Wazuh Offers XDR Functionality at a Price Enterprises Will Love — Free!

Back in 2018, Palo Alto Networks CTO and co-founder Nir Zuk coined a new term to describe the way that businesses needed to approach cybersecurity in the years to come. That term, of course, was extended detection and response XDR. It described a unified cybersecurity infrastructure that brought...

Critical RCE Bugs Found in Pascom Cloud Phone System Used by Businesses

Researchers have disclosed three security vulnerabilities affecting Pascom Cloud Phone System CPS that could be combined to achieve a full pre-authenticated remote code execution of affected systems. Kerbit security researcher Daniel Eshetu said the shortcomings, when chained together, can lead t...

Israel's Candiru Spyware Found Linked to Watering Hole Attacks in U.K and Middle East

Israeli spyware vendor Candiru, which was added to an economic blocklist by the U.S. government this month, is said to have reportedly waged "watering hole" attacks against high-profile entities in the U.K. and the Middle East, new findings reveal. "The victimized websites belong to media outlets...

Squirrel Engine Bug Could Let Attackers Hack Games and Cloud Services

Researchers have disclosed an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Squirrel programming language that can be abused by attackers to break out of the sandbox restrictions and execute arbitrary code within a SquirrelVM, thus giving a malicious actor complete access to the underlying machine...

Ransomware Group FIN12 Aggressively Going After Healthcare Targets

An "aggressive" financially motivated threat actor has been identified as linked to a string of RYUK ransomware attacks since October 2018, while maintaining close partnerships with TrickBot-affiliated threat actors and using a publicly available arsenal of tools such as Cobalt Strike Beacon...

HP OMEN Gaming Hub Flaw Affects Millions of Windows Computers

Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details about a high-severity flaw in the HP OMEN driver software that impacts millions of gaming computers worldwide, leaving them open to an array of attacks. Tracked as CVE-2021-3437 CVSS score: 7.8, the vulnerabilities could allow threat actors t...

IT Giant Accenture Hit by LockBit Ransomware; Hackers Threaten to Leak Data

Global IT consultancy giant Accenture has become the latest company to be hit by the LockBit ransomware gang, according to a post made by the operators on their dark web portal, likely filling a void left in the wake of DarkSide and REvil shutdown. "These people are beyond privacy and security. I...

U.S. Declares Emergency in 17 States Over Fuel Pipeline Cyber Attack

The ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline's networks has prompted the U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration FMCSA to issue a regional emergency declaration in 17 states and the District of Columbia D.C.. The declaration provides a temporary exemption to Parts 390 through 399 of t...

Chinese Hackers Targeted India's Power Grid Amid Geopolitical Tensions

Amid heightened border tensions between India and China, cybersecurity researchers have revealed a concerted campaign against India's critical infrastructure, including the nation's power grid, from Chinese state-sponsored groups. The attacks, which coincided with the standoff between the two...

Cisco Releases Security Patches for Critical Flaws Affecting its Products

Cisco has addressed a maximum severity vulnerability in its Application Centric Infrastructure ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator MSO that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication on vulnerable devices. "An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted...

Privacy Bug in Brave Browser Exposes Dark-Web Browsing History of Its Users

Brave has fixed a privacy issue in its browser that sent queries for .onion domains to public internet DNS resolvers rather than routing them through Tor nodes, thus exposing users' visits to dark web websites. The bug was addressed in a hotfix release V1.20.108 made available yesterday. Brave...

Italy CERT Warns of a New Credential Stealing Android Malware

Researchers have disclosed a new family of Android malware that abuses accessibility services in the device to hijack user credentials and record audio and video. Dubbed "Oscorp" by Italy's CERT-AGID and spotted by AddressIntel, the malware "induces the user to install an accessibility service wi...

Secure Your SaaS Apps With Security Posture Management Platform

As security professionals who have spent more than a few years in the industry, we know a good challenge when we see one. SaaS and cloud-based technologies are growing rapidly, offering organizations convenience and constant feature refreshes without the need to install and deploy software...

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 —...

Case Study: How Incident Response Companies Choose IR Tools

Many companies today have developed a Cybersecurity Incident Response IR plan. It's a sound security practice to prepare a comprehensive IR plan to help the organization react to a sudden security incident in an orderly, rational manner. Otherwise, the organization will develop a plan while...

Chinese Hackers Using New iPhone Hack to Spy On Uyghur Muslims

A Chinese hacking group has been found leveraging a new exploit chain in iOS devices to install a spyware implant targeting the Uyghur Muslim minority in China's autonomous region of Xinjiang. The findings, published by digital forensics firm Volexity, reveal that the exploit — named "Insomnia" —...

49 New Google Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking Cryptocurrency Wallets

Google has ousted 49 Chrome browser extensions from its Web Store that masqueraded as cryptocurrency wallets but contained malicious code to siphon off sensitive information and empty the digital currencies. The 49 browser add-ons, potentially the work of Russian threat actors, were identified fi...

New OpenSMTPD RCE Flaw Affects Linux and OpenBSD Email Servers

OpenSMTPD has been found vulnerable to yet another critical vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to take complete control over email servers running BSD or Linux operating systems. OpenSMTPD, also known as OpenBSD SMTP Server, is an open-source implementation of the Simple Mail Transfe...

