Someone Hacked a US Warship Facebook Account to Stream Games

Plus: Twitch hack fallout, Russian phishing, and more of the week’s top security news...

Ex-army admin jailed for 12 years over US military health data theft

By Deeba Ahmed Frederick Brown, a medical data technician & admin associated with the 65th Medical Brigade of the US Army caused millions of dollars in losses. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ex-army admin jailed for 12 years over US military health data theft...

[Security Nation] Rob Graham on Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposium

!\Security Nation\ Rob Graham on Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposiumhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/09/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Rob Graham of Errata Security about his experience attending pillow magnate Mike Lindell's Cyber...

Ransomware: Is Critical Infrastructure in the Clear?

Recently I've been getting asked whether I believe ransomware is on the decline, particularly for critical infrastructure. Part of the reason for this question seems to be a recent security briefing from White House deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger, suggesting that language on the...

Feds Sanctions SUEX Cryptocurrency Exchange for Laundering Ransomware Payouts

In an unprecedented move, the federal government has sanctioned a cryptocurrency exchange for laundering ransom transactions for cybercriminals and helping them evade law-enforcement activity. As part of its continued hardline against ransomware attacks, the U.S. Department of Treasury has...

CISA, FBI, and NSA Release Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Conti Ransomware 

CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the National Security Agency NSA have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA alerting organizations of increased Conti ransomware attacks. Malicious cyber actors use Conti ransomware to steal sensitive files from domestic and international...

Russian electronic voting system hit by 19 DDoS attacks in one day

By Waqas According to local Russian media, these DDoS attacks originated from several different countries including India, China, Brazil, Russia, and the US. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian electronic voting system hit by 19 DDoS attacks in one day...

A week in security (Sept 13 – Sept 19)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs Why backups aren’t a “silver bullet” against ransomware, with Matt Crape: Lock and Code S02E17 The many tentacles of Magecart Group 8 Apple releases emergency update: Patch, but don’t panic Update now! Google Chrome fixes two in-the-wild zero-days Parts of the Dark...

ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus has been abused in the wild due to a zero-day vulnerability

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. An APT actor is attempting to exploit a zero-day vulnerability in ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus, a self-service password management and single sign-on solution that poses a high risk to critical infrastructure companies,...

Former US Intelligence Operatives Admit They Hacked for UAE

Plus: Remote learning spyware, an AT bribery scandal, and more of the week's top security news...

This Week in Security News - September 10, 2021

Biden announces cybersecurity initiative partnership, US Government seeks public feedback on draft federal zero trust strategy and more...

This Week in Security News - September 10, 2021

Biden announces cybersecurity initiative partnership, US Government seeks public feedback on draft federal zero trust strategy and more...

Biden Announces Cybersecurity Initiative Partnership

The announcement marks the US’s extensive collaboration with various private and education sector leaders to address the rising cyber threats in the country...

Latest Atlassian Confluence Flaw Exploited to Breach Jenkins Project Server

The maintainers of Jenkins—a popular open-source automation server software—have disclosed a security breach after unidentified threat actors gained access to one of their servers by exploiting a recently disclosed vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence service to install a cryptocurrency miner. T...

CVE-2021-39278

Certain MOXA devices allow reflected XSS via the Config Import menu. This affects WAC-2004 1.7, WAC-1001 2.1, WAC-1001-T 2.1, OnCell G3470A-LTE-EU 1.7, OnCell G3470A-LTE-EU-T 1.7, TAP-323-EU-CT-T 1.3, TAP-323-US-CT-T 1.3, TAP-323-JP-CT-T 1.3, WDR-3124A-EU 2.3, WDR-3124A-EU-T 2.3, WDR-3124A-US 2.3...

PST, Want a Shell? ProxyShell Exploiting Microsoft Exchange Servers

In August 2021, Mandiant Managed Defense identified and responded to the exploitation of a chain of vulnerabilities known as ProxyShell. The ProxyShell vulnerabilities consist of three CVEs CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2021-34523, CVE-2021-31207 affecting the following versions of on-premises Microsoft...

Active Exploitation of Confluence Server & Confluence Data Center: CVE-2021-26084

This attack is ongoing. See the Updates section at the end of this post for new information as it comes to light. On August 25, 2021, Atlassian published details on CVE-2021-26084, a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center. The vulnerability...

Security News: Exchange ProxyShell, Zoom RCE, Citrix Canceled PT Acknowledgments, Cisco No Patch Router RCEs

Hello everyone! This is a new episode with my comments on the latest Information Security news. Exchange ProxyShell I want to start with something about attacks on Exchange. ProxyShell is in the news, the LockFile ransomware compromised more than 2000 servers. On the other hand, there is basicall...

5 high-profile DDoS attacks that should chill you to the bone

Distributed denial of service DDoS attacks are malicious attempts to make an online service unavailable to users, usually by temporarily interrupting or suspending the services of its hosting server. Data revealed in the 2021 DDoS Threat Landscape Report strongly suggests attacks are constantly...

FIN8 Targets US Bank With New ‘Sardonic’ Backdoor

The financially motivated FIN8 cybergang used a brand-new backdoor – dubbed Sardonic by the Bitdender researchers who first spotted it – in attempted but unsuccessful breaches of networks belonging to two unidentified U.S. financial organizations. It’s a nimble newcomer, researchers wrote: “The...