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China-backed APT41 Hackers Targeted 13 Organisations Worldwide Last Year
The Chinese advanced persistent threat APT actor tracked as Winnti has targeted at least 13 organizations geographically spanning across the U.S, Taiwan, India, Vietnam, and China against the backdrop of four different campaigns in 2021. "The targeted industries included the public sector,...
Hackers Using Bumblebee Loader to Compromise Active Directory Services
The malware loader known as Bumblebee is being increasingly co-opted by threat actors associated with BazarLoader, TrickBot, and IcedID in their campaigns to breach target networks for post-exploitation activities. "Bumblebee operators conduct intensive reconnaissance activities and redirect the...
Penetration Testing or Vulnerability Scanning? What's the Difference?
Pentesting and vulnerability scanning are often confused for the same service. The problem is, business owners often use one when they really need the other. Let's dive in and explain the differences. People frequently confuse penetration testing and vulnerability scanning, and it's easy to see...
Apple Releases Security Updates to Patch Two New Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Apple on Wednesday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS platforms to remediate two zero-day vulnerabilities previously exploited by threat actors to compromise its devices. The list of issues is below - CVE-2022-32893 - An out-of-bounds write issue in WebKit which could lead to th...
Cybercriminals Developing BugDrop Malware to Bypass Android Security Features
In a sign that malicious actors continue to find ways to work around Google Play Store security protections, researchers have spotted a previously undocumented Android dropper trojan that's currently in development. "This new malware tries to abuse devices using a novel technique, not seen before...
New Google Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Being Exploited in the Wild
Google on Tuesday rolled out patches for Chrome browser for desktops to contain an actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-2856, the issue has been described as a case of insufficient validation of untrusted input in Intents. Security researchers Ashley She...
Researchers Link Multi-Year Mass Credential Theft Campaign to Chinese Hackers
A Chinese state-sponsored threat activity group named RedAlpha has been attributed to a multi-year mass credential theft campaign aimed at global humanitarian, think tank, and government organizations. "In this activity, RedAlpha very likely sought to gain access to email accounts and other onlin...
Lean Security 101: 3 Tips for Building Your Framework
Cobalt, Lazarus, MageCart, Evil, Revil — cybercrime syndicates spring up so fast it's hard to keep track. Until…they infiltrate your system. But you know what's even more overwhelming than rampant cybercrime? Building your organization's security framework. CIS, NIST, PCI DSS, HIPAA, HITrust, and...
Malicious Browser Extensions Targeted Over a Million Users So Far This Year
More than 1.31 million users attempted to install malicious or unwanted web browser extensions at least once, new findings from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky show. "From January 2020 to June 2022, more than 4.3 million unique users were attacked by adware hiding in browser extensions, which is...
North Korea Hackers Spotted Targeting Job Seekers with macOS Malware
The North Korea-backed Lazarus Group has been observed targeting job seekers with malware capable of executing on Apple Macs with Intel and M1 chipsets. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET linked it to a campaign dubbed "Operation Interception" that was first disclosed in June 2020 and involved using...
RubyGems Makes Multi-Factor Authentication Mandatory for Top Package Maintainers
RubyGems, the official package manager for the Ruby programming language, has become the latest platform to mandate multi-factor authentication MFA for popular package maintainers, following the footsteps of NPM and PyPI. To that end, owners of gems with over 180 million total downloads are...
ÆPIC and SQUIP Vulnerabilities Found in Intel and AMD Processors
A group of researchers has revealed details of a new vulnerability affecting Intel CPUs that enables attackers to obtain encryption keys and other secret information from the processors. Dubbed ÆPIC Leak, the weakness is the first-of-its-kind to architecturally disclose sensitive data in a manner...
New Evil PLC Attack Weaponizes PLCs to Breach OT and Enterprise Networks
Cybersecurity researchers have elaborated a novel attack technique that weaponizes programmable logic controllers PLCs to gain an initial foothold in engineering workstations and subsequently invade the operational technology OT networks. Dubbed "Evil PLC" attack by industrial security firm...
Unified Threat Management: The All-in-One Cybersecurity Solution
UTM Unified threat management is thought to be an all-in-one solution for cybersecurity. In general, it is a versatile software or hardware firewall solution integrated with IPS Intrusion Prevention System and other security services. A universal gateway allows the user to manage network security...
Microsoft Warns About Phishing Attacks by Russia-linked Hackers
Microsoft on Monday revealed it took steps to disrupt phishing operations undertaken by a "highly persistent threat actor" whose objectives align closely with Russian state interests. The company is tracking the espionage-oriented activity cluster under its chemical element-themed moniker...
Russian State Hackers Continue to Attack Ukrainian Entities with Infostealer Malware
Russian state-sponsored actors are continuing to strike Ukrainian entities with information-stealing malware as part of what's suspected to be an espionage operation. Symantec, a division of Broadcom Software, attributed the malicious campaign to a threat actor tracked Shuckworm, also known as...
