Critical Palo Alto Cyber-Defense Bug Allows Remote ‘War Room’ Access

A critical security bug in Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex XSOAR could allow remote attackers to run commands and automations in the Cortex XSOAR War Room and to take other actions on the platform, without having to log in. Found internally by Palo Alto, the bug CVE-2021-3044 is an...

Cyberpunk 2077 Hacked Data Circulating Online

New data from the February hack of CD Projekt Red, the videogame-development company behind Cyberpunk 2077 and the Witcher series, is circulating online. Earlier this year, the company suffered a ransomware attack in which a cyberattack group believed by some to be the HelloKitty gang “gained...

BazaLoader Masquerades as Movie-Streaming Service

There’s a new, fake movie-streaming service in town called BravoMovies, and the offerings are utter garbage. Despite its pretty pictures and fun-sounding titles, it’s got nothing to offer for download besides BazaLoader malware. BazaLoader is a loader used to deploy ransomware or other types of...

TeaBot Trojan Targets Banks via Hijacked Android Handsets

Researchers have discovered an Android trojan that can steal victims’ SMS messages and credentials and completely take over devices. The trojan, dubbed TeaBot, is aimed at committing fraud against at least 60 banks in Europe. Join Threatpost for “Fortifying Your Business Against Ransomware, DDoS ...

Peloton’s Leaky API Spilled Riders’ Private Data

Peloton has hit a pothole. Its API was leaking riders’ private data, it ignored a vulnerability disclosure from a penetration testing company, and it partially fixed the hole but didn’t get around to telling the researcher until he reached out to a cybersecurity journalist for some help. This is...

E.O. Would Strengthen Federal Cyber Requirements

The U.S. federal government is mulling changes to up its cybersecurity software game in the wake of the sprawling SolarWinds cyberattacks that came to light in December, including requiring data-breach notifications. In a draft executive order from President Joe Biden, software companies would be...

Post-Cyberattack, Universal Health Services Faces $67M in Losses

The cyberattack that hit Universal Health Services UHS in September has cost the healthcare service provider a whopping $67 million in damages, according to financial statements. A fourth-quarter earnings report last week from UHS highlighted the “significant incremental labor expense” needed to...

Lazarus Targets Defense Companies with ThreatNeedle Malware

The prolific North Korean APT known as Lazarus is behind a spear-phishing campaign aimed at stealing critical data from defense companies by leveraging an advanced malware called ThreatNeedle, new research has revealed. The elaborate and ongoing cyberespionage campaign used emails with COVID-19...

Apple Outlines 2021 Security, Privacy Roadmap

Click to Register Apple released its 2021 Platform Security guide, Thursday, outlining its current and year-ahead agenda for its device hardware, software and silicon security. This year’s 192-page report is beefed-up, compared to past reports, with a wealth of new insights into how Apple is...

Changing Employee Security Behavior Takes More Than Simple Awareness

Security awareness rarely leads to sustained behavior change on its own, according to a recent analysis – meaning that organizations need to proactively develop a robust “human-centered” security program to reduce the number of security incidents associated with poor security behavior. According ...

Good Heavens! 10M Impacted in Pray.com Data Exposure

The Christian faith app Pray.com has leaked private data for up to 10 million people, according to researchers. The app offers “daily prayer and Bible stories to inspire, educate and help you sleep” on a subscription basis. Subscriptions run anywhere from $50 to $120. It offers a host of audio...

Scams Ramp Up Ahead of Black Friday Cybercriminal Craze

The number of online holiday shoppers this year is expected to skyrocket due to the pandemic – and consequently, consumers can expect an onslaught of scams, phishing attacks and other malicious activities. The risk of infection is driving consumers to shop from the safety of their homes, rather...

Android Malware Bypasses 2FA And Targets Telegram, Gmail Passwords

Researchers have uncovered a threat group launching surveillance campaigns that target victims’ personal device data, browser credentials and Telegram messaging application files. One notable tool in the group’s arsenal is an Android malware that collects all two-factor authentication 2FA securit...

UPDATE – TikTok Ban: Security Experts Weigh in on the App's Risks

UPDATE Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat over the weekend have gotten an 11th hour reprieve from a plan to cut off access to them. As a ban on U.S. downloads loomed for Sunday, TikTok owner ByteDance reached an agreement to sell significant ownership stakes to Oracle and Walmart. While the deal is...

Zoom Faces More Legal Challenges Over End-to-End Encryption

Video-conferencing behemoth Zoom has been hit with yet another lawsuit stemming from its claim to offer end-to-end encryption for sessions. The suit, filed in a Washington D.C. court PDF this week by a nonprofit advocacy group called Consumer Watchdog, alleges that the company falsely told users...

