Six Flags to Pay $36M Over Collection of Fingerprints

Theme park operator Six Flags has agreed to pay $36 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its acquisition of the fingerprint data of visitors to its theme parks. The Illinois Supreme Court ruled in the case Rosenbach v. Six Flags that collecting biometric data at premises’ gates by scanni...

Adobe Warns of Critical Flaws in Flash Player, Framemaker

Adobe released patches for four critical flaws in Flash Player and in its Framemaker document processor as part of its regularly scheduled updates. The bugs, if exploited, could enable arbitrary code-execution. In Tuesday’s June Adobe security updates, critical flaws tied to three CVEs were patch...

Millions of Dell PCs Vulnerable to Flaw in Third-Party Component

Millions of PCs made by Dell and other OEMs are vulnerable to a flaw stemming from a component in pre-installed SupportAssist software. The flaw could enable a remote attacker to completely takeover affected devices. The high-severity vulnerability CVE-2019-12280 stems from a component in...

Spycams Secretly Live-Streamed 1,600 Motel Guests

Four people have been arrested for taking secret videos of guests at motels and live-streaming them to paying audiences. According to Seoul police, the perps filmed about 1,600 motel guests in the past year in various states of undress and having sex. They did so with tiny wireless spy cameras se...

ThreatList: DDoS Attack Sizes Drop 85 Percent Post FBI Crackdown

The average size of distributed denial of service DDoS attacks decreased significantly, dropping by 85 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018. Researchers with NexusGuard said in a Tuesday report shared with Threatpost, that the number of DDoS attacks also dipped significantly, sinking by almost 1...

We COVID-Clicked on Garbage, Report Finds: Podcast

Squawking pets, stir-crazy kids, Tiger King: Is it any wonder that work-from-home humans clicked on malicious CAPTCHAs at the astonishing rate of 50 times more than the non-pandemic year before? In the company’s annual Human Factor 2021 report assessing how the threat landscape morphed over the...

Apple Bug Allows Code Execution on iPhone, iPad, iPod

Apple has updated its iOS and iPadOS operating systems, which addressed a wide range of flaws in its iPhone, iPad and iPod devices. The most severe of these could allow an adversary to exploit a privilege-escalation vulnerability against any of the devices and ultimately gain arbitrary...

Thousands of MikroTik Routers Hijacked for Eavesdropping

A full 7,500+ MikroTik routers are forwarding their owners’ traffic to eavesdropping cybercriminals – while 239,000 more have had their Socks4 proxy enabled, maliciously and surreptitiously. This means the bad actors can gain access to any of the files or data being passed by the router to and fr...

Intel Sued Under Wiretapping Laws for Tracking User Activity on its Website

Intel is being sued under a Florida state wiretapping law for using software on its website to capture keystrokes and mouse movements of people that visit it. The case is one of many that private citizens have brought against companies to dispute their use of session-replay technology. A...

Metamorfo Banking Trojan Abuses AutoHotKey

The Metamorfo banking trojan is abusing AutoHotKey AHK and the AHK compiler to evade detection and steal users’ information, researchers have warned. AHK is a scripting language for Windows originally developed to create keyboard shortcuts i.e., hot keys. According to the Cofense Phishing Defense...

Malware Loader Abuses Google SEO to Expand Payload Delivery

The Gootloader malware loader, previously used for distributing the Gootkit malware family, has undergone what researchers call a “renaissance” when it comes to payload delivery. New research released this week paints Gootloader as an increasingly sophisticated loader framework, which has now...

Critical Citrix RCE Flaw Still Threatens 1,000s of Corporate LANs

About one in five of the 80,000 companies affected by a critical bug in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller ADC and Citrix Gateway are still at risk from a trivial attack on their internal operations. If exploited, the flaw could allow unauthenticated attackers to gain remote access to a...

