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...

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...

Critical Flaws Found in Eight Wireless Presentation Systems

Multiple wireless presentation systems have critical vulnerabilities – including a remote command-injection glitch and an unauthenticated remote stack buffer overflow flaw. Wireless presentation systems allow users to display their content directly from their laptop no network cable necessary by...

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...

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,...

Critical VMware Bug Opens Up Corporate Treasure to Hackers

A critical information-disclosure bug in VMware’s Directory Service vmdir could lay bare the contents of entire corporate virtual infrastructures, if exploited by cyberattackers. The vmdir is part of VMware’s vCenter Server product, which provides centralized management of virtualized hosts and...

DroidSheep Android App Hijacks Sessions in One Click, Developer Meant Well

Following the success of the Firesheep application, a new Android application called DroidSheep allows users to hijack Web sessions of popular online services over insecure Wifi connections. DroidSheep enables Android-based man in the middle attacks against a wide range of Web sites, including...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Inside Patch Tuesday at the Microsoft Security Response Center

In this video, Dustin Childs of the Microsoft Security Response Center gives an inside look at what it’s like in Redmond on Patch Tuesday and what goes into the efforts that Microsoft makes to get fixes out every month. View the video at Microsoft’s Security TechCenter...

Lapsus$ Data Kidnappers Claim Snatches From Microsoft, Okta

Both Microsoft and Okta are investigating claims by the new, precocious data extortion group Lapsus$ that the gang has breached their systems. Lapsus$ claimed to have gotten itself “superuser/admin” access to internal systems at authentication firm Okta. It also posted 40GB worth of files to its...

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...

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...

Black Hat: Novel DNS Hack Spills Confidential Corp Data

LAS VEGAS – Amazon and Google patched a domain name service DNS bug that allowed attackers to snoop on the confidential networking settings of companies – revealing computer and employee names along with office locations and exposed web resources. The vulnerability, outlined in a Black Hat USA 20...

Zero-Day Used to Wipe My Book Live Devices

Western Digital will start providing free data-recovery services in July for people whose data was wiped off their network-attached storage NAS devices last week, the company said in an update on Tuesday. The company is also planning to offer a trade-in program to get customers onto the cloud –...

Ring Adds End-to-End Encryption to Quell Security Uproar

Smart doorbell maker Ring is giving cybersecurity critics less to gripe about with the introduction of end-to-end encryption to many of its models. Ring products, which have been a juggernaut success with consumers, have faced a litany of harsh criticism from cybersecurity experts for what they s...

High-Severity Cisco Flaw Found in CMX Software For Retailers

A high-severity flaw in Cisco’s smart Wi-Fi solution for retailers could allow a remote attacker to alter the password of any account user on affected systems. The vulnerability is part of a number of patches issued by Cisco addressing 67 high-severity CVEs on Wednesday. This included flaws found...

Microsoft: Lapsus$ Used Employee Account to Steal Source Code

In a new blog post published last night, Microsoft confirmed that the Lapsus$ extortion group hacked one of its employee’s accounts to get “limited access” to project source code repositories. “No customer code or data was involved in the observed activities. Our investigation has found a single...

IKEA Hit by Email Reply-Chain Cyberattack

As of Friday – as in, shopping-on-steroids Black Friday – retail titan IKEA was wrestling with a then-ongoing reply-chain email phishing attack in which attackers were malspamming replies to stolen email threads. BleepingComputer got a look at internal emails – one of which is replicated below –...

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...

APT Charming Kitten Pounces on Medical Researchers

Security researchers have linked a late-2020 phishing campaign aimed at stealing credentials from 25 senior professionals at medical research organizations in the United States and Israel to an advanced persistent threat group with links to Iran called Charming Kitten. The campaign—dubbed BadBloo...

