SAS@Home Virtual Summit Showcases New Threat Intel, Industry Changes

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to force in-person cybersecurity event cancellations, Kaspersky is forging ahead with a virtual security summit, SAS@home. Topics on the agenda include threat intel on advanced persistent threats APTs, new vulnerability research, and topics related to a...

Emotet Now Hacks Nearby Wi-Fi Networks to Spread Like a Worm

A newly uncovered Emotet malware sample has the ability to spread to insecure Wi-Fi networks that are located nearby to an infected device. If the malware can spread to these nearby Wi-Fi networks, it then attempts to infect devices connected to them — a tactic that can rapidly escalate Emotet’s...

Mobile Carrier Customer Service Ushers in SIM-Swap Fraud

Mobile carriers have left the door wide open to SIM-swap attacks, particularly when it comes to prepaid accounts, researchers have found. SIM swapping is a form of fraud that allows crooks to bypass SMS-based two-factor authentication 2FA and crack online banking or other high-value accounts...

Microsoft Offers $30K Rewards For Chromium Edge Beta Flaws

Microsoft is calling on researchers to help sniff out any security glitches in the beta version of its new Chromium-based Edge browser before officially pushing it live. The tech company has been working to build a new version of Edge based on Google’s open-source Chromium code, as opposed to its...

News Wrap: WhatsApp, Microsoft, Intel and Cisco Flaws

This week was filled with flaws, flaws and more flaws: From a zero-day under active exploit in the WhatsApp messaging app, to Patch Tuesday glitches addressed by Microsoft. Threatpost breaks down the top vulnerabilities of the week, including: A WhatsApp zero-day vulnerability being exploited in...

Adobe Fixes 24 Critical Flaws in Acrobat Reader, Flash, Shockwave Player

Adobe has fixed 24 critical arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities across multiple products, including Acrobat Reader, Adobe Flash, and Adobe Shockwave Player. Overall, Adobe issued fixes for 43 different CVE numbers across eight different products, Tuesday, as part of a regularly-scheduled...

Data Breach Bonanza: Dating Apps, Equifax, Mass Credential Dumps

In a week full of cyber-incidents and marked by the Valentine’s Day holiday, data breach news was surging. Equifax may have been hacked by spies, two huge credential spills on the Dark Web did their part to endanger people online and several companies admitted to data exposures, data breaches and...

D-Link, Dasan Routers Under Attack In Yet Another Assault

Unpatched D-Link and Dasan GPON router vulnerabilities are being targeted by hackers attempting to build a botnet army, according to research published Friday by eSentire Threat Intelligence. Researchers observed on Thursday a massive uptick in exploit attempts from over 3,000 different source IP...

Wireless 'BlueBorne' Attacks Target Billions of Bluetooth Devices

Researchers disclosed a bevy of Bluetooth vulnerabilities Tuesday that threaten billions of devices from Android and Apple smartphones to millions of printers, smart TVs and IoT devices that use the short-range wireless protocol. Worse, according to researchers at IoT security firm Armis that fou...

Neptune Exploit Kit Dropping Cryptocurrency Miners Through Malvertisements

Despite a marked decrease in activity, exploit kits haven’t completely disappeared just yet. The Neptune, or Terror Exploit Kit, is alive and well; during the last month, researchers have observed the kit as part of a campaign to abuse a legitimate popup ad service to drop cryptocurrency miners...

On xDedic, a Flash Zero Day, Facial Recognition, and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including a password issue at Github, the xDedic marketplace, another Flash zero day, and how the poorly the FBI is doing with facial recognition software. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapJune172016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Most Orgs Would Take Security Bugs Over Ethical Hacking Help

Enterprises are putting greater stock in cybersecurity, but outdated “security by obscurity” is still prevailing as companies wrestle with security awareness and shy away from bug-bounty programs. That’s according to new survey data from HackerOne, which found that a full 65 percent of...

