Ransomware at IT Services Provider Synoptek

Synoptek, a California business that provides cloud hosting and IT management services to more than a thousand customers nationwide, suffered a ransomware attack this week that has disrupted operations for many of its clients, according to sources. The company has reportedly paid a ransom demand ...

DHS Rolls Back Facial-Recognition Expansion Plan

The Department of Homeland Security DHS has reconsidered a plan to use facial-recognition technology on all U.S. citizens traveling internationally through airports, deciding to roll back the plan after meeting with privacy experts. Last week the DHS said it would expand facial recognition checks...

Reddit Says Influence Campaign is Behind Leaked U.S.-U.K. Trade Documents

Reddit has revealed that key U.S.-U.K. trade documents posted on its site were likely done so as part of a broader political-influence campaign that first appeared on Facebook and tied to Russia-based operatives. The online media aggregator says it has linked documents that were leaked on its sit...

This Week in Security News: Trend Micro Selected as Launch Partner for AWS Ingress Routing Service and Stalkerware on the Rise

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. This week, learn about stalkerware and why it’s on the rise. Also, read about Trend Micro’s selection as a launch partner for the new Amazon Virtual...

DHS Plans to Expand Facial Recognition Border Checks

The Department of Homeland Security plans to extend facial recognition checks to all travelers entering and leaving the U.S. – including previously-exempt U.S. citizens. The proposed ruling, outlined in a recent filing that was first reported this week by TechCrunch, signifies a rapid expansion o...

CISA Pushing U.S. Agencies to Adopt Vulnerability Disclosure Policies

The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency has issued a draft directive mandating all agencies to develop vulnerability disclosure policies, which would give ethical hackers clear guidelines for submitting bugs found in government systems. Security experts hope that the directive will light a fir...

It’s Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

Many readers probably believe they can trust links and emails coming from U.S. federal government domain names, or else assume there are at least more stringent verification requirements involved in obtaining a .gov domain versus a commercial one ending in .com or .org. But a recent experience...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: idor on upload profile functionality

Vulnerable URL: https://██████████/███████ID/Common/EditOne/Person/accountid steps to reproduce: 1.browse the image and click on the upload button 2.capture this request in burp suite 3. change the value 'personId' parameter to account2 accountid please see screenshot1 4.then goes to account2, th...

APT33 Mounts Focused, Highly Targeted Botnet Attacks Against U.S. Victims

The Iran-linked, espionage-focused advanced threat group known as APT33 has been spotted using more than a dozen obfuscated botnets to carry out narrowly targeted attacks against government and academic targets in the Middle East, the U.S. and Asia. Each botnet, linked to its own...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: [HTAF4-213] [Pre-submission] CVE-2018-2879 (padding oracle attack in the Oracle Access Manager) at https://█████████

Description We were able to identify CVE-2018-2879 in Oracle Access Manager, used on the https://██████ Link to the CVE: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-2879 This vulnerability is rated critical, and may allow unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle...

Facebook Sues NSO Group Over Alleged WhatsApp Hack

Facebook has filed a lawsuit against Israeli company NSO Group, creator of the Pegasus spyware, alleging that it was behind the massive WhatsApp hack earlier this year. In May 2019, a zero-day vulnerability was found in WhatsApp’s messaging platform, exploited by attackers who were able to inject...

Threat Source newsletter (Oct. 24, 2019)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Never assume that a malware family is really dead. We’ve done it time and time again with things like Emotet, and Gustuff is proving it...

U.S. Government, Military Personnel Data Leaked By Autoclerk

A leaky database owned by reservations management system Autoclerk has exposed the personal data and travel information for thousands of users – including U.S. government and military personnel. Autoclerk, which was acquired by the Best Western Hotel and Resorts Group in August, provides...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: [HTA2] Receiving████ access request on @wearehackerone.com email address

Hi, Description I'm not exactly sure what happened, but it seems that my researcher email [email protected] has been added in a group that receives new user access request from MIDRP. ████████ ██████████ Steps to reproduce I'm honestly not sure what happened. I did test a few .███...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Able to log in with default ██████g creds at https█████████████████████.mil

Summary████ was able to use ████████████████████████ to log into this instance of Adobe Experience Manager, though it does not seem to be in used at the moment Description███████ while navigating to https█████████████████████████.mil, I performed some fuzzing and found that /repository was...

APT Groups Exploiting Flaws in Unpatched VPNs, Officials Warn

State-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT groups are using flaws in outdated VPN technologies from Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and Pulse Secure to carry out cyber attacks on targets in the United States and overseas, warned U.S. and U.K. officials. The National Security Agency NSA issued a...

Adobe Suspends Accounts for All Venezuela Users Citing U.S. Sanctions

I have really bad news for Adobe customers in Venezuela… California-based software company Adobe on Monday announced to soon ban accounts and cancel the subscriptions for all of its customers in Venezuela in order to comply with economic sanctions that the United States imposed on the Latin...

Adobe Suspends Accounts for All Venezuela Users Citing U.S. Sanctions

I have really bad news for Adobe customers in Venezuela… California-based software company Adobe on Monday announced to soon ban accounts and cancel the subscriptions for all of its customers in Venezuela in order to comply with economic sanctions that the United States imposed on the Latin...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: [█████] — DOM-based XSS on endpoint `/?s=`

Description GET parameter s is vulnerable to DOM-based XSS on endpoint /?s=. XSS affects all users and no authentication or login is required. Proof of Concept Visit the following URL for PoC: https://██████/?s=%27%3E%3Cscript%3Ealertdocument.domain%3C/script%3E █████████ Explanation This DOM-bas...

Ransomware Attacks Leave U.S. Hospitals Turning Away Patients

A rash of ransomware attacks this week targeted hospitals in the U.S. and Australia. The cyberattacks froze the computer systems of several medical facilities, to the point where they needed to turn away new patients and even cancel surgery appointments. A ransomware attack, reported on Tuesday,...