Google Updates Ad Policies to Counter Influence Campaigns, Extortion

Google is making two changes in its advertising policy as the U.S. moves into the fall election season ahead of the presidential contest in November, in an attempt to thwart disinformation campaigns. For one, Google is updating its Google Ads Misrepresentation Policy to prevent coordinated activi...

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...

Microsoft Warns on OAuth Attacks Against Cloud App Users

Against the backdrop of widespread remote working and the increased use of collaboration apps, attackers are ramping up application-based attacks that exploit OAuth 2.0, Microsoft is warning. OAuth is an open standard for access delegation, commonly used as a way for people to sign into services...

Qbot Trojan Reappears to Go After U.S. Banking Customers

Qbot, an ever-evolving information-stealing trojan that’s been around since 2008, has reappeared after a hiatus to target customers of U.S. financial institutions. Its latest variant features fresh capabilities to help it remain undetected. Qbot a.k.a. Qakbot or Pinkslipbot harvests browsing data...

News Wrap: Ransomware Extortion Tactics, Contact-Tracing App Security Worries

Threatpost editors discuss the top news stories of the week ended May 15, including: Recent ransomware attacks, including ones targeting healthcare giant Magellan, the IT office that supports Texas appellate courts and judicial agencies, and a popular law firm that works with several A-list...

Quantum Security Goes Live with Samsung Galaxy

Samsung and South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom have debuted the Galaxy A Quantum 5G smartphone, sporting a quantum random number generation RNG chipset. It’s the first commercialization of quantum technology for mobile phones, and it will serve as a significant bellwether for full quantum...

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...

Azure Red Flag: Microsoft Accidentally Fixes Cloud Config ‘Bug’

UPDATE Researchers are shedding light on a Microsoft Azure misconfiguration bug that leaked sensitive access tokens, which could have given hackers access to virtual machine instances and cloud-based storage buckets. Since its discovery, an update has fixed what researchers said was a...

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...

The Best Templates for Posting Cybersecurity Jobs

The cybersecurity of a company is heavily reliant upon the skills and knowledge of the people who install, manage and operate its security products. This means that recruiting and nurturing the best security team possible should be a CISO’s top priority. Cynet’s Ultimate Cybersecurity Job Posting...

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...

Galaxy S10 Fingerprint Sensor Thwarted With Screen Protector: Report

UPDATE Samsung has acknowledged that anyone can bypass the Galaxy S10 fingerprint sensor using a third-party case after a woman alleged that a $3 smartphone screen protector allowed unauthorized users to dupe her Samsung Galaxy S10’s fingerprint recognition sensor – giving access to her phone and...

Privacy Groups: Ring's Police Partnerships Can Lead to Sinister Ends

More than 30 privacy and consumer advocacy groups are urging local legislators to intervene in doorbell-camera company Ring’s partnerships with law enforcement. In 2018, Amazon-owned Ring announced that it was starting a “new neighborhood watch” effort, to allow homeowners to provide voluntary...

Library-Themed University Phishing Attack Expands to Massive Scale

Indicating a campaign of massive scale, at least 20 new phishing domains targeting more than 60 universities in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States have cropped up, bent on lifting credentials from students heading back to school. The domains are...

Latest FinSpy Modules Lift Data from Secure Messaging Apps

The latest iOS and Android versions of the FinSpy espionage malware have been deployed in the wild, and are capable of collecting a raft of personal information such as contacts, SMS/MMS messages, emails, calendars, GPS location, photos, files in memory, phone call recordings and data – even from...

Amid Bug Bounty Hype, Sometimes Security is Left in the Dust

In January, the European Union kicked-off over a dozen new bug bounty programs targeting a bevy of popular open-source programs used by its members. The effort was supposed to be met with cheers. But instead, the launch sparked an unexpected backlash from the security community. The EU’s program...

RSA Conference 2019: Data-Wiping Cyberattacks Plague Financial Firms

Over a quarter of surveyed financial institutions reported that they were targeted by destructive cyberattacks over the past year, bent on completely destroying data. That’s according to a new Carbon Black report unveiled at RSA this year. The report, “Modern Bank Heists: The Bank Robbery Shifts ...

New GandCrab Decryptor Unlocks Files of Updated Ransomware

Yet another free decryptor is available for GandCrab ransomware victims. The tool, released Tuesday, is the third decryptor update in the past year that thwarts the prolific and fast-evolving GandCrab ransomware. Europol police announced availability of the update, which now unlocks data encrypte...

Apple Disables Group FaceTime Following Major Privacy Glitch

Apple has made Group FaceTime temporarily unavailable following a major flaw discovered on Monday evening. The bug allows anyone with iOS to FaceTime other iOS users and listen in on their private conversations – without the user on other end rejecting or accepting the call. The bug makes use of ...

Microsoft Issues Multiple Critical Patches for Edge Browser

Microsoft patched a bevy of critical bugs impacting its Edge browser that could allow an attacker to hijack a targeted PC simply by steering a victim to a rigged website harboring specially crafted exploit code. In all, Microsoft tackled four critical Edge vulnerabilities, part of the company’s...

