Kubernetes Cloud Clusters Face Cyberattacks via Argo Workflows

Kubernetes clusters are being attacked via misconfigured Argo Workflows instances, security researchers are warning. Argo Workflows is an open-source, container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes – to speed up processing time for compute-intensive jobs like machi...

MosaicLoader Malware Delivers Facebook Stealers, RATs

A never-before-documented Windows malware strain dubbed MosaicLoader is spreading worldwide, acting as a full-service malware-delivery platform that’s being used to infect victims with remote-access trojans RATs, Facebook cookie stealers and other threats. That’s according to Bitdefender...

Cyber Polygon 2021

On June 9, 2021, the III annual international online training event Cyber Polygon took place. It connects various global organisations to train their competencies, exchange best practices and bring tangible results to the world community. 200 organizations from 48 countries tested their skills in...

Biden Races to Shore Up Power Grid Against Hacks

President Biden is putting the final details on a plan to encourage American electric utilities to strengthen their cybersecurity protections against hackers in the next 100 days, amid increasing cyberattacks. The White House push to boost electrical grid security comes in the wake of a report th...

Apple Mail Zero-Click Security Vulnerability Allows Email Snooping

A zero-click security vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail would allow a cyberattacker to add or modify any arbitrary file inside Mail’s sandbox environment, leading to a range of attack types. According to Mikko Kenttälä, founder and CEO of SensorFu, exploitation of the bug could lead to...

Europol Credits Sweeping Arrests to Cracked Sky ECC Comms

Europol launched “major interventions” against organized crime on March 9, which it said were made possible by monitoring the encrypted messages of around 70,000 users of the Sky ECC service since mid-February. Sky ECC, which focuses on selling mobile phones with specialized, private...

Zero-Click Wormable RCE Vulnerability in Cisco Jabber Gets Fixed, Again

Cisco Systems released an updated patch for a critical vulnerability in its video and instant messaging platform Jabber, originally patched in September. The cross-site scripting bug could have allowed an adversary to execute arbitrary code by merely sending a specially-crafted chat message and...

FortiGate VPN Default Config Allows MitM Attacks

Default configurations of Fortinet’s FortiGate VPN appliance could open organizations to man-in-the-middle MitM attacks, according to researchers, where threat actors could intercept important data. According to the SAM IoT Security Lab, the FortiGate SSL-VPN client only verifies that the...

Attackers Horn in on MFA Bypass Options for Account Takeovers

An uptick in business email compromise attacks is being attributed to successful compromises of multi-factor authentication MFA and conditional access controls, according to researchers. While brute-forcing and password spraying techniques are the most common way to mount account takeovers, more...

Eight Common OT / Industrial Firewall Mistakes

Most industrial sites deploy firewalls as the first line of defense for their Operations Technology OT / industrial networks. However, configuring and managing these firewalls is a complex undertaking. Configuration and other mistakes are easy to make. This article explores eight common mistakes...

xHelper: The Russian Nesting Doll of Android Malware

The “undeletable” xHelper malware – which ultimately results in the installation of the Triada trojan – has become a virulent scourge for Android devices this year, according to researcher analysis – bringing with it a hallmark of being virtually indestructible for the common user. xHelper is kno...

Official Government COVID-19 Mobile Apps Hide a Raft of Threats

A rash of COVID-19 Android mobile apps have emerged that are aimed at helping citizens in Iran, Italy and Colombia track symptoms and virus infections. However, they’re also putting people’s privacy and the security of their data at risk, researchers have found. Security researchers at the ZeroFO...

Video: Ransomware a Growing Industrial Security Threat

SAN FRANCISCO – Today, Operational Technology OT and Information Technology systems are merging and changing security playbooks. Here at RSA Conference 2020, Waterfall Security‘s CEO and co-founder Lior Frenkel describes the front lines of the convergence. Frenkel maintains that just as more...

Iranian Hackers Target U.S. Gov. Vendor With Malware

Iran-linked threat actor APT34 has been observed sending targeted, malicious email attachments to customers and employees of a company that works closely with U.S. government agencies. The company in question is U.S.-based Westat, a professional services company that provides research services to...

Microsoft Offers Rewards of Up to $20,000 in New Xbox Bug Bounty Program

Microsoft is offering rewards of up to $20,000 for finding vulnerabilities in its Xbox gaming platform through its latest bug bounty program unveiled this week. The Xbox Bounty Program is open to gamers, security researchers and basically anyone who can help the tech giant identify security...

267M Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers Exposed Online

A database exposing the names, phone numbers and Facebook user IDs of millions of platform users was left unsecured on the web for nearly two weeks before it was removed. Security researcher Bob Diachenko, who along with Comparitech discovered the unsecured Elasticsearch database, believe it...

Alexa, Google Home Eavesdropping Hack Not Yet Fixed

Months after researchers disclosed a new way to exploit Alexa and Google Home smart speakers to spy on users, those same researchers now warn that Amazon and Google have yet to create effective ways to prevent the eavesdropping hack. The researchers who in October disclosed the “Smart Spies” hack...

