Malicious Docker Containers Earn Cryptomining Criminals $90K

UPDATE Seventeen malicious Docker containers earned cryptomining criminals $90,000 in 30 days in what could be a harbinger of things to come. The figure may seem tame compared to some of the larger paydays that cryptojackers have earned. But, researchers at Kromtech Security Center warn container...

Microsoft Fixes Bad Patch That Left Win7, Server 2008 Open to Attack

Microsoft released an out-of-band fix on Thursday for a Windows vulnerability introduced earlier this year as a patch. If exploited, the bug could allow an authenticated attacker to install programs, access stored data or create new accounts with full user rights on Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2...

HP to Patch RCE Bug Impacting 50 Enterprise Printer Models

UPDATE HP Inc. said it has released firmware patches for dozens of enterprise-class printer models affected by an arbitrary code execution bug. According to a security bulletin posted by HP, the vulnerability CVE-2017-2750 is tied to “insufficient solution DLL signature validation” allowing for...

Cisco Warns of Critical Flaw in Voice OS-based Products

Cisco Systems issued a security advisory warning customers key products tied to its Cisco Voice Operating System software platform were vulnerable to an attack where an unauthenticated, remote hacker could gain unauthorized and elevated access to impacted devices. The Cisco Security Bulletin is...

1M Downloads Later, Google Pulls Phony WhatsApp From Google Play

Google has removed a phony WhatsApp download from Google Play and suspended the developer’s account, but not before the ad-spewing app was downloaded more than one million times. The unwanted app, called Update WhatsApp Messenger, was disclosed by a handful of Redditors over the weekend who said...

Microsoft Programming Error is Behind Dangerous Kernel Bug, Researchers Claim

Researchers claim a programming error in the Microsoft Windows kernel cracks the door open for malicious executables to bypass security software. The flaw, according to security firm EnSilo, has been present on previous versions of Windows dating back to Windows 2000 and can be found on Windows 1...

Bugs in Arris Modems Distributed by AT&T Vulnerable to Trivial Attacks

Trivially exploitable vulnerabilities have been discovered in several Arris home modems, routers and gateways distributed to consumers and small businesses through AT&T’s U-verse service. It’s unknown yet whether the firmware vulnerabilities were introduced by the OEM or the ISP since AT&T seems ...

Subtitle Hack Leaves 200 Million Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution

A proof of concept attack using malicious video subtitle files reveals how adversaries can execute remote code on PCs, Smart TVs and mobile devices using popular video players and services such as VLC Media Player, Kodi, Stremio and Popcorn Time. “This is a brand new attack vector. We haven’t see...

Siemens, Bayer Expected to Patch Medical Devices Hit By WannaCry

It was initially thought just Windows machines were vulnerable but it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that medical devices and industrial control systems were subjected to the perils of this weekend’s WannaCry ransomware outburst as well. Over the past few days the Department of Homeland...

ColdFusion Hotfix Resolves XSS, Java Deserialization Bugs

Adobe today released an important security hotfix for several versions of its ColdFusion rapid web application development platform. The company said the update addresses an input validation vulnerability CVE-2017-3008 in the software that could be used in reflected cross-site scripting XSS...

Adobe Patches 59 Vulnerabilities Across Flash, Reader, Photoshop

Adobe patched 59 vulnerabilities in five different products, including Flash Player, Acrobat/Reader, Photoshop, Adobe Campaign, and its Adobe Creative Cloud App as part of its regularly scheduled software update today. The company warned in a series of security bulletins posted shortly before noo...

Publicly Disclosed Windows Vulnerabilities Await Patches

As a consequence of skipping its February Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft is leaving two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities unpatched with proof-of-concept exploits available for both. That raises the stakes exponentially on possible attacks, said Tod Beardsley, senior research director at Rapid...

January 2017 Adobe Flash, Reader, Acrobat Security Patches

Adobe today released its first patches of the year, a familiar refrain of Flash Player and Reader fixes, none of which are under attack. The Flash update addresses 13 vulnerabilities, all but one of which trigger remote code execution attacks. Meanwhile, 29 bugs were patched in Reader and Acrobat...

Serious TCP Bug in Linux Systems Allows Traffic Hijacking

A serious vulnerability in the TCP implementation in Linux systems deployed since 2012 version 3.6 of the Linux kernel can be used by attackers to identify hosts communicating over the protocol and ultimately attack that traffic. Researchers from the University of California, Riverside and the U....

FireEye Details Microsoft Zero Day Attack on 100 Companies

More than 100 North American companies were attacked by crooks exploiting a Windows zero day vulnerability. The attacks began in early March and involved the zero day vulnerability CVE-2016-0167 reported and partially fixed in April’s Patch Tuesday security bulletins by Microsoft. The zero day wa...

Hacking Team Promises to Rebuild RCS

The aftermath of the Hacking Team attack raised legitimate questions about the controversial Italian surveillance software vendor’s long-term viability. With reams of sensitive internal data and intellectual property posted online, how could the company survive? For now, however, the company seem...

