Claire's Customers Targeted with Magecart Payment-Card Skimmer

A Magecart credit-card skimmer was used to attack online customers of the retailer Claire’s for a month and a half, according to researchers. Claire’s – a purveyor of jewelry and accessories – closed its 3,000 physical retail locations worldwide on March 20, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Malware in Ad-Based Images Targets Mac Users

A massive adware campaign has so far impacted up to a million Mac users, using a tricky steganography technique to hide malware in image files. Researchers at Confiant and Malwarebytes said the attacks have been running since Jan. 11, using ads on the web and steganography to spread; steganograph...

Building a Fortress: 3 Key Strategies for IT Security

Last year and early spring has been undoubtedly tough for cybersecurity. We’ve seen one of – if not the – worst cyberattacks on U.S. companies and government agencies in the last decade; and the ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities continue to be dangerous. Knowing just how vulnerable ma...

U.S. Gov Issues Urgent Warning of DNS Hijacking Attacks

The Department of Homeland Security is ordering all federal agencies to urgently audit Domain Name System DNS security for their domains in the next 10 business days. The department’s rare “emergency directive,” issued Tuesday, warned that multiple government domains have been targeted by DNS...

Podcast: Why Securing Active Directory Is a Nightmare

This week, Microsoft rushed out a fix for a Windows NT LAN Manager exploit dubbed “PetitPotam” that forces remote Windows systems to reveal password hashes that can be easily cracked. The frenzy begs the question: Why is securing Microsoft Active Directory AD such a nightmare? When security...

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Security Open to RCE

IBM has issued fixes for vulnerabilities in Spectrum Protect Plus, Big Blue’s security tool found under the umbrella of its Spectrum data storage software branding. The flaws can be exploited by remote attackers to execute code on vulnerable systems. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a data-protection...

April Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Battles 4 Bugs Under Active Exploit

Microsoft has released its April 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates, its first big patch update released since the work-from-home era truly got underway. It’s a doozie, with the tech giant disclosing 113 vulnerabilities. Out of these, 19 are rated as critical, and 94 are rated as important...

Microsoft Oct. Patch Tuesday Squashes 4 Zero-Day Bugs

Today is Microsoft’s October 2021 Patch Tuesday, and it delivers fixes for four zero-day vulnerabilities, one of which is being exploited in a far-reaching espionage campaign that delivers the new MysterySnail RAT malware to Windows servers. Microsoft reported a total of 74 vulnerabilities, three...

PS3 Players Ban: Victims of Surging Gaming Attacks

A reported breach of a Sony folder containing the serial ID numbers for every PlayStation 3 console appears to have led to users being inexplicably banned from the platform. This is just the latest in a shocking spike in attacks on unsuspecting gamers. Sony reportedly left a folder with every PS3...

Google Chrome Bugs Open Browsers to Attack

Google has stomped out several serious code-execution flaws in its Chrome browser. To exploit the flaw, an attacker would merely need to convince a target to visit a specially crafted webpage via phishing or other social-engineering lures. Overall, Google’s release of Chrome 85.0.4183.121 for...

'Google' Sites Are the Latest Ploy by Card-Skimming Thieves

Malicious domains masquerading as Google sites are the latest ploy by payment card-skimming adversaries looking to dupe website visitors. According to analysts at Sucuri, cybercriminals are using typosquatting the practice of changing one letter in a trusted site name to use as a malicious URL to...

Microsoft June Patch Tuesday Fixes 129 Flaws in Largest-Ever Update

Microsoft has released patches for 129 vulnerabilities as part of its June Patch Tuesday updates – the highest number of CVEs ever released by Microsoft in a single month. Within the blockbuster security update, 11 critical remote code-execution flaws were patched in Windows, SharePoint server,...

Equifax Confirms March Struts Vulnerability Behind Breach

Equifax said the culprit behind this summer’s massive breach of 143 million Americans was indeed CVE-2017-5638, an Apache Struts vulnerability patched back in March. The bug was widely assumed by experts to be the “U.S. website application vulnerability” implicated by the company last Thursday,...

