Hackers Mount Zero-Day Attacks on Sophos Firewalls

Attackers have been targeting the Sophos XG Firewall both physical and virtual versions using a zero-day exploit, according to the security firm – with the ultimate goal of dropping the Asnarok malware on vulnerable appliances. Sophos said in a posting updated on Monday that the bug in question i...

Daxin Espionage Backdoor Ups the Ante on Chinese Malware

The Daxin malware is taking aim at hardened government networks around the world, according to researchers, with the goal of cyberespionage. The Symantec Threat Hunter team noticed the advanced persistent threat APT weapon in action in November, noting that it’s “the most advanced piece of malwar...

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...

Microsoft Outlook for Android Open to XSS Attacks

Microsoft has patched a vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook for Android, which opens the door to cross-site scripting XSS attacks. The software giant said that CVE-2019-1105, rated “important,” is a spoofing vulnerability that exists in the way Microsoft Outlook for Android software parses...

RogueRobin Malware Uses Google Drive as C2 Channel

A custom malware used by the APT known as DarkHydrus uses a mix of novel techniques, including using Google Drive as an alternate command-and-control C2 channel. According to Palo Alto’s Unit 42 intelligence division, the targeted attack involved spear-phishing emails written in Arabic sent to...

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...

Chrome Zero-Day Exploit Posted on Twitter

A researcher has dropped working exploit code for a zero-day remote code execution RCE vulnerability on Twitter, which he said affects the current versions of Google Chrome and potentially other browsers, like Microsoft Edge, that use the Chromium framework. Security researcher Rajvardhan Agarwal...

Facebook Messenger Bug Allows Spying on Android Users

Facebook has patched a significant flaw in the Android version of Facebook Messenger that could have allowed attackers to spy on users and potentially identify their surroundings without them knowing. Natalie Silvanovich, a security researcher at Google Project Zero, discovered the vulnerability,...

Microsoft Exchange Server Flaw Exploited in APT Attacks

Multiple threat groups are actively exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange servers, researchers warn. If left unpatched, the flaw allows authenticated attackers to execute code remotely with system privileges. The vulnerability in question CVE-2020-0688 exists in the control panel of...

ThreatList: 4.1B Records Exposed in Breaches in First Half of 2019

This year is on track to be the worst year on record for data breach activity, according to a recent analysis. Within the first six months of this year, there have been 3,813 incidents publicly reported, according to Risk Based Security’s 2019 MidYear QuickView Data Breach Report. That’s up 54...

Docker Hub Hack Affects 190K Accounts, with Concerning Consequences

UPDATE Docker Hub has confirmed that it was hacked last week; with sensitive data from approximately 190,000 accounts potentially exposed. “On Thursday, April 25th, 2019, we discovered unauthorized access to a single Hub database storing a subset of non-financial user data,” Kent Lamb, director o...

Critical VMware Carbon Black Bug Allows Auth Bypass

VMware has fixed an uber-severe bug in its Carbon Black App Control AppC management server: A server whose job is to lock down critical systems and servers so they don’t get changed willy-nilly. AppC also ensures that organizations stay in continuous compliance with regulatory mandates. This is a...

Louisiana Gov Declares Emergency After Rampant Cyberattacks Plague Schools

After a rash of public schools were hit with ransomware, Louisiana’s governor has declared a statewide state of emergency. School districts in the northern part of the state – including Monroe City, Morehouse Parish and Sabine Parish – have been affected. Monroe City, on its website, noted that i...

Microsoft Patches Four Publicly-Known Vulnerabilities

Microsoft patched four Windows operating system bugs – all of which are already publicly known or have proof of concept exploits – as part of its June Patch Tuesday security bulletin. Each of the vulnerabilities are rated important and there are no reports of public exploitation for the flaws. Th...

Massive LinkedIn Phishing, Bot Attacks Feed on the Job-Hungry

Emotionally vulnerable and willing to offer up any information that lands the gig, job seekers are prime targets for social engineering campaigns. And with the “Great Resignation” in full swing, cybercriminals are having an easy time finding their next victim. Just since Feb. 1, analysts have...

Rare Steganography Hack Can Compromise Fully Patched Websites

An unusual steganographic technique that an attacker can use to implant a malicious webshell on unsuspecting websites has been spotted in Latin America. According to research from Trustwave shared exclusively with Threatpost, a forensic investigation showed that an adversary is implanting PHP cod...

ThreatList: Ransomware Trojans Picking Up Steam in 2019

With the number of unique cyberincidents continuing to grow, ransomware-based attacks in particular are on the rise in 2019, researchers said. Ransomware trojan-based infections jutted up from 9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018 to 24 percent in the first quarter of 2019, said Positive...

