Google Patches Actively-Exploited Zero-Day Bug in Chrome Browser

Google released an update to its Chrome browser that patches a zero-day vulnerability in the software’s FreeType font rendering library that was actively being exploited in the wild. Security researcher Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero discovered the bug which is classified as a type of...

Windows Exploit Released For Microsoft ‘Zerologon’ Flaw

Proof-of-concept PoC exploit code has been released for a Windows flaw, which could allow attackers to infiltrate enterprises by gaining administrative privileges, giving them access to companies’ Active Directory domain controllers DCs. The vulnerability, dubbed “Zerologon,” is a...

Critical Intel Active Management Technology Flaw Allows Privilege Escalation

Intel patched a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in its Active Management Technology AMT, which is used for remote out-of-band management of PCs. AMT is part of the Intel vPro platform Intel’s umbrella marketing term for its collection of computer hardware technologies and is primarily...

Android Users Hit with 'Undeletable' Adware

UPDATE A healthy percentage of Android users targeted by mobile malware or mobile adware last year suffered a system partition infection, making the malicious files virtually undeletable. That’s according to research from Kaspersky, which found that 14.8 percent of its users who suffered such...

Amazon Kindle, Embedded Devices Open to Code-Execution

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Das U-Boot, a universal bootloader commonly used in embedded devices like Amazon Kindles, ARM Chromebooks and networking hardware. The bugs could allow attackers to gain full control of an impacted device’s CPU and modify anything they choose. Researche...

WP Live Chat WordPress Plugin Re-Patches File Upload Flaw

A WordPress plugin vulnerability found in WP Live Chat could allow an attacker to upload arbitrary malicious files to vulnerable systems, according to researchers. WP Live Chat is a plugin for WordPress that equips websites with a small pop-up chat support window that site owners can use to...

Mac-Focused Malvertising Campaign Abuses Google Firebase DBs

A malvertising group named VeryMal that targets Mac users has changed up its tactics, ditching steganography as its obfuscation technique. Instead, it’s using ad tags that fetch a payload from Google Firebase in order to redirect users to malicious pop-ups. Confiant estimates that close to 1...

Temporary Patch Released For Adobe Reader Zero-Day

A temporary patch has been released to address a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader that could enable bad actors to steal victims’ hashed password values, known as “NTLM hashes.” 0patch on Monday released a micropatch for the flaw, found in Adobe Reader DC. The vulnerability, which has no...

Skeletons in the Closet: Security 101 Takes a Backseat to 0-days

Rarely a month goes by without the infosec industry being plagued by a new zero-day apocalypse. Most recently in December 2021, the world was swept by a series of vulnerabilities in Log4J – a popular logging system used by thousands of systems around the world. While writing this article, the...

Critical Libgcrypt Crypto Bug Opens Machines to Arbitrary Code

The Libgcrypt project has rushed out a fix for a critical bug in version 1.9.0 of the free-source cryptographic library. An exploit would allow an attacker to write arbitrary data to a target machine and execute code. The security vulnerability is a heap-buffer overflow bug in Libgcrypt 1.9.0...

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday Packed with Critical RCE Bugs

Microsoft has released patches for 129 security bugs in its September Patch Tuesday update. These include 23 critical flaws, 105 that are important in severity and one moderate bug. Fortunately, none are publicly known or under active exploitation, Microsoft said. The most severe issue in the bun...

ASUS Home Router Bugs Open Consumers to Snooping Attacks

A pair of flaws in ASUS routers for the home could allow an attacker to compromise the devices – and eavesdrop on all of the traffic and data that flows through them. The bugs are specifically found in the RT-AC1900P whole-home Wi-Fi model, within the router’s firmware update functionality...

Microsoft Tackles 123 Fixes for July Patch Tuesday

A critical DNS bug and a publicly known elevation-of-privilege flaw top Microsoft’s July Patch Tuesday list of 123 fixes. The DNS flaw is a remote code-execution bug and is touted as one of the most critical Windows vulnerabilities released this year, earning the highest-severity CVSS score of 10...