Discord CDN and API Abuses Drive Wave of Malware Detections

Discord has a malware problem. And although the platform is predominantly used by gamers, it turns out even users who have never interacted with Discord are at risk. Discord creates servers or specific groups or communities of users who can send voice, text and other media messages between one...

Critical Microsoft Defender Bug Actively Exploited; Patch Tuesday Offers 83 Fixes

Microsoft addressed 10 critical bugs, one under active exploit and another publicly known, in its January Patch Tuesday roundup of fixes. In total it patched 83 vulnerabilities. The most serious bug is a flaw in Microsoft’s Defender anti-malware software that allows remote attackers to infect...

Google Warns of Critical Android Remote Code Execution Bug

Google has fixed two critical bugs affecting its Android handsets. The more serious flaws exists in the Android System component and allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. The two critical vulnerabilities are part of Google’s January Android security bulletin, released Monday. The...

Microsoft Zerologon Flaw Under Attack By Iranian Nation-State Actors

Microsoft is warning that an Iranian nation-state actor is now actively exploiting the Zerologon vulnerability CVE-2020-1472, adding fuel to the fire as the severe flaw continues to plague businesses. The advanced persistent threat APT actor, which Microsoft calls MERCURY also known as MuddyWater...

Leaked Details of 142 Million MGM Hotel Guests Found for Sale on Dark Web

Researchers have found 142 million personal details from former guests at the MGM Resorts hotels for sale on the Dark Web, evidence that a data leak from the hotel chain last summer may be far bigger in scope than previously thought. An advertisement on a hacker forum has put 142,479,937 details...

BlueLeaks Server Seized By German Police: Report

German authorities have reportedly seized a server hosting the massive BlueLeaks data dump, which was released earlier in June and exposed thousands of sensitive police department and law enforcement files. According to a Wednesday report by PCMag, the server was based in Falkenstein, Germany and...

Electrolux, Others Conned Out of Big Money by BEC Scammer

A 64-year-old business email compromise BEC guru has plead guilty in Houston to bilking appliance giant Electrolux and one other company out of a combined half a million dollars — in addition to other fraud schemes. Kenenty Hwan Kim a.k.a. Myung Kim admitted in federal court the Southern District...

Google Discloses Chrome Flaw Exploited in the Wild

UPDATE Google is warning users of a high-severity vulnerability in its Chrome browser that is currently being exploited by attackers to hijack computers. The flaw CVE-2019-13720, discovered by security researchers Anton Ivanov and Alexey Kulaev at Kaspersky, exists in Google Chrome’s audio...

Iran-linked Hackers Target Trump 2020 Campaign, Microsoft says

A group of hackers tied to Iran has been attempting to break into accounts associated with the 2020 reelection campaign of President Trump, researchers have discovered. Researchers from the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center said they first observed activity from a group called Phosphorus in...

Apple to Patch Bug Granting Full Access to 3rd-Party Keyboards

Apple is readying a fix for a bug that could grant full access to third-party keyboards for its mobile devices, including iPhone and iPad. The company posted an alert on its support page about an issue with iOS 13 and iPadOS that affects third-party keyboards users may have installed for the...

Apple Fixes iOS Flaw That Opened iPhones to Jailbreaks

Apple has released an emergency patch fixing a kernel vulnerability – for the second time – after it was accidentally unpatched in iOS 12.4. The flaw CVE-2019-8605, a use-after-free issue existing in the kernel, could enable a malicious application to execute arbitrary code with system privileges...

Backdoor Found in Utility for Linux, Unix Servers

In an unnerving twist, when a critical zero-day vulnerability was reported in a Unix administration tool, called Webmin, it was revealed the flaw was no accident. According to researchers, the vulnerability was a secret backdoor planted in the popular utility nearly a year before its discovery. T...

Exploring the Top 15 Most Common Vulnerabilities with HackerOne and GitHub

Join vulnerability experts Michiel Prins, cofounder of HackerOne, and Greg Ose, GitHub’s application security engineering manager, as Threatpost editor Tom Spring moderates a discussion on the 15 most common vulnerability types. Registration Required Originally presented in March 2019, this webin...