Critical Flaws in Magento e-Commerce Platform Allow Code-Execution

Critical vulnerabilities in Adobe’s Magento e-commerce platform – a favorite target of the Magecart cybergang – could lead to arbitrary code execution. Adobe issued patches on Tuesday as part of its overall release of the Magento 2.3.4 upgrade, giving the fixes a “priority 2” rating. In Adobe...

Critical Magento Flaws Allow Code Execution

Critical flaws in Adobe’s Magento e-commerce platform – which is commonly targeted by attackers like the Magecart cybergang – could enable arbitrary code execution on affected systems. Magento is a popular, Adobe-owned open-source e-commerce platform that powers many online shops. Adobe on Tuesda...

Facebook May Face $5 Billion FTC Fine for Data Misuse

UPDATE Facebook may be facing fines as high as $5 billion after a year-long Federal Trade Commission FTC investigation into its data-security practices. Though it wasn’t mentioned in its earnings call on Wednesday, the social-media giant in a release for its Q1 2019 earnings said that it was...

Critical Flaws in WordPress Quiz Plugin Allow Site Takeover

A plugin that is designed to add quizzes and surveys to WordPress websites has patched two critical vulnerabilities. The flaws can be exploited by remote, unauthenticated attackers to launch varying attacks – including fully taking over vulnerable websites. The plugin, Quiz and Survey Master, is...

ThreatList: Top 5 Most Dangerous Attachment Types

Researchers with F-Secure have tracked the top spam-related attachments and campaigns used so far in 2019. The verdict, ZIPs, PDF, and MS office files such as DOC and XLSM file attachments were more commonly used in huge spam campaigns than any other type attachment. In addition, researchers...

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,...

Microsoft Patches ‘Dogwalk’ Zero-Day and 17 Critical Flaws

Microsoft is urging users to patch a zero-day vulnerability dubbed Dogwalk that is actively being exploited in the wild. The bug CVE-2022-34713 is tied to a Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool and allows a remote attacker to execute code on a vulnerable system. “The volume of fixes released...

Details Tied to Safari Browser-based 'ScamClub' Campaign Revealed

Details of a flaw in Apple’s Safari browser, publicly disclosed Tuesday, outline how the cybergang known as ScamClub reached 50 million users with a three-month-long malicious ad campaign pushing malware to mobile iOS Chrome and macOS desktop browsers. The Safari bug, patched on Dec. 2 by Apple,...

Google October Android Security Update Fixes Critical RCE Flaws

UPDATE Google has released fixes for three critical-severity vulnerabilities in the Media framework of its Android operating system, which if exploited could allow a remote attacker to execute code. The remote code execution RCE flaws are part of Google’s October 2019 Android Security Bulletin,...

High-Severity Bug in Cisco Industrial Enterprise Tool Allows RCE

A high-severity bug has been found that allows remote attackers to hijack Cisco’s enterprise-class Industrial Network Director. The vulnerability was made public Wednesday along with a patch; there are no workarounds for the bug and a software patch is required, Cisco said. Cisco’s Industrial...

Ragnarok Ransomware Hits Boggi Milano Menswear

Luxury Italian men’s clothing line Boggi Milano has confirmed what Ragnarok was already bragging about on the Dark Web: The brand was hit with a ransomware attack, according to multiple sources. Ragnarok and Boggi Milano representatives who spoke to Bloomberg agree on the facts; the ransomware...

Attackers Exploit Critical Adobe Bug, Target Windows

Adobe is warning of a critical vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild to target Adobe Reader users on Windows. The vulnerability CVE-2021-21017 has been exploited in “limited attacks,” according to Adobe’s Tuesday advisory, part of its regularly scheduled February updates. The flaw in...

Microsoft Warns of Email Attacks Executing Code Using an Old Bug

Microsoft is warning of a fresh email campaign that distributes malicious RTF files boobytrapped with an exploit dating back to a 2017 vulnerability, CVE-2017-11882. The exploit allows attackers to automatically run malicious code without requiring user interaction. “The CVE-2017-11882...

Emotet Now Spreading Through Malicious Excel Files

The infamous Emotet malware has switched tactics yet again, in an email campaign propagating through malicious Excel files, researchers have found. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 have observed a new infection approach for the high-volume malware, which is known to modify and change its...

TA2541: APT Has Been Shooting RATs at Aviation for Years

Researchers have identified an advanced persistent threat APT group responsible for a series of cyberespionage and spyware attacks against the aviation, aerospace, transportation and defense industries since at least 2017 that feature high-volume email campaigns using industry-specific lures. The...

Unpatched Android App with 1B Downloads Allows RCE

An Android app that’s been downloaded more than 1 billion times is riddled with flaws that can let attackers hijack app features or overwrite existing files to execute malicious code, or launch man-in-the-disk MiTD attacks on people’s devices, researchers discovered. The flaws exist in an app...

Microsoft Zero-Days, Wormable Bugs Spark Concern

Microsoft has released patches for 128 security vulnerabilities for its April 2022 monthly scheduled update – ten of them rated critical including three wormable code-execution bugs that require no user interaction to exploit. There are also two important-rated zero-days that allow privilege...