Apache Tomcat Exploit Poised to Pounce, Stealing Files

A vulnerability in the popular Apache Tomcat web server is ripe for active attack, thanks to a proof-of-concept PoC exploit making an appearance on GitHub. The now-patched bug affects Tomcat versions 7.0, 8.5 and 9.0. According to Flashpoint analysts Cheng Lu and Steven Ouellette, an exploit for...

WordPress Plugin Bug in Popup Builder Threatens 100K Websites

Two vulnerabilities – including a high-severity flaw – have been patched in a popular WordPress plugin called Popup Builder. The more severe flaw could enable an unauthenticated attacker to infect malicious JavaScript into a popup – potentially opening up more than 100,000 websites to takeover...

50k Servers Infected with Cryptomining Malware in Nansh0u Campaign

Up to 50,000 servers were infected over the past four months as part of a high-profile cryptojacking campaign, believed to orchestrated by Chinese-language adversaries. Researchers with Guardicore Labs, who disclosed the campaign Wednesday, said that the Nansh0u​ campaign named due to a text file...

Hackers Take Over IoT Devices to 'Click' on Ads

By 2025 there will be 25 billion internet of things IoT connections, according to GSMA Intelligence. And if hackers have it their way, many of those IoT devices will be hijacked and recruited into online pay-per-click advertising scams. At the Security Analyst Summit 2019, Threatpost sat down wit...

First 'Clipper' Malware Discovered on Google Play

A malicious app designed to steal cryptocurrency from victims by replacing a wallet address in the phone’s clipboard has been discovered harboring the first “clipper” malware discovered on Google Play, the official Android app store. Usually cryptocurrency-stealers are found on unsanctioned Andro...

New Ninth-Gen Intel CPUs Shield Against Some Spectre, Meltdown Variants

Intel’s new ninth-generation CPUs come packed with hardware-based protections against two variants of the infamous Meltdown and Spectre speculative execution attacks. The ninth-generation desktop Core processors are dubbed Coffee Lake, and became available for preorder on Tuesday. they’re built t...

Mitigations Available for PanelShock Vulnerabilities in Schneider HMIs

One week after addressing a critical vulnerability in its industrial controller management software, Schneider Electric is in the midst of handling two more serious flaws in a number of its Magelis HMI products. HMI is short for human machine interface, a graphical visualization of an industrial...

Microsoft to Eliminate Weak MD5 Crypto Algorithm

The clock is running on Windows administrators to sweep out MD5 implementations before a February 2014 patch from Microsoft slams the door shut on the broken, aged crypto algorithm. Microsoft released a pair of advisories yesterday in addition to its regular Patch Tuesday security updates alertin...

Hackers Actively Exploit F5 BIG-IP Bug

Threat actors have started exploiting a critical bug in the application service provider F5’s BIG-IP modules after a working exploit of the vulnerability was publicly made available. The critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-1388, allows unauthenticated attackers to launch “arbitrary system...

Critical Cisco RCE Bug in Small Business Routers to Remain Unpatched

A critical security vulnerability in Cisco Small Business Routers RV110W, RV130, RV130W and RV215W models allows remote code execution RCE and denial of service DoS. The networking giant said that no patch or workaround will be coming for the bug, since the routers reached end-of-life back in 201...

Apple iOS 14 Thwarts iMessage Attacks With BlastDoor System

In an effort to prevent attacks from being launched via its iMessage feature, Apple has debuted a security service called BlastDoor in iOS 14, its current mobile operating system version. First detailed in an analysis this week by Google Project Zero’s Samuel Groß, BlastDoor acts as a “tightly...

UCSF Pays $1.14M After NetWalker Ransomware Attack

The University of California, San Francisco UCSF has paid a $1.14 million ransom to recover data related to “important” academic work. The data was encrypted after the NetWalker ransomware reportedly hit the UCSF medical school. The UCSF, which includes a medical school and a medical center UCSF...

