Millions of Routers Exposed to RCE by USB Kernel Bug

Millions of popular end-user routers are at risk of remote code execution RCE due to a high-severity flaw in the KCodes NetUSB kernel module. The module enables remote devices to connect to routers over IP and access any USB devices such as printers, speakers, webcams, flash drives and other...

Apple Issues Emergency Fix for NSO Zero-Click Zero Day

Apple users should immediately update all their devices – iPhones, iPads, Macs and Apple Watches – to install an emergency patch for a zero-click zero-day exploited by NSO Group to install spyware. The security updates, pushed out by Apple on Monday, include iOS 14.8 for iPhones and iPads, as wel...

SideWalk Backdoor Linked to China-Linked Spy Group ‘Grayfly’

The novel backdoor technique called SideWalk, seen in campaigns targeting US media and retailers late last month, has been tied to an adversary that’s been around for quite a while: namely, China-linked Grayfly espionage group. ESET researchers, who named and discovered the new “SparklingGoblin”...

Google Patches Critical Android RCE Bug

Google patched more than 90 security vulnerabilities in its Android operating system impacting its Pixel devices and third-party Android handsets, including a critical remote code-execution bug that could allow an attacker to commandeer a targeted vulnerable mobile device. That bug CVE-2021-0507...

DarkSide Wanted Money, Not Disruption from Colonial Pipeline Attack

Threat actors behind last week’s Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack that crippled a major U.S. oil pipeline said that financial gain–not political, economic or social disruption–is the goal of their nefarious activities, vowing to choose their targets more carefully in the future. Join Threatpos...

Critical WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Site Takeover

Researchers are urging WordPress websites that utilize the NextGen Gallery plugin to apply a patch addressing critical and high-severity flaws. The NextGen Gallery plugin, which is installed on 800,000 WordPress websites, allows sites to upload photos in batch quantities, import metadata and edit...

Novel Online Shopping Malware Hides in Social-Media Buttons

A payment card-skimming malware that hides inside social-media buttons is making the rounds, compromising online stores as the holiday shopping season gets underway. According to researchers at Sansec, the skimmer hides in fake social-media buttons, purporting to allow sharing on Facebook, Twitte...

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...

SAS 2019: Genesis Marketplace Peddles 60K Stolen Digital Identities

SINGAPORE – A newly-discovered underground marketplace, dubbed Genesis, is peddling tens of thousands of stolen digital “masks” — i.e., identities — which equip cybercriminals with the tools they need to get away with online fraud. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit 2019, whic...

May Patch Tuesday Fixes Two Bugs Under Active Attack

Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday fixes include two critical remote code-execution vulnerabilities, both of which are under active attack. The most serious of the two is tied to a Windows 10 VBScript engine and can be triggered when a victim visits a malicious website. “A user need only visit a...

Windows Update for Business Uproots Patch Tuesday

Scheduled patch deliveries are so last decade—and thankfully, it looks like they’re over when it comes to Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Microsoft this week at its Ignite event introduced its new security update scheme called Windows Update for Business, which debuts in Windows 10 with several new...

Microsoft SHA-2 Advisory Causing 'Infinite Loop' Issues

Problems with a security update issued this week by Microsoft have surfaced on a number of technology forums. Windows users say Microsoft Security Advisory 303929, which adds SHA-2 code-signing and verification support for Windows 7 client machines and Windows Server 2008 R2 boxes, is causing...

Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records

EdFinancial and the Oklahoma Student Loan Authority OSLA are notifying over 2.5 million loanees that their personal data was exposed in a data breach. The target of the breach was Nelnet Servicing, the Lincoln, Neb.-based servicing system and web portal provider for OSLA and EdFinancial, accordin...

9.3M+ Androids Running ‘Malicious’ Games from Huawei AppGallery

Why would a game about a cat’s “cute diary” need permission to make phone calls or suss out your location? It doesn’t: “Cat cute diary” is one of 190 trojanized games that Doctor Web malware analysts have found on AppGallery, the official app store for Huawei Android. They’re littering the Androi...

Magecart Goes Server-Side in Latest Tactics Changeup

Magecart Group 12, known for skimming payment information from online shoppers, was fingered for last September’s gonzo attack on more than 2,000 e-Commerce sites, and now researchers have issued a report explaining how they did it, detailing a new technical approach. The skimmers are still “very...

Critical Cisco SD-WAN, HyperFlex Bugs Menace Networks

Cisco has addressed two critical security vulnerabilities in the SD-WAN vManage Software, one of which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to carry out remote code execution RCE on corporate networks or steal information. The networking giant also disclosed a denial-of-service issue in vManag...