APT41 Spies Broke Into 6 US State Networks via a Livestock App

USAHerds – an app used PDF by farmers to speed their response to diseases and other threats to their livestock – has itself become an infection vector, used to pry open at least six U.S. state networks by one of China’s most prolific state-sponsored espionage groups. In a report published by...

30M Dell Devices at Risk for Remote BIOS Attacks, RCE

UPDATE A high-severity series of four vulnerabilities can allow remote adversaries to gain arbitrary code execution in the pre-boot environment on Dell devices, researchers said. They affect an estimated 30 million individual Dell endpoints worldwide. According to an analysis from Eclypsium, the...

Fake Netflix App on Google Play Spreads Malware Via WhatsApp

Malware disguised as a Netflix app, lurking on the Google Play store, spread through WhatsApp messages, researchers have discovered. According to a Check Point Research analysis released on Wednesday, the malware masqueraded as an app called “FlixOnline,” which advertised via WhatsApp messages...

Critical Exim Flaw Opens Servers to Remote Code Execution

A patch has been issued for a critical flaw in the Exim email server software, which could potentially open Exim-based servers up to denial of service or remote code execution attacks. Exim, which is free software used on Unix-like operating systems including Linux or Mac OSX, serves as a mail...

News Wrap: Cartoon Network Hack, the Catholic Church and Jason Statham Scams

A slew of strange security news stories made headlines this week, from scams to hacks. The Threatpost team breaks down the top stories that made everyone scratch their heads, including: –Cartoon Network streaming websites being hacked to play Brazilian stripper videos. – A Catholic church in...

Apple Issues Urgent iPhone Updates; None for Pegasus Zero-Day

iPhone users, drop what you’re doing and update now: Apple has issued a warning about a ream of code-execution vulnerabilities – some of which are remotely exploitable – and experts are emphatically recommending an ASAP update to version 14.7 of iOS and iPadOS. Unfortunately, you aren’t getting a...

Oscar-Bait, Literally: Hackers Abuse Nominated Films for Phishing, Malware

Anticipation surrounding the upcoming 93rd Academy Awards broadcast on Sunday is being used by scammers to trick people into giving up their credentials — they think they’re about to stream Oscar-nominated films, but the reality turns out to be much different. Prior to the winners being announced...

Hackers Amp Up COVID-19 IP Theft Attacks

Attackers are looking to the healthcare space as a rich repository of intellectual property IP now more than ever, as critical research of COVID-19 therapeutics are developed and Pfizer, Moderna and other biotech firms begin to mass produce vaccines. Several incidents show that nation-states are...

DLL Hijacking Exploit Code Posted for PowerPoint, Other Apps

A day after Microsoft released information on the remotely exploitable DLL-hijacking vulnerability that affects dozens of Windows applications, researchers are starting to discover exactly which pieces of software are vulnerable. The list so far includes PowerPoint, Wireshark and some application...

Data Breach Lessons from the Trenches

In this webcast Threatpost editor Tom Spring examines the data breach epidemic with the help of noted breach hunter and cybersecurity expert Chris Vickery. He shares how companies can identify their own insecure data, remediate against a data breach and offers tips on protecting data against futu...

Xerox DocuShare Bugs Allow Data Leaks

Xerox issued a fix for two vulnerabilities impacting its market-leading DocuShare enterprise document management platform. The bugs, if exploited, could expose DocuShare users to an attack resulting in the loss of sensitive data. On Wednesday, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency...

Researchers: PlugX More Prominent Than Ever

Existing in some form since 2008, the popular remote access tool PlugX has as notorious a history as any malware, but according to researchers the tool saw a spike of popularity in 2014 and is the go-to malware for many adversary groups. Many attacks, especially those occurring during the latter...

