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...

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...

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,...

ProxyShell Attacks Pummel Unpatched Exchange Servers

Over the weekend, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency CISA issued an urgent alert that attackers are actively attacking ProxyShell vulnerabilities in unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers, joining researchers in urging organizations to immediately install the latest Microsoft Securi...

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...

Israeli Government Agencies Visit NSO Group Offices

UPDATE Authorities from multiple agencies of the Israeli government paid a visit the offices of the NSO Group as part of a new investigation into claims that the secretive firm is selling its spyware to threat actors for targeted attacks, according to the Israeli Ministry of Defense. A single twe...

$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...

Malicious Code Bombs Target Amazon, Lyft, Slack, Zillow

Researchers have spotted malicious packages targeting internal applications for Amazon, Lyft, Slack and Zillow among others inside the npm public code repository — all of which exfiltrate sensitive information. The packages weaponize a proof-of-concept PoC code dependency-confusion exploit that w...

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...

As Modern Mobile Enables Remote Work, It Also Demands Security

Smartphones, tablets, collaboration apps and other modern framework tools are critical to maintaining productivity remotely, but they also demand an integrated security strategy purpose-built for mobile devices. The coronavirus pandemic has completely upended the way we work, educate and socializ...

Cisco Webex 'Ghost' Flaw Opens Meetings to Snooping

A vulnerability in Cisco’s Webex conferencing application could allow an attendee to act as a “ghost” in the meeting – allowing them to spy in on potentially sensitive company secrets. To exploit the flaw CVE-2020-3419, attackers can be remote – however, they would need access to join the Webex...

Election Security: Beyond Mail-In Voting

As a highly publicized event, every four years the U.S presidential election comes with inevitable security risks — and interest from high-level hackers and sophisticated cybercriminals looking to sway its results. The upcoming election ups the stakes — it has captured the attention of everyone...

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...

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...

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...

NTT Communications Data Breach Affects Customers, Threatens Supply Chain

Japan-based systems integrator NTT Communications has disclosed a recent data breach that it said impacted hundreds of customers. The total affected comes to as many as 621 customers, the company said, but security experts worry about the impacts of the data breach due to the company’s positionin...

AMD Downplays CPU Threat Opening Chips to Data Leak Attacks

AMD is seeking to downplay side-channel attacks that can leak potentially sensitive data from its processors released between 2011 and 2019. The “Take A Way” attack, so-called by researchers with the Graz University of Technology in a new analysis this weekend, is a side-channel attack...

Dropbox Passes $1M Milestone for Bug-Bounty Payouts

Dropbox, the cloud-based file-sharing service, has reported that it has paid out more than $1 million to bug-bounty hunters since starting its program in 2014. The milestone comes after the service tripled its bounties in 2017, and after running two live hacking events with the HackerOne platform...

Vivin Nets Thousands of Dollars Using Cryptomining Malware

A recently uncovered threat actor, dubbed Vivin, has made thousands of U.S. dollars through a large-scale cryptomining campaign. Vivin is unique due to its longevity — the threat actor has been active since at least 2017 — and researchers with Cisco Talos point to Vivin as a good example of why...

Facebook Cracks Down on Deepfake Videos

Facebook is banning deepfake videos, which stem from a technique of human-image synthesis based on artificial intelligence AI to create fake content. Over the past year, security experts and lawmakers have voiced concerns about malicious deepfake applications, particularly as a vessel for...

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...

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...

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...

More U.S. Utility Firms Targeted in Evolving LookBack Spearphishing Campaign

A spearphishing campaign, first spotted in July targeting three U.S. utility companies with a new malware variant, has evolved its tactics and extended its targeting to include nearly 20 companies. The campaign was first discovered in phishing emails, sent between July 19 and 25, which targeted...

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...

WordPress Plugins Exploited in Ongoing Attack, Researchers Warn

Researchers are warning of an ongoing campaign exploiting vulnerabilities in a slew of WordPress plugins. The campaign is redirecting traffic from victims’ websites to a number of potentially harmful locations. Impacted by the campaign is a plugin called Simple 301 Redirects – Addon – Bulk Upload...

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...

GlitchPOS Malware Appears to Steal Credit-Card Numbers

A new insidious malware bent on siphoning credit-card numbers from point-of-sale PoS systems has recently been spotted on a crimeware forum. Researchers at Cisco Talos said in a Wednesday analysis that they discovered the malware, dubbed “GlitchPOS,” being peddled on the Dark Web for $250. The...

RSAC 2019: Joomla! Flaw Exploited to Create Mass Phishing Infrastructure

SECOND UPDATE Editor’s Note: It has come to our attention that Check Point’s findings are being questioned by Joomla! and others in the open-source ecosystem. Our story accurately reflects Check Point’s report — but it’s clear that the news isn’t about Jmail or the vulnerability which is at least...