Why Election Trust is Dwindling in a Post-Cambridge Analytica World

LONDON, UK – The 2018 Facebook-Cambridge Analytica incident opened the world’s eyes to how much private user data was being collected, shared and sold. But experts worry that future ramifications of this scandal go way beyond Facebook and have created distrust in the election process as a whole...

Lenovo Patches Intel Firmware Flaws in Multiple Product Lines

Lenovo has patched several several high-severity vulnerabilities tied to Intel flaws that could enable escalation of privilege, information disclosure, or even denial of service. Overall the device maker patched flaws tied to 16 high-severity CVEs on Thursday. Those include five related to Intel...

Google Patches Actively Exploited Chrome Bug

While people were celebrating the Fourth of July holiday in the United States, Google quietly rolled out a stable channel update for Chrome to patch an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability, the fourth such flaw the vendor has had to patch in its browser product so far this year. Chrome 103...

10K Microsoft Email Users Hit in FedEx Phishing Attack

Researchers are warning of recent phishing attacks targeting at least 10,000 Microsoft email users, pretending to be from popular mail couriers – including FedEx and DHL Express. Click to Register Both scams have targeted Microsoft email users and aim to swipe their work email account credentials...

Critical Remote Code Execution Flaw Found in Open Source rConfig Utility

Two bugs in the network configuration utility rConfig have been identified, both allowing remote code execution on affected systems. Worse, one is rated critical and allows for a user to attack a system remotely – sans authentication. RConfig is a free open-source configuration management utility...

Wipro Confirms Hack and Supply Chain Attacks on Customers

IT systems consulting behemoth Wipro Ltd. has confirmed that its network was hacked and used for mounting attacks on its customers. After multiple unnamed sources independently told Brian Krebs that a “multi-month intrusion” occurred and is likely the work of an advanced persistent threat APT act...

MacOS Zero-Day Exposes Apple Keychain Passwords

A researcher claims to have found a new Apple zero-day impacting macOS that could allow an attacker to extract passwords from a targeted Mac’s keychain password management system. However, the researcher refuses to disclose the alleged vulnerability citing Apple’s lack of macOS bug bounty program...

Five OAuth Bugs Lead to Github Hack

A Russian security researcher was able to take five low severity OAuth bugs in the coding site Github and string them together to create what he calls a “simple but high severity exploit” that gave him unfettered access to users’ private repositories. Bangkok-based researcher Egor Homakov –...

Tentacles of ‘0ktapus’ Threat Group Victimize 130 Firms

Targeted attacks on Twilio and Cloudflare employees are tied to a massive phishing campaign that resulted in 9,931 accounts at over 130 organizations being compromised. The campaigns are tied to focused abuse of identity and access management firm Okta, which gained the threat actors the 0ktapus...

Microsoft Zaps Actively Exploited Zero-Day Bug

Microsoft has issued fixes for 36 CVEs for December 2019 Patch Tuesday across a range of products, with seven of them rated critical in severity – and one that’s already being exploited in the wild as a zero-day bug. The computing giant’s scheduled security update this month is relatively light,...

Calypso APT Emerges from the Shadows to Target Governments

A newly discovered APT group, dubbed Calypso after a custom malware RAT that it uses, has been targeting state institutions in six different countries since 2016. Government organizations in India 34 percent, Brazil and Kazakhstan 18 percent respectively, Russia and Thailand 12 percent respective...

Open Redirect Bug in Bridge Theme Plugin Opens Admins to Spearphishing

Two open-redirect vulnerabilities in Bridge, a commercial WordPress theme purchased more than 120,000 times, would allow an attacker to mount spearphishing attacks against site administrators. An open redirect vulnerability can be used to hide malicious links behind URLs for legitimate domains. F...

HCL Exposes Customer, Personnel Info in Wide-Ranging Data Leak

IT services provider HCL Technologies has inadvertently exposed passwords, sensitive project reports and other private data of thousands of customers and internal employees on various public HCL subdomains. HCL, an $8 billion conglomerate with more than 100,000 employees, specializes in...

