Researchers Detail Bug That Could Paralyze Snort Intrusion Detection System

Details have emerged about a now-patched security vulnerability in the Snort intrusion detection and prevention system that could trigger a denial-of-service DoS condition and render it powerless against malicious traffic. Tracked as CVE-2022-20685, the vulnerability is rated 7.5 for severity and...

2 New Mozilla Firefox 0-Day Bugs Under Active Attack — Patch Your Browser ASAP!

Mozilla has pushed out-of-band software updates to its Firefox web browser to contain two high-impact security vulnerabilities, both of which it says are being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-26485 and CVE-2022-26486, the zero-day flaws have been described as use-after-free...

CISA Warns of High-Severity Flaws in Schneider and GE Digital's SCADA Software

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA last week published an industrial control system ICS advisory related to multiple vulnerabilities impacting Schneider Electric's Easergy medium voltage protection relays. "Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may disclose...

Attention! FluBot Android Banking Malware Spreads Quickly Across Europe

Attention, Android users! A banking malware capable of stealing sensitive information is "spreading rapidly" across Europe, with the U.S. likely to be the next target. According to a new analysis by Proofpoint, the threat actors behind FluBot aka Cabassous have branched out beyond Spain to target...

FIN8 Hackers Return With More Powerful Version of BADHATCH PoS Malware

Threat actors known for keeping a low profile do so by ceasing operations for prolonged periods in between to evade attracting any attention as well as constantly refining their toolsets to fly below the radar of many detection technologies. One such group is FIN8, a financially motivated threat...

Chinese APT Group Targets Media, Finance, and Electronics Sectors

Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday uncovered a new espionage campaign targeting media, construction, engineering, electronics, and finance sectors in Japan, Taiwan, the U.S., and China. Linking the attacks to Palmerworm aka BlackTech — likely a China-based advanced persistent threat APT —...

Fortinet VPN with Default Settings Leave 200,000 Businesses Open to Hackers

As the pandemic continues to accelerate the shift towards working from home, a slew of digital threats have capitalized on the health concern to exploit weaknesses in the remote work infrastructure and carry out malicious attacks. Now according to network security platform provider SAM Seamless...

Researcher Demonstrates Several Zoom Vulnerabilities at DEF CON 28

Popular video conferencing app Zoom has addressed several security vulnerabilities, two of which affect its Linux client that could have allowed an attacker with access to a compromised system to read and exfiltrate Zoom user data—and even run stealthy malware as a sub-process of a trusted...

Any Indian DigiLocker Account Could've Been Accessed Without Password

The Indian Government said it has addressed a critical vulnerability in its secure document wallet service Digilocker that could have potentially let a remote attacker bypass mobile one-time passwords OTP and sign in as other users. Discovered separately by two independent bug bounty researchers,...

COVID-19: Hackers Begin Exploiting Zoom's Overnight Success to Spread Malware

As people increasingly work from home and online communication platforms such as Zoom explode in popularity in the wake of coronavirus outbreak, cybercriminals are taking advantage of the spike in usage by registering new fake "Zoom" domains and malicious "Zoom" executable files in an attempt to...

Researchers Claim CIA Was Behind 11-Year-Long Hacking Attacks Against China

Qihoo 360, one of the most prominent cybersecurity firms, today published a new report accusing the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA to be behind an 11-year-long hacking campaign against several Chinese industries and government agencies. The targeted industry sectors include aviation...

Russian Police Raided NGINX Moscow Office, Detained Co-Founders

Seems like Rambler filled copyright claim to @isysoev regarding @nginx, nginx office under police raid unconfirmed. Originally posted by @igorippolitov , but somebody asked him to remove his post. pic.twitter.com/76mBNtV31G...

Critical Flaw in GoAhead Web Server Could Affect Wide Range of IoT Devices

Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered details of two new vulnerabilities in the GoAhead web server software, a tiny application widely embedded in hundreds of millions of Internet-connected smart devices. One of the two vulnerabilities, assigned as CVE-2019-5096, is a critical code execution...

