Apache Attack Traffic Dropping, Limited to Few Sources

Malicious traffic stemming from exploits against the Apache Struts 2 vulnerability disclosed and patched this week has tapered off since Wednesday. Researchers at Rapid7 published an analysis of data collected from its honeypots situated on five major cloud providers and a number of private...

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 Giving .NET Users The Option to Shed RC4

Microsoft didn’t beat around the bush when it warned customers to stay away from the deprecated RC4 algorithm last fall. Now it’s giving those who use its .NET software framework an option to disable the cipher in Transport Layer Security TLS as well. In a security advisory issued on its Security...

Microsoft to Fix Critical Word Flaw in October Patch Tuesday

Microsoft will release seven bulletins in the October Patch Tuesday next week, fixing 20 total vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Lync and SQL Server. Only one of the bulletins is rated critical, while the six others are rated important. The one critical bulletin affects Microsoft Office 2003,...

Arms Race In Zero Days Spells Trouble For Privacy, Public Safety

Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part podcast with independent security researcher Chris Soghoian. In the first part of our podcast with independent security researcher Chris Soghoian, we talked about the way that the proliferation of “free” applications have forced consumers into the...

Katie Moussouris on Microsoft, Trustworthy Computing and the Evolution of the Security Community

Dennis Fisher talks with Microsoft’s Katie Moussouris about the way that the Trustworthy Computing effort at Microsoft has changed, how the security community has evolved since she got involved in the 1990s and the challenges–and fun–of being a woman in security. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy6...

PHP Everywhere Bugs Put 30K+ WordPress Sites at Risk of RCE

Tens of thousands of WordPress sites are at risk from critical vulnerabilities in a widely used plug-in that facilitates the use of PHP code on a site. One of the bugs allows any authenticated user of any level – even subscribers and customers – to execute code that can completely take over a sit...

QNAP Is Latest to Get Dinged by OpenSSL Bugs Fallout

On Monday, QNAP put out two security advisories about OpenSSL remote-code execution and denial-of-service DoS bugs, fixed last week, that affect its network-attached storage NAS devices. The vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2021-3711 – a high-severity buffer overflow related to SM2 decryption–...

HPE Warns Sudo Bug Gives Attackers Root Privileges to Aruba Platform

Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE is warning a vulnerability in Sudo, an open-source program used within its Aruba AirWave management platform, could allow any unprivileged and unauthenticated local user to gain root privileges on a vulnerable host. Rated high in severity, HPE warns the Sudo flaw...

Critical Sage X3 RCE Bug Allows Full System Takeovers

Four vulnerabilities afflict the popular Sage X3 enterprise resource planning ERP platform, researchers found – including one critical bug that rates 10 out of 10 on the CVSS vulnerability-severity scale. Two of the bugs could be chained together to allow complete system takeovers, with potential...

Network Detection & Response: The Next Frontier in Fighting the Human Problem

Last year, Gartner published a market guide on network detection and response NDR. Formerly known as network-traffic analytics, which I’ve spoken about in the past at length, NDR has adapted to not only play a major role in helping network and security teams identify threats, but it has enabled...

533M Facebook Accounts Leaked Online: Check if You Are Exposed

More than 533 million Facebook users had their personal information posted to a public hacker forum, a move that is raising concerns about an uptick in cybercrime leveraging the credentials. The publicly released Facebook user data is believed to be part of a 2019 “Add Friend” Facebook security b...

2021 Cybersecurity Trends: Bigger Budgets, Endpoint Emphasis and Cloud

After shrinking in 2020, cybersecurity budgets in 2021 climb higher than pre-pandemic limits. Authentication, cloud data protection and application monitoring will top the list of CISO budget and cybersecurity priorities. According to experts, these are just a few of the themes to dominate the ye...

Boom! Mobile Customer Data Lost to Fullz House/Magecart Attack

Boom! Mobile’s U.S. website recently fell victim to an e-commerce attack, putting online shoppers in danger of payment-card theft, researchers said. Boom! is a wireless provider that resells mobile phone plans from Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile USA, under its own brand and with its own perks the...

Have I Been Pwned Set to Go Open-Source

Have I Been Pwned, the service that logs data breaches and lets individuals search to see if they’ve been affected by one, is about to go open-source. The result of that, according to its founder, will be additional transparency and security-enhancing features. HIBP, which was kicked off in 2013,...

Valve Confirms CS:GO, Team Fortress 2 Source-Code Leak

The discovery of leaked source code for two popular games – Counter-Strike: Global Offensive CS:GO and Team Fortress 2 – has led to security concerns and even calls for gamers to uninstall the software from their computers. The developer and publisher of the two games, Valve, is downplaying the...

