Outing German spy agencies by mailing them Airtags (Pluralistic: 15 Feb 2022)
Apple's Airtags are an ingenious technology: they fuse every Ios device into a sensor grid that logs the location of each tag, using clever cryptography to prevent anyone but the tag's owner from pulling that information out of the system. But there are significant problems with Airtags' privacy model. Some of these are unique to Apple, others are shared by all Bluetooth location systems, including Covid exposure-notification apps and Airtag rivals like Tile.
The revelations made about the Pegasus spyware raised very serious questions about the possible impact of modern spyware tools on fundamental rights, and particularly on the rights to privacy and data protection. This paper aims to contribute to the ongoing assessment in the EU and globally of the ...
Hackers have stolen roughly $1.9 million from South Korean cryptocurrency platform KLAYswap after they pulled off a rare and clever BGP hijack against the server infrastructure of one of the platform’s providers.
We have no evidence that this incident involved any access to customer data or encrypted password vaults. Our products and services are operating normally.
Kimsuky’s GoldDragon cluster and its C2 operations | Securelist
Kimsuky is a prolific and active threat actor primarily targeting Korea-related entities. In early 2022, we observed this group was attacking the media and a think-tank in South Korea.
An Italian surveillance company is tracking people all over the world on a grand scale on behalf of its clients – including in countries with a recent history of corruption and human rights abuses. Its powerful spyware was recently found in Kazakhstan and Romania. Europe’s parliamentarians voice growing concern about an out-of-control surveillance industry and call for it to be regulated.
IAM Whoever I Say IAM :: Infiltrating VMWare Workspace ONE Access Using a 0-Click Exploit
On March 2nd, I reported several security vulnerabilities to VMWare impacting their Identity Access Management (IAM) solution. In this blog post I will discu...
An interview with initial access broker Wazawaka: 'There is no such money anywhere as there is in ransomware
Editor’s Note: Last April, a ransomware group threatened to expose police informants and other sensitive information if the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department did not pay a demand. The brazen attack was the work of a gang known as Babuk, which in early 2021 gained a reputation for posting stolen databases on its website from victims that refused to pay a ransom. Just days after it tried to extort the Metropolitan Police Department, Babuk announced it was closing its ransomware affiliate program, and would focus on data theft and extortion instead.
Netfilter is a framework in the Linux kernel for implementing various networking-related tasks with user-defined handlers. Netfilter provides various functions for packet filtering, network address translation and port translation, and packet logging. Netfilter represents a set of hooks that allow other kernel modules to register callback functions in the kernel’s networking stack.
MagicWeb: NOBELIUM’s post-compromise trick to authenticate as anyone
Microsoft security researchers have discovered a post-compromise capability we’re calling MagicWeb, which is used by a threat actor we track as NOBELIUM to maintain persistent access to compromised environments.
Vulnerability in Linux containers – investigation and mitigation
Operating system access controls, that constrain which programs can open which files, have existed for almost as long as computers themselves. Access controls are still widely used and are more flexible and efficient when compared to cryptographically protecting files. Despite the long history, ther
Break me out of sandbox in old pipe - CVE-2022-22715 Windows Dirty Pipe
In February 2022, Microsoft patched the vulnerability I used in TianfuCup 2021 for escaping Adobe Reader sandbox, assigned CVE-2022-22715. The vulnerability existed in Named Pipe File System nearly 10 years since the AppContainer was born. We called it "Windows Dirty Pipe". In this article, I will share the root cause and exploitation of Windows Dirty Pipe. So let's start our journey.
THREAT ANALYSIS REPORT: Bumblebee Loader – The High Road to Enterprise Domain Control
Cybereason GSOC observed distribution of the Bumblebee Loader and post-exploitation activities including privilege escalation, reconnaissance and credential theft. Bumblebee operators use the Cobalt Strike framework throughout the attack and abuse credentials for privilege escalation to access Active Directory, as well as abusing a domain administrator account to move laterally, create local user accounts and exfiltrate data...
Fake DDoS Pages On WordPress Sites Lead to Drive-By-Downloads
We reveal how hackers have begun leveraging fake DDoS protection pages to trick users into downloading remote access trojans (RATs) onto their computers.
Lloyd’s to Exclude Catastrophic Nation-Backed Cyberattacks From Insurance Coverage
Lloyd’s of London will require its insurer groups globally to exclude catastrophic state-backed hacks from stand-alone cyber insurance policies starting next year.
On May 10, 2022, Zimbra released versions 9.0.0 patch 24 and 8.8.15 patch 31 to address multiple vulnerabilities in Zimbra Collaboration Suite, including CVE-2…
Observing the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, we can clearly see that cyberattacks leveraging malware are an important part of modern hybrid war strategy.
A new wave of phishing is currently circulating (a related story from derstandard.at newspaper can be found here). Documents are said to have been sent to you from a scanner, which you can allegedly download, as can be seen in the following image
Making Sense of the Killnet, Russia’s Favorite Hacktivists
Killnet makes three announcements The past month seemed to be a turning point for the pro-Russian hacktivist group “Killnet”—and it was very eager to tell the world about it. First, on July 27, “Killmilk”—the founder and the head of the group who led its transformation from a DDoS-for-hire outlet i
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has observed and taken actions to disrupt campaigns launched by SEABORGIUM in campaigns involve persistent phishing and credential theft campaigns leading to intrusions and data theft.
Operation In(ter)ception: Aerospace and military companies in the crosshairs of cyberspies | WeLiveSecurity
ESET research uncovers attacks against several high-profile aerospace and military companies in Europe and the Middle East, with several hints suggesting a possible link to the Lazarus group.