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New APT Campaign Dubbed The Mask Called Most Sophisticated Seen to Date
PUNTA CANA–A group of high-level, nation-state attackers has been targeting government agencies, embassies, diplomatic offices and energy companies with a cyber-espionage campaign for more than five years that researchers say is the most sophisticated APT operation they’ve seen to date. The attac...
Counter.php Redirecting to Sites Peddling Styx Exploit Kit
The Counter.php strain of malware has been spotted in the past redirecting users to a handful of malicious sites and now appears to be leveraging that ability to send victims to websites serving up the Styx exploit kit. According to a post on Securelist today, Vincente Diaz, a researcher with...
Fake Facebook Alert Emails Link to Black Hole Sites
Attackers are sending spoofed “pending notification” emails to Facebook users, claiming that the recipients overlooked some alert on the world’s largest social network, and providing them with a link that supposedly leads to the allegedly neglected content but which, in reality, funnels users to ...
Leaders from China, U.S. Meet, Agree to Rally Against Cyber Threats
In an attempt to clear the cybersecurity air, the United States and the People’s Republic of China agreed Monday to work in tandem to prevent future cyber threats. Meeting at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and General Liang Guanglie, China’s Minister of National Defense, insisted th...
Serious Remote PHP Bug Accidentally Disclosed
A serious remote-code execution vulnerability in PHP was accidentally disclosed Wednesday, leading to fears of an outbreak of attacks on sites that were built using vulnerable versions of PHP. The bug has been known privately since January when a team of researchers used it in a capture the flag...
Apple Zaps JailbreakMe Bugs in Record Time
Less than two weeks after exploits for a pair of serious security vulnerabilities were fitted into an automated JailbreakMe.com exploit, Apple has rushed out a patch to block the jailbreaking of iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. The iOS 3.2.2 for iPad and iOS 4.0.2 iPhone and iPod Touch update...
Web Filtering & Compliances for Wi-Fi Providers
The demand for public Wi-Fi is increasing constantly due to the increase of smartphone owners and remote workers. Researchers at VPNMentor say that there are approximately 549 million Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide. Another survey by Semantic found that 87 percent of U.S. consumers have used the readil...
SEGA’s Sloppy Security Confession: Exposed AWS S3 Bucket Offers Up Steam API Access & More
Gaming giant SEGA Europe recently discovered that its sensitive data was being stored in an unsecured Amazon Web Services AWS S3 bucket during a cloud-security audit, and it’s sharing the story to inspire other organizations to double-check their own systems. Researcher Aaron Phillips with VPN...
Phishing Scam Aims to Hijack TikTok ‘Influencer’ Accounts
A recently discovered phishing scam tried to takeover more than 125 high-profile user accounts on TikTok. Researchers said the campaign marks one of the first major attacks on “influencers” found on the TikTok social-media platform. Researchers at cloud email security provider Abnormal Security...
BrakTooth Bluetooth Bugs Bite: Exploit Code, PoC Released
The embargo period is over for a proof-of-concept PoC tool to test for the recently revealed BrakTooth flaws in Bluetooth devices, and the researchers who discovered them have released both the test kit and full exploit code for the bugs. BrakTooth is a collection of flaws affecting commercial...
Lazarus Attackers Turn to the IT Supply Chain
Lazarus – a North Korean advanced persistent threat APT group – is working on launching cyberespionage-focused attacks on supply chains with its multi-platform MATA framework. The MATA malware framework can target three operating systems: Windows, Linux and macOS. MATA has historically been used ...
U.S. Ban on Sales of Cyberattack Tools Is Anemic, Experts Warn
The launch of a standing offer to pay for Windows virtual private network VPN software zero-day exploits came to light this week, even as the U.S. mulls new regulations on the export of tools that could be used in cyberattacks against the U.S. or its interests. The developments signal that the U....
