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...

Facebook Data of Millions Exposed in Leaky Datasets

UPDATE Hundreds of millions of Facebook records – including account names, personal data, and more – have been found in two separate publicly-exposed app datasets. The first publicly-exposed dataset originates from a Mexico-based media company, Cultura Colectiva, and contains over 540 million...

RSA Conference 2019: Picking Apart the Foreshadow Attack

SAN FRANCISCO – Starting off with a bang with Spectre and Meltdown, 2018 was the year of speculative execution vulnerabilities in CPUs, which wreaked havoc in the IT industry. One of these attacks, dubbed Foreshadow, could allow unauthorized disclosure of information. Foreshadow impacts the Intel...

'Chaos' iPhone X Attack Alleges Remote Jailbreak

A Chinese security researcher has published what he claims is a proof-of-concept exploit that would allow a remote attacker to jailbreak an iPhoneX, unbeknownst to the user – allowing them to gain access to a victim’s data, processing power and more. Qixun Zhao of Qihoo 360 built the exploit, whi...

Google Patches 11 Critical RCE Android Vulnerabilities

Remote code-execution RCE vulnerabilities dominated Google’s December Android Security Bulletin. The flaws are part of a total of 53 unique bugs patched by the Android security team, with a total number of 11 critical bugs – six of which are RCE flaws tied to the operating system’s Media Framewor...

Google Patches Android 'Custom Boot Mode' Vulnerability

A high-risk Android custom boot mode vulnerability was one of many bugs patched by Google as part of its January Android Security Bulletin released earlier this week. On Thursday, the IBM security team that discovered the vulnerability disclosed details about the flaw which leaves Nexus 6 and 6P...

Protecting Cloud APIs Critical to Mitigating Total Compromise

When it comes to cloud computing, APIs more or less drive everything, but in the eyes of some researchers, existing security controls around them haven’t kept pace. While individual components of a system can be secure, when that system gets deployed in the cloud it can often become insecure – an...

Google Patches More Trouble in Mediaserver

Google has re-branded its monthly patch release, bringing a new name and new scope to the newly renamed Android Security Bulletin. While that may be new, the content is definitely familiar. Once again, critical remote code execution Mediaserver vulnerabilities dominate this month’s patches...

November 2015 Android Security Bulletin

The Stagefright vulnerabilities are the gifts that keep on giving. Months after the potentially devastating security flaws in the mobile OS were publicly disclosed, Google continues to send out patches addressing vulnerabilities related to the initial reports. Today’s monthly Android security...

Attackers Exploiting Windows OLE Vulnerability

Attackers are using a zero day vulnerability in nearly all supported versions of Windows in a series of targeted attacks. The flaw is in the OLE technology in Windows and can be used for remote code execution is a targeted user opens a rigged Office file. Microsoft is warning customers that there...

Exploit Code Surfaces for CVE-2012-1875 Internet Explorer Bug

Less than a week after Microsoft released a patch for a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer, attack code has become publicly available in the form of a module for the Metasploit Framework. The bug is serious one that enables an attacker to bypass both ASLR and DEP, the two main anti-explo...

Paul Roberts Joins Threatpost

In the year and a half since we first launched Threatpost, the site has grown very quickly, probably more quickly than any of us had even hoped it might. We’ve added a couple of regular podcasts, original videos, developed a stable of terrific regular contributors and recently launched our first...

Microsoft IE 8 Shines in Web Browser Security Test

From Network World Ellen Messmer Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 rated tops among five browsers tested by NSS Labs for effectiveness in protecting against malware and phishing attacks — though NSS Labs acknowledges Microsoft paid for the tests. Nevertheless, the test process, which lasted over a...

Emerging H0lyGh0st Ransomware Tied to North Korea

Microsoft researchers have linked an emerging ransomware threat that already has compromised a number of small-to-mid-sized businesses to financially motivated North Korean state-sponsored actors that have been active since last year. The group has successfully compromised small-to-mid-sized...

Linux Servers at Risk of RCE Due to Critical CWP Bugs

Researchers have discovered two critical bugs in Control Web Panel CWP – a popular web hosting management software used by 200,000+ servers – that could allow for remote code execution RCE as root on vulnerable Linux servers. CWP, formerly known as CentOS Web Panel, is an open-source Linux contro...

‘Glowworm’ Attack Turns Light Flickers into Audio

Virtual meetings are vulnerable to a new, exotic attack called Glowworm, which measures an audio output device’s LED power light changes and converts them to audio reproductions — allowing cyberattackers to listen to sensitive conversations. As an increasing amount of business is being conducted...

FIN7 Liquor Lure Compromises Law Firm with Backdoor

Financial cybercrime gang FIN7 has rebounded after the jailing of some key members, launching a campaign that uses as a lure a legal complaint involving the liquor company that owns Jack Daniels whiskey. The gambit successfully compromised at least one law firm, giving them a shot of the JSSLoade...