SMBv1 to be Disabled in Windows Fall Creators Update

The crusty SMBv1 file-sharing protocol, abused by a NSA exploit last month that spread WannaCry, will be removed from Windows 10 starting with the upcoming Redstone 3 update. “We can confirm that SMBv1 is being removed for Redstone 3,” a Microsoft representative told Threatpost. Redstone 3, a...

Cyberattacks Against Israeli Government Sites: ‘Largest in the Country’s History’

Israel’s Nation Cyber Directorate confirmed in a tweet on Monday that a denial-of-service DDoS attack against a telecommunications provider took down several government sites, as well as others not affiliated with the government. The incident led to the Directorate to briefly declare a state of...

Iran Targeting U.S. With Destructive Wipers, Warns DHS

The Department of Homeland Security is warning that Iranian hackers are targeting U.S. agencies with destructive “wiper” malware. The statement comes as tensions continue to build between the U.S. and Iran. Christopher Krebs, the director of the Department of Homeland Security DHS Cybersecurity a...

Podcast: The High-Risk Threats Behind the Norsk Hydro Cyberattack

Norway-based Norsk Hydro announced on Tuesday morning it was victim to a ransomware attack, which forced the global aluminum producer to shut down or isolate several plants and send several more into manual mode, the company said on Tuesday morning. The cyberattack, first detected by the company’...

LockBit, BlackCat, Swissport, Oh My! Ransomware Activity Stays Strong

Law enforcement, C-suite executives and the cybersecurity community at-large have been laser-focused on stopping the expensive and disruptive barrage of ransomware attacks — and it appears to be working, at least to some extent. Nonetheless, recent moves from the LockBit 2.0 and BlackCat gangs,...

New APT ChamelGang Targets Russian Energy, Aviation Orgs

A new APT group has emerged that’s specifically targeting the fuel and energy complex and aviation industry in Russia, exploiting known vulnerabilities like Microsoft Exchange Server’s ProxyShell and leveraging both new and existing malware to compromise networks. Researchers at security firm...

Iran-Linked 'Charming Kitten' Touts New Spearphishing Tactics

An Iran-linked advanced persistent threat APT group tied to attacks on President Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign has added new spearphishing techniques to its arsenal in an apparent ramp-up in operations. Charming Kitten—which goes by a number of names, including APT35, Ajax Security Team,...

Nvidia Warns Windows Gamers on GPU Driver Flaws

Graphics chipmaker Nvidia has issued three patches for high-severity vulnerabilities in its GPU display driver, which could lead to information disclosure, escalation of privileges and denial of service DoS in impacted Windows gaming devices. Nvidia’s graphics driver for Windows is used in device...

Reddit Gold: Alice and Bob, Caught in a Web of Lies

Alice and Bob, the beloved or not-so-beloved, depending placeholder characters often used in cryptography examples, have been spotted in the middle of a web of deceit and intrigue by eagle-eyed Redditers. Think lies. Broken hearts. Even…murder. Yep, you heard that right. It all starts with the...

Slack Plugs Token Security Hole

Popular collaboration and communication firm Slack rushed to plugged a security hole in its platform Thursday that was leaking some of its users’ private chats and files for anyone to access. Slack, a leading tool used by companies to communicate internally, was alerted by security firm Detectify...

Unpatched Bugs, Windows XP End of Life and Public Disclosure

Windows XP security support ends Tuesday and until now, most of the public hand-wringing over XP’s end-of-life has been about the potential for malware outbreaks against unpatched vulnerabilities that have been stockpiled by hackers anxiously awaiting April 8, 2014. But what about vulnerabilities...

ZuoRAT Can Take Over Widely Used SOHO Routers

A novel multistage remote access trojan RAT that’s been active since April 2020 is exploiting known vulnerabilities to target popular SOHO routers from Cisco Systems, Netgear, Asus and others. The malware, dubbed ZuoRAT, can access the local LAN, capture packets being transmitted on the device an...