WARNING — Malware Found in CamScanner Android App With 100+ Million Users

Beware! Attackers can remotely hijack your Android device and steal data stored on it, if you are using free version of CamScanner, a highly-popular Phone PDF creator app with more than 100 million downloads on Google Play Store. So, to be safe, just uninstall the CamScanner app from your Android...

'GozNym' Banking Malware Gang Dismantled by International Law Enforcement

In a joint effort by several law enforcement agencies from 6 different countries, officials have dismantled a major global organized cybercrime network behind GozNym banking malware. GozNym banking malware is responsible for stealing nearly $100 million from over 41,000 victims across the globe,...

U.S. Charges Chinese Hacker For 2015 Anthem Data Breach

The United States Justice Department today announced charges against a Chinese hacker and his hacking team member for their alleged role in the 2015 massive data breach at health insurance giant Anthem and three other unnamed American companies. Fujie Wang 王 福 杰 and another hacker named John Doe...

Popular Video Editing Software Website Hacked to Spread Banking Trojan

If you have downloaded the VSDC multimedia editing software between late February to late March this year, there are high chances that your computer has been infected with a banking trojan and an information stealer. The official website of the VSDC software — one of the most popular, free video...

Cynet Offers Free Threat Assessment for Mid-Sized and Large Organizations

Visibility into an environment attack surface is the fundamental cornerstone to sound security decision making. However, the standard process of 3rd party threat assessment as practiced today is both time consuming and expensive. Cynet changes the rules of the game with a free threat assessment...

New Unpatched macOS Flaw Lets Apps Spy On Your Safari Browsing History

A new security vulnerability has been discovered in the latest version of Apple's macOS Mojave that could allow a malicious application to access data stored in restricted folders which are otherwise not accessible to every app. Discovered by application developer Jeff Johnson on February 8, the...

Greece U-Turns — Now Approves Mr. Bitcoin's Extradition To Russia

Greece just took another U-turn. Mr. Bitcoin a.k.a. Alexander Vinnik is not going to France nor to the United States; instead, he is now possibly going to his homeland Russia. The Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece on Friday has overruled previous decisions and approved to extradite the...

KICKICO Hacked: Cybercriminal Steals $7.7 Million from ICO Platform

Again some bad news for cryptocurrency users. KICKICO, a blockchain-based initial coin offering ICO support platform, has fallen victim to a suspected cyber attack and lost more than 70 million KICK tokens or KickCoins worth an estimated $7.7 million. In a statement released on its Medium post on...

Google launches 'Data Transfer Project' to make it easier to switch services

A lot of new online services are cropping up every day, making our life a lot easier. But it is always harder for users to switch to another product or service, which they think is better because the process usually involves downloading everything from one service and then re-uploading it all aga...

Reminder—Third Party Gmail Apps Can Read Your Emails, "Allow" Carefully!

Reminder—If you've forgotten about any Google app after using it once a few years ago, be careful, it may still have access to your private emails. When it comes to privacy on social media, we usually point fingers at Facebook for enabling third-party app developers to access users personal...

Twitter is Testing End-to-End Encrypted Direct Messages

Twitter has been adopting new trends at a snail's pace. But it's better to be late than never. Since 2013 people were speculating that Twitter will bring end-to-end encryption to its direct messages, and finally almost 5 years after the encryption era began, the company is now testing an end-to-e...

Apple macOS Bug Reveals Passwords for APFS Encrypted Volumes in Plaintext

A severe programming bug has been found in APFS file system for macOS High Sierra operating system that exposes passwords of encrypted external drives in plain text. Introduced two years ago, APFS Apple File System is an optimized file system for flash and SSD-based storage solutions running MacO...

