OilRig Sends an OopsIE to Mideast Government Targets

The OilRig group is back, using a reboot of the OopsIE trojan to pump information from its favorite resource: entities in the Middle East region. OilRig, which is also called Cobalt Gypsy, Crambus, Helix Kitten or PT34, is suspected of having ties to Iran. The group was identified in 2015 and is...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Aug. 31

The Threatpost team breaks down the biggest news for the week ending on August 31. Topics covered are a Microsoft Windows zero-day, Yahoo’s recent acknowledgement that it scans emails to target ads to a report that mobile app SDKs capture private data when an Android or iOS app crashes. Download...

Yahoo Persists in Scanning Emails for In-Depth Ad-Targeting

While the rest of the U.S. tech industry is taking steps to assuage consumer concerns over privacy and data-harvesting, Yahoo is selling off the ability to scan more than 200 million Yahoo Mail inboxes for rich user data that might be used for marketing purposes. Verizon’s Oath unit, which owns...

A week in security (August 20 – August 26)

Last week on Labs, we took a look at insider threats, doubled back on the privacy of search browser extensions, profiled green card scams, revisited Defcon badgelife, and talked about what happens to a user's accounts when they die. Other cybersecurity news There was an archiving error in Twitch...

Microsoft Detects More Russian Cyber Attacks Ahead of Mid-Term Election

Microsoft claims to have uncovered another new Russian hacking attempts targeting United States' Senate and conservative think tanks ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. The tech giant said Tuesday that the APT28 hacking group—also known as Strontium, Fancy Bear, Sofacy, Sednit, and Pawn Storm,...

DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter and More Diverse

Distributed denial of service attacks, bent on taking websites offline by overwhelming domains or specific application infrastructure with massive traffic flows, continue to pose a major challenge to businesses of all stripes. Being knocked offline impacts revenue, customer service and basic...

WordPress Ultimate Form Builder Lite Plugin Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

WordPress is a set of WordPress Software Foundation's blogging platform developed using the PHP language, which supports personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL. A cross-site scripting vulnerability in the WordPress Ultimate Form Builder Lite plugin allows attackers to construct URLs th...

Facebook, GDPR and the Right to Privacy: Three’s a Crowd?

Back in 2016 the European Union voted to pass the mother of all security laws, aimed at further extending the rights of its citizens to control how their data is used. The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR guards users against having their information shared without their explicit consent,...

Secrets of the Wiper: Inside the World's Most Destructive Malware

Shamoon, Black Energy, Destover, ExPetr/Not Petya and Olympic Destroyer: All of these wiper malwares, and others like them, have a singular purpose of destroying systems and/or data, usually causing great financial and reputational damage to victim companies. However, the threat actors behind thi...

Podcast: How Millions of Apps Leak Private Data

SAN FRANCISCO – Threatpost’s Tom Spring talked to Roman Unuchek, senior malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab, about new research on leaky apps made public this week. Unuchek released his research at the RSA conference this week, revealing that millions of apps leak personal identifiable information –...

Holey Beep: Linux 提权漏洞分析与利用(CVE-2018-0492)

Introduction Back in the old days, people were using the \a character to emit a horrible 'beep' sound from their speaker. It was a bit annoying, especially if you wanted more complicated stuff to do 8bits-like musics. That's why Johnathan Nightingale made the beep software. A very simple and shor...

APT Trends report Q1 2018

In the second quarter of 2017, Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT began publishing summaries of the quarter's private threat intelligence reports in an effort to make the public aware of the research we have been conducting. This report serves as the next installment, focusing on...

Iranian Threat Group Updates Tactics, Techniques and Procedures in Spear Phishing Campaign

Introduction From January 2018 to March 2018, through FireEye’s Dynamic Threat Intelligence, we observed attackers leveraging the latest code execution and persistence techniques to distribute malicious macro-based documents to individuals in Asia and the Middle East. We attribute this activity t...

Developer of NanoCore RAT that targeted Canada, US & Steam jailed

By Waqas The developer of NanoCore RAT remote access Trojan has been sentenced This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Developer of NanoCore RAT that targeted Canada, US & Steam jailed...

Malicious Crypto Miner Downloader

Many malicious sites attempt to get users to download crypto miners. These miners will run in the background of the victims machines and highjack their CPU. A successful attack could lead to a loss of performance in the victims machine...

CHM Help Files Deliver Brazilian Banking Trojan

Security researchers are warning of a new spam campaign targeting Brazilian institutions that contain Compiled HTML file attachments that are used to deliver a banking Trojan. Spam messages contain a malicious CHM attachment called “comprovante.chm”, wrote Rodel Mendrez, senior security researche...

RAT Distributed Via Google Drive Targets East Asia

Researchers said that they are tracking a new remote access Trojan dubbed UBoatRAT that is targeting individuals or organizations linked to South Korea or the video game industry. While targets aren’t 100 percent clear, researchers at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said UBoatRAT threats are evolving...

November 16, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Space Jam” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! November 16, 2017 - Headlines White House Releases New Charter for Using,...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...