What Enterprise Leaders Should know about Persistent Threats in 2019

Staving off critical threats in the current cybersecurity landscape is a tall order for any size organization. As hackers continually shift and improve upon their attack and breach strategies, IT and security stakeholders must do their best to keep up and remain informed of these trends. This is...

BEC Will Reach Two Levels Deeper

In our predictions report for 2019, “Mapping the Future: Dealing with Pervasive and Persistent Threats,” we foresaw an increase in the rate of BEC business email compromise attacks: “Business email compromise will go two levels down in the org chart.” From the report: | “Business email compromise...

December 2018 Security Update Release

Today, we released a security update for Internet Explorer after receiving a report from Google about a new vulnerability being used in targeted attacks. Customers who have Windows Update enabled and have applied the latest security updates, are protected automatically. We encourage customers to...

December 2018 Security Update Release

Today, we released a security update for Internet Explorer after receiving a report from Google about a new vulnerability being used in targeted attacks. Customers who have Windows Update enabled and have applied the latest security updates, are protected automatically. We encourage customers to...

Charming Kitten Iranian Espionage Campaign Thwarts 2FA

A range of political and civil society targets are under fire in an APT attack dubbed the Return of Charming Kitten. The campaign has been tailored to get around two-factor authentication in order to compromise email accounts and start monitoring communications. According to researchers at Certfa...

New Flash Player zero-day used against Russian facility

For the past couple of years, Office documents have largely replaced exploit kits as the primary malware delivery vector, giving threat actors the choice between social engineering lures and exploits or a combination of both. While today's malicious spam malspam heavily relies on macros and popul...

Parlez-vous Machine?

Have you ever heard of the MQTT or CoAP protocols? No? Well the device on your wrist, and so many devices around you, could be using them right now. MQTT and CoAP are machine-to-machine or M2M protocols. With the rise of the internet of things IoT and operational technology OT, there’s increased...

Uber: [usuppliers.uber.com] - Server Side Request Forgery via XXE OOB

It was possible to determine open internal ports on an usuppliers.uber.com server, via examination of different error messages to a specific POST request made with various payloads. This error message discrepancy would allow an attacker to discover open internal ports, potentially allowing more...

Zero-day exploit (CVE-2018-8453) used in targeted attacks

Yesterday, Microsoft published their security bulletin, which patches CVE-2018-8453, among others. It is a vulnerability in win32k.sys discovered by Kaspersky Lab in August. We reported this vulnerability to Microsoft on August 17, 2018. Microsoft confirmed the vulnerability and designated it...

Tools to address OWASP Top 10 Risks

In a recent article published by Security Boulevard. we talked about OWASP Top 10 Risk classification and overlap. In this post, we will look into the tools that may help address these risks. To understand what’s possible to cover with which protection mechanisms we can now color-code our OWASP...

Ryuk Ransomware Emerges in Highly Targeted, Highly Lucrative Campaign

A targeted new ransomware has burst on the scene, attacking well-chosen, targeted organizations worldwide with a highly sophisticated operation that may be linked to a well-known APT actor. Over the past two weeks, the Ryuk ransomware has encrypted hundreds of PCs, storage and data centers in eac...

Modern OSs for embedded systems

At Kaspersky Lab we analyze the technologies available on cybersecurity market and this time we decided to look at what OS developers are offering for embedded systems or, in other words, the internet of things. Our primary interest is how and to what degree these OSs can solve...

Adobe Issues Patch for Actively Exploited Flash Player Zero-Day Exploit

If you have already uninstalled Flash player, well done! But if you haven't, here's another great reason for ditching it. Adobe has released a security patch update for a critical vulnerability in its Flash Player software that is actively being exploited in the wild by hackers in targeted attack...

Valve: Malformed Skybox .TGA in Half-Life (GoldSRC) leads to Access Violation

A malformed .TGA when loaded as a Skybox on a map in a GoldSRC engine game Half-Life can lead to arbitrary code execution on a remote client. Reproduction Steps Load the attached map + resources on a local Half-Life listen server. The game will crash with an Access Violation as soon as the map wi...

Variant of SynAck Malware Adopts Doppelgänging Technique

Researchers have identified a new variant of the SynAck ransomware that is now using the newly identified Process Doppelgänging to slip past antivirus programs. Researchers said this is the first ransomware seen in the wild to employ the approach. Both SynAck ransomware and Process Doppelgänging...

SamSam ransomware: what you need to know

SamSam ransomware is a custom infection used in targeted attacks, often deployed using a wide range of exploits or brute-force tactics. Based on our own run-ins with the infection, we've observed that attacks were made on targets via vulnerable JBoss host servers during a previous wave of SamSam...

The New Mobile Threat Landscape, circa 2017 to 2018

Submitted by Ian Grutze If mobile threats diversified and expanded in 2016, they matured in 2017. Mobile ransomware continued to rear its head, burgeoning into the platform’s most prevalent threat. Simple screen lockers, for instance, evolved into file-encrypting malware, some of which even seeme...

Operation Parliament, who is doing what?

Summary Kaspersky Lab has been tracking a series of attacks utilizing unknown malware since early 2017. The attacks appear to be geopolitically motivated and target high profile organizations. The objective of the attacks is clearly espionage – they involve gaining access to top legislative,...

Hermes ransomware distributed to South Koreans via recent Flash zero-day

This blog post was authored by @hasherezade, Jérôme Segura and Vasilios Hioureas. At the end of January, the South Korean Emergency Response Team KrCERT published news of a Flash Player zero-day used in targeted attacks. The flaw, which exists in Flash Player 28.0.0.137 and below, was distributed...

MyCrypto: Missing SPF record for the in scope domain

nli@nlistation:$ dig mycrypto.com txt ; DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu mycrypto.com txt ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu gmail.com txt ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19223 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1,...