FIN6 and TrickBot Combine Forces in 'Anchor' Attacks

Researchers say, two cybercriminal groups, FIN6 and the operators of the TrickBot malware, have paired up together to target several organizations with TrickBot’s malware framework called “Anchor.” The two threat groups joining forces is a “new and dangerous twist” in an existing trend of...

Critical Zoho Zero-Day Flaw Disclosed

UPDATE A zero-day vulnerability has been disclosed in the IT help desk ManageEngine software made by Zoho Corp. The serious vulnerability enables an unauthenticated, remote attacker to launch attacks on affected systems. Zoho has now released a security update addressing the vulnerability. As of...

Joker Android Malware Snowballs on Google Play

Google has removed 17,000 Android apps to date from the Play store that have been conduits for the Joker malware a.k.a. Bread – and in an analysis of the code, said that Joker’s operators have “at some point used just about every cloaking and obfuscation technique under the sun in an attempt to g...

Lizard Squad Threatens UK's Labour Leader with Cyberattacks Against His Family

Lizard Squad, the well-known hacktivist cybergang, is pledging to mount personal cyberattacks on Britain’s Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn. As the UK continues to be roiled by Brexit debate ahead of a Dec. 12 general election, the Labour Party said on Tuesday that it had been targeted by a...

ENFUSE 2019: Security Regulations, Insider Threats, and IoT Privacy Risks

LAS VEGAS – From insider threats, Internet of Things insecurity, to medical device hacking, ENFUSE 2019 broke down the top privacy and security issues help desks are seeing today. It also tackle what regulatory efforts are being developed to address those threats. Threatpost editor Lindsey...

News Wrap: Voice Assistant Laser Hack, Twitter Insider Threats, Data Breach Fine Fails

Threatpost editors break down the top news stories for the week ended Nov. 8. The hot stories of the week include: Despite trillions of dollars in data-breach fine payouts, each year the number of compromised companies and individuals with private data exposed rise – a Threatpost feature looks at...

Raccoon Malware Scavenges 100,000+ Devices to Steal Data

A new information stealer, dubbed Raccoon, is rapidly gaining popularity with cybercriminals. In just a few months, researchers say the malware has already infected hundreds of thousands of devices across the world to rove through victims’ credit card data, email credentials and more. The malware...

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...

198 Million Car-Buyer Records Exposed Online for All to See

Over 198 million records containing information on prospective car buyers, including loan and finance data, vehicle information and IP addresses for website visitors, has been found exposed on the internet for anyone to see. The non-password protected Elasticsearch database belonged to Dealer...

DEF CON and Feds Partner on Anonymous Bug Submission Program

Hacking conference organizer DEF CON Communications said it plans to roll out a global anonymous bug submission platform based on the SecureDrop communications tool. During a session at DEF CON in Las Vegas last week, conference founder Jeff Moss said the goal was to launch the yet-to-be-named...

Election Security Threats: From Misinformation to Voting Machine

Election security continues to be a top concern – from social media misinformation campaigns, to vulnerabilities in the actual voting machines themselves. At Black Hat USA 2019, Threatpost caught up with Matt Olney, director of threat intelligence at Cisco Talos, to discuss the challenges that...

Podcast: Chris Vickery on UpGuard's Discovery of Millions of Facebook Records

Data collection and security was thrust to the forefront this week after researchers with UpGuard disclosed that hundreds of millions of Facebook records were found in two separate publicly-exposed app datasets. The two publicly-exposed datasets included one controlled by Mexican media company...

Old Tech Spills Digital Dirt on Past Owners

In a test of how well businesses wipe data on old devices, Rapid7 researcher Josh Frantz purchased 85 old gadgets from businesses. In total, he paid $600 for an aging collection of old computers, flash drives, phones and hard drives. What he discovered was that despite decades of the infosec...

RSA Conference 2019: Firms Continue to Fail at IoT Security

SAN FRANCISCO – Low prices and firms racing products to market are two of the biggest factors when it comes to why Internet of Things devices are not getting the type of security do diligence they deserve. According to Checkmarx researcher Erez Yalon, despite years of the infosec community soundi...

Project Zero Discloses High-Severity Apple macOS Flaw

Researchers have disclosed what they say is a high-severity security flaw in Apple’s MacOS operating system – which has not yet been patched. The flaw gives an attacker privileges to perform malicious actions on a mounted filesystem – without the victim knowing. The Google Project Zero team...

Major Container Security Flaw Threatens Cascading Attacks

runc, a building-block project for the container technologies used by many enterprises as well as public cloud providers, has patched a vulnerability that would allow root-level code-execution, container escape and access to the host filesystem. Discovered by researchers Adam Iwaniuk and Borys...