Nearly 1,900 Signal Messenger Accounts Potentially Compromised in Twilio Hack
Popular end-to-end encrypted messaging service Signal on Monday disclosed the cyberattack aimed at Twilio earlier this month may have exposed the phone numbers of roughly 1,900 users. "For about 1,900 users, an attacker could have attempted to re-register their number to another device or learned...
Credential Theft Is (Still) A Top Attack Method
Credential theft is clearly still a problem. Even after years of warnings, changing password requirements, and multiple forms of authentication, password stealing remains a top attack method used by cyber criminals. The latest report from the Ponemon Institute shares that 54% of security incident...
SOVA Android Banking Trojan Returns With New Capabilities and Targets
The SOVA Android banking trojan is continuing to be actively developed with upgraded capabilities to target no less than 200 mobile applications, including banking apps and crypto exchanges and wallets, up from 90 apps when it started out. That's according to the latest findings from Italian...
Newly Uncovered PyPI Package Drops Fileless Cryptominer to Linux Systems
A now-removed rogue package pushed to the official third-party software repository for Python has been found to deploy cryptominers on Linux systems. The module, named "secretslib" and downloaded 93 times prior to its deletion, was released to the Python Package Index PyPI on August 6, 2022 and i...
Tornado Cash Developer Arrested After U.S. Sanctions the Cryptocurrency Mixer
Dutch authorities on Friday announced the arrest of a software developer in Amsterdam who is alleged to be working for Tornado Cash, days after the U.S. sanctioned the decentralized crypto mixing service. The 29-year-old individual is "suspected of involvement in concealing criminal financial flo...
Chinese Hackers Backdoored MiMi Chat App to Target Windows, Linux, macOS Users
A pair of reports from cybersecurity firms SEKOIA and Trend Micro sheds light on a new campaign undertaken by a Chinese threat actor named Lucky Mouse that involves leveraging a trojanized version of a cross-platform messaging app to backdoor systems. Infection chains leverage a chat application...
Researchers Uncover UEFI Secure Boot Bypass in 3 Microsoft Signed Boot Loaders
A security feature bypass vulnerability has been uncovered in three signed third-party Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI boot loaders that allow bypass of the UEFI Secure Boot feature. "These vulnerabilities can be exploited by mounting the EFI System Partition and replacing the existing...
Xiaomi Phones with MediaTek Chips Found Vulnerable to Forged Payments
Security flaws have been identified in Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T and Redmi Note 11 models, which could be exploited to disable the mobile payment mechanism and even forge transactions via a rogue Android app installed on the devices. Check Point said it found the flaws in devices powered by MediaTek...
U.S. Government Offers $10 Million Reward for Information on Conti Ransomware Gang
The U.S. State Department on Thursday announced a $10 million reward for information related to five individuals associated with the Conti ransomware group. The reward offer is also notable for the fact that it marks the first time the face of a Conti associate, known as "Target," has been...
Facebook Testing Default End-to-End Encryption and Encrypted Backups in Messenger
Social media company Meta said it will begin testing end-to-end encryption E2EE on its Messenger platform this week for select users as the default option, as the company continues to slowly add security layers to its various chat services. "If you're in the test group, some of your most frequent...
Cisco Patches High-Severity Vulnerability Affecting ASA and Firepower Solutions
Cisco on Wednesday released patches to contain multiple flaws in its software that could be abused to leak sensitive information on susceptible appliances. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2022-20866 CVSS score: 7.4, has been described as a "logic error" when handling RSA keys on devices...
Fast and Secure VPN on a Budget? Private Internet Access VPN Has You Covered
Back when the internet consisted of a handful of computers networked together across a few research institutions, nobody could have imagined that it would one day form the backbone of a new digital way of life. And that probably explains why none of the researchers who thought up its core...
Researchers Warn of Ongoing Mass Exploitation of Zimbra RCE Vulnerability
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday added two flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The two high-severity issues relate to weaknesses in Zimbra Collaboration, both of which could be chained to achieve...
Conti Cybercrime Cartel Using 'BazarCall' Phishing Attacks as Initial Attack Vector
A trio of offshoots from the notorious Conti cybercrime cartel have resorted to the technique of call back phishing as an initial access vector to breach targeted networks. "Three autonomous threat groups have since adopted and independently developed their own targeted phishing tactics derived...
Cisco Confirms It's Been Hacked by Yanluowang Ransomware Gang
Networking equipment major Cisco on Wednesday confirmed it was the victim of a cyberattack on May 24, 2022 after the attackers got hold of an employee's personal Google account that contained passwords synced from their web browser. "Initial access to the Cisco VPN was achieved via the successful...
Hackers Behind Cuba Ransomware Attacks Using New RAT Malware
Threat actors associated with the Cuba ransomware have been linked to previously undocumented tactics, techniques and procedures TTPs, including a new remote access trojan called ROMCOM RAT on compromised systems. The new findings come from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 threat intelligence team,...
What the Zola Hack Can Teach Us About Password Security
Password security is only as strong as the password itself. Unfortunately, we are often reminded of the danger of weak, reused, and compromised passwords with major cybersecurity breaches that start with stolen credentials. For example, in May 2022, the popular wedding planning site, Zola, was th...