Apple iTunes and iCloud for Windows 0-Day Exploited in Ransomware Attacks

Watch out Windows users! The cybercriminal group behind BitPaymer and iEncrypt ransomware attacks has been found exploiting a zero-day vulnerability affecting a little-known component that comes bundled with Apple's iTunes and iCloud software for Windows to evade antivirus detection. The vulnerab...

New Cold Boot Attack Unlocks Disk Encryption On Nearly All Modern PCs

Security researchers have revealed a new attack to steal passwords, encryption keys and other sensitive information stored on most modern computers, even those with full disk encryption. The attack is a new variation of a traditional Cold Boot Attack, which is around since 2008 and lets attackers...

7 Chrome Extensions Spreading Through Facebook Caught Stealing Passwords

Luring users on social media to visit lookalike version of popular websites that pop-up a legitimate-looking Chrome extension installation window is one of the most common modus operandi of cybercriminals to spread malware. Security researchers are again warning users of a new malware campaign th...

Microsoft Adds Support for JavaScript in Excel—What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Shortly after Microsoft announced support for custom JavaScript functions in Excel, someone demonstrated what could possibly go wrong if this feature is abused for malicious purposes. As promised last year at Microsoft's Ignite 2017 conference, the company has now brought custom JavaScript...

Plugins for Popular Text Editors Could Help Hackers Gain Elevated Privileges

Whether you're a developer, designer or a writer, a good text editor always help you save time and make you work more efficiently. For example, I use Sublime a lot while programming because it includes some useful tools like 'syntax highlighting' and 'autocomplete' that every advanced text editor...

Unpatched Wordpress Flaw Could Allow Hackers To Reset Admin Password

WordPress, the most popular CMS in the world, is vulnerable to a logical vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to reset targeted users’ password under certain circumstances. The vulnerability CVE-2017-8295 becomes even more dangerous after knowing that it affects all versions of...

Seagate NAS Zero-Day Vulnerability allows Unauthorized Root Access Remotely

Seagate, a popular vendor of hardware solutions, has a critical zero-day vulnerability in its Network Attached Storage NAS device software that possibly left thousands of its users vulnerable to hackers. Seagate's Business Storage 2-Bay NAS product, found in home and business networks, is...

15-Year-Old JasBug Vulnerability Affects All Versions of Microsoft Windows

Microsoft just issued a critical patch to fix a 15-year-old vulnerability that could be exploited by hackers to remotely hijack users’ PCs running all supported versions of Windows operating system. The critical vulnerability — named "JASBUG" by the researcher who reported the flaw — is due to a...

Facebook Founder Wants to Make Internet Availability as Universal as 911 Emergency Service

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has a dream to make Internet access available to everyone across the world - Zuckerberg argues Internet should be a service as essential as of 911 in the case of an emergency. In a blog post published Monday in The Wall Street Journal, founder of the social...

Harvester Deploys Linux GoGra Backdoor in South Asia Using Microsoft Graph API

The threat actor known as Harvester has been attributed to a new Linux version of its GoGra backdoor deployed as part of attacks likely targeting entities in South Asia. "The malware uses the legitimate Microsoft Graph API and Outlook mailboxes as a covert command-and-control C2 channel, allowing...

Kimsuky Spreads DocSwap Android Malware via QR Phishing Posing as Delivery App

The North Korean threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to a new campaign that distributes a new variant of Android malware called DocSwap via QR codes hosted on phishing sites mimicking Seoul-based logistics firm CJ Logistics formerly CJ Korea Express. "The threat actor leveraged QR codes...

CISA Adds 3 Flaws to KEV Catalog, Impacting AMI MegaRAC, D-Link, Fortinet

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Wednesday added three security flaws, each impacting AMI MegaRAC, D-Link DIR-859 router, and Fortinet FortiOS, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilitie...

Leaked Black Basta Ransomware Chat Logs Reveal Inner Workings and Internal Conflicts

More than a year's worth of internal chat logs from a ransomware gang known as Black Basta have been published online in a leak that provides unprecedented visibility into their tactics and internal conflicts among its members. The Russian-language chats on the Matrix messaging platform between...

Critical Veeam Vulnerability Exploited to Spread Akira and Fog Ransomware

Threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a now-patched security flaw in Veeam Backup & Replication to deploy Akira and Fog ransomware. Cybersecurity vendor Sophos said it has been tracking a series of attacks in the past month leveraging compromised VPN credentials and CVE-2024-40711 to...

GitHub Patches Critical Security Flaw in Enterprise Server Granting Admin Privileges

GitHub has released fixes to address a set of three security flaws impacting its Enterprise Server product, including one critical bug that could be abused to gain site administrator privileges. The most severe of the shortcomings has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-6800, and carries a...

Sonos Speaker Flaws Could Have Let Remote Hackers Eavesdrop on Users

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered weaknesses in Sonos smart speakers that could be exploited by malicious actors to clandestinely eavesdrop on users. The vulnerabilities "led to an entire break in the security of Sonos's secure boot process across a wide range of devices and remotely being...