Microsoft: Attackers Tried to Login to SolarWinds Serv-U Via Log4j Bug

Attackers are trying to log in to SolarWinds Serv-U file-sharing software via attacks exploiting the Log4j flaws. This is a confusing story: Initially, Microsoft had warned on Wednesday that attackers were exploiting a previously undisclosed vulnerability in the SolarWinds Serv-U file-sharing...

Okta Says It Goofed in Handling the Lapsus$ Attack

On Friday, Okta – the authentication firm-cum-Lapsus$-victim – admitted that it “made a mistake” in handling the recently revealed Lapsus$ attack. The mistake: trusting that a service provider had told Okta everything it needed to know about an “unsuccessful” account takeover ATO at one of its...

BazarLoader Malware Abuses Slack, BaseCamp Clouds

The BazarLoader malware is leveraging worker trust in collaboration tools like Slack and BaseCamp, in email messages with links to malware payloads, researchers said. And in a secondary campaign aimed at consumers, the attackers have added a voice-call element to the attack chain. Join experts fr...

Google Fixes High-Severity Chrome Browser Code Execution Bug

The Google Chrome web browser has a high-severity vulnerability that could be used to execute arbitrary code, researchers say. The flaw has been fixed in the Chrome 85 stable channel, set to be rolled out to users this week. The flaw CVE-2020-6492 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the WebGL We...

Critical Cisco VM Bug Allows Remote Takeover of Routers

A critical remote authentication-bypass vulnerability – with the highest possible severity level of 10 out of 10 on the CvSS scale – has been found in the Cisco REST API virtual service container for Cisco IOS XE Software. The bug CVE-2019-12643 affects the following hardware if running the REST...

RAMBleed Side-Channel Attack Exposes Privileged Memory

A team of academic researchers has discovered a follow-on to the Rowhammer class of attacks that allows attackers to read memory data on a target Windows computer, without actually accessing the memory itself. The method is dubbed RAMBleed. Andrew Kwong and Daniel Genkin at the University of...

Gitrob Combs Github Repositories for Secret Company Data

Free online code repositories such as GitHub provide a valuable collaboration service for enterprise developers. But it’s also a trove of potentially sensitive company and project information that’s likely to warrant attention from hackers. An application security specialist from Berlin has...

Apple, Google Both Track Mobile Telemetry Data, Despite Users Opting Out

Mobile device-tracking by Apple and Google take center stage in a report revealing that, despite both allowing users to opt out of sharing telemetry data – they do anyway. “Both iOS and Google Android transmit telemetry, despite the user explicitly opting out of this,” wrote researcher Douglas...

Threat Actors Introduce Unique ‘Newbie’ Hacker Forum

A well-known private hacking forum has recently become more inclusive, introducing a new platform to help newbie threat actors flourish and hone their expertise, research has found. The discovery is unique, as private hacker forums tend to be the exclusive province of elite cybercriminals. Digita...

QuaDream, 2nd Israeli Spyware Firm, Weaponizes iPhone Bug

ForcedEntry – the exploit of a zero-click iMessage zero day that circumvented Apple’s then-brand-new BlastDoor security feature starting a year ago – was picked apart not just by NSO Group with its Pegasus spyware but also by a newly uncovered, smaller smartphone-hacking toolmaker named QuaDream...

QNAP: Get NAS Devices Off the Internet Now

Get your internet-exposed, network-attached storage NAS devices off the internet now, Taiwanese manufacturer QNAP warns: Ransomware and brute-force attacks are widely targeting all network devices. “The most vulnerable victims will be those devices exposed to the Internet without any protection,”...

SAP Patches Nine Critical & High-Severity Bugs

SAP has released 19 new and updated security patches, three of them rated as “HotNews” critical and six as high-priority. “HotNews” is the severity rating that SAP gives to critical vulnerabilities. Two of this month’s sizzlers have a CVSS score of 9.9 and affect SAP Business One and SAP NetWeave...