'Cable Haunt' Bug Plagues Millions of Home Modems

UPDATED Multiple cable modems used by ISPs to provide broadband into homes have a critical vulnerability in their underlying reference architecture that would allow an attacker full remote control of the device. The footprint for the affected devices numbers in the hundreds of millions worldwide...

Macy's Suffers Data Breach by Magecart Cybercriminals

The department store Macy’s is warning that web skimmer malware was discovered on Macys.com collecting customers’ payment card information. The attack has been linked to Magecart, a notorious umbrella group made up of various cybercriminal affiliates that is known for injecting payment card...

Adobe Issues Unscheduled Updates for Experience Manager Platform

Adobe has issued unscheduled patches for vulnerabilities rated “important” across its Experience Manager platform, which allows developers to create mobile apps, social campaigns and landing pages. Overall, Adobe issued three fixes, including an “important” flaw CVE-2018-19726 and a “moderate” fl...

Bridgestone Hit as Ransomware Torches Toyota Supply Chain

On Friday, Bridgestone Corp. admitted that a subsidiary experienced a ransomware attack in February, prompting it to shut down the computer network and production at its factories in North and Middle America for about a week, said Reuters. Among other things, Bridgestone is a major supplier of...

Second Try at LSASS Patch Addresses Vulnerability

Microsoft’s second try at patching a vulnerability in a critical Windows process apparently is more successful than its first attempt. Yesterday, as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday release of security bulletins, Microsoft sent out an update that fixed a denial-of-service vulnerability in the...

Critical MQTT-Related Bugs Open Industrial Networks to RCE Via Moxa

Critical security vulnerabilities in Moxa’s MXview web-based network management system open the door to an unauthenticated remote code execution RCE as SYSTEM on any unpatched MXview server, researchers warned this week. The five bugs, affecting versions 3.x to 3.2.2, score a collective 10 out of...

From PowerShell to Payload: An Analysis of Weaponized Malware

UPDATE Click, and boom, your network is compromised. All a hacker needs is one successful exploit and you could have a very bad day. Recently we uncovered one artifact that we would like to break down and showcase. We will get “into the weeds” here and really deep-dive on the technical details, s...

Inside the Hoaxcalls Botnet: Both Success and Failure

The Hoaxcalls botnet, built to carry out large-scale distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks, has been actively in development since the beginning of the year. One of its hallmarks is that it uses different vulnerability exploits for initial compromise. Researchers, however, have discovered th...

Shades of BlueKeep: Wormable Remote Desktop Bugs Top August Patch Tuesday List

Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday release contains updates for 93 CVEs, including 29 that are rated critical in severity. The highest priority of these include four critical remote code-execution RCE vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop Services RDS and a critical RCE flaw in Microsoft Word. Also, tw...

Phishing Campaign Targeted Those Aiding Ukraine Refugees

Cyberattackers used a compromised Ukrainian military email address to phish EU government employees who’ve been involved in managing the logistics of refugees fleeing Ukraine, according to a new report. Ukraine has been at the center of an unprecedented wave of cyberattacks in recent weeks and...

Chase Bank Phish Swims Past Exchange Email Protections

Threat actors are impersonating Chase Bank in two phishing attacks that can slip past Microsoft Exchange security protections in an aim to steal credentials from victims — by spoofing real-life customer scenarios. Researchers from Armorblox recently discovered the attacks, one of which claims to...

Intel ZombieLoad Side-Channel Attack: 10 Takeaways

Intel on Tuesday revealed a new class of speculative execution vulnerabilities, dubbed Microarchitectural Data Sampling MDS, which impact all its modern CPUs. The flaws all ultimately depend on different ways of executing side channel attacks to siphon data from impacted systems – and result in...

NTP Amplification Blamed for 400 Gbps DDoS Attack

For those of you who thought the infamous Spamhaus distributed denial-of-service attack set an ugly bar for the volume of spurious traffic sent at a target, gird yourself for worse. A massive DDoS attack, reaching at its peak 400 Gbps of bad traffic, was detected late yesterday against a number o...