Amazon Plans Ring Facial Recognition-Based 'Watch List', Report

UPDATE Amazon is planning to use facial recognition software and its Ring smart home security devices to create an artificial-intelligence enabled “neighborhood watch list,” according to reports. According to internal documents reviewed by The Intercept, the “watch list” would automatically alert...

Agencies Warn on Satellite Hacks & GPS Jamming Affecting Airplanes, Critical Infrastructure

In a warning to aviation authorities and air operators on Thursday, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency EASA warned of satellite jamming and spoofing attacks across a broad swath of Eastern Europe that could affect air navigation systems. The warning came in tandem with a separate alert fro...

Microsoft Addresses 3 Zero-Days & 3 Critical Bugs for March Patch Tuesday

Microsoft has addressed 71 security vulnerabilities in its scheduled March Patch Tuesday update – only three of which are rated critical in severity. The other 68 are all rated “important.” Three of the bugs are listed as publicly known zero-days, but none of them are listed as having been...

Xenomorph Malware Burrows into Google Play Users, No Facehugger Required

An Android trojan dubbed Xenomorph has nested in Google Play, already racking up more than 50,000 downloads from the official app store, researchers warned. For anyone who downloaded the “Fast Cleaner” app, it’s time to nuke it from orbit. According to a ThreatFabric analysis, Xenomorph has a...

Takeaways from the Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack

If you feel like you’ve read a lot about ransomware in recent months, it’s because these attacks have indeed intensified. In 2020, ransomware attacks surged by 150 percent, with the average payment size increasing by more than 170 percent. Some of the notable victims include United Health Service...

Nvidia Warns Gamers of Severe GeForce Experience Flaws

Nvidia, which makes gaming-friendly graphics processing units GPUs, has issued fixes for two high-severity flaws in the Windows version of its GeForce Experience software. GeForce Experience is a supplemental application to the GeForce GTX graphics card — it keeps users’ drivers up-to-date,...

Microsoft Issues Out-Of-Band Security Update For Office, Paint 3D

Microsoft has released an out-of-band security update for Microsoft Office, Office 365 ProPlus and Paint 3D. The applications are affected by multiple Autodesk vulnerabilities that, if exploited, could enable remote code execution. The flaws, all rated “important” in severity, are tied to six CVE...

Software, Supply-Chain Dangers Top List of 5G Cyber Risks

The proliferation of software within 5G networks is one of the top security challenges facing the next generation of mobile networks, according to a report out this week from the European Union. 5G networks are fundamentally different than prior wireless networks in that they are largely...

News Wrap: IoT Radio Telnet Backdoor And 'SimJacker' Active Exploit

Threatpost editors break down the biggest news stories of this week ended Sept. 13, including: Researchers warning that more than one billion mobile users are at risk from a SIM card flaw being currently exploited by threat actors A Telnet backdoor opened more than 1 million Imperial Dabman IoT...

Cisco Patches Six Critical Bugs in UCS Gear and Switches

Cisco Systems is warning of six critical vulnerabilities impacting a wide range of its products, including its Unified Computing System server line and its small business 220 Series Smart switches. In all instances of the vulnerabilities, a remote unauthenticated attacker could take over targeted...

Norsk Hydro Calls Ransomware Attack 'Severe'

Aluminum giant Norsk Hydro has fallen victim to a serious ransomware attack that has forced it to shut down or isolate several plants and send several more into manual mode, the company said on Tuesday morning. Oslo, Norway-based Norsk Hydro, one of the world’s largest makers of aluminum, employs...

Zoho’s ManagedEnginePassword Manager Flaw Torched by Godzilla Webshell, New Data Stealer

A new campaign is prying apart a known security vulnerability in the Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus password manager, researchers warned over the weekend. The threat actors have managed to exploit the Zoho weakness in at least nine global entities across critical sectors so far technology,...

What's Next for Ransomware in 2021?

Ransomware works. That’s the simplest way to explain why incidents of ransomware attacks have sharply increased over the last year — with no end in sight. The number of ransomware attacks has jumped by 350 percent since 2018, the average ransom payment increased by more than 100 percent this year...

