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Trickbot Malware Rebounds with Virtual-Desktop Espionage Module
The Trickbot trojan is in resurgence mode, with its operators filling out infrastructure globally and releasing an updated version of its “vncDll” module, used for monitoring and intelligence gathering, researchers said. According to an analysis this week from Bitdefender, there has been “a...
TrickBot Takes Over, After Cops Kneecap Emotet
A massive malicious spam campaign, along with the global takedown of Emotet, has vaulted the TrickBot trojan to the top of the Check Point’s list of the most popular malware among cybercriminals for February. In January, TrickBot was ranked third on Check Point’s list, and it was fourth overall f...
Billions of Passwords Offered for $2 on Dark Web
A “compilation of many breaches” – COMB for short – has been leaked on the cyber-underground, according to researchers. The so-called COMB contains a staggering 3.27 billion unique combinations of cleartext email addresses and passwords. The trove is an aggregate database that brings together old...
DeathStalker APT Spices Things Up with PowerPepper Malware
The DeathStalker advanced persistent threat APT group has a hot new weapon: A highly stealthy backdoor that researchers have dubbed PowerPepper, used to spy on targeted systems. DeathStalker offers mercenary, espionage-for-hire services targeting the financial and legal sectors, according to...
Apple Patches Bugs Tied to Previously Identified Zero-Days
Apple has patched three previously identified zero-day vulnerabilities in its iPhone, iPod and iPad devices potentially related to a spate of related flaws recently discovered by the Google Project Zero team that also affect Google Chrome and Windows. Apple this week released iOS 14.2 and iPadOS...
Tenda Router Zero-Days Emerge in Spyware Botnet Campaign
Two former Tenda router zero-days are anchoring the spread of a Mirai-based botnet called Ttint. In addition to denial-of-service DoS attacks, this variant also has remote-access trojan RAT and spyware capabilities. According to 360Netlab, the botnet is unusual in a few ways. For one, on the RAT...
Bug Bounty FAQ: Top Questions, Expert Answers
Seldom does Threatpost have the privilege to tap the collective brain trust of one cybersecurity corner of the threat landscape. But last month, Threatpost brought together leading voices in the bug bounty community to participate in a webinar Five Essentials for Running a Successful Bug Bounty...
WordPress Plugin Flaw Allows Attackers to Send Forged Emails
More than 100,000 WordPress websites are affected by a high-severity flaw in a plugin that assists websites in sending out emails and newsletters to subscribers. The vulnerability exists in the Email Subscribers & Newsletters plugin by Icegram, which enables users to collect leads, send automated...
Most companies are ignoring your most vulnerable endpoint…and it’s not the laptop
It’s an open secret that mobile devices are your weakest security link. We pretend not to know how vulnerable they are to attack, nor how exposed they leave your business. A 2019 study found that most companies allow mobile devices to access between 1/3 and 3/4 of their most business-critical...
Bluetooth Impersonation Attacks Affect Legions of Devices
Academic researchers have uncovered security vulnerabilities in Bluetooth Classic that allows attackers to spoof paired devices: They found that the bugs allow an attacker to insert a rogue device into an established Bluetooth pairing, masquerading as a trusted endpoint. This allows attackers to...
Adobe Patches Critical RCE Flaw in Character Animator App
Adobe has issued an out-of-band patch for a critical flaw in Adobe Character Animator, its application for creating live motion-capture animation videos. The flaw can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute code on affected systems. The flaw CVE-2020-9586 is found in versions 3.2 and earlier...
Microsoft Teams Impersonation Attacks Flood Inboxes
A convincing cyberattack that impersonates notifications from Microsoft Teams in order to steal the Office 365 credentials of employees is making the rounds, according to researchers. Two separate attacks have targeted as many as 50,000 different Teams users, according to findings from Abnormal...