Ransomware Attack Hits Data Center Provider CyrusOne: Report

U.S. data center provider CyrusOne has been hit by a ransomware attack, which has impacted six of its managed services customers, a report has found. CyrusOne, which is based in Texas and is one of the biggest data center providers in the U.S., serves more than 185 of Fortune 1000 customers...

Podcast: Managing an Out-Of-Control Security Tech Stack

This podcast is sponsored by Arctic Wolf. In this sponsored podcast, Threatpost podcast host Cody Hackett and Sam McLane, chief technology officer with Arctic Wolf, discuss important considerations when building a multi-layered cybersecurity strategy and best practices when evaluating security...

Cybercrime Tool Prices Bump Up in Dark Web Markets

Prices have been rising in the last two years for longstanding tools available on the Dark Web to help bad actors commit cyber attacks and fraud, alongside newer innovations that are emerging to bolster crimes like ransomware and SIM swapping, new research has found. Keeping track of these trends...

Major Groupon, TicketMaster Fraud Scheme Exposed By Insecure Database

UPDATE After discovering a cache of 17 million emails exposed on an unsecured database, researchers with vpnMentor began to hunt for its owner — but to their surprise, they found that the database belonged not to a company, but to a sophisticated criminal network. Cybercriminals had been both...

Venmo's Public Transactions Policy Stirs Privacy Concerns

Your simple $5 Venmo payment to a friend after splitting a pizza could easily expedite various malicious attacks, from stalking to spear-phishing, according to researcher concerns. Many have weighed in on Venmo’s privacy practices, but the latest are Mozilla Foundation and the Electronic Frontier...

Black Hat 2019 News Wrap: The Best and Worst of the Show

LAS VEGAS – Black Hat and DEF CON 2019 may be wrapping up, but the dual conferences last week in Las Vegas left the security industry with a flurry of new security flaws, topics and announcements to discuss for the weeks to come. Threatpost editors Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell get together to...

Apple Disables Walkie-Talkie App Due to Eavesdropping Flaw

Apple has temporarily disabled the Walkie-Talkie feature from the Apple Watch due to a vulnerability that could allow potential attackers to eavesdrop in on iPhone calls, a TechCrunch report said. The Apple Watch Walkie-Talkie app allows users to converse with friends in real-time, without having...

SAS 2019: Exodus Spyware Found Targeting Apple iOS Users

SINGAPORE— The Exodus spyware that was recently found lurking in 25 different malicious apps on Google Play has been ported to the Apple iOS ecosystem. The surveillance package can exfiltrate contacts, take audio recordings and photos, track location data and more on mobile devices. Earlier this...

Gamers Urged to Patch Critical Bugs in GOG Galaxy

GOG Galaxy Games, a popular video game digital distribution platform that enables users to purchase new games and launch them from their desktop, is riddled with vulnerabilities, according to researchers at Cisco Talos. The researchers assert that the GOG Galaxy video game launcher contains six...

When Cyberattacks Pack a Physical Punch

More than one in 10 data breaches now involve “physical actions,” according to a recent report. These include leveraging physical devices to aid an attack, but also hacks that involve breaking into hardware and remote attacks on physical infrastructure. The stat underscores the realities of a...

Trivial Post-Intrusion Attack Exploits Windows RID

An novel post-intrusion attack technique allows hackers to hijack a Windows system component called RID, allowing the adversaries to assign administrative privileges to “guest” and other low-level accounts. The technique is simple and does not require a lot of sophistication, security researcher...

Massive Spam Campaign Targets Unpatched Systems

Cybercriminals are leveraging a recently patched critical Adobe Flash Player vulnerability in a massive spam campaign targeting unpatched computers. According to cybersecurity firm Morphisec, cybercriminals are blasting spam messages that urge recipients to click a link to download a Word documen...

ASUS Patches Root Command Execution Flaws Haunting Over a Dozen Router Models

ASUS released patches for over a dozen router models on Tuesday that are each vulnerable to multiple firmware flaws that when combined give a local unauthenticated attacker the ability to execute commands as root on targeted devices. Routers models patched by ASUS are RT-AC88U, RT-AC3100, RT-AC86...

Intel Confirms Its Much-Loathed ME Feature Has A Kill Switch

Researchers at Positive Technologies forced Intel’s hand at revealing that a previously undocumented kill switch exists for its oft-criticized Intel Management Engine, a remote management component of Intel CPUs. Initially, Positive Technologies set out to disable the feature that some security...

Pornhub Hack Earns Researchers $22,000

A PHP vulnerability that exposed adult website PornHub’s user data to hackers and allowed for code execution on servers hosting the site, earned a trio of German researchers $22,000 as part of a bug bounty program. PHP patched the vulnerability in June. The flaw is tied to a use-after-free memory...

Microsoft Bans Superfish SSL Interception Adware

Microsoft has taken steps to impede the next Superfish from impacting users. Superfish was pre-installed adware found on new Lenovo laptops earlier this year. The software exposes users to man-in-the-middle attacks because of the way it injects advertisements into the browser. It comes with a...

