Stuxnet LNK Exploits Still Widely Circulated

One of the alleged mandates around the development of the Stuxnet worm was that malware’s numerous components—which included a handful of zero days—should never escape the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in Iran. Eight years later, evidence continues to mount as to how that mandate was...

Lapsus$ ‘Back from Vacation’

The Lapsus$ data extortionists are back from a week-long “vacation,” they announced on Telegram, posting 70GB worth of data purportedly stolen from software development giant Globant. “We are officially back from a vacation,” the gang wrote on their Telegram channel, posting images of exfiltrated...

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...

Samsung Screwed Up Encryption on 100M Phones

Samsung shipped an estimated 100 million smartphones with botched encryption, including models ranging from the 2017 Galaxy S8 on up to last year’s Galaxy S21. Researchers at Tel Aviv University found what they called “severe” cryptographic design flaws that could have let attackers siphon the...

Microsoft Patches A Pair of Zero-Days Under Active Attack

Microsoft has addressed 77 vulnerabilities in its July Patch Tuesday update, with 15 of them rated as critical and two known to be under active exploit; and Adobe issued a small group of updates, with surprisingly none for Acrobat Reader or Flash. Eleven of the critical bugs are for scripting...

Microsoft Exchange ‘ProxyToken’ Bug Allows Email Snooping

A serious security vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server that researchers have dubbed ProxyToken could allow an unauthenticated attacker to access and steal emails from a target’s mailbox. Microsoft Exchange uses two websites; one, the front end, is what users connect to in order to access...

Nvidia Warns Windows Gamers of Serious Graphics Driver Bugs

Graphics chipmaker Nvidia has fixed two high-severity flaws in its graphics drivers. Attackers can exploit the vulnerabilities to view sensitive data, gain escalated privileges or launch denial-of-service DoS attacks in impacted Windows gaming devices. Nvidia’s graphics driver also known as the G...

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...

Attacks on New Microsoft Zero Day Using Multi-Stage Malware

Attackers exploiting the Microsoft Windows and Office zero day revealed yesterday are using an exploit that includes a malicious RAR file as well as a fake Office document as the lure, and are installing a wide variety of malicious components on newly infected systems. The attacks seen thus far a...

Mac Malware Targets Apple’s New M1 Processor

Three months after Apple launched its new M1 system-on-a-chip SoC, cybercriminals have developed what may be the first malicious macOS application targeting the mobile giant’s first in-house silicon. Click to Register The recently uncovered malicious application, called GoSearch22, natively runs ...

Sodinokibi Ransomware Behind Travelex Fiasco: Report

The Sodinokibi ransomware strain is apparently behind the New Year’s Eve attack on foreign currency-exchange giant Travelex, which has left its customers and banking partners stranded without its services. The criminals behind the attack are demanding a six-figure sum in return for the decryption...

Carrier IQ Hires a Chief Privacy Officer

Carrier IQ, a startup heavily bruised last fall by harsh criticism of its handset diagnostic software, today announced it’s hired a high-profile lawyer as its Chief Privacy Officer. According to a news release, Magnolia Mansourkia Mobley, a CIPP and former Verizon executive, will be tasked with...

Potent Emotet Variant Spreads Via Stolen Email Credentials

Emotet’s resurgence in April seems to be the signal of a full comeback for what was once dubbed “the most dangerous malware in the world,” with researchers spotting various new malicious phishing campaigns using hijacked emails to spread new variants of the malware. The “new and improved” version...

Adobe Critical Code-Execution Flaws Plague Windows Users

Adobe has issued patches for a slew of critical security vulnerabilities, which, if exploited, could allow for arbitrary code execution on vulnerable Windows systems. Affected products include Adobe’s Framemaker document processor, designed for writing and editing large or complex documents;...

AWS Cryptojacking Worm Spreads Through the Cloud

A cryptomining worm from the group known as TeamTNT is spreading through the Amazon Web Services AWS cloud and collecting credentials. Once the logins are harvested, the malware logs in and deploys the XMRig mining tool to mine Monero cryptocurrency. According to researchers at Cado Security, the...

Android Zero-Day Bug Opens Door to Privilege Escalation Attack, Researchers Warn

UPDATE Researchers are warning of a high-severity zero-day vulnerability in Google’s Android operating system, which if exploited could give a local attacker escalated privileges on a target’s device. The specific flaw exists within the v4l2 Video4Linux 2 driver, which is the Android media driver...

Post Grid WordPress Plugin Flaws Allow Site Takeovers

Two high-severity vulnerabilities in Post Grid, a WordPress plugin with more than 60,000 installations, opens the door to site takeovers, according to researchers. To boot, nearly identical bugs are also found in Post Grid’s sister plug-in, Team Showcase, which has 6,000 installations. The issues...