Defying Covid-19’s Pall: Pwn2Own Goes Virtual
Covid-19 has brought the world to grinding halt, but for the hacking competition Pwn2Own, that wasn’t the case. The event, planned for CanSecWest this week in Vancouver, went virtual along with the conference itself. Faced with travel restrictions and new social-distancing guidelines, contestants...
Walgreens Mobile App Leaks Prescription Data
Popular pharmacy chain Walgreens is warning that a bug in its official mobile app may have exposed sensitive data, including customers’ full names and information on prescriptions for medications they are taking. The security issue stemmed from an “error” in the personal secure messaging feature ...
Hacker Scheme Threatens AdSense Customers with Account Suspension
A new e-mail based extortion attack threatens users of Google’s AdSense banner-ad program with creating online behavior that will warrant them an account suspension—perhaps a permanent one–from Google if they don’t pay the attackers in bitcoin. The scam—revealed in a post by security writer and...
TrickBot Adds Custom, Stealthy Backdoor to its Arsenal
The Russian-speaking cybercriminals behind the TrickBot malware have developed a stealthy backdoor dubbed “PowerTrick,” in order to infiltrate high-value targets. According to research from SentinelLabs, released on Thursday, PowerTrick is designed to execute commands and return the results in...
GitLab Doles Out Half a Million Bucks to White Hats
GitLab has awarded a total of $565,650 in security bug bounties to 171 researchers who reported valid vulnerabilities in the past year — and has announced the winners of its latest hacking contest. GitLab, which started out as a web-based Git repository manager before moving into the DevOps...
D-Link Adds More Buggy Router Models to ‘Won’t Fix’ List
D-Link has warned that more of its routers are vulnerable to critical flaws that allow remote hackers to take control of hardware and steal data. The routers won’t be fixed, said D-Link, explaining that the hardware has reached its end-of-life and will no longer receive security updates. The...
A Deepfake Deep Dive into the Murky World of Digital Imitation
About a year ago, top deepfake artist Hao Li came to a disturbing realization: Deepfakes, i.e. the technique of human-image synthesis based on artificial intelligence AI to create fake content, is rapidly evolving. In fact, Li believes that in as soon as six months, deepfake videos will be...
AG Barr, Officials to Facebook: Don't Encrypt Messaging
U.S. Attorney General William Barr is among government officials asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to halt or at least delay a plan to add end-to-end encryption to its messaging services in an effort to bolster consumer privacy. The move, unveiled Thursday, once again sparked the privacy debate...
'Narrator' Windows Utility Trojanized to Gain Full System Control
A suspected Chinese advanced persistent threat APT group has been spotted attacking tech companies using a trojanized screen-reader application, replacing the built-in Narrator “Ease of Access” feature in Windows. According to BlackBerry Cylance, the attackers also deploy a version of the...
GandCrab Operators Resurface with REvil Malware
The malware that hit 22 Texas municipalities and various dentist offices around the country recently is likely the work of the crew behind the GandCrab ransomware – indicating that the group didn’t really retire after all. In late May, the GandCrab operators said they decided to ride off into the...
1B Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack
A vulnerability discovered in mobile SIM cards is being actively exploited to track phone owners’ locations, intercept calls and more – all merely by sending an SMS message to victims, researchers say. Researchers on Thursday disclosed what they said is a widespread, ongoing exploit of a SIM...
Facebook, Microsoft Challenge Industry to Detect, Prevent ‘Deepfakes’
Facebook, Microsoft and a number of universities have joined forces to sponsor a contest promoting research and development to combat deepfakes, or videos altered through artificial intelligence AI to mislead viewers. The two tech giants—along with the Partnership on AI and academics from Cornell...
Dangerous Cryptomining Worm Racks Up 850K Infections, Self-Destructs
A French and U.S. law-enforcement effort has neutralized 850,000 infections by a cryptomining worm known as Retadup, by causing the threat to destroy itself. The worm has been distributing the malicious XMRig cryptocurrency miner to computers running the Windows operating system, mostly in Latin...