Intel Warns of Critical Info-Disclosure Bug in Security Engine

A critical security bug in the Intel Converged Security and Manageability Engine CSME could allow escalation of privilege, denial of service or information disclosure. The details are included in a bug advisory that in total covers 77 vulnerabilities, 67 of which were found by internal Intel staf...

Magento Warns E-Commerce Sites to Upgrade ASAP to Prevent Attacks

The popular e-commerce platform Magento is urging web administrators to install its latest security update in order to defend against malicious attacks in the wild that could exploit a critical remote code-execution vulnerability. While the company didn’t specify what kinds of potential attacks...

Encrypted Emails on macOS Found Stored in Unprotected Way

A database on Apple’s macOS computers is storing emails that are supposed to be protected with encryption as readable files, a problem of which the company has been aware for months and still has yet to solve, according to a researcher. Apple IT specialist Bob Gendler discovered the problem while...

Major Airport Malware Attack Shines a Light on OT Security

A cryptomining infection managed to spread to half of all workstations at a major international airport in Europe – shining a spotlight on security for operational tech and IT convergence. Researchers at Cyberbit found the XMRig Monero mining malware, which was a known strain called “Playerz,” bu...

Bug in Anesthesia Respirators Allows Cyber-Tampering

A vulnerability in GE Healthcare’s Aestiva and Aespire anesthesia devices would allow an unauthenticated cybercriminal on the same network as the device to modify gas composition parameters within the devices’ respirator function, thus changing sensor readings for gas density. According to GE...

WordPress Sites Worldwide Hit with 'Call-Girl' Search-Engine Pollution

A web spam campaign that targets Koreans is creating problems for site administrators all around the world. Hackers are compromising vulnerable Korean-language WordPress websites, but are also polluting search engine results for non-hacked sites globally. Researchers at Sucuri initially uncovered...

Critical WinRAR Flaw Found Actively Being Exploited

A critical 19-year-old WinRAR vulnerability disclosed last week has now been spotted actively being exploited in a spam campaign spreading malware. The campaign, discovered by researchers with 360 Threat Intelligence Center, takes advantage of a path-traversal WinRAR vulnerability, which could...

Critical OkCupid Flaw Exposed Daters to App Takeovers

A critical flaw in the OkCupid app has been found that could allow a bad actor to steal credentials, launch man-in-the-middle attacks or completely compromise the victim’s application. This is separate from the OKCupid account-takeover incident reported earlier in the week, but it does fit the...

"Collection #1" Data Dump Hacker Identified

UPDATE Researchers say they have identified the threat actor behind the massive “Collection 1” data dump which exposed hundreds of millions of credentials on a hacking forum in January. Recorded Future researchers said this weekend that an individual using the monikor “C0rpz” has claimed as early...

Attacks on SCADA, ICS Honeypots Modified Critical Operations

With antiquated gear running the country’s industrial control systems that oversee critical infrastructure, it’s no shock attackers targeting SCADA networks do their fair share of reconnaissance looking for weak spots in that equipment. A researcher decided to put that theory to a practical test...

Microsoft Names Chinese Firm Hangzhou DPTech as Source of RDP Code Leak

Two months after exploit code the Microsoft RDP MS12-020 vulnerability made its way into the open before the company released a patch, Microsoft has put the blame for the leak on a Chinese security company, Hangzhou DPTech Technologies. Microsoft said Thursday that it has removed the company from...

Microsoft Unveils New Windows Defender Offline Tool

Microsoft has released a beta version of a new tool that can help victims of malware attacks recover from ugly infections, even if they don’t have the ability to reach the Internet. The Windows Defender Offline tool enables users to clean their systems of malware from a CD or other removable medi...

EnemyBot Malware Targets Web Servers, CMS Tools and Android OS

A rapidly evolving IoT malware dubbed “EnemyBot” is targeting content management systems CMS, web servers and Android devices. Threat actor group “Keksec” is believed behind the distribution of the malware, according to researchers. “Services such as VMware Workspace ONE, Adobe ColdFusion,...

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...

Microsoft Azure Flaws Open Admin Servers to Takeover

Researchers have disclosed two flaws in Microsoft’s Azure web hosting application service, App Services, which if exploited could enable an attacker to take over administrative servers. Azure App Services is an HTTP-based service for hosting web applications, and is available in both Microsoft...

Keeper Threat Group Rakes in $7M from Hundreds of Compromised E-Commerce Sites

Since its launch three years ago, the Keeper threat group has compromised more than 570 e-commerce websites, from online liquor stores to Apple product resellers. And experts warn of future, increasingly sophisticated attacks against online merchants worldwide. The Keeper group, a faction of the...

