Analysis: A Ransomware Attack on a PostgreSQL Database

In 2017, we reported on a database ransomware campaign targeting MySQL and MongoDB. Since then, we’ve observed similar attack tactics on a PostgreSQL database in Imperva Threat Research lab. In general, the attack flow contained: A brute force attack on the database for known users and weak...

Exploit for Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in Rarlab Winrar

CVE-2023-38831 CVE-2023-38831 is an RCE in WinRAR 6.23...

In-Depth Analysis of Phobos Ransomware

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Phobos ransomware, active since 2018, primarily targets small to medium-sized businesses with lower ransom demands. It uses compromised RDP connections, is distributed via a Ransomware as a Service model...

Why logging is one of the most overlooked aspects of incident response, and how Cisco Talos IR can help

By Rami Altalhi and David Roman. Logs are fundamental to strengthening an organizations digital defenses. Many logs within an organization contain records related to computer security. These computer security logs are generated by many sources, including security software, workstations, servers,...

MGASA-2023-0283 Updated chromium-browser-stable package fixes bugs and vulnerabilities

The chromium-browser-stable package has been updated to the 117.0.5938.92 release, fixing bugs and 31 vulnerabilities, together with 117.0.5938.92, 117.0.5938.88, 117.0.5938.62, 116.0.5845.187 and 116.0.5845.179. Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2023-5217 exists in the wild. High...

Arm Issues Patch for Mali GPU Kernel Driver Vulnerability Amidst Ongoing Exploitation

Arm has released security patches to contain a security flaw in the Mali GPU Kernel Driver that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-4211, the shortcoming impacts the following driver versions - Midgard GPU Kernel Driver: All versions from r12p0 - r32p0 Bifrost GPU...

The vulnerability of the Threat Intelligence service of the Nozomi Guardian detection and monitoring network activity tool, as well as the Nozomi Central Management Console (CMC) – a centralized security management tool – allows attackers to carry out cross-site scenario attacks.

The vulnerability of the Threat Intelligence service of the Nozomi Guardian detection and monitoring network activity tool, as well as the Nozomi Central Management Console CMC, relates to the lack of protective measures taken for the web page structure during the processing of threat analysis...

Mozilla Rushes to Fix Critical Vulnerability in Firefox and Thunderbird

By Waqas The vulnerability was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mozilla Rushes to Fix Critical Vulnerability in Firefox and Thunderbird...

Qualys Named a Market Leader in GigaOm Radar Report for Application Security Testing

Qualys Web Application Scanning WAS has been named a leader in the GigaOm Radar Report for Application Security Testing, 2023. Web app security is critical for every organization, for attacks on this vector caused 25% of breaches, according to the Verizon 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report. T...

About the security content of Safari 16.6.1

About the security content of Safari 16.6.1 This document describes the security content of Safari 16.6.1. About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are...

Exploit for Link Following in Microsoft

CVE-2023-36874 Windows Error Reporting LPE BOF Introductio...

MISP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

MISP is an open source software solution. The product is used to collect, store, distribute and share cybersecurity metrics and has features such as threat cybersecurity event analysis and malware analysis. MISP version 2.4174 suffers from a cross-site scripting vulnerability that stems from the...

Threat Roundup for June 2 to June 9

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between June 2 and June 9. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Analyzing Broken User Authentication Threats to JSON Web Tokens

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chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Chrome Releases reports: This update includes 2 security fixes: 1450481 High CVE-2023-3079: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Clément Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group on 2023-06-01...

Threat Roundup for May 26 to June 2

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between May 26 and June 2. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Threat Roundup for May 5 to May 12

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between May 5 and May 12. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Threat Roundup for April 28 to May 5

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between April 28 and May 5. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Google Cloud Introduces Security AI Workbench for Faster Threat Detection and Analysis

Google's cloud division is following in the footsteps of Microsoft with the launch of Security AI Workbench that leverages generative AI models to gain better visibility into the threat landscape. Powering the cybersecurity suite is Sec-PaLM, a specialized large language model LLM that's...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Chrome Releases reports: This update includes 8 security fixes: 1429197 High CVE-2023-2133: Out of bounds memory access in Service Worker API. Reported by Rong Jian of VRI on 2023-03-30 1429201 High CVE-2023-2134: Out of bounds memory access in Service Worker API. Reported by Rong Jian of VRI on...