How to Get into the Bug-Bounty Biz: The Good, Bad and Ugly

Zero-day disclosures, those known bugs without a fix, can have potentially catastrophic results. One of the best ways to combat them is by discovering them before the bad guys do. Some of the biggest tech brands on the planet have been pummeled by a rash of high-profile zero-day exploits. In the...

Hackers Leverage Adobe Zero-Day Bug Impacting Acrobat Reader

Adobe is warning customers of a critical zero-day bug actively exploited in the wild that affects its ubiquitous Adobe Acrobat PDF reader software. A patch is available, as part of the company’s Tuesday roundup of 43 fixes for 12 of its products, including Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application...

Omron CX-One

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Low attack complexity Vendor: Omron Equipment: CX-One Vulnerability: Stack-based Buffer Overflow 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow arbitrary code execution. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1 AFFECTED PRODUCTS The...

Microsoft SharePoint Unsafe Control and ViewState RCE

The EditingPageParser.VerifyControlOnSafeList method fails to properly validate user supplied data. This can be leveraged by an attacker to leak sensitive information in rendered-preview content. This module will leak the ViewState validation key and then use it to sign a crafted object that will...

Siemens Tecnomatix Plant Simulation

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Low attack complexity Vendor: Siemens Equipment: Tecnomatix Plant Simulation Vulnerabilities: Stack-based Buffer Overflow, Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these...

Top 12 Security Flaws Russian Spy Hackers Are Exploiting in the Wild

Cyber operatives affiliated with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR have switched up their tactics in response to previous public disclosures of their attack methods, according to a new advisory jointly published by intelligence agencies from the U.K. and U.S. Friday. "SVR cyber operato...

This Week in Security News May 7, 2021

New Panda Stealer Targets Cryptocurrency Wallets and Apple Releases Urgent Security Patches for Zero-Day Bugs...

Pulse Secure VPNs Get a Fix for Critical Zero-Day Bugs

Pulse Secure has rushed a fix for a critical zero-day security vulnerability in its Connect Secure VPN devices, which has been exploited by nation-state actors to launch cyberattacks against U.S. defense, finance and government targets, as well as victims in Europe. Pulse Secure also patched thre...

Apple Fixes Zero‑Day Security Bugs Under Active Attack

Apple has issued out-of-band patches for critical security issues affecting iPad, iPhone and iPod, which could allow remote code execution RCE and other attacks, completely compromising users’ systems. And, the computing giant thinks all of them may have already been exploited in the wild. Three ...

Apple Releases Urgent Security Patches For Zero‑Day Bugs Under Active Attacks

Apple on Monday released security updates for iOS, macOS, and watchOS to address three zero-day flaws and expand patches for a fourth vulnerability that the company said might have been exploited in the wild. The weaknesses all concern WebKit, the browser engine which powers Safari and other...

The Convergence of Endpoint Protection with Detection & Response

By almost every account, trend, or metric, the cybersecurity threat landscape is getting worse year over year. According to Qualys Labs, 2020 saw the highest number of vulnerabilities ever recorded. The average time it takes to patch vulnerabilities is months not weeks or days. Ransomware payouts...

A Tale of Two Hacks: From SolarWinds to Microsoft Exchange

The past four months have exposed two high-profile attacks, which both had pundits declaring them the “worst-ever” and “unprecedented.” They shared other similarities – both attacked businesses rather than individuals, and affected tens of thousands of organizations. But that is where the...

Hackers Exploit SonicWall Zero-Day Bug in FiveHands Ransomware Attacks

An "aggressive" financially motivated threat group tapped into a zero-day flaw in SonicWall VPN appliances prior to it being patched by the company to deploy a new strain of ransomware called FIVEHANDS. The group, tracked by cybersecurity firm Mandiant as UNC2447, took advantage of an "improper S...

5 Ways Your Software Supply Chain is Out to Get You, Part 3: Exploit Open Source Libraries

In previous posts, we explained how two kinds of supply chain attack methods, Vendor Compromise and Exploit Third Party Applications, are threatening software supply chains, transferring an extraordinary amount of risk downstream to the organizations and users that trust and depend on them. In th...

Apple Patches Zero-Day MacOS Bypass Bug

Apple patched a zero-day vulnerability in its MacOS that can bypass critical anti-malware capabilities and which a variant of the notorious Mac threat Shlayer adware dropper already has been exploiting for several months. Security researcher Cedric Owens first discovered the vulnerability, tracke...

Hackers Exploit 0-Day Gatekeeper Flaw to Attack macOS Computers

Security is only as strong as the weakest link. As further proof of this, Apple released an update to macOS operating systems to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability that could circumvent all security protections, thus permitting unapproved software to run on Macs. The macOS flaw,...

APT trends report Q1 2021

For four years, the Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat APT activity. The summaries are based on our threat intelligence research and provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and discussed in...

Don't Risk Getting Caught by Kr3pto Phishing Kits

Akamai's threat research team recently published a report showing that a new phishing toolkit named Kr3pto was targeting UK banking customers. A phishing kit is an all-in-one software package that lets just about anyone create and launch phishing attacks designed to steal user data by posing as a...

5 Ways Your Software Supply Chain is Out to Get You, Part 2: Exploit Third Party Applications

In Part 1 of this series, we explained how and why our software supply chain transfers an extraordinary amount of risk downstream to the organizations and users that trust and depend on it. We also presented evidence suggesting that 2021 may well be the year of the Software Supply Chain attack...

Active Exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Zero-Day (CVE-2021-22893)

On Tuesday, April 20, 2021, security firm FireEye published detailed analysis of multiple threat campaigns targeting Ivanti’s Pulse Connect Secure VPN. According to FireEye’s analysis, threat actors have been leveraging multiple techniques to bypass single- and multi-factor authentication on Puls...