RSAC 2019: TLS Markets Flourish on the Dark Web

SAN FRANCISCO – Thriving marketplaces for TLS certificates have emerged on the Dark Web, which are hawking the certs both as individual goods and packaged with an array of malware and other ancillary services. The research, from Venafi, the University of Surrey and the Evidence-based Cybersecurit...

Cybercriminals Aim for the Super Bowl Goal Posts

Ah, the Super Bowl. For some, this Sunday’s show down between the Los Angeles Rams and the New England Patriots will be about gathering family and friends around for a great American pastime: The Super Bowl party. Some are just in it for the commercials. Some see a gambling opportunity; and for...

Prepare to Defend Your Network Against Swarm-as-a-Service

The digital world we now inhabit creates unprecedented opportunities – both for good and for ill. One of these possibilities is swarm-based tools that can be used to either attack or defend the network. This possibility, or set of possibilities, has arisen due to dramatic advances in swarm-based...

Vendor Exposes Backup of Chicago Voter Roll via AWS Bucket

Voter registration data belonging to the entirety of Chicago’s electoral roll—1.8 million records—was found a week ago in an Amazon Web Services bucket configured for public access. The data was a backup stored in AWS by Election Systems & Software ES&S, a voting machine and election management...

Microsoft Mitigation Bypass Bounty Winner James Forshaw

Give James Forshaw a good logic bug over a memory-corruption vulnerability any day of the week. The British researcher says he would rather manipulate weaknesses in code to climb out of an application sandbox than turn a fuzzer against a piece of software and spot a memory leak. But incentivized ...

Operation b54 Knocks 1,000+ Citadel Botnets Offline

UPDATE – Calling it the company’s “most aggressive” botnet operation operation to date, Microsoft has joined with the FBI for a massive disruption of the Citadel botnet. More than 1,400 individual botnets associated with the Citadel malware affecting more than five million people in total were...

Microsoft warns of dangerous DirectShow flaw, attacks

Microsoft today warned that hackers are using rigged QuickTime media files to exploit an unpatched vulnerability in DirectShow, the APIs used by Windows programs for multimedia support. The company has activated its security response process to deal with the zero-day attacks has issued a pre-patc...

Fake Reservation Links Prey on Weary Travelers

A longtime threat group identified as TA558 has ramped up efforts to target the travel and hospitality industries. After a lull in activity, believed tied to COVID-related travel restrictions, the threat group has ramped up campaigns to exploit an uptick in travel and related airline and hotel...

Ukraine Hit with Novel ‘FoxBlade’ Trojan Hours Before Invasion

“As tanks rolled into Ukraine, so did malware,” summarized humanitarian author Andreas Harsono, referring to the novel malware that Microsoft has named FoxBlade. On Monday, the company reported that its Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC had detected cyberattacks launched against Ukraine’s digital...

‘Lone Wolf’ APT Uses Commodity RATs

An APT described as a “lone wolf” is exploiting a decades-old Microsoft Office flaw to deliver a barrage of commodity RATs to organizations in India and Afghanistan, researchers have found. Attackers use political and government-themed malicious domains as lures in the campaign, which targets...

Apple Releases Urgent iOS Updates to Patch New Zero-Day Bug

Apple on Monday rushed out a security update for iOS 15.0.2 and iPadOS 15.0.2 to fix a remote code-execution RCE zero-day vulnerability that’s being actively exploited. Within hours, a security researcher had picked the bug apart and published both proof-of-concept code and an explanation of the...

Microsoft Teams: Very Bad Tabs Could Have Led to BEC

Attackers could have stepped through a yawning security hole in the Microsoft Teams chat service that would have let them masquerade as a targeted company’s employee, by reading and sending email on their behalf. On Monday, Tenable’s Evan Grant explained in a post that he found the bug in Microso...

Ziggy Ransomware Gang Offers Refunds to Victims

The Ziggy ransomware gang announced in early February they were getting out of the cybercrime business. Now they say they’re ready to refund their victims’ money. Anyone who paid a ransom to Ziggy just needs to shoot them an email with proof of payment calculated in Bitcoin and the computer ID...

