RCE Bugs in WhatsApp, Other Hugely Popular VoIP Apps: Patch Now!

WhatsApp and BlueJeans are just two of the world’s most popular communication apps that are using an open-source library riddled with newfound security holes. One thing this open-source, flawed library shares with the Apache Log4J logging library fiasco that started in December: It’s ubiquitous...

No Critical Bugs for Microsoft February 2022 Patch Tuesday, 1 Zero-Day

Oh, blessed day: Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday is a featherweight in comparison to some of its not-atypical, 10-ton security updates, with just 51 patches — none of them rated critical. For February, Microsoft’s releases address CVEs in Windows and Windows Components, Azure Data Explorer, Kestrel Web...

PoC Exploits Do More Good Than Harm: Threatpost Poll

When it comes to the release of proof-of-concept PoC exploits, more security experts agree that the positives outweigh the negatives, according to a recent and informal Threatpost poll. Last week, Threatpost conducted a reader poll and almost 60 percent of 230 security pundits thought it was a...

North Korean Spear-Phishing Attack Targets U.S. Firms

Researchers have uncovered an ongoing, sophisticated malware campaign aiming at U.S.-based targets with an interest in nuclear deterrence, North Korea’s nuclear submarine program and North Korean economic sanctions. The campaign, which researchers from Prevailion call “Autumn Aperture” and link...

Microsoft Office SharePoint Targeted With High-Risk Phish, Ransomware Attacks

A phishing campaign, discovered by researchers at Cofense, is draping itself in a Microsoft Office SharePoint theme and successfully bypassing security email gateways SEGs. In a post on Tuesday, the firm said that this is an example of why it’s not always prudent to share documents via Microsoft’...

Critical Cisco Flaws Open VPN Routers Up to RCE Attacks

Cisco is rolling out fixes for critical holes in its lineup of small-business VPN routers. The flaws could be exploited by unauthenticated, remote attackers to view or tamper with data, and perform other unauthorized actions on the routers. The flaws exist in the web-based management interface of...

Cybercrooks Frame Targets by Planting Fabricated Digital Evidence

Threat actors are hijacking the devices of India’s human rights lawyers, activists and defenders, planting incriminating evidence to set them up for arrest, researchers warn. The actor, dubbed ModifiedElephant, has been at it for at least 10 years, and it’s still active. It’s been shafting target...

Wormable Windows Bug Opens Door to DoS, RCE

Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday release addressed a modest 55 cybersecurity vulnerabilities, including just four critical bugs. It’s the smallest monthly update from the computing giant since 2020, but it does contain a patch for a concerning wormable vulnerability found in the Windows OS. The good...

DEF CON 2018: Critical Bug Opens Millions of HP OfficeJet Printers to Attack

LAS VEGAS – Tens of millions of fax-ready HP OfficeJet inkjet printers are vulnerable to a simple hack that gives an attacker full control over a targeted printer. Once compromised, the all-in-one OfficeJet could act as a springboard for deeper network penetration by an attacker. Here at DEF CON,...

Sophisticated Hacks Against Android, Windows Reveal Zero-Day Trove

Google researchers have detailed a major hacking campaign that was detected in early 2020, which mounted a series of sophisticated attacks, some using zero-day flaws, against Windows and Android platforms. Working together, researchers from Google Project Zero and the Google Threat Analysis Group...

Data Breach Disclosed by Online Invitation Firm Evite

Online invitation and stationary company Evite has notified customers of a data breach that stemmed from an “inactive data storage file” associated with user accounts. The company over the weekend said that during April 2019, it became aware of a “security incident involving potential unauthorize...

Atlassian Bugs Could Have Led to 1-Click Takeover

Atlassian, a platform used by 180,000 customers to engineer software and manage projects, could have been hijacked with a single click due to security flaws, researchers have disclosed. On Thursday, Check Point Research CPR published a report PDF outlining how an attacker could have exploited the...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes 6 In-The-Wild Exploits

Microsoft jumped on 50 vulnerabilities in this month’s Patch Tuesday update, issuing fixes for CVEs in Microsoft Windows, .NET Core and Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Edge Chromium-based and EdgeHTML, SharePoint Server, Hyper-V, Visual Studio Code – Kubernetes Tools, Windows HTML...

