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for shadow (EulerOS-SA-2023-2549)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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...

Midnight Blizzard conducts targeted social engineering over Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified highly targeted social engineering attacks using credential theft phishing lures sent as Microsoft Teams chats by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Midnight Blizzard previously tracked as NOBELIUM. This latest attack, combined with past activit...

CVE-2023-26449

The "OX Chat" web service did not specify a media-type when processing responses by external resources. Malicious script code can be executed within the victims context. This can lead to session hijacking or triggering unwanted actions via the web interface and API. To exploit this an attacker...

European Bank Customers Targeted in SpyNote Android Trojan Campaign

Various European customers of different banks are being targeted by an Android banking trojan called SpyNote as part of an aggressive campaign detected in June and July 2023. "The spyware is distributed through email phishing or smishing campaigns and the fraudulent activities are executed with a...

APSystems Altenergy Power Control

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ​CVSS v3 9.8 ​ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely / low attack complexity / public exploits available ​Vendor: APSystems ​Equipment: Altenergy Power Control ​Vulnerability: OS Command Injection 2. RISK EVALUATION ​Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow remote...

Old Loader, New Threat: Exploring XWorm RAT's Distribution and Tactics 

Old Loader, New Threat: Exploring XWorm RAT's Distribution and Tactics By Pratik Pachpor and Adarsh S · July 31, 2023 Executive Summary: In March-April 2023, we detected a malicious email campaign delivering .Net based XWorm RAT in which embedded blogspot.com URLs were used as an entry point. Thi...

Old Loader, New Threat: Exploring XWorm RAT's Distribution and Tactics 

Old Loader, New Threat: Exploring XWorm RAT's Distribution and Tactics By Pratik Pachpor and Adarsh S · July 31, 2023 Executive Summary: In March-April 2023, we detected a malicious email campaign delivering .Net based XWorm RAT in which embedded blogspot.com URLs were used as an entry point. Thi...

STARK#MULE Targets Koreans with U.S. Military-themed Document Lures

An ongoing cyber attack campaign has set its sights on Korean-speaking individuals by employing U.S. Military-themed document lures to trick them into running malware on compromised systems. Cybersecurity firm Securonix is tracking the activity under the name STARKMULE. The scale of the attacks i...

CVE-2022-30280

/SecurityManagement/html/createuser.jsf in Nokia NetAct 22 allows CSRF. A remote attacker is able to create users with arbitrary privileges, even administrative privileges. The application even if it implements a CSRF token for the random GET request does not ever verify a CSRF token. With a litt...

CVE-2022-30280

/SecurityManagement/html/createuser.jsf in Nokia NetAct 22 allows CSRF. A remote attacker is able to create users with arbitrary privileges, even administrative privileges. The application even if it implements a CSRF token for the random GET request does not ever verify a CSRF token. With a litt...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

/SecurityManagement/html/createuser.jsf in Nokia NetAct 22 allows CSRF. A remote attacker is able to create users with arbitrary privileges, even administrative privileges. The application even if it implements a CSRF token for the random GET request does not ever verify a CSRF token. With a litt...

PT-2023-12999 · Nokia · Nokia Netact

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Nokia NetAct version 22 Description: The issue concerns a CSRF vulnerability in the /SecurityManagement/html/createuser.jsf endpoint. A remote attacker can create users with arbitrary privileges, including administrative privileges, due to th...