Satori IoT Botnet Exploits Zero-Day to Zombify Huawei Routers

Although the original creators of the infamous IoT malware Mirai have already been arrested and sent to jail, the variants of the notorious botnet are still in the game due to the availability of its source code on the Internet. Hackers have widely used the infamous IoT malware to quietly amass a...

Kaspersky Lab Sues U.S. Government Over Software Ban

Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab has taken the United States government to a U.S. federal court for its decision to ban the use of Kaspersky products in federal agencies and departments. In September 2017, the United States Department of Homeland Security DHS issued a Binding...

Newly Uncovered 'MoneyTaker' Hacker Group Stole Millions from U.S. & Russian Banks

Security researchers have uncovered a previously undetected group of Russian-speaking hackers that has silently been targeting Banks, financial institutions, and legal firms, primarily in the United States, UK, and Russia. Moscow-based security firm Group-IB published a 36-page report on Monday,...

U.S. Charges Three Chinese Hackers for Hacking Siemens, Trimble & Moody

The United States Justice Department has charged three Chinese nationals for allegedly hacking Moody's Analytics economist, German electronics manufacturer Siemens, and GPS maker Trimble, and stealing gigabytes of sensitive data and trade secrets. According to an indictment unsealed Monday in...

Feds Seize Over 20,500 Domain Names For Selling Counterfeit Products

In a coordinated International cyber operation, law enforcement agencies have seized over 20,520 website domains for illegally selling counterfeit products, including luxury products, sportswear, electronics, pharmaceuticals and online piracy on e-commerce platforms and social networks...

openSUSE Security Update : konversation (openSUSE-2017-1306)

This update for konversation fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : - CVE-2017-15923: Fixed a crash in parsing IRC color formatting codes boo1068097. Bug fixes : - Update to version 1.7.4 : - Fixed a bug causing the size of a custom chat text view font set via the configuration dialo...

Winning the battle against PUPs on your computer and in court

I know very few people, other than lawyers, that get excited about corporate court cases. But, I want to share with you a recent decision that I believe is cause for every computer user to celebrate. This week, a United States District Court judge ruled in Malwarebytes' favor, dismissing a lawsui...

Advantech WebAccess

CVSS v3 7.3 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: Advantech Equipment: WebAccess Vulnerabilities: Stack-based Buffer Overflow, Untrusted Pointer Dereference AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following versions of WebAccess, an HMI platform, are affected: WebAccess versions prior...

Progea Movicon 11.5.1181 Search Path Issues Vulnerability

Progea Movicon versions 11.5.1181 and below suffer from search path related vulnerabilities. Vendor: Progea Equipment: Movicon SCADA/HMI Vulnerability: Uncontrolled Search Path Element, Unquoted Search Path or Element Advisory URL...

US Zip Codes Database Script SQL Injection Vulnerability

US Zip Codes Database Script is a set of US Zip Codes Database Scripts. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in US Zip Codes Database Script version 1.0. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to inject SQL commands with the 'state' parameter...

Progea Movicon 11.5.1181 Search Path Issues

Vendor: Progea Equipment: Movicon SCADA/HMI Vulnerability: Uncontrolled Search Path Element, Unquoted Search Path or Element Advisory URL https://ipositivesecurity.com/2017/10/28/ics-progea-movicon-scadahmi-vulnerabilities/ ICS-CERT Advisory https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-17-290-01...

Testing HA Failover on NetScaler SD-WAN

Site level HA works in a way independent to the virtual path state of the site with other sites. Meaning if the physical links are down while one appliance is serving as active, then it will be the same case for the standby as well as the same physical link will be used by standby too and hence...

Google Patches ‘High Severity’ Browser Bug

UPDATE Google is urging users to update their Chrome desktop browsers to avoid security issues related to a high-severity stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability. Google issued the alert Thursday and said an update for most browsers has been released. “The stable channel has been updated to...

Taiwan Bank Heist and the Role of Pseudo Ransomware

ARCHIVED STORY Taiwan Bank Heist and the Role of Pseudo Ransomware By Trellix · October 12, 2017 Widespread reports claim the Far Eastern International Bank in Taiwan has become a victim of hacking. The attacks demonstrate the global nature of cybercrime, with the cybercriminals attempting to wir...

North Korean Actors Spear Phish U.S. Electric Companies

We can confirm that FireEye devices detected and stopped spear phishing emails sent on Sept. 22, 2017, to U.S. electric companies by known cyber threat actors likely affiliated with the North Korean government. This activity was early-stage reconnaissance, and not necessarily indicative of an...

North Korean Actors Spear Phish U.S. Electric Companies

We can confirm that FireEye devices detected and stopped spear phishing emails sent on Sept. 22, 2017, to U.S. electric companies by known cyber threat actors likely affiliated with the North Korean government. This activity was early-stage reconnaissance, and not necessarily indicative of an...

North Korean Actors Spear Phish U.S. Electric Companies

We can confirm that FireEye devices detected and stopped spear phishing emails sent on Sept. 22, 2017, to U.S. electric companies by known cyber threat actors likely affiliated with the North Korean government. This activity was early-stage reconnaissance, and not necessarily indicative of an...

Pundits Say Attackers Redefining Objectives, Approaches

BOSTON—The nature of cyberattacks is changing and increasingly leveraging social media as they take aim at new targets. That’s the consensus of cybersecurity experts discussing the evolving nature of threats from nation states to hackers for hire. That’s not to say ransomware isn’t going anywhere...

CVE-2017-8039

An issue was discovered in Pivotal Spring Web Flow through 2.4.5. Applications that do not change the value of the MvcViewFactoryCreator useSpringBinding property which is disabled by default i.e., set to 'false' can be vulnerable to malicious EL expressions in view states that process form...

Insights into Iranian Cyber Espionage: APT33 Targets Aerospace and Energy Sectors and has Ties to Destructive Malware

When discussing suspected Middle Eastern hacker groups with destructive capabilities, many automatically think of the suspected Iranian group that previously used SHAMOON – aka Disttrack – to target organizations in the Persian Gulf. However, over the past few years, we have been tracking a...