Dark Tequila Banking Malware Uncovered After 5 Years of Activity

Security researchers at Kaspersky Labs have uncovered a new, complex malware campaign that has been targeting customers of several Mexican banking institutions since at least 2013. Dubbed Dark Tequila , the campaign delivers an advanced keylogger malware that managed to stay under the radar for...

Dark Tequila Banking Malware Uncovered After 5 Years of Activity

Security researchers at Kaspersky Labs have uncovered a new, complex malware campaign that has been targeting customers of several Mexican banking institutions since at least 2013. Dubbed Dark Tequila, the campaign delivers an advanced keylogger malware that managed to stay under the radar for fi...

New Actor DarkHydrus Targets Middle East with Open-Source Phishing

Government entities and educational institutions in the Middle East are under attack in an ongoing credential-harvesting campaign, mounted by a newly-named threat group known as DarkHydrus. In a twist on the norm, the group is leveraging the open-source Phishery tool to carry out its dark work. T...

onArcade 2.4.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Add Admin)

Exploit Title: Cross-Site Request Forgery Add Admin Google Dork: Powered by onArcade v2.4.2 Date: 2018/August/4 Author: r3m0t3nu11Zero-way Software Link: "http://www.onarcade.com" Version: "Uptodate" the appilication is vulnerable to CSRF attack No CSRF token in place meaning that if an admin use...

onArcade 2.4.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Add Admin)

onArcade 2.4.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Add Admin Exploit Title: Cross-Site Request Forgery Add Admin Google Dork: Powered by onArcade v2.4.2 Date: 2018/August/4 Author: r3m0t3nu11Zero-way Software Link: "http://www.onarcade.com" Version: "Uptodate" the appilication is vulnerable to CSRF atta...

onArcade 2.4.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Add Admin) Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Cross-Site Request Forgery Add Admin Google Dork: Powered by onArcade v2.4.2 Author: r3m0t3nu11Zero-way Software Link: "http://www.onarcade.com" Version: "Uptodate" the appilication is vulnerable to CSRF attack No CSRF token in...

Phishing Campaign Steals Money From Industrial Companies

Industrial production companies are the targets in a large-scale spear-phishing email campaign aimed at installing legitimate remote administration software on victims’ systems. Researchers with Kaspersky Lab said that emails purporting to be commercial offers were the conduit to enabling attacke...

On the Hunt for FIN7: Pursuing an Enigmatic and Evasive Global Criminal Operation

FIN7’s Innovation Enabled their Success Throughout FireEye’s tracking of FIN7 campaigns, the attackers have attempted to stay ahead of the game and thwart detection, using novel tactics and displaying characteristics of a well-resourced operation. For example, in April 2017, FireEye blogged about...

Justice Department Indicts 12 Russian Nationals Tied to 2016 Election Hacking

The United States Justice Department on Friday announced 12 indictments against Russian nationals, accusing them of engaging in a “sustained effort” to hack Democrats’ emails and computer networks. According to Rod Rosenstein, United States deputy Attorney General, all 12 defendants are members o...

New Virus Decides If Your Computer Good for Mining or Ransomware

Security researchers have discovered an interesting piece of malware that infects systems with either a cryptocurrency miner or ransomware, depending upon their configurations to decide which of the two schemes could be more profitable. While ransomware is a type of malware that locks your comput...

New Malware Family Uses Custom UDP Protocol for C&C Communications

Security researchers have uncovered a new highly-targeted cyber espionage campaign, which is believed to be associated with a hacking group behind KHRAT backdoor Trojan and has been targeting organizations in South East Asia. According to researchers from Palo Alto, the hacking group, which they...

New Malware Family Uses Custom UDP Protocol for C&C Communications

Security researchers have uncovered a new highly-targeted cyber espionage campaign, which is believed to be associated with a hacking group behind KHRAT backdoor Trojan and has been targeting organizations in South East Asia. According to researchers from Palo Alto, the hacking group, which they...

Olympic Destroyer Returns to Target Biochemical Labs

Olympic Destroyer, the threat actor that caused a crippling sabotage attack on the networks supporting this year’s Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, has resurfaced with a spy campaign – and with a wider target range. The new campaign began last month and is ongoing, employing spear-phishi...

Two Bugs in WordPress Tooltipy Plugin Patched

WordPress has issued fixes for two bugs rated “medium” in its tooltips plugin, including one that can allow bad actors to do anything an administrative user would be able to do on a WordPress site. The Tooltipy plugin allows users to automatically create responsive “tooltip” boxes for technical...

Machine learning vs. social engineering

Machine learning is a key driver in the constant evolution of security technologies at Microsoft. Machine learning allows Microsoft 365 to scale next-gen protection capabilities and enhance cloud-based, real-time blocking of new and unknown threats. Just in the last few months, machine learning h...

CVE-2018-11633

An issue was discovered in the MULTIDOTS Woo Checkout for Digital Goods plugin 2.1 for WordPress. If an admin user can be tricked into visiting a crafted URL created by an attacker via spear phishing/social engineering, the attacker can change the plugin settings. The function...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

An issue was discovered in the MULTIDOTS Woo Checkout for Digital Goods plugin 2.1 for WordPress. If an admin user can be tricked into visiting a crafted URL created by an attacker via spear phishing/social engineering, the attacker can change the plugin settings. The function...

Shining a Light on OAuth Abuse with PwnAuth

Introduction Spear phishing attacks are seen as one of the biggest cyber threats to an organization. It only takes one employee to enter their credentials or run some malware for an entire organization to become compromised. As such, companies devote significant resources to preventing credential...

ThaiCERT Seizes Hidden Cobra Server Linked to GhostSecret, Sony Attacks

Thailand’s Computer Emergency Response Team ThaiCERT has seized a server operated by the North Korea-linked Hidden Cobra APT, which is used to control the global GhostSecret espionage campaign. The campaign is still ongoing. ThaiCERT said in an alert on Wednesday that it is working with McAfee an...

IcedID Banking Trojan Teams up with Ursnif/Dreambot for Distribution

Update: 4/11 we have corrected the detection to Ursnif/Dreambot This post was authored by Ross Gibb with research contributions from Daphne Galme, and Michael Gorelik of Morphisec, a Cisco Security Technical Alliance partner. Cisco has noticed an increase in infections by the banking trojan IcedI...