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...

Six Apart Movable Type Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CNVD-2022-22647)

Six Apart Movable Type MT is a blogging system from Six Apart, a US-based company. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Six Apart Movable Type, which stems from the lack of proper validation of client-side data in the WEB application and can be exploited to inject arbitrary script or HT...

US government and private sector agree to invest time, money in cybersecurity

In the wake of several high-profile ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure and major organizations in the last few months, President Biden met with private sector and education leaders to discuss a whole-of-nation effort needed to address cybersecurity threats and bolster the nation’s...

US military personnel defrauded into losing $822m through scams

By Waqas According to researchers, US military personnel lost over $822 million in different kinds of cybercrime and scams between 2017 and 30 June 2021. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US military personnel defrauded into losing $822m through scams...

Multiple Trendnet Products Null Pointer Dereference Vulnerability

TRENDnet TEW-755AP and others are a router from Trendnet, a US-based company. Several Trendnet products are vulnerable to null pointer dereference. A remote attacker could use the vulnerability to send POST requests to applycgi via the lang operation without a language key, resulting in a denial ...

Chinese State-Sponsored Cyber Operations: Observed TTPs

Summary This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework, Version 9, and MITRE D3FEND™ framework, version 0.9.2-BETA-3. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques and the D3FEND framework for referenced...

US Govt’s secret terrorist watchlist with 2M records exposed online

By Waqas The watchlist was exposed on a misconfigured server hosted on a Bahrain IP address instead of a US one. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US Govts secret terrorist watchlist with 2M records exposed online...

100m T-Mobile Customer Records Purportedly Up for Sale

A threat actor is selling what they claim to be 30 million T-Mobile customers’ Social Security and driver license numbers on an underground web forum. The collection is a subset of the purported 100 million records contained in stolen databases. The seller told Motherboard – which first reported...

S3 bucket mess up exposed 182GB of senior US, Canada citizens data

By Waqas The misconfigured S3 bucket was owned by SeniorAdvisor, a consumer ratings, and reviews website. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: S3 bucket mess up exposed 182GB of senior US, Canada citizens data...

Apple’s neuralMatch tool will scan iPhones for child abuse content

By Deeba Ahmed Apple has developed a system dubbed neuralMatch to located child sexual abuse material/CSAM, and for now, it will scan US customers' devices. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Apples neuralMatch tool will scan iPhones for child abuse content...

Ransomware Volumes Hit Record Highs as 2021 Wears On

Ransomware has seen a significant uptick so far in 2021, with global attack volume increasing by 151 percent for the first six months of the year as compared with the year-ago half. Meanwhile, the FBI has warned that there are now 100 different strains circulating around the world. From a...

Household data of 35 million US residents exposed in database mess up

By Waqas The database was left exposed without any security authentication meaning it could be accessed by anyone with access to a valid URL. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Household data of 35 million US residents exposed in database mess up...

Indictments, Attribution Unlikely to Deter Chinese Hacking

The federal government is fighting back against what it says are China-based cyberattacks against U.S. universities and companies with indictments and a “naming-and-shaming” approach — but researchers aren’t convinced the efforts will come to much in terms of deterring future activity. On Monday,...