Bash Vulnerability Exploits Dropping DDoS Bots

A honeypot run by researchers at AlienVault Labs has snared two separate pieces of malware attempting to exploit the Bash vulnerability. One sample is a repurposed IRC bot written in Perl that is trying to build a botnet to be used in distributed denial of service attacks DDoS, said Jaime Blasco,...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss This Week's Microsoft Takedown

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the Microsoft malware takedown, its legal and security implications and the revelation of a massive financial fraud campaign in Brazil. Download: digitalunderground157.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

To Combat Firesheep, Microsoft's Bing Looking Into SSL

Microsoft’s Bing is looking into SSL and other privacy settings for the next version of their search engine. Currently the site strips SSL when forced into HTTPS and in turn, brings up an advisory on browsers signaling an unsafe connection. Introduced at Toorcon, the Firefox extension allows...

Iranian State Broadcaster Clobbered by ‘Clumsy, Buggy’ Code

Footage of opposition leaders calling for the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader ran on several of the nation’s state-run TV channels in late January after a state-sponsored cyber-attack on Iranian state broadcaster IRIB. The incident – one of a series of politically motivated attacks in Iran...

SAP Patches Severe ‘ICMAD’ Bugs

There’s a trio of critical vulnerabilities, fixed on Tuesday, in SAP business applications that use the ubiquitous Internet Communication Manager ICM: the component that gives SAP products the HTTPS web server they need to connect to the internet or talk to each other. The vulnerabilities,...

FBI: Another Zoho ManageEngine Zero-Day Under Active Attack

Another Zoho ManageEngine zero-day vulnerability is under active attack from an APT group, this time looking to override legitimate functions of servers running ManageEngine Desktop Central and elevate privileges — with an ultimate goal of dropping malware onto organizations’ networks, the FBI ha...

Windows EoP Bug Detailed by Google Project Zero

It looked like Google Project Zero blew its own 90-day disclosure window when, on Wednesday, it disclosed an elevation of privilege EoP flaw in Windows that it reported to Microsoft just over a month ago on July 8. But no: It turns out that Microsoft flip-flopped on whether or not it was planning...

Novel Meteor Wiper Used in Attack that Crippled Iranian Train System

An attack earlier this month on Iran’s train system, which disrupted rail service and taunted Iran’s leadership via hacked public transit display screens, used a never-before-seen wiper malware called Meteor that appears to have been design for reuse, a security researcher has found. The initial...

Scheme Flooding Allows User Tracking Across Browsers

A security researcher has discovered a vulnerability that allows websites to track users across a number of different desktop browsers — including Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox and Tor — posing a threat to cross-browser anonymity. Called “scheme flooding,” the flaw...

Anti-Spam WordPress Plugin Could Expose Website User Data

An SQL-injection vulnerability discovered in a WordPress plugin called “Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk” could expose user emails, passwords, credit-card data and other sensitive information to an unauthenticated attacker. Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalk is...

F5 Big-IP Vulnerable to Security-Bypass Bug

F5 Networks’ Big-IP Application Delivery Services appliance contains a Key Distribution Center KDC spoofing vulnerability, researchers disclosed – which an attacker could use to get past the security measures that protect sensitive workloads. Join Threatpost for “Fortifying Your Business Against...

Safari Bug Revealed After Apple Takes Nearly a Year to Patch

A security researcher disclosed details of an Apple Safari web browser security hole that could leak files with other browsers and applications and open the door to exploitation by attackers. The disclosure came only after Apple said it would delay patching the vulnerability for nearly a year. Fo...

Vermont Taxpayers Warned of Data Leak Over the Past Three Years

The Vermont Department of Taxes may have been exposing taxpayer data that could be used in credential scams for more than three years due to a vulnerability in its online tax filing system. A notice PDF posted on the department’s website warned taxpayers who filed a Property Transfer Tax return...

Home Chef Serves Up Data Breach for 8 Million Records

Mail-order meal kits have become even more popular as the coronavirus pandemic has kept people home and cooking on a regular basis. Unfortunately, one of these, the popular Kroger’s Home Chef service, recently served up a side of data breach along with its perfectly measured ingredients. Accordin...

Public Sector Ransomware Attacks Rage On: Can Your Organization Repel Them?

To pay or not to pay? That is the question many public-sector organizations must grapple with when faced with a complex ransomware attack – even while the COVID-19 pandemic rages on around them. Ransomware attacks to municipal, local, and state government agencies are on the rise. Places as...

Coronavirus Poll Results: Cyberattacks Ramp Up, WFH Prep Uneven

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep the globe and Americans are told to isolate from others, many organizations are sending employees home to work. While most respondents in a Threatpost poll this week said they feel prepared from a security standpoint for this transition, a fifth of them...

New TrickBot Variant Updates Anti-Analysis Tricks

Researchers uncovered a new variant of the TrickBot malware that relies on new anti-analysis techniques, an updated method for downloading its payload as well as adopting minor changes to the integration of its components. TrickBot is a module-based malware that, while first identified as a banki...