SafePay Ransomware: TTPs and Defense Strategies

When a threat actor disables your security software and starts deleting your backups, you’re already in the middle of a crisis. The operators behind SafePay ransomware are known for these exact tactics, deliberately sabotaging your ability to respond and recover. Catching an attack like this earl...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 5 to 11 February 2024

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries in the realm of cybersecurity threats. In the past week alone, a total of five attacks were executed, six vulnerabilities were uncovered, and two active adversaries were...

Citrix Warns of Critical Netscaler Flaws Actively Exploited in Attacks – Urges Immediate Patching

Summary: Two zero-day security vulnerabilities, identified as CVE-2023-6548 and CVE-2023-6549, have been discovered in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. These vulnerabilities are actively exploited in the wild. CVE-2023-6548 affects the NetScaler management interface, potentially leading to...

Apple Addresses Two Zero-Day Flaws Exploited by Attackers

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Apples two zero-day vulnerabilities CVE-2023-41064 and CVE-2023-41061 enable arbitrary code execution and system crashes. As these vulnerabilities are actively exploited, they pose severe risks,...

LockBit 3.0 makes a comeback by exploiting Log4j

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary LockBit 3.0 LockBit Black, a new variant of LockBit Ransomware, is deploying Cobalt Strike beacons on compromised systems by exploiting the Windows Defender command line tool and Log4j in VMware Horizon...

What will be the consequence of this disputed vulnerability in 7-ZIP?

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here The zero-day vulnerability in 7- Zip software, tracked as CVE-2022-29072 is marked as disputed by the National Vulnerability DatabaseNVD, and sparked discussions over its consequences. This started when a researcher published ...

Mispadu Leverages CVE-2023-36025 Vulnerability in Latest Attack

Summary: A new variant of the Mispadu infostealer, a malware known for targeting Spanish and Portuguese speakers, specifically targets Mexican regions and leverages the CVE-2023-36025 vulnerability to gain access. It extends its data theft reach beyond previous versions, capturing browser history...

New IDAT Loader Unleashes Infostealers in Fake Browser Update Campaign

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary In a recent malware campaign, threat actors utilized a new IDAT Loader to distribute a range of malicious software, including InfoStealers and RATs, employing evasion methods. This loader is packaged...

Did Patch Tuesday address the zero-day flaw in Microsoft Exchange

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Microsoft addresses two new zero-day vulnerabilities tracked under CVE-2022-41033, an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability exploited in the wild. CVE-2022-41043 is an Information Disclosure...

BillQuick Web Suite’s severe vulnerability may affect 400K users

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. Multiple versions of BillQuick Web Suite have been found to have a critical vulnerability. A hacker was able to get initial access to a US engineering company by exploiting this serious vulnerability CVE 2021 42258. It also...

LeakyCLI Vulnerability in Cloud Tools Puts Credentials at Risk

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Critical Flaw in Zoom Windows Apps Allows Privilege Elevation

Summary: Zoom has addressed an input validation flaw CVE-2024-24691 that renders the Zoom desktop and VDI clients, along with the Meeting SDK for Windows, vulnerable to privilege escalation on the target system via the network, even by an unauthenticated attacker. Threat Level - Red | Vulnerabili...

Google Fixes First Actively Exploited Chrome Zero-day of 2024

Summary: Google has addressed the first actively exploited Chrome zero-day vulnerability of 2024, identified as CVE-2024-0519. Its a high-severity out-of-bounds memory access weakness in Chromes V8. Attackers could exploit it to access data beyond the intended memory buffer, potentially leaking...

Juniper’s Critical RCE Vulnerability Shakes Network Security

Summary: Juniper Networks has a critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability, CVE-2024-21591, which affects SRX Series firewalls and EX Series switches. This flaw enables attackers to trigger a Denial-of-Service condition and potentially execute remote code with root privileges. Threat Level ...

Winter Vivern APT targets EU with Zimbra flaw

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Winter Vivern abuses CVE-2022-27926 to attack public Zimbra webmail portals of government entities. To receive real-time threat advisories, please follow HiveForce Labs on LinkedIn...

Weren’t you warned about reactivating the Print Spooler?

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. After almost 10 days of releasing an advisory by the Hive Pro Threat Research team, a new vulnerability has been found in Windows Print Spooler. This is a privilege escalation flaw that allows attackers to run arbitrary code...