Critical Flaws Found in Eight Wireless Presentation Systems

Multiple wireless presentation systems have critical vulnerabilities – including a remote command-injection glitch and an unauthenticated remote stack buffer overflow flaw. Wireless presentation systems allow users to display their content directly from their laptop no network cable necessary by...

Internet Explorer 8 includes a bevy of security features

By Robert Westervelt, SearchSecurity.com Microsoft has officially released Internet Explorer 8 today microsoft.com with a number of new security features to improve privacy and protect against phishing and cross-site-scripting attacks. From the article: Microsoft is trying to mitigate some of the...

Rocke Group’s Malware Now Has Worm Capabilities

Researchers have identified an updated malware variant used by the cybercrime gang Rocke Group that targets cloud infrastructures with crypto-jacking attacks. The malware is called Pro-Ocean, which was first discovered in 2019, and has now been beefed-up with “worm” capabilities and rootkit...

Third-Party APIs: How to Prevent Enumeration Attacks

When organizations use APIs – the next frontier in cybercrime – to engage with third parties, it’s crucial they understand the associated security exposure they’re introducing. To do so, they must think like a hacker to evaluate whether or not they are introducing a problem or a solution for thei...

Fast-Moving DDoS Botnet Exploits Unpatched ZyXel RCE Bug

A new variant of the Hoaxcalls botnet, which can be marshalled for large-scale distributed denial-of-service DDoS campaigns, is spreading via an unpatched vulnerability impacting the ZyXEL Cloud CNM SecuManager that was disclosed last month. That’s according to researchers at Radware, who also sa...

Pandora Ransomware Hits Giant Automotive Supplier Denso

A multibillion supplier to key automotive companies like Toyota, Mercedes-Benz and Ford confirmed Monday that it was the target of a cyberattack over the weekend – confirmation that came after the Pandora ransomware group began leaking data that attackers claimed was stolen in the incident. The...

Hey Alexa, Who Am I Messaging?

The potential for digital-home assistants like Amazon Alexa to infringe on user privacy by making and saving voice recordings of them is already widely known. Now researchers have discovered that the devices also may be able to “hear” and record what people are typing on nearby smartphones, even...

WooCommerce Falls to Fresh Card-Skimmer Malware

Credit-card-stealing criminals have set their sights on the WordPress plugin known as WooCommerce, an e-tailer platform, with a JavaScript-based card-skimming malware. Sucuri researcher Ben Martin recently investigated a skimmer attack lodged against a WooCommerce site and found that it differs...

Fake News and Influence: Information Warfare in the Digital Age

It’s 2019 and we live in a world where understanding what is real and what is fake can be challenging. For the security community, we increasingly deal with information warfare adversaries that rely on that fact; and, operating at internet scale, are capable of causing plenty of havoc...

ThreatList: Nigerian Cybercrime Surged 54 Percent in 2018

In 2018, Nigeria-based cybercrime jumped 54 percent over the previous year, as groups of scammers expanded their operations adding new tactics and reaching a wider breadth of targets. The increase, outlined in a report released Thursday by Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42, shows that Nigerian scammers...

30M Dell Devices at Risk for Remote BIOS Attacks, RCE

UPDATE A high-severity series of four vulnerabilities can allow remote adversaries to gain arbitrary code execution in the pre-boot environment on Dell devices, researchers said. They affect an estimated 30 million individual Dell endpoints worldwide. According to an analysis from Eclypsium, the...

4 Android Bugs Being Exploited in the Wild

Google updated its May 3 Android security bulletin on Wednesday to say that there are “indications” that four of the 50 vulnerabilities “may be under limited, targeted exploitation.” That was mostly confirmed by Maddie Stone, a member of Google’s Project Zero exploit research group, who clarified...

