Microsoft Exchange attacks cause panic as criminals go shell collecting

Only last week we posted a blog about multiple zero-day exploits being used to attack on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server in limited and targeted attacks. Seeing how this disclosure came with a patch being available, under normal circumstances you would see some companies update...

PT-2021-7092

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center versions prior to 7.4.17 Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center versions 7.13.0 through 7.13.6 Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center versions 7.14.0 through 7.14.2 Atlassian Confluence...

CISA Orders Fed Agencies to Patch Exchange Servers

Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s announcement about active cyber-espionage campaigns that are exploiting four serious security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server, the U.S. government is mandating patching for the issues. The news comes as security firms report escalating numbers of relat...

CISA Issues Emergency Directive on In-the-Wild Microsoft Exchange Flaws

Following Microsoft's release of out-of-band patches to address multiple zero-day flaws in on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has issued an emergency directive warning of "active exploitation" of the vulnerabilities. T...

CISA Issues Emergency Directive on In-the-Wild Microsoft Exchange Flaws

Following Microsoft's release of out-of-band patches to address multiple zero-day flaws in on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has issued an emergency directive warning of "active exploitation" of the vulnerabilities. T...

Detection and Response to Exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Beginning in January 2021, Mandiant Managed Defense observed multiple instances of abuse of Microsoft Exchange Server within at least one client environment. The observed activity included creation of web shells for persistent access, remote code execution, and reconnaissance for endpoint securit...

Microsoft: Chinese Cyberspies Used 4 Exchange Server Flaws to Plunder Emails

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug four security holes that attackers have been using to plunder email communications at companies that use its Exchange Server products. The company says all four flaws are being actively exploited as part of a complex attack chain deployed by...

Unrestricted file upload

OpenClinic version 0.8.2 is affected by a medical/testnew.php insecure file upload vulnerability. This vulnerability allows authenticated users with substantial privileges to upload malicious files, such as PHP web shells, which can lead to arbitrary code execution on the application server...

CVE-2020-28939

OpenClinic version 0.8.2 is affected by a medical/testnew.php insecure file upload vulnerability. This vulnerability allows authenticated users with substantial privileges to upload malicious files, such as PHP web shells, which can lead to arbitrary code execution on the application server...

Heightened Awareness for Iranian Cyber Activity

Iranian cyber threat actors have been continuously improving their offensive cyber capabilities. They continue to engage in more conventional offensive cyber activities ranging from website defacement, distributed denial of service DDoS attacks, and theft of personally identifiable information PI...

SIGE 3.4.1 / 3.5.3 Pro Cross Site Scripting / Remote File Inclusion

Document Title: =============== SIGE Joomla 3.4.1 & 3.5.3 Pro - Multiple Vulnerabilities References Source: ==================== https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=2265 Release Date: ============= 2020-11-11 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ====================================...

CS-Cart 1.3.3 - authenticated RCE

Exploit Title: CS-Cart authenticated RCE Date: 2020-09-22 Exploit Author: 0xmmnbassel Vendor Homepage: https://www.cs-cart.com/e-commerce-platform.html Tested at: ver. 1.3.3 Vulnerability Type: authenticated RCE get PHP shells from http://pentestmonkey.net/tools/web-shells/php-reverse-shell edit ...

Iran-Based Threat Actor Exploits VPN Vulnerabilities

Summary This Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise framework for all referenced threat actor techniques. This product was written by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA with contributions...

flatCore CMS 1.5.5 Cross Site Scripting / Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerabilities

Exploit for php platform in category web applications title: Multiple Vulnerabilities product: flatCore CMS vulnerable version: =1.5.5 fixed version: 1.5.7 CVE number: - impact: High homepage: https://flatcore.org/ found: 2020-03-28 by: Farhan Rahman Office Malaysia Azrul Ikhwan Zulkifli Office...

Iran Targets Mideast Oil with ZeroCleare Wiper Malware

A freshly-discovered wiper malware dubbed “ZeroCleare” has been deployed to target the energy and industrial sectors in the Middle East. According to IBM’s X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services IRIS, ZeroCleare so-named because of the program database pathname of its binary file was...

Shellsum - A Defense Tool - Detect Web Shells In Local Directories Via Md5Sum

A defense tool - detect web shells in local directories via md5sum Features Fast speed Lightweight Big database Tabled output Usages Install git clone https://github.com/ManhNho/shellsum.git chmod 755 -R shellsum/ cd shellsum/ pip install -r requirements.txt Run python shellsum.py ToDo Smooth...

SecLists - A Collection Of Multiple Types Of Lists Used During Security Assessments, Collected In One Place (Usernames, Passwords, URLs, Sensitive Data Patterns, Fuzzing Payloads, Web Shells, And Many More)

SecLists is the security tester's companion. It's a collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments, collected in one place. List types include usernames, passwords, URLs, sensitive data patterns, fuzzing payloads, web shells, and many more. The goal is to enable a security...

The Nature of Mass Exploitation Campaigns

We’ve all seen the movies where there’s a dark hooded figure sitting behind a keyboard entering a 3D virtualized representation of the internet. Focusing in on their target, the figure sees various bits of information about that person, from their birth date, to headshot of them stepping out of a...

A Good Shell Is Hard to Choose

I had the recent opportunity to speak at BSides SLC, held on the Sandy campus of Salt Lake Community College. I tailored my presentation to the student demographic and chose to talk about one of the fundamental concepts that a penetration tester must understand: types of shells. I touched on the...

MetInfo config/config_db.php file arbitrary command execution vulnerability

MetInfo is a content management system CMS developed using PHP and Mysql by China Mito Information Technology Ltd. A security vulnerability exists in MetInfo version 6.0.0, which stems from sloppy filtering of the configuration file in the config/configdb.php file. An attacker can exploit the...