Exclusive Ransomware Poll: 80% of Victims Don’t Pay Up

Ransomware is on the rise, but what toll does it take on the real world? Threatpost set out to answer that question in an exclusive poll aimed at taking the pulse of organizations wrestling with attacks, including looking at mitigations and the defenses organizations have in place. When viewed...

Hackers Exploit Post-COVID Return to Offices

With COVID-19 restrictions lifting and workers trickling back to offices, threat actors are sharpening their spear phishing ploys. The latest scam includes pelting recipients with emails purportedly from their CIOs welcoming employees back into offices. The emails outline a company’s post-pandemi...

$4,000 COVID-19 'Relief Checks' Cloak Dridex Malware

Cybercriminals have wasted no time in hopping on the American Rescue Plan – the COVID-19 relief legislation just signed into law – as a lure for email-based scams. According to researchers at Cofense, a campaign began circulating in March that capitalized on Americans’ interest in the forthcoming...

2.28M MeetMindful Daters Compromised in Data Breach

More than 2.28 million members of the online dating site MeetMindful have reportedly been caught up in a wide-ranging data breach that exposes everything from Facebook tokens to physical characteristics. The ShinyHunters hacking group has stolen and published the personally identifiable PII data ...

Authentication Bug Opens Android Smart-TV Box to Data Theft

A critical bug in the Hindotech HK1 TV Box would allow root-privilege escalation thanks to improper access control. A successful exploit would allow attackers to steal social-networking account tokens, Wi-Fi passwords, cookies, saved passwords, user-location data, message history, emails, contact...

Mac, Linux Users Now Targeted by FinSpy Variants

The FinSpy commercial spyware is back in recently observed campaigns against organizations and activists in Egypt. While the spyware previously targeted Windows, iOS and Android users, researchers have discovered these campaigns using new variants that target macOS and Linux users. FinSpy is a...

Zoom Taps Ex-Facebook CISO Amid Security Snafus, Lawsuit

As it faces a major lawsuit, Zoom is taking a significant step to bolster security and privacy efforts by recruiting an industry heavy-hitter – former Facebook CISO Alex Stamos – to provide special counsel. It has also named third-party expert security advisory teams. The popular videoconferencin...

Google Bans 600 Android Apps for Obnoxious Ads

Google has removed nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for serving up obnoxious, invasive ads that aren’t easily “x’d” out of. The internet giant said the enforcement action was a strike against mobile ad fraud. Google said Thursday that the apps violated its disruptive ads policy – and a...

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...

Top 10 Breaches and Leaky Server Screw Ups of 2019

Top 10 Breaches and Leaky Server Screw Ups of 2019 From massive credential spills on the Dark Web and hacked data to card-skimming and rich profiles exposed by way of cloud misconfigurations, 2019 was a notable year for data breaches. Big names like Capital One, Macy’s and Sprint were impacted, a...

Understanding the Risk of Zero-Day Exploits

To protect your home from thieves, the easiest thing you can do is lock your windows and doors every time you leave the house. Similarly, in cybersecurity, the easiest way to protect your network is to keep your hardware and applications up to date with the latest security patches. But how do you...

Microsoft OAuth Flaw Opens Azure Accounts to Takeover

A vulnerability in the way Microsoft applications use OAuth for third-party authentication could allow an attacker to take over Azure cloud accounts. OAuth is a protocol that allows app users to share data about their accounts with third-party websites or apps, so that when they sign into the app...

Holiday Shoppers Beware: 100K Malicious Sites Found Posing as Well-Known Retailers

As the holiday season looms, cybercrooks are going after shoppers with more than 100,000 lookalike domains mimicking legitimate retailers. The news comes as a new report shows that in tandem, the retail industry is experiencing more breaches than any other industry in 2019 as criminals consistent...

Three Service Account Secrets Straight from Hackers and Security Pros

Barbara Hoffman, Product Marketing Manager, Thycotic Nearly 19,000 infosec experts travel from all over the world to attend the annual Black Hat Conference. They come to share, educate and disclose their security research on the latest vulnerabilities and cyberthreats. We here at Thycotic love to...

Magecart Group Targets Routers Behind Public Wi-Fi Networks

A faction of the Magecart threat group is testing code that targets routers used to provide free or paid Wi-Fi services in public spaces and hotels. If successful, attackers would able to compromise these commercial-grade routers and be able to siphon payment data of users joining Wi-Fi networks ...

These Hacks Require Literally Sneaking in the Backdoor

After slipping past security, picking a backdoor lock and gaining access to a company’s inner sanctum, a skilled hacker can cause mayhem. They can plant malware on a network, grab physical files and walk out the front door with a donut pilfered from the employee break room. Meet the world of a...

Black Hat 2019: Addressing Supply-Chain Risk Starts with People, Microsoft Says

LAS VEGAS – Supply-chain attacks have nabbed headlines lately thanks to high-profile incidents like the Wipro news last April, where attackers were able to compromise the staffing agency’s network and pivot to their customers. That incident pointed out that supply-chain risk should be thought of ...

