Bucking the Norm, Mozilla to Block Tracking Cookies in Firefox

Web tracking has long been in the cross-hairs of privacy advocates, who say that marketers know entirely too much about individuals’ online activities. And to add insult to injury, the ubiquitous cookie system used to enable tracking also presents potential security threats, including cross-site...

New Android Malware Framework Turns Apps Into Powerful Spyware

Security researchers have uncovered a new, powerful Android malware framework that is being used by cybercriminals to turn legitimate apps into spyware with extensive surveillance capabilities—as part of what seems to be a targeted espionage campaign. Legitimate Android applications when bundled...

Triout Malware Carries Out Extensive, Targeted Android Surveillance

A mobile spyware for Android was disclosed today, with extensive, advanced surveillance capabilities that suggest that a sophisticated actor is pulling the strings. Using a recently discovered malware dubbed Triout, bad actors are tapping into the proliferating footprint of Android-based...

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...

Chrome Bug Allowed Hackers to Find Out Everything Facebook Knows About You

With the release of Chrome 68, Google prominently marks all non-HTTPS websites as 'Not Secure' on its browser to make the web a more secure place for Internet users. If you haven't yet, there is another significant reason to immediately switch to the latest version of the Chrome web browser. Ron...

Black Hat 2018: Google Bug Hunter Urges Apple to Change its iOS Security Culture

LAS VEGAS – Prolific Google bug hunter Ian Beer ripped into Apple on Wednesday, urging the iPhone maker to change its culture when it comes to iOS security. He said the company suffers from an all-too-common affliction of patching an iOS bug, but not fixing the systemic roots that contribute to t...

SamSam Ransomware Attacks Extorted Nearly $6 Million

Ransomware has become a multimillion-dollar black market business for cybercriminals, and SamSam being a great example. New research revealed that the SamSam ransomware had extorted nearly $6 million from its victims since December 2015, when the cyber gang behind the ransomware started...

SamSam Ransomware Attacks Extorted Nearly $6 Million

Ransomware has become a multimillion-dollar black market business for cybercriminals, and SamSam being a great example. New research revealed that the SamSam ransomware had extorted nearly $6 million from its victims since December 2015, when the cyber gang behind the ransomware started...

Zero-Day Coverage Update – Week of July 23, 2018

We’re at the end of July and the Zero Day Initiative ZDI has published 873 advisories so far. That’s 273 advisories this month alone – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg! Earlier this week, ZDI announced the Targeted Incentive Program, which brings over $1,500,000 USD in special bounty awards...

Singapore's Largest Healthcare Group Hacked, 1.5 Million Patient Records Stolen

Singapore's largest healthcare group, SingHealth, has suffered a massive data breach that allowed hackers to snatch personal information on 1.5 million patients who visited SingHealth clinics between May 2015 and July 2018. SingHealth is the largest healthcare group in Singapore with 2 tertiary...

CVE-2018-11049

RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle, RSA Via Lifecycle and Governance, and RSA IMG releases have an uncontrolled search vulnerability. The installation scripts set an environment variable in an unintended manner. A local authenticated malicious user could trick the root user to run malicious co...

CVE-2018-11049

The CVE-2018-11049 entry describes an uncontrolled search path vulnerability affecting Dell RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle, RSA Via Lifecycle and Governance, and RSA IMG. Root cause: installation scripts set an environment variable in an unintended manner, enabling a local authenticated us...

Data exfiltration techniques

Data exfiltration is the last stage of the kill chain in a generally targeted attack on an organisation. Whilst many excellent papers and tools are available for various techniques this is our attempt to pull all these together. This could also be used as a crib sheet for fellow pen testers who a...

Stellar.org: Admin panel of https://www.stellar.org/wp-admin/

https://www.stellar.org/wp-admin/ link has various operations which should not be accessible to an anonymous user. As admin panel is accessible an attacker can use this information in targeted attack and he can bruteforce the username and password. on the other side server information is easily...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Unified Communications Domain Manager could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site request forgery CSRF attack and perform arbitrary actions on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient CS...

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...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in IBM Websphere Application Server shipped with IBM Security/Tivoli Directory Server (CVE-2017-1381)

Summary IBM Websphere Application Server is shipped as a component of IBM Security/Tivoli Directory Server. Information about a security vulnerability affecting IBM Websphere Application Server has been published in a security bulletin. Vulnerability Details Please see the following security...

Important: java-1.8.0-openjdk

Issue Overview: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code...

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...

VPNFilter Malware Impact Larger Than Previously Thought

Researchers say the impact of the VPNFilter malware discovered last month is larger than originally reported. On Wednesday, Cisco Talos researchers said they now believe the malware has infected twice the number of router brands than previously stated. They added that VPNFilter also delivers a mo...