Critical Flaws Disclosed in Device42 IT Asset Management Software
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple severe security vulnerabilities asset management platform Device42 that, if successfully exploited, could enable a malicious actor to seize control of affected systems. "By exploiting these issues, an attacker could impersonate other users, obtain...
GitHub Dependabot Now Alerts Developers On Vulnerable GitHub Actions
Cloud-based code hosting platform GitHub has announced that it will now start sending Dependabot alerts for vulnerable GitHub Actions to help developers fix security issues in CI/CD workflows. "When a security vulnerability is reported in an action, our team of security researchers will create an...
Former Twitter Employee Found Guilty of Spying for Saudi Arabia
A former Twitter employee has been pronounced guilty for his role in digging up private information pertaining to certain Twitter users and turning over that data to Saudi Arabia. Ahmad Abouammo, 44, was convicted by a jury after a two-week trial in San Francisco federal court, Bloomberg reported...
Experts Uncover Details on Maui Ransomware Attack by North Korean Hackers
The first ever incident possibly involving the ransomware family known as Maui occurred on April 15, 2021, aimed at an unnamed Japanese housing company. The disclosure from Kaspersky arrives a month after U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies issued an advisory about the use of the...
The Business of Hackers-for-Hire Threat Actors
Today's web has made hackers' tasks remarkably easy. For the most part, hackers don't even have to hide in the dark recesses of the web to take advantage of people any longer; they can be found right in plain sight on social media sites or forums, professionally advertised with their websites, an...
Hackers Behind Twilio Breach Also Targeted Cloudflare Employees
Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Tuesday disclosed at least 76 employees and their family members received text messages on their personal and work phones bearing similar characteristics as that of the sophisticated phishing attack against Twilio. The attack, which transpired around the...
CISA Issues Warning on Active Exploitation of UnRAR Software for Linux Systems
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Tuesday added a recently disclosed security flaw in the UnRAR utility to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2022-30333 CVSS score: 7.5, the issue concerns a path...
Microsoft Issues Patches for 121 Flaws, Including Zero-Day Under Active Attack
As many as 121 new security flaws were patched by Microsoft as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for the month of August, which also includes a fix for a Support Diagnostic Tool vulnerability that the company said is being actively exploited in the wild. Of the 121 bugs, 17 are rated Critical, 10...
Twilio Suffers Data Breach After Employees Fall Victim to SMS Phishing Attack
Customer engagement platform Twilio on Monday disclosed that a "sophisticated" threat actor gained "unauthorized access" using an SMS-based phishing campaign aimed at its staff to gain information on a "limited number" of accounts. The social-engineering attack was bent on stealing employee...
U.S. Sanctions Virtual Currency Mixer Tornado Cash for Alleged Use in Laundering
The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday placed sanctions against crypto mixing service Tornado Cash, citing its use by the North Korea-backed Lazarus Group in the high-profile hacks of Ethereum bridges to launder and cash out the ill-gotten money. Tornado Cash, which allows users to move...
The Truth About False Positives in Security
TL;DR: As weird as it might sound, seeing a few false positives reported by a security scanner is probably a good sign and certainly better than seeing none. Let's explain why. Introduction False positives have made a somewhat unexpected appearance in our lives in recent years. I am, of course,...
The Truth About False Positives in Security
TL;DR: As weird as it might sound, seeing a few false positives reported by a security scanner is probably a good sign and certainly better than seeing none. Let's explain why. Introduction False positives have made a somewhat unexpected appearance in our lives in recent years. I am, of course,...
10 Credential Stealing Python Libraries Found on PyPI Repository
In what's yet another instance of malicious packages creeping into public code repositories, 10 modules have been removed from the Python Package Index PyPI for their ability to harvest critical data points such as passwords and API tokens. The packages "install info-stealers that enable attacker...
Chinese Hackers Targeted Dozens of Industrial Enterprises and Public Institutions
Over a dozen military-industrial complex enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and Europe have come under a wave of targeted attacks since January 2022 to steal confidential data by simultaneously making use of six different backdoors. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky attributed...
New Orchard Botnet Uses Bitcoin Founder's Account Info to Generate Malicious Domains
A new botnet named Orchard has been observed using Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto's account transaction information to generate domain names to conceal its command-and-control C2 infrastructure. "Because of the uncertainty of Bitcoin transactions, this technique is more unpredictable than using...
The Benefits of Building a Mature and Diverse Blue Team
A few days ago, a friend and I were having a rather engaging conversation that sparked my excitement. We were discussing my prospects of becoming a red teamer as a natural career progression. The reason I got stirred up is not that I want to change either my job or my position, as I am a happy...
Researchers Uncover Classiscam Scam-as-a-Service Operations in Singapore
A sophisticated scam-as-a-service operation dubbed Classiscam has now infiltrated into Singapore, more than 1.5 years after expanding to Europe. "Scammers posing as legitimate buyers approach sellers with the request to purchase goods from their listings and the ultimate aim of stealing payment...