Chrome 76 Dumps Default Adobe Flash Player Support

Google has launched the latest iteration of the Chrome browser for Windows, Mac and Linux, which blocks Adobe Flash Player default support and comes with more than 40 security fixes. Though plans to deprecate Adobe Flash in Chrome have been brewing for years, Chrome 76 takes an official first ste...

Streamlining Patch Management: Expert Advice

Patch management has been a song of constant sorrows for system administrator. There have been improvements. But still, 80 percent of enterprise systems feature unpatched CVE vulnerabilities, according CA Veracode’s State of Software Security. The good news is, software patching has gotten better...

Apple Patches iMessage Bug That Bricks iPhones with Out-of-Date Software

Apple patched a high-severity iMessage bug found by Google Project Zero that can be exploited by an attacker who sends a specially-crafted message to a vulnerable iOS device. Those iPhones receiving the malicious message are rendered inoperable, or bricked. Apple patched the bug with the release ...

Facebook Removes Accounts Used to Infect Thousands With Malware

Facebook has shut down more than 30 accounts spreading malware through malicious links that purport to be news about the ongoing political situation in Libya. The campaign, ongoing since 2014, has infected tens of thousands of victims with remote access trojans RATs, according to researchers. The...

A New Approach for Combating Insider Threats

LONDON, UK – As insider attacks continue to plague the enterprise the security community is doubling down on finding new solutions to mitigate against the age-old problem. An insider threat can encompass anything from a gullible employee falling for a spearphishing email, to unaware new hires...

2.3B Files Exposed in a Year: A New Record for Misconfigs

The last 12 months has seen the exposure of a record 2.3 billion files across cloud databases and online shares, according to an analysis released on Thursday. A report from Digital Shadows’ Photon Research Team, Too Much Information: The Sequel, assessed the scale of inadvertent global data...

Millions of Golfers Land in Privacy Hazard After Cloud Misconfig

Finding cloud databases with sensitive information left open to the internet has become par for the course these days – as a new exposure of millions of sensitive data points for the users of a golf app demonstrates. Millions of golfer records from the Game Golf app, including GPS details from...

Verizon Router Command Injection Flaw Impacts Millions

UPDATE Three vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Verizon Fios Quantum Gateway which, when exploited together, could give an attacker complete control of a victim’s network. The device is used by millions of Verizon home customers and functions as a home’s wireless router and digital...

SAS 2019: 4 Stuxnet-Related APTs Form Gossip Girl, an 'Apex Threat Actor'

SINGAPORE – The infamous Stuxnet family of industrial sabotage malware is likely the work of a mysterious “supra-group” that Chronicle researchers Juan Andres Guerrero Saad and Silas Cutler have dubbed Gossip Girl; and it’s a group that turns out to be larger and far busier than previously known...

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Microsoft has patched a zero-day vulnerability actively being used against older versions of the Windows operating system, as part of its December Patch Tuesday updates. According to the software giant, the vulnerability CVE-2018-8611 is an elevation-of-privilege EoP bug that affects Windows 7...

Critical Flaws in Syringe Pump, Device Gateways Threaten Patient Safety

Two previously undocumented, critical vulnerabilities in widely deployed medical devices have sparked patient-safety and data-privacy concerns. Flaws in the Qualcomm Life Capsule Datacaptor Terminal Server and the Becton Dickinson BD Alaris TIVA Syringe Pump have been acknowledged by the vendors...

Remote Wi-Fi Attack Backdoors iPhone 7

Google on Tuesday disclosed details and a proof-of-concept exploit for a Wi-Fi firmware vulnerability in Broadcom chipsets patched this week in iOS 11. The attack enables code execution and persistent presence on a compromised device. “The exploit gains code execution on the Wi-Fi firmware on the...

Attacks Heating Up Against Apache Struts 2 Vulnerability

Public attacks and scans looking for exposed Apache webservers have ramped up dramatically since Monday when a vulnerability in the Struts 2 web application framework was patched and proof-of-concept exploit code was introduced into Metasploit. The vulnerability, CVE-2017-5638, was already under...

Microsoft Schannel Vulnerable to FREAK

Microsoft today issued an advisory warning Windows users that Secure Channel, or Schannel, the Windows implementation of SSL/TLS, is vulnerable to the FREAK attack. Disclosed this week, FREAK CVE-2015-1637 is the latest big Internet bug. It affects a number of SSL clients, including OpenSSL, and...

Oracle Rushes Emergency Java Update to Patch McRAT Vulnerabilities

Oracle has once again released an emergency Java update to patch zero-day vulnerabilities in the browser plug-in, the fifth time it has updated the platform this year. Today’s update patches CVE-2013-1493 and CVE-2013-0809, the former was discovered last week being exploited in the wild for Java ...

Large-Scale Water Holing Attack Campaigns Hitting Key Targets

A new APT-style espionage campaign launched this summer targeting organizations tied to financial services, government agencies and the defense industry used a technique dubbed water holing to entice victims and silently redirect them to sites hosting zero-day exploits. Researchers at RSA Securit...