June 2015 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

IT administrators today were granted a relatively light month of security bulletins from Microsoft, which is likely to be welcomed given that Windows Server 2003 security support ends in little more than a month. Microsoft today released eight bulletins, two of them rated critical, including a...

VMware Fixes Java Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Virtual Machine maker VMware has updated a slew of its offerings in order to address a critical information disclosure vulnerability in the Oracle’s Java runtime environment JRE. The update essentially installs the latest version of JRE into VMware systems where the old version of JRE was affecte...

Half of Leading USB Controller Chips Vulnerable to BadUSB

BadUSB hasn’t gone from bad to worse necessarily, but it sure has reached a new state of confusion for security experts and consumers in the crosshairs. Researcher Karsten Nohl, who warned the world during Black Hat last summer that the controller chips in most USB devices could be reprogrammed t...

Edward Snowden Effect on Privacy Attitudes

Serious concessions have been made about privacy post-Snowden, in particular about how personal information is processed and consumed online. Results from a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center of Washington, D.C., show that the Snowden leaks have raised consumers’ consciousness about not...

Bugzilla Vulnerability Exposes Bug Collections

Hundreds of open source software projects that make use of Bugzilla, Mozilla’s bug-tracking software, anxiously await a patch for a vulnerability that exposes private bugs collected by the system. Mozilla is today expected to make available a patch for the vulnerability in its account creation...

Mozilla Patches Seven Flaws in Firefox 30

Mozilla has fixed seven security vulnerabilities in Firefox 30, including five critical flaws that could enable remote code execution. Firefox 30 is a relatively minor release of the popular browser, with the most notable change being the addition of a sidebar button that allows users to quickly...

Chrome 35 Fixes 23 Security Flaws

Google has fixed 23 security vulnerabilities in Chrome, including three high-risk flaws, and handed out $9,500 in rewards to researchers. Among the vulnerabilities that the company fixed in Chrome 35 are use-after-free flaws and an integer overflow, all of which are rated high. Google didn’t...

Patches for Django Framework Fix DoS Vuln

Developers behind the Web framework Django have pushed out a new build that fixes a handful of security issues, including a denial of service vulnerability in the framework’s password hasher. Django 1.4.8, Django 1.5.4, and Django 1.6 beta 4 were released over the weekend and users are urged to...

Google Announces Pwnium 3, Ups Ante and Offers $3M+ in Rewards

Search giant Google is planning a third iteration of its vulnerability-finding contest, Pwnium. This year’s competition is set to be held alongside next month’s CanSecWest security conference on March 7 in Vancouver, BC. Unlike last year’s inaugural Pwnium, which was parallel to CanSecWest’s olde...

Java Exploit Linked to Red October Espionage Malware Campaign

Red October, the espionage campaign uncovered by Kaspersky Lab this week after attackers spent five years actively spying on diplomats, scientists, and governments worldwide, is using a Java exploit to infect its victims, bringing the exploit count to four in this campaign. Seculert, an Israeli...

ENISA Outlines Security Regulations for EU Smart Grid Expansion

The European Union has set a series of ambitious goals for itself: by 2020, the 27 member states expect to collectively use 20 percent renewable energy, reduce CO2 emissions by 20 percent, and increase energy efficiency by 20 percent. In order to accomplish these goals, Europe will need to perfor...

Qualcomm Patches Privilege Escalation, DoS Vulnerabilities in Android Devices

Qualcomm has patched a handful of vulnerabilities in its devices that if exploited could leave Android OS kernels open to privilege escalation or denial of service DoS attacks. According to notes published earlier today by Michael Orlando, a vulnerability analyst at the United States Computer...

Nitol Infections Fall, But Malware Still Popping Up

When Microsoft went after the Nitol botnet in September, one of the key details in the investigation was the fact that much of the botnet was built by pre-loading malware onto laptops during the manufacturing process in China. This was the clearest case yet of the phenomenon of certified pre-owne...

Deep Packet Inspection Firm Cyberoam Issues Fix Following Private Key Leak

Network security firm Cyberoam issued an over the air update for all of its Deep Packet Inspection DPI devices today after a decrypted version of the company’s universal private key was leaked online over the weekend. The New Jersey-based company pushed the hotfix after an anonymous commenter...

New Exploit Kit RedKit Discovered in Wild

A new exploit kit hit the scene recently, and according to Arseny Levin of Spiderlabs, the RedKit exploit kit contains an API that generates new host-site URLs every hour. The authors of the kit haven’t named it, so Levin and Spiderlabs simply chose to call it RedKit in reference to its color...

Carberp: It's Not Over Yet

On 20 March, Russian law enforcement agencies announced the arrest of a cybercriminal gang involved in stealing money using the Carberp Trojan. This is very good news, but unfortunately does not mark the end of the Carberp story. Evidently, those arrested were just one of the criminal gangs using...

Apple Patches Pwn2Own Flaw That Hacked Safari

Apple today shipped a patch to fix the drive-by download vulnerability used by Charlie Miller left to hack a fully patched MacBook via the Safari browser. Miller’s hack was part of this year’s CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest where Apple’s flagship browser fell for the third straight year. In the attac...

