Hive Ransomware targets organizations with ProxyShell exploit

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Hive Ransomware has been active since its discovery in June 2021, and it is constantly deploying different backdoors, including the Cobalt Strike beacon, on Microsoft Exchange servers that are vulnerable to ProxyShell...

Is Possible Attacker Block setStrategy() When Already Existing Strategy

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact /// NOTE: Migrate funds if settings strategy when already existing one if strategy != address0 require IStrategystrategy.balanceOf == 0, "Please withdrawToVault before changing strat" ; When setStrategy was called, it require no fund in existing Strategy...

Staked Citadel function balance and reportHarvest

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact In the StakedCitadel...

withdrawal amount might be wrong

Lines of code Vulnerability details r is the user's part of the contract balance, but is supposed to be the user's part of the total funds, including the strategy funds. therefore the check at line 816 will always return false because the user's part of the contract balance is smaller than the...

A clearer lens on Zero Trust security strategy: Part 1

Todays world is flooded with definitions and perspectives on Zero Trust, so we are kicking off a blog series to bring clarity to what Zero Trust is and what it means. This first blog will draw on the past, present, and future to bring a clear vision while keeping our feet planted firmly on the...

yVaultLPFarming: No guarantee JPEG currentBalance > previousBalance

Lines of code Vulnerability details Details & Impact yVault users participating in the farm have to trust that: vault.balanceOfJPEG returns the correct claimable JPEG amount by its strategy / strategies the strategy / strategies will send all claimable JPEG to the farm Should either of these...

Controller: Strategy migration will fail

Lines of code Vulnerability details Details The controller calls the withdraw method to withdraw JPEGs from the contract, but the strategy might blacklist the JPEG asset, which is what the PUSDConvex strategy has done. The migration would therefore revert. Proof of Concept Insert this test into...

User can always stay in UNSTAKE_PERIOD

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Due to how the cooldown period is calculated after a transfer, a user can strategically transfer between accounts to increase their cooldown timestamp while keeping it within the UNSTAKEPERIOD, so they can unstake anytime, defeating the cooldown mechanis...

approve and safeApprove Should Approve the Zero Amount First

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The PooledCreditLine.sol and LenderPool.sol contracts approve the strategy contract on the collateral or borrow assets before depositing funds. This allows the strategy contracts to transfer on behalf of these contracts, pulling assets out from the pool...

[WP-H11] lender may not be able to get back their funds, due to improper handling of potential loss of strategy

Lines of code Vulnerability details uint256 notBorrowed = pooledCLConstantsid.borrowLimit.subPOOLEDCREDITLINE.getPrincipalid; uint256 notBorrowedInShares = IYieldstrategy.getSharesForTokensnotBorrowed, borrowAsset; uint256 sharesHeld = pooledCLVariablesid.sharesHeld; requiresharesHeld != 0,...

Conti Leaks: Examining the Panama Papers of Ransomware | Trellix

Conti Leaks: Examining the Panama Papers of Ransomware By John Fokker, Jambul Tologonov · March 31, 2022 Introduction It isn’t often the whole world gets an inside look of the business operations of a top tier cybercriminal group. Very early on in the Russian-Ukrainian Crisis the predominantly...

How CISOs can Mitigate Cryptomining Malware

Learn more about cloud-based cryptomining, its repercussions, and how CISOs can create an effective risk mitigation strategy for this threat...

Adobe Acrobat DC (Continuous) Security Update (APSB21-29) - Windows

Adobe Acrobat DC Continuous Track is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. Copyright C 2022 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free...

Executive Summary: Organizations and Nation-State Cyber Threats

Executive Summary: Organizations and Nation-State Cyber Threats By John Fokker · March 28, 2022 Traditionally when we talk about threat actors, we first need to make the split between cybercrime and nation-state sponsored operations. Where cybercrime is mostly focused on financial gain,...

Executive Summary: Organizations and Nation-State Cyber Threats

Executive Summary: Organizations and Nation-State Cyber Threats By John Fokker · March 28, 2022 Traditionally when we talk about threat actors, we first need to make the split between cybercrime and nation-state sponsored operations. Where cybercrime is mostly focused on financial gain,...

To Pay or Not to Pay? That is the Ransomware question

During a review of a client’s incident response capabilities the discussion turned to ransomware and strategies for handling it. The client’s board-level view was that if they were unable to restore their systems they would pay-up. They’d gone so far as considering setting up a cryptocurrency...

Can steal collateral deposit

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The Collateral.deposit function mints initial shares equal to the deposited amount. The deposit / withdraw functions also use the strategyController.totalValue, which includes the strategy contract balance, to compute the shares. It's possible to increas...

Malicious User can Manipulate PreCT Mint Logic with Direct Base Token Transfer

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact A bad actor can steal funds from future depositors by sending the base token directly to the Strategy or StrategyController contracts. This exploit is more effective the less shares that have already been distributed, perhaps early into the launch of the...

Strategy Migration May Leave Tokens in the Old Strategy Impacting Share Calculations

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact If a strategy does not have sufficient funds to withdraw for the full amount then it is possible that tokens will be left in this yield contract during migrate. It is common for withdrawal from a strategy to withdraw less than a user's balance. The reaso...

Reporting Mandates to Clear Up Feds’ Hazy Look into Threat Landscape – Podcast

You know that hazy window that’s been obscuring the cyber threat landscape, leaving the feds squinting to try to see what’s really going on? The government has recently pulled out some squeegees. Case in point: the government spending deal that President Biden signed into law on Friday. The bill...