New Mirai Samples Grow the Number of Processor Targets
New samples of the Mirai malware have been identified, targeting an array of embedded processors and architectures within connected devices. Researchers said that they discovered new Mirai samples in February 2019, capable of infecting IoT devices running Altera Nios II, OpenRISC, Tensilica Xtens...
Visitor Kiosk Access Systems Riddled with Bugs
Visitor-management systems protect business against physical threats such as unwanted and unidentified guests. But many of these lobby-based perimeter checkpoints are opening up companies to a bevy of cyber-threats. On Monday, IBM’s penetration testing team, X-Force Red, released a report that...
On Heels of Criticism, Newly-Released Google Chrome 70 Prioritizes Privacy
Google has lifted the curtain on its latest version of Chrome, which the tech giant has pledged touts more data privacy features, as well as fixes for high-priority vulnerabilities. The release comes after Google had promised updates in Chrome 70 to “better communicate our changes and offer more...
Microsoft Patches Two Critical Vulnerabilities Under Attack
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday update today included a massive 95 fixes that tackle vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Skype, Internet Explorer and its Edge browser. Twenty-seven of Microsoft’s patches fix remote code execution issues, allowing attackers to remotely take control of a victim’s PC...
Microsoft Patches FASTFIX on Older Versions of Windows
UPDATE – Microsoft this week patched a vulnerability in the FASTFAT driver that interacts with FAT32 disk partitions, closing a privilege escalation and code execution hole in Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. But what about Windows 7 and up versions of the OS, you may b...
IE Zero Day Patch Already in November Patch Tuesday Updates
Microsoft announced this afternoon that the zero-day vulnerability being exploited in a watering hole attack against an unnamed U.S.-based NGO website was already scheduled to be patched in a cumulative Internet Explorer update tomorrow. The zero-day was reported publicly on Friday by FireEye...
More on Office 2003 Zero Day Vulnerability Patch
This week’s patch and security advisory for a vulnerability in Microsoft Office is the perfect example of why enterprise administrators need to take Microsoft’s criticality ratings as a suggestion and not gospel. Microsoft pushed security update MS13-051 through on Tuesday with a rating of...
Attackers Exploit Java, Compromise Reporters Without Borders Site
The Java saga continued when unknown, and apparently well concealed goons exploited recent Java and Internet Explorer zero-days to compromise the website of the French-based, free-press advocacy group, Reporters Without Borders. The attack, which attempted to take advantage of the time-gulf that...
Inside the 1,000 Red October Cyberespionage Malware Modules
The Red October espionage malware campaign is providing security researchers with a deep dive into the complexity of targeted attacks, which in this case made use of more than 1,000 malware modules for everything from reconnaissance on targets to exfiltration of data to command and control server...
MS Windows Token Kidnapping Problems Resurface
Microsoft’s problems with Token Kidnapping .pdf on the Windows platform aren’t going away anytime soon. More than a year after Microsoft issued a patch to cover privilege escalation issues that could lead to complete system takeover, a security researcher plans to use the Black Hat conference...
Coming on MS Patch Tuesday: 10 bulletins, 6 critical
Microsoft plans to ship 10 security bulletins next Tuesday June 9, 2009 with fixes for a wide range of code execution vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer. Six of the ten bulletins will be rated “critical,” Microsoft’s highest severity rating. See the advance...
MacOS Malware ‘DazzleSpy’ Used in Watering-Hole Attacks
A new family of cyber-espionage malware targeting macOS and delivered via a Safari exploit was used against politically active, pro-democracy residents of Hong Kong, in August watering-hole attacks initially discovered by Google TAG, researchers said on Tuesday. The watering-hole attacks – which...