Golang Cryptomining Worm Offers 15% Speed Boost

A freshly discovered variant of the Golang crypto-worm was recently spotted dropping Monero-mining malware on victim machines; in a switch-up of tactics, the payload binaries are capable of speeding up the mining process by 15 percent, researchers said. According to research from Uptycs, the worm...

New Attacks Slaughter All Spectre Defenses

All defenses against Spectre side-channel attacks can now be considered broken, leaving billions of computers and other devices just as vulnerable today as they were when the hardware flaw was first announced three years ago. A paper published on Friday by a team of computer scientists from the...

Gamers Are Easy Prey for Credential Thieves

Gamers are soft targets for credential-thieving hackers who see them as young, naive and playing it fast and loose with security. “A 14-year-old kid’s gaming credentials are worth more than you think,” said Mike Wilson, CTO at Enzoic. He said credentials tied to Fortnite, Minecraft and RuneScape...

Why I Love (Breaking Into) Your Security Appliances

Amid the Colonial Pipeline and JBS ransomware attacks that sparked shockwaves among media worldwide, news broke that attackers were able to compromise Colonial Pipeline through a legacy VPN account. The account lacked multifactor authentication MFA and wasn’t in active use within the business, a...

Linux Kernel Bug Knocks PCs, IoT Gadgets and More Offline

Multiple TCP-based remote denial-of-service vulnerabilities have been uncovered in the FreeBSD and Linux kernels by Netflix researchers. Exploitation would interrupt TCP connections and therefore streaming content flows to vulnerable Linux-based PCs putting a crimp in binge-watching, for instance...

SandboxEscaper Drops Three More Windows Exploits, IE Zero-Day

On the heels of releasing a Windows zero-day exploit on Wednesday, developer SandboxEscaper has dropped exploit code for four more flaws on Thursday morning. On Wednesday, she dropped a Windows zero-day exploit that would allow local privilege-escalation LPE, by importing legacy tasks from other...

FIDO: Here’s Another Knife to Help Murder Passwords

We all hate passwords, but none of us want to make logging into our accounts a hassle with extra time, steps and devices. That’s why the Fast Identity Online Alliance FIDO published a white paper PDF on Thursday, outlining different use cases for the adoption of their FIDO2 set of specifications...

Redaman Spams Russian Banking Customers with Rotating Tactics

The Redaman banking trojan ramped up its activity in the last part of 2018, employing ongoing back-end changes in order to evade detection, according to a new Wednesday report. Redaman as a malware first came on the scene in 2015, and since then has consistently targeted victims that use Russian...

Trove of Hotmail Passwords Posted Online

If you use Microsoft’s free Hotmail service, it may be time to change your password: Microsoft said Monday that several thousand Hotmail account credentials were posted online over the weekend. In a statement posted to its Windows Live Spaces blog, Microsoft said the company has determined that t...

SolarWinds 2.0 Could Ignite Financial Crisis – Podcast

Could a cyberattack spark the next financial crisis? Following the calamitous, widespread SolarWinds attacks in April, that’s exactly what the New York State Department of Financial Services DFS has suggested. “This incident confirms that the next great financial crisis could come from a...

REvil Ransomware Code Ripped Off by Rivals

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery: The LV ransomware, a strain that cropped up just this spring, turns out to be based on what is most likely pirated REvil ransomware code, according to researchers. A malware analysis of LV from Secureworks Counter Threat Unit CTU found that it...

Google Chrome Zero-Day Afflicts Windows, Mac Users

Google is warning of a zero-day vulnerability in its V8 open-source web engine that’s being actively exploited by attackers. A patch has been issued in version 88 of Google’s Chrome browser — specifically, version 88.0.4324.150 for Windows, Mac and Linux. This update will roll out over the coming...

D-Link Routers at Risk for Remote Takeover from Zero-Day Flaw

Buggy firmware opens a number of D-Link VPN router models to zero-day attacks. The flaws, which lack a complete vendor fix, allow adversaries to launch root command injection attacks that can be executed remotely and allow for device takeover. Impacted are D-Link router models DSR-150, DSR-250,...