Feds: Zeppelin Ransomware Resurfaces with New Compromise, Encryption Tactics

Zeppelin ransomware is back and employing new compromise and encryption tactics in its recent campaigns against various vertical industries—particularly healthcare—as well as critical infrastructure organizations, the feds are warning. Threat actors deploying the ransomware as a service RaaS are...

A Guide to Surviving a Ransomware Attack

Surviving ransomware is possible with a combination of preparation and intentionality. Often, there is a misguided characterization of ransomware attacks that implies defenders either completely thwart an attack or that attackers establish complete control of their targets’ IT infrastructure. But...

Cyberattacks Rage in Ukraine, Support Military Operations

Cyberattacks against Ukraine have been used strategically to support ground campaigns, with five state-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT groups behind attacks that began in February. According to research published by Microsoft on Wednesday, the APTs involved in the campaigns are...

Sprawling Active Attack Aims to Take Over 1.6M WordPress Sites

An active attack against more than 1.6 million WordPress sites is underway, with researchers spotting tens of millions of attempts to exploit four different plugins and several Epsilon Framework themes. The goal, they said, is complete site takeover using administrative privileges. The scope of t...

How to Choose the Right DDoS Protection Solution

Pankaj Gupta, Senior Director at Citrix Distributed denial of service DDoS attacks have become increasingly sophisticated, bigger, and economically motivated. Even after 25 years, they still pose a huge security risk for every business. This is in large part because DDoS attacks are relatively ea...

Netflix Bait: Phishers Target Streamers with Fake Service Signups

The past year’s massive migration of movie and television audiences to streaming services has provided scammers with a sweet opportunity to launch phishing attempts to lure would-be subscribers into giving up their payment information. Where there’s payment data, cybercriminals are sure to follow...

Cisco SD-WAN Security Bug Allows Root Code Execution

Cisco SD-WAN implementations are vulnerable to a high-severity privilege-escalation vulnerability in the IOS IE operating system that could lead to arbitrary code execution. Cisco’s SD-WAN portfolio allows businesses of all sizes to connect disparate office locations via the cloud using various...

Spoofing Bug Highlights Cybersecurity for Digital Vaccine Passports

Three weeks after an independent researcher found a critical bug in the Services Australia COVID-19 digital vaccine certificate that would allow an attacker to falsify someone’s vaccine status, it still hasn’t been fixed. Researcher Richard Nelson looked into the security behind a new digital...

TeamTNT’s New Tools Target Multiple OSes

The TeamTNT malware pushers have a slew of new toys with which to wreak havoc – multiple shell/batch scripts, open-source tools, a cryptocurrency miner, an IRC and more – that have inflicted more than 5,000 infections globally as antivirus AV tools struggle to catch up with the newest malware...

The State of Incident Response: Measuring Risk and Evaluating Your Preparedness

The coronavirus pandemic presented the perfect opportunity for security teams to evaluate the state of their incident-response process. In fact, it highlighted the dire need to implement a more structured, detailed and well-practiced plan to sufficiently support organizations when suffering a...

Custom WhatsApp Build Delivers Triada Malware

Triada malware, both pernicious and persistent, has resurfaced. Its most recent sighting is buried inside an advertising component of a modified version of the popular WhatsApp messenger called FM WhatsApp. The malware, first spotted by researchers at Kaspersky in 2016, is a type of mobile...

Kerberos Authentication Spoofing: Don’t Bypass the Spec

Authentication is the front gate to security systems, so if you bypass it, you can pretty much do whatever you want. You can log in as an admin and change configurations, access protected resources and gain control of appliances to steal sensitive data from them. For these reasons, the...

Fuzz Off: How to Shake Up Code to Get It Right – Podcast

LAS VEGAS – In 2014, two teams of security researchers independently started fuzz testing OpenSSL. Within days, the advanced black-box software technique led to an exploitable vulnerability in OpenSSL: namely, the Heartbleed vulnerability. What is fuzzing? That’s what the FuzzCon event is all...

Data Exfiltration: What You Should Know to Prevent It

In today’s digitally driven era, data is the most critical component of a business. Companies are collecting more data than ever before, and constantly enhancing their operations through data-driven decisions. As a result, data leaks are a serious concern for companies of all sizes; if one occurs...

Ongoing Spearphishing Campaign Targets Afghan Gov’t

Chinese-speaking cyberespionage actors have targeted the Afghan government, using Dropbox for command-and-control C2 communications and going so far as to impersonate the Office of the President to infiltrate the Afghan National Security Council NSC, researchers have found. According to a report...

My Book Live Users Wake Up to Wiped Devices

If you haven’t already, stop reading and go yank your My Book Live storage device offline, lest you join the ranks of those who woke up on Thursday to find that years of data had been wiped clean on devices around the world. Western Digital’s My Book storage device is designed for consumers and...

Biden’s Cybersecurity EO: The Wrong Issues

It’s no secret that foreign adversaries are making a concerted effort to target U.S. government agencies and companies. As technology advances and foreign superpowers gain influence, the game is shifting beneath our feet here in the U.S. Motivated in part by the extent and consequences of the...