Cisco Patches Two High-Severity Bugs in its Small Business Switch Lineup

Cisco Systems released security patches on Wednesday for high-severity vulnerabilities affecting over a half dozen of its small business switches. The flaws allow remote unauthenticated adversaries to access sensitive information and level denial-of-service DoS attacks against affected gear...

Bluetooth Flaws Could Allow Global Tracking of Apple, Windows 10 Devices

Vulnerabilities in the way Bluetooth Low Energy is implemented on devices by manufacturers can open the door to global device tracking for the Windows 10, iOS and macOS devices that incorporate it, according to research from Boston University. An academic team at BU uncovered the flaws, which exi...

Mozilla Confirms Premium Firefox Browser With Security Features

Mozilla Corporation is launching a premium version of the Firefox browser that will tout improved security features such as virtual private network and secure cloud storage, according to CEO Chris Beard. In a Friday interview with German media publication T3N, Beard said that the premium service,...

Serious Phar Flaw Allows Arbitrary Code Execution on Drupal

Multiple content management systems – including Drupal, Joomla and Typo3 – are open to a vulnerability that can lead to arbitrary code execution on some systems. The flaw CVE-2019-11831 exists in the phar stream wrapper component used in PHP-driven projects. A Phar archive is used to distribute a...

Apple iOS 12.2 Patches 51 Serious Flaws

Apple patched 51 vulnerabilities rated serious with its iOS 12.2 update. One of the most serious bugs could allow apps to secretly listen to end users. Apple’s iOS security updates, announced Monday during its March product announcement event, are for the iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later a...

How the Dark Web Data Bazaar Fuels Enterprise Attacks

It seems every aspect of our lives is available to be found somewhere on the internet. And the information available isn’t simply embarrassing browsing histories but ranges from our medical histories to the logon credentials we use to access many of our online services. This is certainly a privac...

Active Scans Target Vulnerable Cisco Routers for Remote Code-Execution

UPDATE Malicious scanning activity targeting Cisco Small Business RV320 and RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN routers is underway, with a swell of opportunistic probes looking for vulnerable devices ramping up since Friday. According to Bad Packets Report’s honeypot data, cyberattackers are targeting a...

Microsoft to End Email Security Notifications

Update: Microsoft today has reversed course on its decision to suspend security email notifications, and will resume doing so on Thursday. The original decision, made in response to Canada’s antispam law set to go into effect tomorrow, was announced on Friday. This afternoon, however, a Microsoft...

The Inside Story of the Kelihos Botnet Takedown

Earlier this week, Microsoft released an announcement about the disruption of a dangerous botnet that was responsible for spam messages, theft of sensitive financial information, pump-and-dump stock scams and distributed denial-of-service attacks. Kaspersky Lab played a critical role in this botn...

Microsoft spars with researcher over security patch

One of the patches released by Microsoft last week is not providing protection against the vulnerability it was meant to fix, according to a researcher who today accused Microsoft of making functionality a higher priority than security. According to Tyler Reguly, a senior security engineer at...

Attackers Breach Microsoft Customer Service Accounts

The same group behind the SolarWinds supply-chain attacks has been targeting Microsoft’s corporate networks to gain access to specific organizations — primarily, U.S.-based IT and government organizations. Microsoft officially announced the attacks after Reuters obtained an email sent to customer...

Apple Patches Zero-Day MacOS Bypass Bug

Apple patched a zero-day vulnerability in its MacOS that can bypass critical anti-malware capabilities and which a variant of the notorious Mac threat Shlayer adware dropper already has been exploiting for several months. Security researcher Cedric Owens first discovered the vulnerability, tracke...

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...

Zappos Offers Users 10% Discount in 2012 Breach Settlement

Online retailer Zappos will give customers a 10 percent discount to its online store as settlement for a 2012 data breach that affected 24 million customers, while lawyers in the case will win $1.6 million in fees. The news shows customers once again getting the short end of the stick when it com...

Dtrack RAT is Behind Virulent ATM-Espionage Campaign

An espionage malware called Dtrack – and a related variant, ATMDtrack – has been traced back to the notorious North Korea-linked Lazarus Group APT. Both have been identified this month targeting victims in India. According to researcher Konstantin Zykov of Kaspersky, researchers first uncovered...

Smart TVs, Subscription Services Leak Data to Facebook, Google

Smart TVs and so-called “over the top” OTT platforms are the latest IoT devices found “spying” on users and leaking sensitive data to companies such as Facebook, Amazon, Google and Netflix, according to two separate studies conducted by university researchers as well as independent research done ...

Adobe Fixes Two Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws

Adobe on Thursday released unscheduled security updates for Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and MacOS. The updates fix two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2018-16011 and CVE-2018-19725. Successful exploitation of the flaws could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current...

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...