Panda Threat Group Mines for Monero With Updated Payload, Targets

The Panda threat group, best known for launching the widespread and successful 2018 “MassMiner” cryptomining malware campaign, has continued to use malware to mine cryptocurrency in more recent attacks. A fresh analysis of the group reveals Panda has adopted a newly-updated infrastructure, payloa...

Microsoft Beefs Up Wi-Fi Protection

Microsoft has begun pushing out its May 2019 Windows 10 update, which will flag Wi-Fi networks that are using the outdated and insecure Wired Equivalent Privacy WEP and Temporal Key Integrity Protocol TKIP authentication mechanisms. WEP was introduced in 1997 as part of the original 802.11 Wi-Fi...

Apple Fixes Zero‑Day Security Bugs Under Active Attack

Apple has issued out-of-band patches for critical security issues affecting iPad, iPhone and iPod, which could allow remote code execution RCE and other attacks, completely compromising users’ systems. And, the computing giant thinks all of them may have already been exploited in the wild. Three ...

Iran-Linked 'Newbie' Hackers Spread Dharma Ransomware Via RDP Ports

A group of ‘script kiddies’ tied to Iran are targeting companies worldwide with internet-facing Remote Desktop Protocol RDP ports and weak credentials in order to infect them with Dharma ransomware. The Dharma malware also known as Crysis has been distributed as a ransomware-as-a-service RaaS mod...

Huawei Router Flaw Leaks Default Credential Status

A vulnerability in some Huawei routers used for carrier ISP services allows cybercriminals to identify whether the devices have default credentials or not – without ever connecting to them. CVE-2018-7900 exists in the router panel and allows credentials information to leak – so attackers can simp...

Black Hat: Remote DOS, Backdoor, Easter Egg Among Newly Discovered Siemens Holes

Dillon Beresford used a presentation at the Black Hat Briefings on Wednesday to detail more software vulnerabilities affecting industrial controllers from Siemens, including a serious remotely exploitable denial of service vulnerability, more hard-coded administrative passwords, and even an easte...

Keksec Cybergang Debuts Simps Botnet for Gaming DDoS

A recently developed botnet named “Simps” has emerged from the cyber-underground to carry out distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks on gaming targets and others, using internet of things IoT nodes. It’s part of the toolset used by the Keksec cybercrime group, researchers said. According to t...

NVIDIA Patches Critical Bug in High-Performance Servers

NVIDIA released a patch for a critical bug in its high-performance line of DGX servers that could open the door for a remote attacker to take control of and access sensitive data on systems typically operated by governments and Fortune-100 companies. In all, NVIDIA issued nine patches, each fixin...

CISA: LokiBot Stealer Storms Into a Resurgence

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is warning that the LokiBot info-stealing trojan is seeing a surge across the enterprise landscape. The uptick started in July, according to the agency, and activity has remained “persistent” ever since. LokiBot targets Windows and...

April Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Battles 4 Bugs Under Active Exploit

Microsoft has released its April 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates, its first big patch update released since the work-from-home era truly got underway. It’s a doozie, with the tech giant disclosing 113 vulnerabilities. Out of these, 19 are rated as critical, and 94 are rated as important...

Virus Bulletin 2019: Japanese Attacks Highlight Savvy APT Strategy

LONDON — Three separate, multi-year APT campaigns targeting region-specific software showcase a savvy technique of leveraging zero-day vulnerabilities in niche software in order to infect victims with malware. According to researchers at JPCERT in Japan, speaking at Virus Bulletin 2019, both the...

Google Nest Security Cam Bugs Allow Device Takeover

Multiple vulnerabilities in Google’s Nest Cam IQ connected indoor security camera would allow an attacker on the same network to take over the device, execute code on it and/or take it offline. Nest Labs’ Cam IQ Indoor integrates security-enhanced Linux in Android, Google Assistant and facial...

