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Bugs in Firefox, Chrome, Edge Allow Remote System Hijacking
Makers of the Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers are urging users to patch critical vulnerabilities that if exploited allow hackers to hijack systems running the software. The Mozilla Firefox vulnerability CVE-2020-16044 is separate from a bug reported in Google’s browser engine Chromium, which is...
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...
'URGENT/11' Critical Infrastructure Bugs Threaten EternalBlue-Style Attacks
UPDATE A cadre of 11 vulnerabilities, six of them critical remote code-execution RCE bugs, have been uncovered that affect millions of critical infrastructure systems, such as SCADA gear at utilities, elevator and industrial controllers, patient monitors and MRI machines, programmable logic...
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...
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’...
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...
Apple Safari Flaws Enable One-Click Webcam Access
A security researcher has disclosed vulnerabilities in Apple’s Safari browser that can be used to snoop on iPhones, iPads and Mac computers using their microphones and cameras. To exploit the flaws in a real-world attack, all an attacker would need to do is convince a victim to click one maliciou...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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 Boosts Encryption For Low-End Android Devices
Google introduced a new storage encryption solution that it hopes will expand security efforts across its full spectrum of Android-powered devices – including low-end devices that typically can’t support encryption. The new encryption offering, Adiantum, aims to solve a big issue that has plagued...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
U.S. Manufacturer Most Recent Target of LokiBot Malspam Campaign
The well-known LokiBot malware has popped up in several malicious spam campaigns over the past year, covertly siphoning information from victims’ compromised endpoints. Researchers this week are warning of the most recent sighting of the malware, which was recently spotted in spam messages...
Securing Data With a Frenzied Remote Workforce–Podcast
The baby upchucks. The dog loudly informs you that she’s detected a budding squirrel armageddon. Your department’s Zoom meeting starts in four minutes. The Bank of Fezziwig texts: If you haven’t enabled online banking, click here. What. Do. You. DO?!? It doesn’t matter that you’ve been working...
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...
MassMiner Takes a Kitchen-Sink Approach to Cryptomining
Though it falls squarely into the trend of cryptominers setting their sights on the Monero virtual currency, the MassMiner malware family is adding its own special somethin’-somethin’ to the mix. It targets Windows servers with a variety of recent and well-known exploits – all within a single...
Just-Released Dark Souls Game, Elden Ring, Includes Killer Bug
The latest installment of the Dark Souls gaming franchise, Elden Ring, contains a security vulnerability that allows bad actors to throw players on PCs into an endless loop of losing their characters’ lives, rendering it essentially unplayable. Malwarebytes Labs researcher Christopher Boyd said...
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: Geost Android Botnet Goes After Millions of Euros
LONDON — A powerful Android botnet dubbed Geost has been spotted targeting Russian citizens, with the end goal of distributing a banking trojan to victims. The botnet has infected more than 800,000 Android devices, controlling several million Euros held in five banks, according to researchers fro...
News Wrap: Amazon Privacy and Telegram DDoS Attack
Beyond Patch Tuesday, this week was crammed with privacy and security related news. In this week’s Threatpost podcast, editors Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell discussed the top news from the week. That includes: A federal lawsuit alleging that Amazon is recording children who use its Alexa...
The WannaCry Security Legacy and What’s to Come
May 12 will mark the second anniversary of the WannaCry ransomware cryptoworm attack. It was a troubling time: During the four-day long ordeal, the cryptoworm infected more than 300,000 endpoints among 200,000 separate victims throughout 150 countries. It propagated rapidly through the EternalBlu...
Microsoft Crushes 116 Bugs, Three Actively Exploited
Three bugs under active exploit were squashed by Microsoft Tuesday, part of its July security roundup of fixes for Windows, Microsoft Office, SharePoint Server and Exchange Server. In all, Microsoft patched 116 bugs. Twelve bugs are rated critical, 103 rated important and one classified as modera...