BladeHawk Attackers Target Kurds with Android Apps
Attackers have been targeting the Kurdish ethic group for more than a year through an Facebook-based spyware campaign that disguises backdoors in legitimate Android apps, researchers have found. A group called BladeHawk is behind the campaign, discovered by researchers from cybersecurity firm ESE...
Rogue Marketplace AlphaBay Reboots
The illicit marketplace AlphaBay appears to have resurfaced, four years after a high-profile takedown by international law enforcement agencies. The reboot, according to researchers at Flashpoint, isn’t an exact a replica. Rather, the reconstituted version of the site is described as an homage to...
Iranian APT Lures Defense Contractor in Catfishing-Malware Scam
Most people have probably heard of catfishing. That’s when someone adopts a fake online persona, usually to trick someone into falling in love. Now, threat actors have developed their own spin on the grift, developing appealing — objectively hot — profiles to charm victims into downloading malwar...
Tracking Malware and Ransomware Domains in 2021
In 2021, the threat of ransomware has loomed large. In many ways, it’s exactly what cybersecurity experts expected and predicted after the major cyber attacks of 2020—including hospital ransomware attacks on a healthcare industry hard-hit by both ransomware and Covid-19. But in other ways, this...
Netgear Authentication Bypass Allows Router Takeover
Netgear has patched three bugs in one of its router families that, if exploited, can allow threat actors to bypass authentication to breach corporate networks and steal data and credentials. Microsoft security researchers discovered the bugs in Netgear DGN-2200v1 series routers while they were...
5G Security Vulnerabilities Fluster Mobile Operators
As 5G private networks roll out in the coming years, security may be a key issue for enterprises. A survey released at Mobile World Congress on Monday shows that major gaps persist in security capabilities among mobile operators. Some 68 percent of operators already sell private wireless networks...
FBI Claws Back Millions of DarkSide’s Ransom Profits
United States law enforcement has clawed back approximately $2.3 million of the ransom allegedly paid to DarkSide by Colonial Pipeline last month, the Department of Justice DOJ and FBI announced in a joint press conference on Monday. “Today we turned the tables on DarkSide,” FBI Deputy Director...
Telegram Fraudsters Ramp Up Forged COVID-19 Vaccine Card Sales
Telegram groups are being abused by fraudsters peddling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards to the unvaccinated and anti-vaxxer communities, according to researchers. Brittany Allen, trust and safety architect at Sift, noticed the illicit sales on the encrypted messaging platform as the COVID-19...
State-sponsored Threat Groups Target Telcos, Steal 5G Secrets
Chinese-language APTs are targeting telecom companies in cyberespionage campaigns aimed at stealing sensitive data and trade secrets tied to 5G technology, according to researchers. The campaigns, dubbed “Operation Diànxùn”, target and lure victims working in the telecom industry. A typical ploy...
Dark Web Markets for Stolen Data See Banner Sales
Despite an explosion in the sheer amount of stolen data available on the Dark Web, the value of personal information is holding steady, according to the 2021 Dark Web price index from Privacy Affairs. That leaves these thriving dirty data dealers in a familiar predicament — they need to lock down...
RTM Cybergang Adds New Quoter Ransomware to Crime Spree
The Russian-speaking group behind the infamous RTM banking trojan is now packing a trifecta of threats as it turns up the heat – part of a massive new money-grab campaign. Beyond the banking malware it is known for, attackers have enlisted a recently-discovered ransomware family called Quoter as...
Supply-Chain Hack Breaches 35 Companies, Including PayPal, Microsoft, Apple
An ethical hacker has demonstrated a novel supply-chain attack that breached the systems of more than 35 technology players, including Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix, Tesla and Uber, by exploiting public, open-source developer tools. The attack, devised by security researcher Alex...
ElectroRAT Drains Cryptocurrency Wallet Funds of Thousands
A new remote access tool RAT has been discovered being used in an extensive campaign. The attack has targeted cryptocurrency users in an attempt to collect their private keys and ultimately to drain their wallets. The never-before-seen RAT at the center of the campaign, which researchers dub...