Ransomware: A Persistent Scourge Requiring Corporate Action Now

A ransomware attack on Belgian airplane manufacturer ASCO this week is the latest in a string of incidents that show the unique danger lurking in this type of malware campaign. The rise of ransomware has cost companies millions to remediate – both in making payments and in system restoration and...

TRISIS Group, Known for Physical Destruction, Targets U.S. Electric Companies

XENOTIME, the APT group behind the TRISIS industrial control system ICS event, has expanded its focus beyond the oil and gas industries, according to researchers. The group has recently been seen probing the networks of electric utility organizations in the U.S. and elsewhere – perhaps a precurso...

NFT Investors Lose $1.7M in OpenSea Phishing Attack

Over the weekend, hackers stole millions of dollars worth of non-fungible tokens NFTs belonging to 17 members of the OpenSea NFT marketplace. On Saturday, a small number of OpenSea users noticed their NFTs were missing. NFTs are digital tokens on the blockchain that represent ownership over virtu...

Cisco Warns of Critical Flaws in Data Center Network Manager

Cisco Systems has released emergency patches for two critical vulnerabilities in its Data Center Network Manager, which could allow attackers to take control of impacted systems. The Data Center Network Manager DCNM is Cisco’s network management platform for switches running on its network...

Google Blows Lid Off Conti, Diavol Ransomware Access-Broker Ops

Google’s Threat Analysis Group TAG has provided a rare look inside the operations of a cybercriminal dubbed “Exotic Lily,” that appears to serve as an initial-access broker for both Conti and Diavol ransomware gangs. Researchers’ analysis exposes the business-like approach the group takes to...

Breach Exposes Verkada Security Camera Footage at Tesla, Cloudflare

Hackers claim to have breached Silicon Valley startup Verkada to gain unauthorized access to live feeds of 150,000 security cameras. They claim, the hack gave them widespread access to surveillance footage within companies such as Tesla and Cloudflare, as well as hospitals, companies,...

Apple Defends Parental Control App Removal Amid Backlash

Apple is defending its decision to take down several highly popular parental control apps amidst a firestorm of backlash, saying it did so for “privacy and security” reasons. Apple came under scrutiny this weekend after a New York Times article alleged that the phone giant had unfairly removed or...

Mojang Resets Users' Passwords, Microsoft Insists Not a Hack

Microsoft confirmed this week that one of its recent acquisitions, the gaming firm Mojang, has not been hacked. Nearly 2,000 credentials belonging to users of the Mojang game Minecraft – email addresses and passwords in plain-text – surfaced on Pastebin earlier this week and speculation began to...

New Attacks Slaughter All Spectre Defenses

All defenses against Spectre side-channel attacks can now be considered broken, leaving billions of computers and other devices just as vulnerable today as they were when the hardware flaw was first announced three years ago. A paper published on Friday by a team of computer scientists from the...

Near-Ubiquitous Microsoft RCE Bugs Affect All Versions of Windows

UPDATE Two Microsoft vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-1040 and CVE-2019-1019, would allow attackers to remotely execute malicious code on any Windows machine or authenticate to any web server that supports Windows Integrated Authentication WIA such as Exchange or ADFS. According to researchers at Preemp...

Carrier IQ Hires a Chief Privacy Officer

Carrier IQ, a startup heavily bruised last fall by harsh criticism of its handset diagnostic software, today announced it’s hired a high-profile lawyer as its Chief Privacy Officer. According to a news release, Magnolia Mansourkia Mobley, a CIPP and former Verizon executive, will be tasked with...

Attackers Hijack Email Using Proxy Logon/Proxyshell Flaws

Attackers are gnawing on the ProxyLogon and ProxyShell vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server to hijack email chains, by malspamming replies to ongoing email threads, researchers say. What’s still under discussion: whether the offensive is delivering SquirrelWaffle, the new email loader tha...

Attackers Blowing Up Discord, Slack with Malware

Workflow and collaboration tools like Slack and Discord have been infiltrated by threat actors, who are abusing their legitimate functions to evade security and deliver info-stealers, remote-access trojans RATs and other malware. The pandemic-induced shift to remote work drove business processes...