Chinese Spies Stole NSA Cyberweapons Long Before Shadow Brokers Leak

Hacking tools allegedly developed by the National Security Agency NSA were being used in the wild by at least one APT long before the Shadow Brokers released the now-infamous trove of U.S. cyberweapons, new analysis suggests. According to researchers at Symantec, an attack group affiliated with t...

Evil TeamViewer Attacks Under the Guise of the U.S. State Department

UPDATE A targeted, email-borne attack against embassy officials and government finance authorities globally is making use of a malicious attachment disguised as a top-secret U.S. document. It weaponizes TeamViewer, the popular remote-access and desktop-sharing software, to gain full control of th...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Remote Code Execution - Unauthenticated Remote Command Injection (via Microsoft SharePoint CVE-2019-0604)

Summary: Microsoft recently released a patch for CVE-2019-0604. This vulnerability is caused by the Microsoft SharePoint application deserializing untrusted data from a user. This means an attacker can send a specially crafted/encoded parameter to a Microsoft SharePoint URL, and it will allow...

Georgia Tech Data Breach Exposes 1.3 Million Users' Personal Data

The Georgia Institute of Technology, well known as Georgia Tech, has confirmed a data breach that has exposed personal information of 1.3 million current and former faculty members, students, staff and student applicants. In a brief note published Tuesday, Georgia Tech says an unknown outside...

Critical Rockwell Automation Bug in Drive Component Puts IIoT Plants at Risk

A critical denial-of-service DoS vulnerability has been found in a Rockwell Automation industrial drive, which is a logic-controlled mechanical component used in industrial systems to manage industrial motors. The vulnerability was identified in Rockwell Automation’s PowerFlex 525 drive component...

CB Customer Spotlight: Q&A with ALLETE’s Jeff Rotenberger

For five years now, Jeff Rotenberger has served as a cybersecurity analyst for ALLETE, an energy and utilities company providing for the Upper Midwest. Rotenberger and his team have been working with Carbon Black CB APIs and CB Response to greatly reduce time spent on security remediation. Read o...

CVE-2019-7609

Kibana versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 contain an arbitrary code execution flaw in the Timelion visualizer. An attacker with access to the Timelion application could send a request that will attempt to execute javascript code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing arbitrary commands...

Cyber Security Week in Review (March 8)

Welcome to this week's Cyber Security Week in Review, where Cisco Talos runs down all of the news we think you need to know in the security world. For more news delivered to your inbox every week, sign up for our Threat Source newsletter here. Top headlines this week Chinese tech company Huawei i...

RSA Conference 2019: Microsoft, Google, Twitter on Federal Privacy Regs

SAN FRANCISCO – With the advent of General Data Protection Regulation in Europe and state measures like the California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA of 2018 talk about a comprehensive U.S. privacy law has grown louder. However, some privacy advocates fear that any such federal legislation will be a...

This Week in Security News: Instagram Hackers and Enterprise Threats

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 how a group of hackers is stealing popular Instagram profiles. Also, learn about old and new cybersecurity issues inundated enterprise...

Data Breaches of the Week: Tales of PoS Malware, Latrine Status

The data-breach onslaught continued this week with casualties sprinkled across the globe. Victims included retailers, banks and one state-owned gas station. The theme this was the Indian subcontinent, with consumers in Pakistan and India feeling the main brunt of the proceedings. A point-of-sale...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: [█████] Get all tickets (IDOR)

In this report I want to describe an interesting vulnerability that allows you to extract tickets with personal data on the site. When user registering a new entry, the user receives a link with a ticket number and a random 4-digit code. The vulnerability is that this code can be easily bruted, s...

Lenovo Watch X Riddled with Security Vulnerabilities

Researchers are raking the Lenovo Watch X over the security coals in a report that blasts the device for shipping with a half dozen “disturbing” privacy and security vulnerabilities. The budget $50 smartwatch was introduced in June 2018 and was initially praised for its design, features and...

Attackers Completely Destroy VFEmail's Secure Mail Infrastructure

A catastrophic, smash-and-destroy cyberattack has eliminated the U.S. infrastructure for secure email service VFEmail. It’s a rare example of a purely destructive offensive, apparently unmotivated by financial gain or espionage goals. An attacker wiped out the company’s U.S. servers on Monday...

U.S. Senators Urge VPN Ban for Federal Workers Over Spying

UPDATE Two U.S. senators are taking bipartisan aim at foreign-owned virtual private networks VPNs, which they say are often headquartered “in countries that do not share American interests or values” – specifically, China and Russia. Sens. Ron Wyden D-Ore. and Marco Rubio R-Fla. have signed a joi...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: RCE on https://█████/ Using CVE-2017-9248

Summary: https://█████████/ is hosting an unpatched version of the Telerik DialogHandler Telerik.Web.UI.DialogHandler.aspx allowing for the machine key to be brute forced. The machine key can be used to access the DNN file manager to upload arbitrary files including ASPX giving a web shell and RC...

Facebook Boots Hundreds of Iran-Linked Accounts For Spreading Misinformation

Facebook has booted hundreds of Iran-linked pages, groups and accounts from its social media platform that it claimed were promoting misinformation. According to Facebook, it removed 783 pages, groups and accounts that engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” that were misleading users about...

Police Shut Down xDedic – An Online Market for Cyber Criminals

In an international operation involving law enforcement authorities from the U.S. and several European countries, feds have shut down an online underground marketplace and arrested three suspects in Ukraine. Dubbed xDedic, the illegal online marketplace let cybercriminals buy, sell or rent out...

Bluetooth “BlueBorne” Vulnerabilities - Lenovo Support US

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U.S. Issues Multiple Charges For 2016 SEC Hack

Two Ukrainains have been indicted in hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission SEC in order to steal and sell non-public, confidential information from publicly-traded companies. The two have been charged as part of a large-scale conspiracy to hack the SEC’s computer systems and profit ...