Researcher Breaks reCAPTCHA With Google’s Speech-to-Text API
An old attack method dating back to 2017 that uses voice-to-text to bypass CAPTCHA protections turns out to still work on Google’s latest reCAPTCHA v3. That’s according to researcher Nikolai Tschacher, who posted a video proof-of-concept PoC of the attack on Jan. 2. CAPTCHA, introduced in 2014, i...
Software AG Data Released After Clop Ransomware Strike – Report
Clop and the group’s signature malware has struck again — this time hitting a giant target in the form of German software conglomerate Software AG. The company isn’t paying a mammoth $23 million ransom so far, and over the weekend it confirmed that the crooks were releasing company data, accordin...
Ransomware Attackers Buy Network Access in Cyberattack Shortcut
For prices between $300 and $10,000, ransomware groups have the opportunity to easily buy initial network access to already-compromised companies on underground forums. Researchers warn this opportunity gives groups like Maze or Sodinokibi the ability to more easily kickstart ransomware attacks...
Universal Health Services Ransomware Attack Impacts Hospitals Nationwide
A ransomware attack has shut down Universal Health Services, a Fortune-500 owner of a nationwide network of hospitals. The attack occurred in the wee hours of the morning on Monday, according to reports coming in from employees on Reddit and other platforms. On Reddit, a discussion with hundreds ...
Stubborn WooCommerce Plugin Bugs Gets Third Patch
E-commerce sites using the WordPress plugin Discount Rules for WooCommerce are being urged to patch two high-severity cross-site scripting flaws that could allow an attacker to hijack a targeted site. Two fixes for the flaws, first available on Aug. 22 and second on Sept. 2, failed to patch the...
Bluetooth Bug Opens Devices to Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
A high-severity Bluetooth vulnerability has been uncovered, which could enable an unauthenticated attacker within wireless range to eavesdrop or alter communications between paired devices. The flaw CVE-2020-15802, discovered independently by researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de...
Agent Tesla Spyware Adds Fresh Tricks to Its Arsenal
Since COVID-19 cast its pall in March, the Agent Tesla remote-access trojan RAT has exploited the pandemic and added a raft of functionality that has helped it dominate the enterprise threat scene. Though Agent Tesla first made a splash six years ago, it hasn’t lost any momentum – in fact, it is...
Garmin Pays Up to Evil Corp After Ransomware Attack — Reports
Garmin, the GPS and aviation tech specialist, reportedly negotiated with Evil Corp for an decryption key to unlock its files in the wake of a WastedLocker ransomware attack. The attack, which started on July 23, knocked out Garmin’s fitness-tracker services, customer-support outlets and commercia...
OkCupid Security Flaw Threatens Intimate Dater Details
Researchers have discovered a slew of issues in the popular OkCupid dating app, which could have allowed attackers to collect users’ sensitive dating information, manipulate their profile data or even send messages from their profile. OkCupid is one of the most popular dating platforms worldwide,...
Report: Most Popular Home Routers Have ‘Critical’ Flaws
A security review of 127 popular home routers found most contained at least one critical security flaw, according to researchers. The “Home Router Security Report” PDF by Peter Weidenbach and Johannes vom Dorp—both from the German think tank Fraunhofer Institute–found that not only did all of the...
Sophisticated Info-Stealer Targets Air-Gapped Devices via USB
The Cycldek APT group has added a previously unknown malware dubbed USBCulprit to its arsenal, aimed at reaching air-gapped devices. Cycldek a.k.a. Goblin Panda, APT 27 and Conimes has been targeting governments in Southeast Asia since 2013, according to analysis from Kaspersky, and has been...
DoubleGun Group Builds Massive Botnet Using Cloud Services
An operation from the China-based cybercrime gang known as DoubleGun Group has been disrupted, which had amassed hundreds of thousands of bots that were controlled via public cloud services, including Alibaba and Baidu Tieba. NetLab 360 researchers, in a recent posting, said that it noticed DNS...
