The Verizon 2022 DBIR

The Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report is out. We are proud to collaborate as a supporting contributor to this years data efforts once again and to have contributed for the past 8 years. The report provides interesting analysis of a full amount of global incident data. Several things...

Verizon Report: Ransomware, Human Error Among Top Security Risks

Ransomware, supply-chain threats and how organizations and their employees are their own worst enemy when it comes to security are some of the key takeaways of Verizon’s annual report on the last 12 months of cyber-attacks. The 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR published Tuesday provide...

How Secrets Lurking in Source Code Lead to Major Breaches

If one word could sum up the 2021 infosecurity year well, actually three, it would be these: "supply chain attack". A software supply chain attack happens when hackers manipulate the code in third-party software components to compromise the 'downstream' applications that use them. In 2021, we hav...

Popular PyPI Package 'ctx' and PHP Library 'phpass' Hijacked to Steal AWS Keys

Two trojanized Python and PHP packages have been uncovered in what's yet another instance of a software supply chain attack targeting the open source ecosystem. One of the packages in question is "ctx," a Python module available in the PyPi repository. The other involves "phpass," a PHP package...

Aura.sol mint() function has a bug in the logic

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Intention is that during inflation period operator will or at least will be able to min EMISSIONSMAXSUPPLY token amount. Due to a logic bug amount of operator mintable tokens directly depends on how many tokens are minted by function minterMint and init...

Improperly Skewed Governance Mechanism

Lines of code Vulnerability details ALR-02H: Improperly Skewed Governance Mechanism | File | Lines | Type ---|---|--- AuraLocker.sol | L594-L609, L611-L618 | Governance Susceptibility Description The balance checkpointing system exposed by the contract for governance purposes is flawed as it does...

Beneath the surface: Uncovering the shift in web skimming

Microsoft security researchers recently observed that web skimming campaigns now employ various obfuscation techniques to deliver and hide skimming scripts. It’s a shift from earlier tactics where attackers conspicuously injected malicious scripts into e-commerce platforms and content management...

rulex-bin (>=0.1.0, <=0.3.0), rulex-macro (>=0.1.0, <=0.3.0) potentially affected by CVE-2022-31099 via rulex (>=0.1.0, <=0.3.0)

rulex CARGO version =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.3.0 Source cves: CVE-2022-31099 Source advisory: OSV:RUSTSEC-2022-0030...

Researchers Uncover Rust Supply Chain Attack Targeting Cloud CI Pipelines

A case of software supply chain attack has been observed in the Rust programming language's crate registry that leveraged typosquatting techniques to publish a rogue library containing malware. Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne dubbed the attack "CrateDepression." Typosquatting attacks take place wh...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Commons affects IBM Standards Processing Engine (CVE-2015-7450)

Summary An Apache Commons Collections vulnerability for handling Java object deserialization was addressed by IBM Standards Processing Engine. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-7450 DESCRIPTION: Apache Commons Collections could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system,...

Google Created 'Open Source Maintenance Crew' to Help Secure Critical Projects

Google on Thursday announced the creation of a new "Open Source Maintenance Crew" to focus on bolstering the security of critical open source projects. Additionally, the tech giant pointed out Open Source Insights as a tool for analyzing packages and their dependency graphs, using it to determine...

Government Agencies Warn of Increase in Cyberattacks Targeting MSPs

Multiple cybersecurity authorities from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S. on Wednesday released a joint advisory warning of threats targeting managed service providers MSPs and their customers. Key among the recommendations include identifying and disabling accounts that are ...

Malicious NPM Packages Target German Companies in Supply Chain Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a number of malicious packages in the NPM registry specifically targeting a number of prominent media, logistics, and industrial firms based in Germany to carry out supply chain attacks. "Compared with most malware found in the NPM repository, this payloa...

What's Changed for Cybersecurity in Banking and Finance: New Study

Cybersecurity in financial services is a complex picture. Not only has a range of new tech hit the industry in the last 5 years, but compliance requirements introduce another layer of difficulty to the lives of infosec teams in this sector. To add to this picture, the overall cybersecurity...

U.S. Proposes $1 Million Fine on Colonial Pipeline for Safety Violations After Cyberattack

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration PHMSA has proposed a penalty of nearly $1 million to Colonial Pipeline for violating federal safety regulations, worsening the impact of the ransomware attack last year. The $986,400 penalty is the resu...

Critical Gems Takeover Bug Reported in RubyGems Package Manager

The maintainers of the RubyGems package manager have addressed a critical security flaw that could have been abused to remove gems and replace them with rogue versions under specific circumstances. "Due to a bug in the yank action, it was possible for any RubyGems.org user to remove and replace...

A scanning tool for open-sourced software packages? Yes, please!

The Open Source Security Foundation OpenSSF, a collective of industry leaders aimed at improving the security of open-source software OSS, recently announced the release of a prototype tool that scans for malicious packages in open source repositories. This tool, conveniently called Package...

DDoS Attacks by Hacktivists Disrupted Russian Alcohol Supply Chain

By Deeba Ahmed Attackers from the Ukrainian IT army successfully disrupted alcohol shipments in Russia by targeting EGAIS, the country’s primary… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DDoS Attacks by Hacktivists Disrupted Russian Alcohol Supply Chain...

Ransomware: April 2022 review

The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team monitors the threat landscape continuously and produces monthly ransomware reports based on a mixture of proprietary and open-source intelligence. April 2022 was most notable for the emergence of three new ransomware-as-a-service RaaS groups—Onyx, Mindwar...

NIST Releases Updated Cybersecurity Guidance for Managing Supply Chain Risks

The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST on Thursday released an updated cybersecurity guidance for managing risks in the supply chain, as it increasingly emerges as a lucrative attack vector. "It encourages organizations to consider the vulnerabilities not only of a finished produ...