APT15 Pokes Its Head Out With Upgraded MirageFox RAT

The elusive APT15 cyber-espionage group, believed to be affiliated with the Chinese government, has been spotted for the first time in many months, mounting a highly targeted spy campaign using an upgraded version of the Mirage remote access trojan. This is the first evidence of the China-linked...

Shipping Industry Cybersecurity: A Shipwreck Waiting to Happen

The global shipping industry is vulnerable to a range of hacks, including one that can send multi-million dollar vessels on a collision course for disaster, according researchers. Worse, the flaws are trivial to execute and easy to mitigate against, according to a report by Pen Test Partners. “Sh...

Intel’s ‘Virtual Fences’ Spectre Fix Won’t Protect Against Variant 4

Spectre and Meltdown fixes for Intel chips announced in March, to be embedded into new CPUs, do not address the newly disclosed Variant 4, sources said. Intel introduced hardware-based safeguards to its new chips to protect against the Spectre and Meltdown flaws that rocked the silicon industry...

New Microsoft Bug Bounty Program Looks To Squash The Next Spectre, Meltdown

In the wake of the Meltdown and Spectre flaws, Microsoft has rolled out a new bug bounty program targeting speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities. The limited time program is open until December 31, and offers up to $250,000 for identifying new categories of speculative execution...

PHPMailer, SwiftMailer Updates Resolve Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in two different libraries used to send emails via PHP were patched this week. An issue in PHPMailer, thought fixed, was resolved with an update, version 5.2.21, pushed late Wednesday. Developers with another mailing library for PHP, SwiftMailer,...

Code Reuse a Peril for Secure Software Development

The amount of insecure software tied to reused third-party libraries and lingering in applications long after patches have been deployed is staggering. It’s a habitual problem perpetuated by developers failing to vet third-party code for vulnerabilities, and some repositories taking a hands-off...

HA-CFI Technique Checks Mitigation Bypasses Earlier

LAS VEGAS — It wasn’t long ago that ROP, or return-oriented programming, was a hacker’s best friend when it came to bypassing mitigations against memory-based attacks such as DEP and ASLR. ROP, however, is so 2005. In the last couple of years, researchers and attackers have figured out how to...

Google Updates Chrome, Fixes Three High Severity Issues

Google pushed out the latest version of its flagship browser Chrome on Tuesday, fixing three high severity bugs in the process. The update graduates the browser to version number 49.0.2623.87 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, according to a post on Google’s Chrome Releases blog this week. Two of the...

VMware vCenter Server Patch Reissue

VMware on Saturday reissued a patch from October that incompletely addressed a critically rated remote code execution vulnerability in vCenter Server. The original vulnerability, CVE-2015-2342, was a poorly configured JMX RMI service in vCenter Server that was remotely accessible. The flaw allowe...

New Campaign Targeting Japanese with Hacking Team Zero Day

Yet another group of attackers has quickly cashed in on one of the Adobe Flash zero days uncovered in the HackingTeam leak and is leveraging it to target Japanese organizations. Last week researchers determined that attackers were able to compromise two Japanese websites, the country’s...

Samy Kamkar's ProxyGambit Picks Up for Defunct ProxyHam

Without fail in the weeks leading up to Black Hat and DEF CON, there are inevitably talks that are either pulled by organizers, cancelled by presenters, or strong suggestions are made that the talks don’t happen. This year’s first casualty, Ben Caudill’s scheduled DEF CON demonstration of ProxyHa...

Oracle Patches Java Zero Day

Oracle has released its quarterly patch update, which includes fixes for nearly 200 vulnerabilities. The most notable bug fixed in this release is the Java zero day that’s been used in an ongoing attack campaign. The massive release from Oracle has patches for a long list of products, but the Jav...

Remotely Exploitable Vulnerabilities in SAP Compression Algorithms

The two primary compression algorithms used by SAP SE products, some of the most popular enterprise and business management software platforms on the market, contain multiple, remotely exploitable security vulnerabilities. Martin Gallo of Core Security Consulting Services found vulnerabilities in...

NTP Symmetric Key Authentication Security Vulnerabilities Patched

NTP, the much maligned protocol abused in a number of high volume DDoS attacks a year ago, is suffering from newly patched vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to send unauthenticated packets to a client that would be executed. The Department of Homeland Security and CERT at the Software...

Third Adobe Flash 0Day Under Attack in HanJuan Exploit Kit

The little-known HanJuan exploit kit is delivering attacks targeting the most recent Adobe Flash Player zero-day vulnerability. Adobe has yet to produce a patch for the flaw, which researchers at Trustwave said is a use-after-free vulnerability. The flaw is the third to hit Flash in the last two...