Kinsing Malware Utilizes Apache ActiveMQ RCE to Deploy Rootkits

Summary: The Kinsing malware operator is actively taking advantage of the critical vulnerability CVE-2023-46604 in Apache ActiveMQ, an open-source message broker. The vulnerability allows remote code execution, facilitating deployment of Kinsing malware aka h2miner, which functions as a...

Lace Tempest Exploits Zero-Day in a Strategic Strike on SysAid

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Lace Tempest has been implicated in exploiting a zero-day vulnerability, identified as CVE-2023-47246. This exploitation allows for the execution of code within SysAid on-premise software, leading...

A Financially Motivated Threat Group UNC961 Targeting North American Organizations

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary UNC961 is a financially motivated cyber threat group that targets organizations in North America, with a focus on exploiting vulnerable Internet-facing servers during periods of vulnerability and exploit...

Chrome’s zero-day flaw allows arbitrary code execution

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A vulnerabilityCVE-2022-2856 in Google Chrome, has been exploited in the wild. Additionally, Chrome has addressed several other use-after-free vulnerabilities in multiple components, including FedCM,...

BlueSky ransomware incorporates Multithreading to expedite encryption

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary BlueSky ransomware is actively targeting businesses and demanding a ransom. It appears that they have ties with the Conti ransomware group. The malware is now primarily targeting Windows hosts and uses...

Have you patched this actively exploited BIG-IP vulnerability?

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Last week, F5 patched a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-1388, soon after a successful Proof-of-conceptPoC was developed by security researchers making it susceptible to further exploitation. This authentication bypass...

WordPress plugins affected by critical vulnerability impacting 84,000 websites

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. WordPress powers over 43.0% of all the websites on the Internet. A Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability CVE-2022-0215 was discovered in three plugins of WordPress. This flaw made it possible for an attacker to update...

Rook: New Ransomware in the market scavenges code from Babuk

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. Security researchers found new ransomware dubbed as Rook that reuses the code from Babuk which was released earlier. It was initially seen on VirusTotal on November 26th and pwned its first victim, a Kazkh financial...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 11 December to 17 December 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs has recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, we identified a total of eleven executed attacks, six instances of adversary activity, and five exploited...

Zoho Addresses SQL Injection Vulnerability in ManageEngine Products

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A security flaw affecting multiple ManageEngine products identified as CVE-2022-47523 is an SQL injection vulnerability found in the ZOHO’s Password Manager Pro Secure Vault, PAM360 Privileged...

Input validation flaw in GitLab’s Community and Enterprise Software

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A remote code execution vulnerability that affects GitLab Community Edition CE and Enterprise Edition EE has been identified as CVE-2022-2884. It can be exploited using the GitHub import API, However it...

Apple fixes the zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by Pegasus spyware named “FORCEDENTRY”

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. Two actively exploited vulnerabilities CVE-2021-30858 and CVE-2021-30860 have been fixed in Apples iOS 14.8, iPadOS 14.8, watchOS 7.6.2, macOS Big Sur 11.6, and Safari 14.1.2 releases. The NSO group carried out the attack by...

Check Point Fixes Zero-Day CVE-2024-24919 Exploited in the Wild

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Critical XSS Flaw Discovered in WP Statistics Impacting 600K Sites

Summary: A critical Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability CVE-2024-2194 in WP Statistics plugin, allowing attackers to inject malicious code via the URL parameter. With over 600,000 installations, the flaw poses severe risks, enabling unauthorized script execution and potential data theft or sit...

Google’s Battle Against Zero-Day Vulnerability Continues

Summary: Google has recently implemented a security enhancement to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability, identified as CVE-2023-7024, that can lead to program crashes or enable arbitrary code execution. Threat Level - Red | Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download t...

Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerability Leads to Federal Agency Breach

Summary: Unidentified threat actors exploit Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability CVE-2023-26360 on government servers, leading to potential unauthorized code execution. Incidents involve reconnaissance, data extraction attempts, and emphasize the importance of software updates. Threat Level - Red |...

Patch available for pre-announced Critical Vulnerability in OpenSSL

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary OpenSSL has released the Patch for the pre-announced critical vulnerability. In the announcement the severity of the vulnerability was Critical based on the fact that it can lead to RCE but after...