Warning! Hackers Started Using "SambaCry Flaw" to Hack Linux Systems

Remember SambaCry? Two weeks ago we reported about a 7-year-old critical remote code execution vulnerability in Samba networking software re-implementation of SMB networking protocol that allows a remote hacker to take full control of a vulnerable Linux and Unix machines. To know more about the...

Internet Traffic Hijacking Linux Flaw Affects 80% of Android Devices

An estimated 80 percent of Android smartphones and tablets running Android 4.4 KitKat and higher are vulnerable to a recently disclosed Linux kernel flaw that allows hackers to terminate connections, spy on unencrypted traffic or inject malware into the parties' communications. Even the latest...

Scientists have Increased Fiber Optic capacity Nearly 20 Times

There’s a lot of speculations and fears regarding the fiber optic network that delivers the Internet to your home and offices — What will happen when the fiber optic cables max out? Well, there is nothing to fear about it. Your Internet is Safe! Scientists at the University of California, San...

20-Year Old Vulnerability in LZO Compression Algorithm Went to Planet Mars

A 20 year old critical subtle integer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer LZO, an extremely efficient data compression algorithm that focuses on decompression speed, which is almost five times faster than zlib and bzip compression algorithms. Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer LZ...

Microsoft released Security Patch for CVE-2013-5065 TIFF Zero-Day vulnerability

Microsoft has released 11 Security Patch this Tuesday, including one for CVE-2013-5065 zero-day vulnerability, recently discovered Local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a hacker to launch an attack using corrupted TIFF images to take over victims' computers. FireEye researcher...

Iran replacing Google, Hotmail with its own internal search engines and email services

Iran replacing Google, Hotmail with its own internal search engines and email services Iran has denied the report that it plans to cut itself off from the Internet. In a statement, the ministry said "The report is in no way confirmed by the ministry". It added that it was "completely baseless," a...

One-Character Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Local Root Access, Exploits Now Public

Security researchers have published a detailed, working exploit for a Linux kernel use-after-free that lets an unprivileged local user escalate to root and break out of a container. The flaw, CVE-2026-23111, sits in the kernel's nftables packet-filtering code and was patched upstream on February ...

Microsoft Reveals macOS Vulnerability that Bypasses Privacy Controls in Safari Browser

Microsoft has disclosed details about a now-patched security flaw in Apple's Transparency, Consent, and Control TCC framework in macOS that has likely come under exploitation to get around a user's privacy preferences and access data. The shortcoming, codenamed HM Surf by the tech giant, is track...

GitHub Patches Critical Flaw in Enterprise Server Allowing Unauthorized Instance Access

GitHub has released security updates for Enterprise Server GHES to address multiple issues, including a critical bug that could allow unauthorized access to an instance. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9487, carries a CVS score of 9.5 out of a maximum of 10.0 "An attacker could bypass SAML...

Microsoft Issues Patches for 79 Flaws, Including 3 Actively Exploited Windows Flaws

Microsoft on Tuesday disclosed that three new security flaws impacting the Windows platform have come under active exploitation as part of its Patch Tuesday update for September 2024. The monthly security release addresses a total of 79 vulnerabilities, of which seven are rated Critical, 71 are...

Mirai Botnet targeting OFBiz Servers Vulnerable to Directory Traversal

Enterprise Resource Planning ERP Software is at the heart of many enterprising supporting human resources, accounting, shipping, and manufacturing. These systems can become very complex and difficult to maintain. They are often highly customized, which can make patching difficult. However, critic...

VMware ESXi Flaw Exploited by Ransomware Groups for Admin Access

A recently patched security flaw impacting VMware ESXi hypervisors has been actively exploited by "several" ransomware groups to gain elevated permissions and deploy file-encrypting malware. The attacks involve the exploitation of CVE-2024-37085 CVSS score: 6.8, an Active Directory integration...