Bug in the Linux Kernel Allows Privilege Escalation, Container Escape

To go along with the “Dirty Pipe” Linux security bug coming to light, two researchers from Huawei – Yiqi Sun and Kevin Wang – have discovered a vulnerability in the “control groups” feature of the Linux kernel which allows attackers to escape containers, escalate privileges and execute arbitrary...

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...

Critical MobileIron RCE Flaw Under Active Attack

Advanced persistent threat APT groups are actively exploiting a vulnerability in mobile device management security solutions from MobileIron, a new advisory warns. The issue in question CVE-2020-15505 is a remote code-execution flaw. It ranks 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS severity scale, making it...

Intel NUC Firmware Open to Privilege Escalation, DoS and Information Disclosure

Intel has patched seven high-severity vulnerabilities in the system firmware of its Intel NUC short for Next Unit of Computing, a mini-PC kit used for gaming, digital signage and more. Overall, the chip-maker patched 25 vulnerabilities across various platforms this week – including eight...

Updates to Sofacy, Turla Highlight 2017 Q2 APT Activity

Attackers behind advanced persistent threat campaigns have kept busy over the past several months, adding new ways to bypass detection, crafting new payloads to drop, and identifying new zero days and backdoors to help them infect users and maintain persistence on machines. Juan Andres...

‘Cities: Skylines’ Gaming Modder Banned Over Hidden Malware

The developer of several popular mods for the Cities: Skylines city-building game has been banned after malware was discovered hidden in their wares. The modder, who goes by the handle Chaos as well as Holy Water, reportedly tucked an automatic updater into several mods that enabled the author to...

Qualcomm Chip Bug Opens Android Fans to Eavesdropping

A vulnerability in a 5G modem data service could allow mobile hackers to remotely target Android users by injecting malicious code into a phone’s modem – gaining the ability to execute code, access mobile users’ call histories and text messages, and eavesdrop on phone calls. That’s according to...

Attackers Exploiting High-Severity Network Security Flaw, Cisco Warns

Cisco is warning that a high-severity flaw in its network security software is being actively exploited – allowing remote, unauthenticated attackers to access sensitive data. Patches for the vulnerability CVE-2020-3452 in question, which ranks 7.5 out of 10 on the CVSS scale, were released last...

PGP Ecosystem Targeted in ‘Poisoning’ Attacks

A long-feared attack vector used against Pretty Good Privacy, the framework used to authenticate and keep email messages private, is being exploited for the first time. The attack, which takes aim at keyserver verification directories, makes it impossible for Pretty Good Privacy PGP to work...

Users Urged to Update WordPress Plugin After Flaw Disclosed

UPDATE A vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin called the WooCommerce Checkout Manager extension is potentially putting more than 60,000 websites at risk, researchers say. The WooCommerce Checkout Manager plugin allows WooCommerce users to customize and manage the fields on their checkout...

HubSpot Data Breach Ripples Through Crytocurrency Industry

A rogue employee working at HubSpot – used by more than 135,000 and growing customers to manage marketing campaigns and on-board new users – has been fired over a breach that zeroed in on the company’s cryptocurrency customers, the company confirmed on Friday. The breach has rippled through the...

BlackByte Tackles the SF 49ers & US Critical Infrastructure

The San Francisco 49ers were recently kneecapped by a BlackByte ransomware attack that temporarily discombobulated the NFL team’s corporate IT network on the Big Buffalo Wing-Snarfing Day itself: Superbowl Sunday. BlackByte – a ransomware-as-a-service RaaS gang that leases its ransomware to...

Argo CD Security Bug Opens Kubernetes Cloud Apps to Attackers

A high-severity security vulnerability in Argo CD can enable attackers to access targets’ application-development environments, paving the way for stealing passwords, API keys, tokens and other sensitive information. Argo CD is a continuous-delivery platform deployed as a Kubernetes controller in...

Ransomware: A Deep Dive into 2021 Emerging Cyber-Risks

Ransomware has been a growing scourge for years, but recent attacks illustrate a growing sophistication by attackers within this slice of the cybercrime underbelly. Snowballing assaults against the business sector, schools and government organizations are now a primary cybersecurity concern. Maki...

Report: Microsoft’s GitHub Account Gets Hacked

Hackers have broken into Microsoft’s GitHub account and stolen 500 GB of data from the tech giant’s own private repositories on the developer platform, according to published reports. A group that calls itself Shiny Hunters claims it stole and then leaked the data, which did not appear to include...

Spam Downpour Drips New IcedID Banking Trojan Variant

Researchers have seen a new variant of the IcedID banking trojan sliding in via two new spam campaigns. Written in English and carrying .ZIP files full of the malware – or links to such ZIP files – the new twist on the old banking trojan is a tweaked downloader, which the threat actors moved from...