Google Chrome’s seventh zero-day of 2022

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in Google Chrome versions prior to 107.0.5304.87. A type of confusion vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-3723 is the seventh zero day of 2022 and is sai...

Two actively exploited Zero-Day vulnerabilities discovered in Mozilla Firefox

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Two critical zero-day vulnerabilities have been identified in Mozilla Firefox that are being exploited in-the-wild and tracked as CVE-2022-26485 and CVE-2022-26485. Both are use-after-free bugs that exist in XSLT parameter...

TeamCity Vulnerabilities Unleash Jasmin Ransomware and More

Summary: Recently patched vulnerabilities in JetBrains TeamCity CVE-2024-27198, CVE-2024-27199 have emerged as a breeding ground for cyber threats, as attackers leverage them to disseminate various dangers such as Jasmin ransomware, XMRig cryptominers, SparkRAT backdoor, and remote access trojans...

Apple’s Timely Response to Actively Exploited Zero-Days

Summary: Apple has released crucial software updates to address two actively exploited security vulnerabilities identified as CVE-2023-42916 and CVE-2023-42917. These vulnerabilities affect the WebKit browser engine on Apple devices such as iPhone, iPad, and Mac, potentially exposing sensitive...

‘ThemeBleed’ flaw in Windows 11 Enables Code Execution

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The CVE-2023-38146 vulnerability in Windows 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, potentially compromising the affected systems security and integrity, and posing a significant...

A Critical Vulnerability in Openfire Admin Console Actively Exploited in the Wild

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The vulnerability CVE-2023-32315 in Ignite Realtime Openfire, enabling unauthorized access to privileged pages. Attackers exploit this by bypassing authentication, prompting immediate updates for...

The Vulnerability Discovered in the Cacti Open-Source RRD tool

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A high-severity vulnerability named CVE-2022-46169 has been found in Cacti, a free, open-source, web-based network monitoring and graphing tool designed as a front-end application for the...

Threat actors buy new BlueFox Stealer to exfiltrate data

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A Russian-speaking user named distamx has been selling BlueFox Stealer as malware-as-a-service since December 2021. A subscription to the customizable malware costs $350 per month on underground forums...

Environment Variables Leak affect Multiple browsers

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. A system environment variables leak security bug was found in Chromium 92 version. Multiple web browsers are based on the chromium engine, such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Brave. Most of them are reported t...

VMware patches SSRF and arbitrary file read vulnerabilities in vCenter Server

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. VMware has released fixes to address two security flaws in vCenter Server and Cloud Foundation tracked as CVE-2021-21980 and CVE-2021-22049. The vulnerability CVE-2021-21980 arbitrary file read is of major concern as an...

Critical RCE Flaw in Atlassian Confluence Sparks Active Exploitation

Summary: CVE-2023-22527 is a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability in outdated Atlassian Confluence versions, actively exploited by malicious actors. Immediate patching to recommended versions is crucial, as nearly 40,000 exploitation attempts have been recorded within three days of...

Ivanti Addresses Critical Vulnerability in Endpoint Manager

Summary: Ivanti addressed a critical vulnerability CVE-2023-39336 in its Endpoint Management software, ensuring secure usage for its 40,000 worldwide customers. The flaw, resolved in version 2022 Service Update 5, posed a risk of pre-authenticated sql injection and possibly Remote Code Injection ...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 4 September to 10 September 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs has recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, we identified a total of ten executed attacks, one instance of adversary activity, and six vulnerabilities...

Dalbit Threat Actor Launches Attack Campaign Against Multiple Korean Organizations

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Dalbit is a threat actor group that has been active since at least 2022. They have been targeting South Korean companies, with more than 50 confirmed attack attempts so far. The group relies on open-sourc...

RCE flaw in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Two security flaws in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ can be exploited to enable remote code execution. An adversary could get persistent root access to the devices management interface by successfully...

Weekly Threat Digest: 9-15 May 2022

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 650 3 1 14 10 13 The second week of May 2022 witnessed the discovery of 650 vulnerabilities out of which 3 gained...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 22 January to 28 January 2024

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs has recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, we identified a total of eight executed attacks, three instances of adversary activity, and three exploited...