Analysis of APT28/Fancy Bear PowerPoint mouse-over campaign

Multiple self-proclaimed hacktivist groups are conducting attacks in support of Russian interests.

Cyble analyzes CVE-2022-36804 affecting Atlassian Bitbucket and how Threat Actors may exploit this in the near future.

A code injection vulnerability allowing remote code execution was discovered in the User Portal and Webadmin of Sophos Firewall. The vulnerability has been fixed.

Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs analyzes a new malware campaign targeting Zoom users.

2K Games Support System was hacked by an unknown hacker group targeting gamers via a fake user ticketing system.

Microsoft this week released an out-of-band security update for its Endpoint Configuration Manager solution to patch a vulnerability that could be useful to malicious actors for moving around in a targeted organization’s network. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2022-37972 and it has been described by Microsoft as a medium-severity spoofing issue. The tech giant has credited Brandon Colley of Trimarc Security for reporting the flaw.

A vulnerability in the Python programming language that has been overlooked for 15 years is now back in the spotlight as it likely affects more than 350,000 open-source repositories and can lead to code execution.

Trellix Advanced Research Center stumbled across a vulnerability in Python’s tarfile module. As we dug into the issue, we realized this was in fact CVE-2007-4559. The vulnerability is a path traversal attack in the extract and extractall functions in the tarfile module that allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files by adding the “..” sequence to filenames in a TAR archive. Over the course of our research into the impact of this vulnerability we discovered that hundreds of thousands of repositories were vulnerable to this vulnerability. While the vulnerability was originally only marked as a 6.8, we were able to confirm that in most cases an attacker can gain code execution from the file write.

New version of Exmatter, and Eamfo malware, used by attackers deploying the Rust-based ransomware.

Microsoft discovered an attack where attackers installed a malicious OAuth application in compromised tenants and used their Exchange Online service to launch spam runs.

The Void Balaur cyber mercenary group has thrived throughout 2022, attacking targets on a global scale with new phishing campaigns.

With the enterprise adoption of MacOS and iOS devices increasing, the Apple security landscape is becoming increasingly complex.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory to provide information on recent cyber operations against the Government of Albania in July and September. This advisory provides a timeline of activity observed, from initial access to execution of encryption and wiper attacks. Additional information concerning files used by the actors during their exploitation of and cyber attack against the victim organization is provided in Appendices A and B.

With iOS 16 and macOS Ventura, Apple is introducing passkeys—a more convenient and secure alternative to passwords.