Microsoft Windows RCE Flaw Gets Temporary Micropatch

Three unfixed Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities have been assigned unofficial, temporary micropatches – including a recently-disclosed high-severity remote code-execution flaw. The micropatches were released Tuesday by ACROS Security’s 0patch platform. 0patch, which is still in its beta stage,...

PewDiePie Hackers Say They Launched Second Printer Siege

UPDATE Hackers have claimed that they launched yet another attack tricking hundreds of thousands of printers globally to print pamphlets promoting YouTube celebrity “PewDiePie.” The latest incident comes on the heels of a similar hack last month. That’s when hackers claimed they commandeered 50,0...

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...

Equifax Says 2.4 Million More People Impacted By Massive 2017 Breach

Equifax said that an additional 2.4 million Americans have had their personal data stolen as part of the company’s massive 2017 data breach, including their names and some of their driver’s license information. The additional identified victims bring the total of those implicated in what has beco...

Badlock Windows, Samba Man-in-the-Middle Vulnerability

Weeks of anxiety and concern over the Badlock vulnerability ended today with an anticlimactic thud. Badlock was the security boogeyman since the appearance three weeks ago of a website and logo branding the bug as something serious in Samba, an open source implementation of the server message blo...

April 2016 Google Android Nexus Security Bulletin

Google has patched a vulnerability being exploited in the wild to root Nexus 5 Android devices. The public exploit—a rooting application—was privately disclosed to Google on March 15 by Zimperium researchers, and a less than a month after CORE Team researchers reported that CVE-2015-1805, which w...

Adobe Issues HotFix For ColdFusion

Adobe this afternoon released hotfixes and security updates for three of its products that patch a handful of vulnerabilities, none of which are being publicly exploited. The most serious vulnerabilities were in ColdFusion, Adobe’s web application development platform. The hotfix affects ColdFusi...

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...

Pirelli Home Broadband Routers Exposed for Two Years

ISP-issued home broadband routers have been a shooting gallery for researchers and hackers alike looking for, and successfully exploiting, shocking vulnerabilities. One disclosed by a researcher in Spain this week is symptomatic of the problem to a disturbing degree. Researcher Eduardo Novella...

Microsoft Fix It a Temporary Patch for IE 8 Zero Day Flaw

Microsoft has released a Fix-It to address an Internet Explorer 8 zero-day that was exploited in a watering hole attack against the U.S. Department of Labor website last week. The Fix It is a temporary mitigation until a patch is released. Microsoft’s next scheduled Patch Tuesday security updates...

Experts Downplay MySQL Database Zero-Days

A rash of zero-day exploits and vulnerabilities in the MySQL database were disclosed to the Full Disclosure mailing list over the weekend, but experts are saying they’re much ado about nothing. Of the half-dozen zero-days reported by a researcher known as King Cope, all but one require legitimate...

Partial disclosure: Was it a cat I saw?

Quite often in our industry, two or five people can look at the same problem from different angles, and see radically different things. Rare is the situation that reads the same to everyone, forwards and backwards. It’s all about perspective. In my appearance on the ‘Partial Disclosure Dilemma’...

New Hacker Forum Takes Pro-Ukraine Stance

A new hacker forum is taking a unique political stance to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, entertaining only topics and threat activity focused against Russia and Belarus, researchers have found. The Russian-language site, DUMPS Forum, has been around since late May, and at first glance...

Log4Shell Vulnerability Targeted in VMware Servers to Exfiltrate Data

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and Coast Guard Cyber Command CGCYBER released a joint advisory warning the Log4Shell flaw is being abused by threat actors that are compromising public-facing VMware Horizon and Unified Access Gateway UAG servers. The VMware Horizon is a...

The Underground Economy: Recon, Weaponization & Delivery for Account Takeovers

This is Part I of a two-part blog series taking readers inside the criminal enterprise that is account-takeover fraud. For part II, please click here. With account takeover ATO attacks on the rise, stopping threat actors in the early phases of the kill chain will help today’s defenders gain an...

Three Zero-Day Bugs Plague Kaseya Unitrends Backup Servers

There are three new, unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities in Kaseya Unitrends that include remote code execution RCE and authenticated privilege escalation on the client-side. The Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure DIVD on Monday issued a public advisory warning that the service and clien...

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...

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...

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...

1.3M Clubhouse Users’ Data Dumped in Hacker Forum for Free

Clubhouse, the startup invitation-only chat app, is the latest social-media platform to see mammoth troves of user data collected and posted in underground forums. An SQL file containing the personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users has been posted in a hacker forum for free. Names, user IDs,...