Network Threats: A Step-by-Step Attack Demonstration

Follow this real-life network attack simulation, covering 6 steps from Initial Access to Data Exfiltration. See how attackers remain undetected with the simplest tools and why you need multiple choke points in your defense strategy. Surprisingly, most network attacks are not exceptionally...

Critical Zero-Day in Apache OfBiz ERP System Exposes Businesses to Attack

A new zero-day security flaw has been discovered in Apache OfBiz, an open-source Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system that could be exploited to bypass authentication protections. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-51467, resides in the login functionality and is the result of an incomplet...

Microsoft Warns of Kremlin-Backed APT28 Exploiting Critical Outlook Vulnerability

Microsoft on Monday said it detected Kremlin-backed nation-state activity exploiting a now-patched critical security flaw in its Outlook email service to gain unauthorized access to victims' accounts within Exchange servers. The tech giant attributed the intrusions to a threat actor it called...

8Base Group Deploying New Phobos Ransomware Variant via SmokeLoader

The threat actors behind the 8Base ransomware are leveraging a variant of the Phobos ransomware to conduct their financially motivated attacks. The findings come from Cisco Talos, which has recorded an increase in activity carried out by the cybercriminals. "Most of the group's Phobos variants ar...

U.S. Cybersecurity Agencies Warn of Scattered Spider's Gen Z Cybercrime Ecosystem

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have released a joint advisory about a cybercriminal group known as Scattered Spider that's known to employ sophisticated phishing tactics to infiltrate targets. "Scattered Spider threat actors typically engage in data theft for extortion using multipl...

New Ransomware Group Emerges with Hive's Source Code and Infrastructure

The threat actors behind a new ransomware group called Hunters International have acquired the source code and infrastructure from the now-dismantled Hive operation to kick-start its own efforts in the threat landscape. "It appears that the leadership of the Hive group made the strategic decision...

Iranian APT Group OilRig Using New Menorah Malware for Covert Operations

Sophisticated cyber actors backed by Iran known as OilRig have been linked to a spear-phishing campaign that infects victims with a new strain of malware called Menorah. "The malware was designed for cyberespionage, capable of identifying the machine, reading and uploading files from the machine,...

DarkGate Malware Activity Spikes as Developer Rents Out Malware to Affiliates

A new malspam campaign has been observed deploying an off-the-shelf malware called DarkGate. "The current spike in DarkGate malware activity is plausible given the fact that the developer of the malware has recently started to rent out the malware to a limited number of affiliates," Telekom...

Over a Dozen Malicious npm Packages Target Roblox Game Developers

More than a dozen malicious packages have been discovered on the npm package repository since the start of August 2023 with capabilities to deploy an open-source information stealer called Luna Token Grabber on systems belonging to Roblox developers. The ongoing campaign, first detected on August...

Gigabud RAT Android Banking Malware Targets Institutions Across Countries

Account holders of over numerous financial institutions in Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Peru are being targeted by an Android banking malware called Gigabud RAT. "One of Gigabud RAT's unique features is that it doesn't execute any malicious actions until the user is authoriz...

Alert: 330,000 FortiGate Firewalls Still Unpatched to CVE-2023-27997 RCE Flaw

No less than 330,000 FortiGate firewalls are still unpatched and vulnerable to CVE-2023-27997, a critical security flaw affecting Fortinet devices that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Cybersecurity firm Bishop Fox, in a report published last week, said that out of nearly 490,000...

New Fortinet's FortiNAC Vulnerability Exposes Networks to Code Execution Attacks

Fortinet has rolled out updates to address a critical security vulnerability impacting its FortiNAC network access control solution that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. Tracked as CVE-2023-33299, the flaw is rated 9.6 out of 10 for severity on the CVSS scoring system. It has been...

CISA Adds 3 Actively Exploited Flaws to KEV Catalog, including Critical PaperCut Bug

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Friday added three security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The three vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2023-28432 CVSS score - 7.5 - MinIO Information Disclosu...