U.S. Government Goes After North Korea's Joanap Botnet

The U.S. Justice Department is looking to retaliate against North Korea-linked hackers who have built up a massive global network of infected computers. The department announced on Wednesday that it would seek to map out the Joanap botnet, which has been built and controlled by North Korea-linked...

Adobe Patches Zero-Day Vulnerability in Flash Player

Adobe on Wednesday released several unscheduled fixes for Flash Player, including a critical vulnerability that it said is being exploited in the wild. The critical vulnerability, CVE-2018-15982, is a use-after-free flaw enabling arbitrary code-execution in Flash. “Adobe has released security...

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...

New Dridex Variant Emerges With An FTP Twist

A variant of the Dridex banking trojan recently popped up in an email campaign, with an unusual twist: The attackers used compromised FTP sites for hosting malicious documents, according to researchers at Forcepoint. It was a notable departure from the norm of using HTTP links and could represent...

Flaw Found In Dirty COW Patch

A flaw in the original patch for the notorious Dirty COW vulnerability could allow an adversary to run local code on affected systems and exploit a race condition to perform a privilege escalation attack. The flaw in the Dirty COW patch CVE-2016-5195, released in October 2016, was identified by...

Google Patches Critical 'Broadpwn' Bug in July Security Update

Google released a security patch Wednesday that addresses a critical vulnerability dubbed “Broadpwn” found in millions of Android devices that could allow remote attackers to execute code on targeted devices. The so-called Broadpwn bug is tied to a vulnerability in Broadcom’s BCM43xx family of Wi...

Adobe Patches Flash Zero Day Under Attack by APT Group

Adobe on Thursday patched a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player that has been used in targeted attacks carried out by a new APT group operating primarily against high-profile victims in Russia and Asia. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab privately disclosed the flaw to Adobe after exploits against t...

DHCP Denial of Service Vulnerability Patched

The Internet Systems Consortium ISC on Tuesday patched a denial-of-service vulnerability in numerous versions of DHCP. The flaw affects nearly all IPv4 DHCP clients and relays and most servers, ISC said in its advisory. “A badly formed packet with an invalid IPv4 UDP length field can cause a DHCP...

GHOST glibc Linux Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

A critical vulnerability has been found in glibc, the GNU C library, that affects all Linux systems dating back to 2000. Attackers can use this flaw to execute code and remotely gain control of Linux machines. The issue stems from a heap-based buffer overflow found in the nsshostnamedigitsdots...

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,...

September 2014 Microsoft Patch Tuesday security bulletins

The Operation SnowMan espionage campaign, which targeted military intelligence earlier this year via an Internet Explorer zero day, exposed a weak spot in Microsoft’s vulnerability management efforts. What was unique about the SnowMan operation is that it included a check as to whether the...

Microsoft Releases Free Threat Modeling Tool 2014

Threat modeling has been part of the security culture at Microsoft for the better part of a decade, an important piece of the Security Development Lifecycle that’s at the core of Trustworthy Computing. Today, Microsoft updated its free Threat Modeling Tool with a number of enhancements that bring...

Vasillis Pappas Wins $200,000 Microsoft Blue Hat Prize

LAS VEGAS–Microsoft on Thursday handed out three rather large checks to a trio of security researchers, the largest one–$200,000–going to Vasillis Pappas who won the company’s first Blue Hat Prize competition for defensive technologies. Pappas’s kBouncer ROP mitigation technology edged out...

White House Security Czar Howard Schmidt Retiring

Howard Schmidt, the top White House information security adviser, is retiring after more than two years on the job and several decades in security both in government and private industry. Schmidt is in his second stint as the White House security chief and he’s leaving at a time when cybersecurit...

ExploitHub Offering Bounties – And Residuals – for Exploits

NSS Labs’ announced today that their penetration-testing site, Exploithub, will be offering bounties to researchers for developing exploits for12 high-value vulnerabilities. Exploithub is putting up $4,400 for working exploits against what the company describes as a “dirty dozen” of client-side...

Microsoft Warns of Attacks Against ASP.NET Flaw

Microsoft is warning customers that it has seen ongoing attacks against the recently disclosed padding oracle vulnerability in ASP.NET and is encouraging them to implement a workaround that will help protect against the publicly disclosed exploit for the bug. The workaround that Microsoft has...

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report: The Vinny and Tim Show

This video features Tim Rains and Vinny Gullotto of Microsoft discussing the major threats from the second half of 2008...

Novel ‘Nerbian’ Trojan Uses Advanced Anti-Detection Tricks

A newly discovered and complex remote access trojan RAT is spreading via malicious email campaigns using COVID-19 lures and includes numerous features to evade analysis or detection by researchers, Proofpoint has found. Dubbed Nerbian RAT, the novel malware variant is written in the OS-agnostic G...