Iranian Hackers Compromised a U.S. Federal Agency's Network Using Log4Shell Exploit

Iranian government-sponsored threat actors have been blamed for compromising a U.S. federal agency by taking advantage of the Log4Shell vulnerability in an unpatched VMware Horizon server. The details, which were shared by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, come in...

bid24.us Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3055536

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...

Will a Labeling System Solve IoT Security Challenges?

By Waqas The planned smart device security labeling program spearheaded by the US government will be introduced next year, although… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Will a Labeling System Solve IoT Security Challenges?...

Elon Musk Introduces Twitter Mayhem Mode

Plus: US midterms survive disinformation efforts, the government names the alleged Lockbit ransomware attacker, and the Powerball drawing hits a security snag...

stiens.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3048561

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...

Google Android Resource Management Error Vulnerability in Android (CNVD-2022-78148)

Google Android is a Linux-based open source operating system from Google, a US-based company. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a local privilege escalation without additional execution privileges...

The Secret Ballot Is US Democracy’s Last Line of Defense

Voter intimidation has cropped up in places across the nation, but the voting booth remains the one place where nobody can get to you...

Twitter’s Ex-Election Chief Is Worried About the US Midterms

Edward Perez says that “manufactured chaos” by bad actors will be even riskier thanks to Elon Musk’s own mayhem...

Inside Raccoon Stealer V2

Raccoon Stealer is back on the news again. US officials arrested Mark Sokolovsky, one of the malware actors behind this program. In July 2022, after several months of the shutdown, a Raccoon Stealer V2 went viral. Last week, the Department of Justice's press release stated that the malware...

Accused ‘Raccoon’ Malware Developer Fled Ukraine After Russian Invasion

A 26-year-old Ukrainian man is awaiting extradition from The Netherlands to the United States on charges that he acted as a core developer for Raccoon, a popular "malware-as-a-service" offering that helped paying customers steal passwords and financial data from millions of cybercrime victims...

US agencies issue warning about DAIXIN Team ransomware

The FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, and the Department of Health and Human Services HHS have issued a joint advisory about DAIXIN Team, a fledgling ransomware and data exfiltration group that has been targeting US healthcare. First spotted in June 2022, the DAIXIN Team...

A Pro-China Disinfo Campaign Is Targeting US Elections—Badly

The suspected Chinese influence operation had limited success. But it signals a growing threat from a new disinformation adversary...

US healthcare organizations targeted by Daixin Team ransomware

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Daixin Team ransomware, and data extortion group has been gaining initial access to victims through virtual private networks VPN servers since June 2022, either by exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in...

Hot on the Trail of a Mass-School-Shooting Hoaxer

For months, an anonymous caller has terrorized communities around the US by reporting false shooting threats. We know how they did it. The question is, why?...

CISA Warns of Daixin Team Hackers Targeting Health Organizations With Ransomware

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have published a joint advisory warning of attacks perpetrated by a cybercrime gang known as the Daixin Team primarily targeting the healthcare sector in the country. "The Daixin Team is a ransomware and data extortion group that has targeted the HPH...

Credit Card Scams and How to Avoid Them

By Owais Sultan Credit card scams are on the rise, and according to research, the US and Canadian citizens are more… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Credit Card Scams and How to Avoid Them...

TikTok’s Security Threat Comes Into Focus

Plus: A Microsoft cloud leak exposed potential customers, new IoT security labels come to the US, and details emerge about Trump’s document stash...

Looking for student debt relief? Watch out for scammers says the FBI

The FBI believes that scammers may be after people applying for the One-Time Federal Student Loan Debt Relief, a program announced by the Biden-Harris Administration in August 2022 that provides up to $20,000 in student loan debt relief. In a recent public service announcement, the agency warned ...

CVE-2022-3585

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in SourceCodester Simple Cold Storage Management System 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file /csms/?page=contactus of the component Contact Us. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. It is possible to launch the...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in SourceCodester Simple Cold Storage Management System 1.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file /csms/?page=contactus of the component Contact Us. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. It is possible to launch the...