Critical CODESYS Bug Allows Remote Code Execution

A critical flaw in a web server for the CODESYS automation software for engineering control systems could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to crash a server or execute code. The bug is rated 10 out of 10 on the CVSS v.2 vulnerability severity scale and requires little skill to exploit, th...

RSAC 2020: Editors' Preview of Hottest Sessions, Speakers and Themes

The RSA 2020 conference kicks off next week in San Francisco, this year with a theme looking at the “human element” of cybersecurity. As they prepare to cover the show, Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch, Tom Spring and Tara Seals break down the biggest news, stories and trends that they...

Apple iTunes Bug Actively Exploited in BitPaymer/iEncrypt Campaign

Bad actors are actively targeting a vulnerability in the Windows version of Apple iTunes to deliver BitPaymer/iEncrypt ransomware. It’s a new attack pattern that is difficult to detect, security researchers revealed Thursday. Researchers from Morphisec Labs in August identified the abuse of the...

Where's the Equifax Data? Does It Matter?

It’s been 17 months since the infamous 2017 Equifax data breach was revealed to have compromised the data of about 147.9 million people i.e., almost every adult in the U.S., with more than 45 percent of the population directly affected by the incident. But an investigative report from CNBC found...

Ultra-Sneaky Phishing Scam Swipes Facebook Credentials

A new phishing attack bent on stealing Facebook credentials has been spotted – and it’s turning researchers’ heads due to how well it hides its malicious intent. Researchers with password management company Myki on Thursday said that attack reproduces a social login prompt in a “very realistic...

Record Oracle Patch Update Addresses ShadowBrokers, Struts 2 Vulnerabilities

Oracle released its biggest Critical Patch Update ever on Tuesday, and with it came added urgency in the form of patches for the Solaris vulnerabilities exposed by the ShadowBrokers last week, as well as the recent Apache Struts 2 vulnerability, also under public attack. In all, Oracle admins hav...

Working PoC Is Out for VMware vCenter CVE-2021-22005 Flaw

A fully working exploit for the critical CVE-2021-22005 remote code-execution RCE vulnerability in VMware vCenter is now public and being exploited in the wild. Released on Monday by Rapid7 security engineer William Vu who goes by the Twitter handle wvu, this one’s different from the incomplete...

Apple Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day in iOS, MacOS

Apple patched a zero-day flaw on Monday, found in both its iOS and macOS platforms that’s being actively exploited in the wild and can allow attackers to take over an affected system. The memory-corruption flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-30807, is found in the IOMobileFrameBuffer extension which exists...

Mercedes-Benz Customer Data Flies Out the Window

Ahh, the luxury of Mercedes-Benz cars: The high-end upholstery, plush carpeting, polished wood trim, LED mood lighting. “Even the scent signals that this vehicle is special,” as the automaker sighs. Of course, even a company like Mercedes-Benz can inadvertently fart out customer data. That’s what...

Microsoft Teams: Very Bad Tabs Could Have Led to BEC

Attackers could have stepped through a yawning security hole in Microsoft Teams chat service that would have let them masquerade as a targeted company’s employee by reading and sending email on their behalf. On Monday, Tenable’s Evan Grant explained in a post that he found the bug in Microsoft...

Microsoft Warns Threat Actors Continue to Exploit Zerologon Bug

Threat attackers continue to exploit the Microsoft Zerologon vulnerability, a situation that’s been a persistent worry to both the company and the U.S. government over the last few months. Both on Thursday renewed their pleas to businesses and end users to update Windows systems with a patch...

Bluetooth Spoofing Bug Affects Billions of IoT Devices

A team of academic researchers have discovered a Bluetooth Low Energy BLE vulnerability that allows spoofing attacks that could affect the way humans and machines carry out tasks. It potentially impacts billions of Internet of Things IoT devices, researchers said, and remains unpatched in Android...