Houzz Urges Password Resets After Data Breach

Interior decorating website Houzz on Friday issued a notice that user data – including usernames, passwords and IP addresses – had been accessed by an “unauthorized third party.” Houzz connects consumers to varying home-goods departments or professionals for purchasing furniture. The Palo Alto,...

COVID-19 Results for 25% of Wyoming Accidentally Posted Online

The Wyoming Department of Health WDH said on Wednesday it accidentally posted COVID test results of state residents onto their public-facing storage buckets. The WDH said in a public advisory that an employee fumbled the health information of about 164,021 Wyoming residents and of people from oth...

Anti-Vaxxer Hijacks QR Codes at COVID-19 Check-In Sites

Quick-response QR codes used by a COVID-19 contact-tracing program were hijacked by a man who simply slapped up scam QR codes on top to redirect users to an anti-vaccination website, according to local police. He now faces two counts of “obstructing operations carried out relative to COVID-19 und...

Various Malware Lurks in Discord App to Target Gamers

A rise in online gaming, tied to pandemic-mandated social distancing, has led to a spike in criminals targeting the demographic. The latest effort to exploit the trend is malicious files planted inside the Discord platform designed to trick users into downloading malware-laced files. Researchers...

Cisco Warns of Severe DoS Flaws in Network Security Software

Cisco has stomped out a slew of high-severity vulnerabilities across its lineup of network-security products. The most severe flaws can be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to launch a passel of malicious attacks — from denial of service DoS to cross-site request forgery CSRF. The...

Heather Mills Gets An Apology and 'Substantial' Settlement in Spyware Case

The 2010-2011 News of the World phone hacking scandal – in which it was revealed that the tabloid dropped malware on celebrity targets’ phones in order to gather dirt for news stories – is still playing out in court. The latest is a settlement for a “substantial” sum paid to Heather Mills and her...

New FormBook Dropper Harbors Obfuscation, Persistence

Researchers are warning that a future data-theft attack may be brewing after discovering a new sample of the FormBook malware, with a never-before-seen dropper — i.e. a malicious file that is used in the initial infection stage and installs malware on the system. FormBook, a browser form-stealer...

TrickBot Takes a Break, Leaving Researchers Scratching Their Heads

The group behind the TrickBot malware is back after an unusually long lull between campaigns, according to researchers — but it’s now operating with diminished activity. They concluded that the pause could be due to the TrickBot gang making a large operational shift to focus on partner malware,...

Adobe’s Surprise Security Bulletin Dominated by Critical Patches

Adobe has dropped a mammoth out-of-band security update this week, addressing 92 vulnerabilities across 14 products. The majority of the disclosed bugs are critical-severity problems, and most allow arbitrary code execution ACE. Privilege escalation, denial-of-service and memory leaks/information...

Unpatched Linux Marketplace Bugs Allow Wormable Attacks, Drive-By RCE

An unpatched stored cross-site-scripting XSS security vulnerability affecting Linux marketplaces could allow unchecked, wormable supply-chain attacks, researchers have found. The bug was found to affect Pling-based markets by researchers at Positive Security, including AppImage Hub, Gnome-Look, K...

JBS Paid $11M to REvil Gang Even After Restoring Operations

JBS Foods paid the equivalent of $11 million in ransom after a cyber-attack that forced the company to shut down some operations in the United States and Australia over the Memorial Day weekend. The company made the payment to cybercriminals to ensure the protection of its data and mitigate any...

Hybrid, Older Users Most-Targeted by Gmail Attackers

Users whose personal details have been exposed by a third-party breach, Australians, older folks and those who use both desktops and mobile devices are at the highest risk of becoming the victim of a malicious email attack, according to Google and researchers from Stanford, who teamed up to...

RCE 'Bug' Found and Disputed in Popular PHP Scripting Framework

Versions of the popular developer tool Zend Framework and its successor Laminas Project can be abused by an attacker to execute remote code on PHP-based websites, if they are running web-based applications that are vulnerable to attack. However, those that maintain Zend Framework emphasize that t...

Cisco Zero-Day in AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Remains Unpatched

Cisco has disclosed a zero-day vulnerability – for which there is not yet a patch – in the Windows, macOS and Linux versions of its AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Software. While Cisco said it is not aware of any exploits in the wild for the vulnerability, it said Proof-of-Concept PoC exploit...

BYO-Bug Tactic Attacks Windows Kernel with Outdated Driver

The operators behind the RobbinHood ransomware are using a vulnerable, legacy driver from Taiwan-based motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte in order to get around antivirus protections. The “bring-your-own-bug” tactic is likely to crop up in other attacks going forward, according to security analyst...