Google Crushes YouTube Cookie-Stealing Channel Hijackers
Google has caught and brushed off a bunch of cookie-stealing YouTube channel hijackers who were running cryptocurrency scams on the ripped-off channels. In a Wednesday post, Ashley Shen, with Google’s Threat Analysis Group TAG, said that TAG attributes the assaults to a group of attackers recruit...
30 Mins or Less: Rapid Attacks Extort Orgs Without Ransomware
In less time than it takes to get a stuffed crust pizza delivered, a new group called SnapMC can breach an organization’s systems, steal their sensitive data, and demand payment to keep it from being published, according to a new report from NCC Group’s threat intelligence team — no ransomware...
Porn Problem: Adult Ads Persist on US Gov’t, Military Sites
U.S. military and government website subdomains have a sticky problem: They’re “quite vulnerable” to blackhat SEO tactics that result in persistent redirects to spammy Viagra ads and porn videos. An example is one that showed up on a dot.mil subdomain on the Minnesota National Guard site you can...
Microsoft, CISA Urge Mitigations for Zero-Day RCE Flaw in Windows
Both Microsoft and federal cybersecurity officials are urging organizations to use mitigations to combat a zero-day remote control execution RCE vulnerability in Windows that allows attackers to craft malicious Microsoft Office documents. Microsoft has not revealed much about the MSHTML bug,...
Gutenberg Template Library & Redux Framework Bugs Plague WordPress Sites
Two vulnerabilities have been found in the Gutenberg Template Library & Redux Framework plugin for WordPress, which is installed on more than 1 million websites. They could allow arbitrary plugin installation, post deletions and access to potentially sensitive information about a site’s...
SonicWall Warns Firewall Hardware Bugs Under Attack
Security vendor SonicWall is warning customers to patch its enterprise firewall hardware to thwart an “imminent ransomware campaign using stolen credentials” that’s exploiting security holes in current models and those running legacy firmware. Targeted are the company’s Secure Mobile Access SMA 1...
SonicWall Breach Stems from ‘Probable’ Zero-Days
UPDATE SonicWall is investigating “probable” zero-day flaws in its remote access security products that have been targeted by “highly-sophisticated” attackers. The company says it is investigating the attack and will update customers within 24 hours. The security company said it is currently...
Hackers Leak Stolen Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Data
On the heels of a previously-reported cyberattack on the European Medicines Agency EMA, cybercriminals have spilled compromised data related to COVID-19 vaccinations onto the internet. The EMA is an agency of the European Union in charge of the evaluation and supervision of medicinal products in...
India Blocks High-Profile Chinese Apps on Political, Privacy Concerns
India has blocked 118 more mobile apps in its continued crackdown on the use mobile apps from China, citing concerns that they transmit user data out of the country and threaten its “sovereignty and integrity” as political tensions between the two countries rise. Though not all of the apps banned...
Hackers Update Age-Old Excel 4.0 Macro Attack
Hackers have updated the age-old Excel malware attack technique with a new passwordless twist. Researchers have identified a new method that no longer requires victims to enter a password to open a danger document, more readily exposing them to potential malware infection. Researchers from securi...
WhatsApp Axes COVID-19 Mass Message Forwarding
In an effort to stem what it says is misinformation being spread on its platform, WhatsApp is limiting the number of recipients to which its users can forward certain messages about the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, users of the Facebook-owned messaging app can only forward messages with double arrows ...
Charming Kitten Uses Fake Interview Requests to Target Public Figures
The Iran-based hacking group Charming Kitten has resurfaced with a new campaign that uses fake interviews to target public figures to launch phishing attacks and steal victims’ email-account information. In a report released Wednesday, security researchers at Certfa Lab say they discovered the...
Oski Data-Stealing Malware Emerges to Target North America, China
An emergent and effective data-harvesting tool dubbed Oski is proliferating in North America and China, stealing online account credentials, credit-card numbers, cryptowallet accounts and more. Oski, likely a Finnish or Nordic variant of the word Oska, meaning “Viking warrior or god” in Samoan,...