Google Introduces Project Naptime for AI-Powered Vulnerability Research

Google has developed a new framework called Project Naptime that it says enables a large language model LLM to carry out vulnerability research with an aim to improve automated discovery approaches. "The Naptime architecture is centered around the interaction between an AI agent and a target...

Commando Cat Cryptojacking Attacks Target Misconfigured Docker Instances

The threat actor known as Commando Cat has been linked to an ongoing cryptojacking attack campaign that leverages poorly secured Docker instances to deploy cryptocurrency miners for financial gain. "The attackers used the cmd.cat/chattr docker image container that retrieves the payload from their...

Sandbox Escape Vulnerabilities in Judge0 Expose Systems to Complete Takeover

Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in the Judge0 open-source online code execution system that could be exploited to obtain code execution on the target system. The three flaws, all critical in nature, allow an "adversary with sufficient access to perform a sandbox escape and...

Alert: New Phishing Attack Delivers Keylogger Disguised as Bank Payment Notice

A new phishing campaign has been observed leveraging a novel loader malware to deliver an information stealer and keylogger called Agent Tesla. Trustwave SpiderLabs said it identified a phishing email bearing this attack chain on March 8, 2024. The message masquerades as a bank payment...

APIs Drive the Majority of Internet Traffic and Cybercriminals are Taking Advantage

Application programming interfaces APIs are the connective tissue behind digital modernization, helping applications and databases exchange data more effectively. The State of API Security in 2024 Report from Imperva, a Thales company, found that the majority of internet traffic 71% in 2023 was A...

CACTUS Ransomware Exploits Qlik Sense Vulnerabilities in Targeted Attacks

A CACTUS ransomware campaign has been observed exploiting recently disclosed security flaws in a cloud analytics and business intelligence platform called Qlik Sense to obtain a foothold into targeted environments. "This campaign marks the first documented instance ... where threat actors deployi...

Iranian Hackers Launch Destructive Cyber Attacks on Israeli Tech and Education Sectors

Israeli higher education and tech sectors have been targeted as part of a series of destructive cyber attacks that commenced in January 2023 with an aim to deploy previously undocumented wiper malware. The intrusions, which took place as recently as October, have been attributed to an Iranian...

Financially Motivated UNC3944 Threat Actor Shifts Focus to Ransomware Attacks

The financially motivated threat actor known as UNC3944 is pivoting to ransomware deployment as part of an expansion to its monetization strategies, Mandiant has revealed. "UNC3944 has demonstrated a stronger focus on stealing large amounts of sensitive data for extortion purposes and they appear...

Researchers Expose New Severe Flaws in Wago and Schneider Electric OT Products

Three security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in operational technology OT products from Wago and Schneider Electric. The flaws, per Forescout, are part of a broader set of shortcomings collectively called OT:ICEFALL, which now comprises a total of 61 issues spanning 13 different vendors...

U.S. Offers $10 Million Bounty for Capture of Notorious Russian Ransomware Operator

A Russian national has been charged and indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ for launching ransomware attacks against "thousands of victims" in the country and across the world. Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev aka Wazawaka, m1x, Boriselcin, and Uhodiransomwar, the 30-year-old individual in...

Large-scale Cyber Attack Hijacks East Asian Websites for Adult Content Redirects

A widespread malicious cyber operation has hijacked thousands of websites aimed at East Asian audiences to redirect visitors to adult-themed content since early September 2022. The ongoing campaign entails injecting malicious JavaScript code to the hacked websites, often connecting to the target...

Core Members of DoppelPaymer Ransomware Gang Targeted in Germany and Ukraine

Law enforcement authorities from Germany and Ukraine have targeted suspected core members of a cybercrime group that has been behind large-scale attacks using DoppelPaymer ransomware. The operation, which took place on February 28, 2023, was carried out with support from the Dutch National Police...

Application Security vs. API Security: What is the difference?

As digital transformation takes hold and businesses become increasingly reliant on digital services, it has become more important than ever to secure applications and APIs Application Programming Interfaces. With that said, application security and API security are two critical components of a...

Critical RCE Vulnerability Discovered in ClamAV Open Source Antivirus Software

Cisco has rolled out security updates to address a critical flaw reported in the ClamAV open source antivirus engine that could lead to remote code execution on susceptible devices. Tracked as CVE-2023-20032 CVSS score: 9.8, the issue relates to a case of remote code execution residing in the HFS...

New Report Reveals NikoWiper Malware That Targeted Ukraine Energy Sector

The Russia-affiliated Sandworm used yet another wiper malware strain dubbed NikoWiper as part of an attack that took place in October 2022 targeting an energy sector company in Ukraine. "The NikoWiper is based on SDelete, a command line utility from Microsoft that is used for securely deleting...

QNAP Fixes Critical Vulnerability in NAS Devices with Latest Security Updates

Taiwanese company QNAP has released updates to remediate a critical security flaw affecting its network-attached storage NAS devices that could lead to arbitrary code injection. Tracked as CVE-2022-27596, the vulnerability is rated 9.8 out of a maximum of 10 on the CVSS scoring scale. It affects...