Host of Flaws Found in CUJO Smart Firewall

Multiple vulnerabilities have been uncovered in the CUJO Smart Firewall, which is a security hardware device aimed at protecting home networks against malware, phishing websites and hacking attempts. CUJO is widely available, including on Amazon where it has racked up 1,000+ customer reviews. The...

Latest MS Patches Causing Black Screen of Death

The IDG News Service is reporting that Microsoft’s latest round of security patches appears to be causing some PCs to seize up and display a black screen, rendering the computer useless. The problem affects Microsoft products including Windows 7, Vista and XP operating systems. From the article:...

UPDATED: Mass Attacks Exploiting 0-Day in Microsoft Video DLL

There is a widespread attack underway against an unpatched vulnerability in the Msvidctl DLL, with attackers using thousands of newly compromised Web sites to exploit victims’ PCs via drive-by downloads. The attacks are using Internet Explorer as the attack vector and are pushing a Trojan...

Black Hat and DEF CON Roundup

There was nothing typical this year at BSides LV, Black Hat USA and DEF CON – also known collectively as Hacker Summer Camp. The weeklong collection of cybersecurity conferences featured an eclectic mix of attendees to learn, network, hack and have fun. The week even included a rare Las Vegas fla...

Adobe Kills 16 Critical Flaws in Acrobat and Reader, Digital Negative SDK

Adobe has fixed 16 critical flaws across its Acrobat and Reader applications and its Adobe Digital Negative DNG Software Development Kit. If exploited, the flaws could lead to remote code execution. Overall, Adobe fixed vulnerabilities tied to 36 CVEs in its regularly-scheduled Tuesday security...

Lifeline Assistance Phone Users Targeted with 'Uninstallable' Adware

Government-funded, low-cost cell phones are shipping with pre-installed malware aimed at bombing users with unwanted ads, according to researchers. The UMX U686CL Android-based phone, which is made available to low-income citizens in the U.S. via the Lifeline Assistance Program for $35, uses a...

Google Fixes Critical Android RCE Flaw

Google kicked off its first Android Security Bulletin of 2020 patching a critical flaw in its Android operating system, which if exploited could allow a remote attacker to execute code. Compared to last year’s monthly tally, the number of CVEs patched this month were relatively few. The...

Match, Tinder Swipe Right For Privacy Red Flags, Say Experts

Over 70 percent of subscribers across Match.com express concern about the amount of data they share with the platform, according to a ProPrivacy.com survey. But despite those concerns, users of the service do it anyway and also remain unaware of just how much data the company collects and how the...

Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices

More than 2 million connected security cameras, baby monitors and other IoT devices have serious vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed for more than two months – yet they are still without a patch or even any vendor response. Security researcher Paul Marrapese, who disclosed the flaws...

Flaw in snapd Allows Root Access to Linux Servers

A local privilege-escalation vulnerability in Canonical’s snapd package has been uncovered, which would allow any user to obtain administrator privileges and immediate root access to affected Linux system servers. Snapd is used by Linux users to download and install apps in the .snap file format...

Despite Ringleader’s Arrest, Cobalt Group Still Active

Evidence has surfaced that the Cobalt Group – the threat actors behind widespread attacks on banks and ATM jackpotting campaigns across Europe – is continuing to operate, despite the arrest of its accused ringleader in March. The Cobalt Group, first burst on the scene in 2016: in a single night,...

GitHub Code Execution Bug Fetches $18,000 Bounty

GitHub recently awarded $18,000 to a researcher after he came across a bug in its GitHub Enterprise management console that could have resulted in remote code execution. The company patched the vulnerability at the end of January, but news of the flaw didn’t surface until this week when GitHub an...

Creaky Old WannaCry, GandCrab Top the Ransomware Scene

What’s old in ransomware is new again. Or, more accurately, never really went away. New analysis shows that for a years-old malware, WannaCry is still a viciously active pest. The self-propagating ransomware cryptoworm that’s been parasitizing victims since 2017 was the top most detected ransomwa...