TrickBot Ravages Customers of Amazon, PayPal and Other Top Brands

Cyberattackers are targeting 60 different high-profile companies with the TrickBot malware, researchers have warned, with many of those in the U.S. The goal is to attack those companies’ customers, according to Check Point Research CPR, which are being cherry-picked for victimization. According t...

US Military Ties Prolific MuddyWater Cyberespionage APT to Iran

U.S. Cyber Command has confirmed that MuddyWater – an advanced persistent threat APT cyberespionage actor aka Mercury, Static Kitten, TEMP.Zagros or Seedworm that’s historically targeted government victims in the Middle East – is an Iranian intelligence outfit. The link has been suspected, and no...

Actively Exploited Microsoft Zero-Day Allows App Spoofing, Malware Delivery

Microsoft has addressed a zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in the wild to deliver Emotet, Trickbot and more in the form of fake applications. The patch came as part of the computing giant’s December Patch Tuesday update, which included a total of 67 fixes for security vulnerabilities. Th...

DoppelPaymer Gang Leaks Files from Illinois AG After Ransom Negotiations Break Down

The ransomware gang identified as DoppelPaymer has leaked a substantial collection of files from the Illinois Office of the Attorney General OAG on a server controlled by the cybercriminal group. The move came after ransom negotiations between the two parties broke down following a ransomware...

FritzFrog Botnet Attacks Millions of SSH Servers

A peer-to-peer P2 botnet called FritzFrog has hopped onto the scene, and researchers said it has been actively breaching SSH servers since January. SSH servers are pieces of software found in routers and IoT devices, among other machines, and they use the secure shell protocol to accept connectio...

Cisco Aironet Access Points Plagued By Critical, High-Severity Flaws

Cisco Systems has released a security update stomping out critical and high-severity flaws impacting its Aironet access points, which are entry-level wireless access points APs used by mid-size enterprises in their offices or small warehouses. It also issued a slew of additional patches addressin...

WordPress Plugin WP Statistics Patches XSS Flaw

WordPress plugin WP Statistics has patched a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability that could allow for full website takeover, if the website is operating under certain non-default settings. WP Statistics gives website owners a tool to analyze site statistics, such as the number of visitors on t...

Zero-Day No More: Windows Bug Gets a Fix

The local privilege-escalation LPE zero-day bug in Microsoft Task Scheduler, disclosed by SandboxEscaper on Twitter in late May by way of making public a fully functioning exploit, now has a micropatch. The interim fix, from 0patch, was issued Tuesday to address the vulnerability. The bug would...

State-Sponsored DNS Hijacking Infiltrates 40 Firms Globally

A newly-discovered state-sponsored campaign is targeting national security organizations across the Middle East and North Africa MENA – and elsewhere – with domain name system DNS hijacking attacks, used to scoop up credentials. The campaign, dubbed “Sea Turtle” by the Cisco Talos researchers who...

Former Researcher Iceman Sentenced to 13 Years

A former security researcher turned criminal hacker has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for hacking into financial institutions and stealing credit card account numbers. Max Ray Butler, who used the hacker pseudonym Iceman, was sentenced Friday morning in U.S. District Court in...

Black Hat 2020: 'Zero-Click' MacOS Exploit Chain Uses Microsoft Office Macros

A new “zero-click” MacOS exploit chain could allow attackers to deliver malware to MacOS users using a Microsoft Office document with macros. The attack bypasses security measures that both Microsoft and Apple have put in place to protect MacOS users from malicious macros. The exploit chain,...

China's APT3 Pilfers Cyberweapons from the NSA

The advanced persistent threat APT group known as APT3, which researchers across the board link to the Chinese government, has built a full in-house battery of exploits and cybertools collectively dubbed “UPSynergy.” An analysis of the toolkit has uncovered a geopolitical cat-and-mouse spy game: ...