Unusual Linux Ransomware Targets NAS Servers

A rare instance of ransomware targeting Linux-based file storage systems network-attached storage servers, specifically has been spotted, spreading via 15 separate but related campaigns. The adversaries behind the effort are continuing their depredations on an ongoing basis, according to...

MobOk Malware Hides in Photo Editors on Google Play, Siphons Cash

A powerful money-siphoning malware known as MobOk has been found hiding in seemingly legitimate photo editing apps available on the Google Play store. The Pink Camera and Pink Camera 2 apps, now removed, had been installed around 10,000 times, according to researchers at Kaspersky. They included...

ThreatList: Credential-Sniffing Phishing Attacks Erupted in 2018

Phishing attacks have continued to grow over the past year – but now, it appears that more bad actors are launching these tricky attacks in hopes of scooping up credentials, rather than a previously-popular goal of infecting victims’ devices with malware. The new trend was outlined by Proofpoint...

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...

Supply Chain Update Software Unknowingly Used in Attacks

Microsoft said a recent attack it calls Operation WilySupply utilized the update mechanism of an unnamed software editing tool to infect targets in the finance and payment industries with in-memory malware. The unnamed editing tool was used to send unsigned malicious updates to users in targeted...

Critical Cisco 'CDPwn' Protocol Flaws Explained: Podcast

Researchers on Wednesday disclosed five critical vulnerabilities in Cisco Discovery Protocol CDP, the Cisco Proprietary Layer 2 network protocol that is used to discover information about locally attached Cisco equipment. Researchers say that the vulnerabilities, which they collectively call CDPw...

Microsoft Issues Out-of-Band Update for SharePoint Bug

UPDATE Microsoft has added a fresh CVE to its security portal, linking it to the existing November security updates the patch itself was already included in the updates, but not specifically named. The CVE describes a vulnerability in SharePoint Server. According to a Microsoft Security Advisory,...

Fake AVG: Scam Software Cops Name and Logo of Real AV

We’ve noted for a while that the practices of rogue antivirus software have started to mimic those of legitimate antivirus software vendors. But a new version of FakeXPA scareware take things a bit further: posing as a legitimate commercial AV package, AVG Antivirus 2011. Microsoft’s Malware...

Decryptor Keys Published for Maze, Egregor, Sekhmet Ransomwares

The shackles have been broken for victims of Maze/Egregor/Sekhmet ransomware: On Wednesday, decryption keys were released for all three ransomware strains in a forum post. The liberator, using the handle “Topleak,” described themselves as the developer of the three ransomwares. It’s been lovely,...

Malformed URL Prefix Phishing Attacks Spike 6,000%

Researchers from GreatHorn report they have observed a nearly 6,000-percent jump in attacks using “malformed URL prefixes” to evade protections and deliver phishing emails that look legit. They look legit, that is, unless you look closely at the symbols used in the prefix before the URL. “The URL...

Celeb SIM-Swap Crime Ring Stole $100M from U.S. Victims

A posse of alleged SIM-swapping cybercriminals has been rounded up across Europe by law-enforcement after the crooks finagled more than $100 million from U.S. celebrities and their families. Eight people in the U.K. were arrested in connection with the crime ring, in addition to individuals in...

Marketing Analytics Company Leaks Deep Profiles of Entire Ecuador Population

The entire population of Ecuador has been impacted by an open database on an unsecured server, housing a massive amount of personal information collected from public-sector sources by a marketing analytics company. The leaked database, which was found by vpnMentor’s research team, includes record...

Fearing WannaCry-Level Danger, Enterprises Wrestle with BlueKeep

The nightmare vision of a “mega-worm” global BlueKeep infection could be closer to becoming reality as working exploits are now becoming available to the public, and there’s evidence that adversaries are actively scanning for the vulnerability. Researchers weighed in with Threatpost about how...

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...

Bugs Lurking in Cisco UC Provisioning Platform

The Akkadian Provisioning Manager, which is used as a third-party provisioning tool within Cisco Unified Communications environments, has three high-severity security vulnerabilities that can be chained together to enable remote code execution RCE with elevated privileges, researchers said. They...

PHP Infiltrated with Backdoor Malware

The PHP project on Sunday announced that attackers were able to gain access to its main Git server, uploading two malicious commits, including a backdoor. They were discovered before they went into production. PHP is a widely used open-source scripting language often used for web development. It...

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,...

New Critical RCE Bug Found in Adobe Commerce, Magento

Yet another zero-day bug has been discovered in the Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce platforms, while researchers have created a working proof-of-concept PoC exploit for the recently patched CVE-2022-24086 vulnerability that came under active attack and forced Adobe to push out an emergency...