Critical SonicWall VPN Bugs Allow Complete Appliance Takeover

Critical security vulnerabilities in SonicWall’s Secure Mobile Access SMA 100-series VPN appliances could allow an unauthenticated, remote user to execute code as root. The SMA 100 line was created to provide end-to-end secure remote access to corporate resources, be they hosted on-prem, cloud or...

Cobalt Strike Usage Explodes Among Cybercrooks

The use of Cobalt Strike – the legitimate, commercially available tool used by network penetration testers – by cybercrooks has shot through the roof, according to Proofpoint researchers, who say that the tool has now “gone fully mainstream in the crimeware world.” The researchers have tracked a...

FBI Clears ProxyLogon Web Shells from Hundreds of Orgs

The Feds have cleared malicious web shells from hundreds of vulnerable computers in the United States that had been compromised via the now-infamous ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities. ProxyLogon comprises a group of security bugs affecting on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange...

Crypto-Miner Campaign Targets Unpatched QNAP NAS Devices

Owners of popular QNAP Systems network attached storage NAS devices are being warned that a malicious cryptocurrency campaign is actively exploiting two critical firmware bugs in systems that have not yet been patched. QNAP fixed the flaws in October 2020; however, researchers at Qihoo 360’s...

TikTok To Stop Clipboard Snooping After Apple Privacy Feature Exposes Behavior

A new privacy feature in Apple iOS 14 sheds light on TikTok’s practice of reading iPhone users’ cut-and-paste data, even though the company said in March it would stop. Apple added a new banner alert to iOS 14 that lets users know if a mobile app is pasting from the clipboard and thus able to rea...

Intel Fixes Critical, High-Severity Flaws Across Several Products

Intel has issued an updated advisory for more than 30 fixes addressing vulnerabilities across various products – including a critical flaw in Intel’s converged security and management engine CSME that could enable privilege-escalation. The bug CVE-2019-0153 exists in a subsystem of Intel CSME,...

Breached Credentials Used to Access Github Repositories

Github is forcing a password reset on some of its users after it detected a number of successful intrusions into its repositories using credentials compromised in other breaches. “This appears to be the result of an attacker using lists of email addresses and passwords from other online services...

Malware Posing as Russia DDoS Tool Bites Pro-Ukraine Hackers

Looking to cyber-hassle Russia, Ukrainian sympathizers? Be careful — malware is making the rounds, disguised as a pro-Ukraine cyber-tool that will turn around and bite you instead, researchers are warning. In a Wednesday threat advisory, Cisco Talos described a campaign it’s observed in which a...

Unpatched Fortinet Bug Allows Firewall Takeovers

UPDATE An unpatched OS command-injection security vulnerability has been disclosed in Fortinet’s web application firewall WAF platform, known as FortiWeb. It could allow privilege escalation and full device takeover, researchers said. FortiWeb is a cybersecurity defense platform, aimed at...

LinkedIn’s 1.2B Data-Scrape Victims Targeted by Attackers

Just days after a yet another data-scraping operation aimed at LinkedIn was discovered, evidence has popped up in a popular hacker forum that the vast amount of lifted data is being collated and refined to identify specific targets. This might signal the start of a series of LinkedIn-fueled...

Ryuk Ransomware Gang Uses Zerologon Bug for Lightning-Fast Attack

The Ryuk threat actors have struck again, moving from sending a phishing email to complete encryption across the victim’s network in just five hours. That breakneck speed is partially the result of the gang using the Zerologon privilege-escalation bug CVE-2020-1472, less than two hours after the...

Microsoft Sway Abused in Office 365 Phishing Attack

A highly targeted phishing campaign, with a Microsoft file platform twist, has successfully siphoned the Office 365 credentials of more than 150 executives since mid-2019. Researchers attribute the campaign’s success to two parts: First, it leverages multiple Microsoft file-sharing services to...