70 Percent of Mobile, Desktop Apps Contain Open-Source Bugs
A full 70 percent of applications being used today have at least one security flaw stemming from the use of an open-source library. According to Veracode’s annual State of Software Security report, these open-source libraries – free, centralized code repositories that provide ready-made applicati...
NetWalker Ransomware Gang Hunts for Top-Notch Affiliates
The NetWalker ransomware – the scourge behind one of the recent Toll Group attacks – has transitioned to a ransomware-as-a-service RaaS model, and its operators are placing a heavy emphasis on targeting and attracting technically advanced affiliates, according to researchers. Traditionally,...
In COVID-19 Scam Scramble, Cybercrooks Recycle Phishing Kits
Phishing attacks looking to take advantage of interest and fear around the COVID-19 health crisis are becoming a pandemic themselves – and apparently cybercriminals are looking to conserve resources by leaning on their older stockpiles of weapons to keep the infection wave going. Or Katz, a...
Top Email Protections Fail in Latest COVID-19 Phishing Campaign
Threat actors continue to capitalize on fears surrounding the spread of the COVID-19 virus through a surge in new phishing campaigns that use spoofing tactics to effectively evade Proofpoint and Microsoft Office 365 advanced threat protections ATPs, researchers have found. The Cofense Phishing...
RSAC 2020 Keynote: Changing the World's False Perception of Cybersecurity
SAN FRANCISCO – Today, cybersecurity is portrayed in the media and by businesses as an ongoing complex conflict between defenders and cybercriminals, with heightened noise around hyper-technical proof-of-concept attacks, or nation state threats. But, the reality is starkly different, said Rohit...
Google: Efforts Against Bad Android Apps on Play Store Are Working
Some of the efforts Google has made over the past few years to bolster the security of Android app users as well as the mobile apps available on its Google Play store are starting to work, according to the tech giant. The company, which historically has struggled mightily to keep bad apps and...
Phishing Campaign Targets 250 Android Apps with Anubis Malware
A new phishing campaign is attempting to deliver sophisticated malware that can completely hijack an Android mobile device to steal user credentials, install a keylogger and even hold a device’s data for ransom. The attacks are designed for mobile inboxes and leverage the Anubis malware, a...
Metamorfo Returns with Keylogger Trick to Target Financial Firms
Researchers have discovered a recent spate of phishing emails spreading a new variant of Metamorfo, a financial malware known for targeting Brazilian companies. Now, however, it’s expanding its geographic range and adding a new technique. Metamorfo was first discovered in April 2018, in various...
Twitter API Abused to Uncover User Identities
Twitter said that malicious actors, with potential ties to state-sponsored groups, were abusing a legitimate function on its platform to unmask the identity of users. The social media giant said that on Dec. 24, 2019, it discovered a large network of fake accounts abusing a legitimate API...
Insecure Database Exposes Millions of Private SMS Messages
Tens of millions of SMS messages have been found on an unprotected database, putting the private data of hundreds of millions of people in the United States at risk for theft or exposure and leaving a communications company open for potential intrusion, security researchers discovered. Noam Rotem...
Facebook Privacy Breach: 100 Developers Improperly Accessed Data
UPDATE Facebook said that 100 third-party app developers have improperly accessed the names and profile pictures of members in various Facebook groups – data that was restricted in 2018 by the platform after its Cambridge Analytica privacy snafu. Facebook said that the developers – including 11 i...
Emotet Resurgence Continues With New Tactics, Techniques and Procedures
The notorious banking trojan Emotet, that mysteriously disappeared over the summer, returned last month dropping a new collection of malware including information stealers, email harvesters, self-propagation mechanisms and ransomware. But since the malware returned from its hiatus, there was no...
Joker's Stash Drops Largest-Ever Credit Card Cache on Dark Web
Joker’s Stash, a Dark Web destination that specializes in trading in payment-card data, has added 1.3 million credit and debit cards to its inventory, belonging to Indian banking customers. Researchers said it’s the largest stolen payment card cache ever put up for sale. According to Group-IB, th...