New PowerExchange Backdoor Used in Iranian Cyber Attack on UAE Government

An unnamed government entity associated with the United Arab Emirates U.A.E. was targeted by a likely Iranian threat actor to breach the victim's Microsoft Exchange Server with a "simple yet effective" backdoor dubbed PowerExchange. According to a new report from Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, the...

tdcc.ae Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3311476

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

mountainburger.ae Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3306475

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

uaeadverts.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3174769

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

BlueNoroff introduces new methods bypassing MoTW

BlueNoroff group is a financially motivated threat actor eager to profit from its cyberattack capabilities. We have published technical details of how this notorious group steals cryptocurrency before. We continue to track the groups activities and this October we observed the adoption of new...

Hack-for-Hire Group Targets Travel and Financial Entities with New Janicab Malware Variant

Travel agencies have emerged as the target of a hack-for-hire group dubbed Evilnum as part of a broader campaign aimed at legal and financial investment institutions in the Middle East and Europe. The attacks, which took place during 2020 and 2021 and likely went as far back as 2015, involved a...

srm.dewa.gov.ae Open Redirect vulnerability OBB-3012665

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Hive Pro Welcomes Pierre Noel as New Chief Information Security Officer

New CISO to Support Growth Milpitas, California, July 28, 2022 -- Hive Pro, a cyber security company specializing in Cyber Threat Exposure Management, has appointed Pierre Noel as its new Chief Information Security Officer CISO. He has been hired with the vision of supporting growth in the compan...

Google cracks down on sites with ties to hack-for-hire groups in UAE, Russia, India

By Deeba Ahmed Currently, over 30 sites have been marked as malicious by Googles Safe Browsing feature. Google TAG Threat Analysis… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google cracks down on sites with ties to hack-for-hire groups in UAE, Russia, India...

uae-dubai.ru Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2639581

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

New Ransomware Group Axxes is on the rise

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Axxes ransomware is a relatively new ransomware group that appears to be a rebranded version of Midas ransomware. The H Dubai is the latest victim of the threat group, which has previously targeted the United...

Pegasus spyware found on UK government office phone

“When we found the No. 10 case, my jaw dropped." John Scott-Railton recalled after finding out on July 7, 2020 that Pegasus, the highly sophisticated flagship spyware of Israels NSO Group, was used to infect a phone linked to the network at 10 Downing Street, the UK Prime Ministers home and offic...

Hive Pro Named ‘Startup of the Year – Security Software’ in the Globee Awards 18th Annual Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards®

Milpitas, California, March 28 - Hive Pro announced today that The Globee® Awards, organizers of world’s premier business awards programs and business ranking lists, has named Hive Pro a winner in the 18th Annual 2022 Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards®. These prestigious global awards...

uaeoffshorebank.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2375304

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Edward Snowden urges users to stop using ExpressVPN

By Waqas Edward Snowden urging all to avoid ExpressVpn after its CIO named in UAE surveillance scandal. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Edward Snowden urges users to stop using ExpressVPN...

Former US Intelligence Operatives Admit They Hacked for UAE

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3 Former U.S. Intelligence Officers Admit to Hacking for UAE Company

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Tuesday disclosed it fined three intelligence community and military personnel $1.68 million in penalties for their role as cyber-mercenaries working on behalf of a U.A.E.-based cybersecurity company. The trio in question — Marc Baier, 49, Ryan Adams, 34, and...

WordPress 插件跨站脚本漏洞

WordPress is a set of blogging platforms developed using the PHP language by the WordPress Wordpress Foundation. The platform supports personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL servers. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in WordPress plugin User Activation Email 1.3 and earlier versions, whic...

Iranian Hackers Utilize ScreenConnect to Spy On UAE, Kuwait Government Agencies

UAE and Kuwait government agencies are targets of a new cyberespionage campaign potentially carried out by Iranian threat actors, according to new research. Attributing the operation to be the work of Static Kitten aka MERCURY or MuddyWater, Anomali said the "objective of this activity is to...

iPhones of 36 Journalists Hacked Using iMessage Zero-Click Exploit

Three dozen journalists working for Al Jazeera had their iPhones stealthily compromised via a zero-click exploit to install spyware as part of a Middle East cyberespionage campaign. In a new report published yesterday by University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, researchers said personal phones of 36...