Lazarus ‘Operation In(ter)ception’ Targets macOS Users Dreaming of Jobs in Crypto
First Coinbase, now Crypto.com. Lazarus campaign targets more crypto exchange platform job seekers with multi-stage malware.
Slack’s and Teams’ Lax App Security Raises Alarms
New research shows how third-party apps could be exploited to infiltrate these sensitive workplace tools.
Poseidon’s Offspring: Charybdis and Scylla
HUMAN's Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team uncovered a network of 89 Android and iOS apps committing various flavors of ad fraud.
In the footsteps of the Fancy Bear: PowerPoint mouse-over event abused to deliver Graphite implants
Analysis of APT28/Fancy Bear PowerPoint mouse-over campaign
GRU: Rise of the (Telegram) MinIOns
Multiple self-proclaimed hacktivist groups are conducting attacks in support of Russian interests.
BitBucket Server and Data Center at risk via Command Injection Vulnerability
Cyble analyzes CVE-2022-36804 affecting Atlassian Bitbucket and how Threat Actors may exploit this in the near future.
Resolved RCE in Sophos Firewall (CVE-2022-3236)
A code injection vulnerability allowing remote code execution was discovered in the User Portal and Webadmin of Sophos Firewall. The vulnerability has been fixed.
New Malware Campaign Targets Zoom Users
Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs analyzes a new malware campaign targeting Zoom users.
2K Games' Support System Hacked
2K Games Support System was hacked by an unknown hacker group targeting gamers via a fake user ticketing system.
Microsoft Issues Out-of-Band Patch for Flaw Allowing Lateral Movement, Ransomware Attacks
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.
Tarfile: Exploiting the World With a 15-Year-Old Vulnerability
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.
Noberus Ransomware: Darkside and BlackMatter Successor Continues to Evolve its Tactics
New version of Exmatter, and Eamfo malware, used by attackers deploying the Rust-based ransomware.
Malicious OAuth applications abuse cloud email services to spread spam
Microsoft discovered an attack where attackers installed a malicious OAuth application in compromised tenants and used their Exchange Online service to launch spam runs.
Void Balaur | The Sprawling Infrastructure of a Careless Mercenary
The Void Balaur cyber mercenary group has thrived throughout 2022, attacking targets on a global scale with new phishing campaigns.
The Apple security landscape: Moving into the world of enterprise risk
With the enterprise adoption of MacOS and iOS devices increasing, the Apple security landscape is becoming increasingly complex.
Iranian State Actors Conduct Cyber Operations Against the Government of Albania
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.
Apple Kills Passwords in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura | WIRED
With iOS 16 and macOS Ventura, Apple is introducing passkeys—a more convenient and secure alternative to passwords.
Domain Shadowing: A Stealthy Use of DNS Compromise for Cybercrime
Domain shadowing is a special case of DNS hijacking where attackers stealthily create malicious subdomains under compromised domain names.
Revealed: US Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool That Includes Internet Browsing, Email Data
The “Augury” platform includes highly sensitive network data that Team Cymru, a private company, is selling to the military. “It’s everything. There’s nothing else to capture except the smell of electricity,” one cybersecurity expert said.
Los Angeles School District Hit by Ransomware Attack
California's largest public school district and the second-largest in the U.S. is undergoing a ransomware attack. The attack has disrupted the district's email
Online Attack Disrupts Michigan School District for 2nd Day
School is out for more than 3,000 students of a suburban Detroit district undergoing its second day of forensics analysis following an online attack. Students have
LockBit ransomware builder leaked online by “angry developer”
The LockBit ransomware operation has suffered a breach, with an allegedly disgruntled developer leaking the builder for the gang's newest encryptor.
Azure Cloud Shell Command Injection Stealing User’s Access Tokens
This post describes how I took over an Azure Cloud Shell trusted domain and leveraged it to inject and execute commands in other users’ terminals.
Threat Alert: New Malware in the Cloud By TeamTNT
Could TeamTNT be back? Our honeypots were attacked by malware that bears a resemblance to these threat actors and we analyze the possible connection.
The Evolution of the Chromeloader Malware - VMware Security Blog - VMware
The VMware Carbon Black MDR team goes in depth on the latest variants of the Chromeloader malware and how to detect them.
Chromium Blog: Announcing the Launch of the Chrome Root Program
In 2020, we announced we were in the early phases of establishing the Chrome Root Program and launching the Chrome Root Store. The Chrome Root Program ultimately determines which website certificates are trusted by default in Chrome, and enables more consistent and reliable website certificate validation across platforms. This post shares an update on our progress and how these changes help us better protect Chrome’s users.
Record 25.3 Billion Request Multiplexing Attack Mitigated by Imperva
On June 27, 2022, Imperva mitigated a single attack with over 25.3 billion requests, setting a new record for Imperva’s application DDoS mitigation solution. While attacks with over one million requests per second (RPS) aren’t new, we’ve previously only seen them last for several seconds to a few minutes. On June 27, Imperva successfully mitigated a strong attack that lasted more than four hours and peaked at 3.9 million RPS.
Turning Your Computer Into a GPS Tracker With Apple Maps
One of the things Apple cares about in terms of its bug bounty program is your location data. Apple rightly categorizes real-time or historical precise location data as "sensitive data" which in some cases qualifies for a significant monetary award.
Six months into Breached: The legacy of RaidForums?
On March 14, 2022, a new English-language cybercrime forum called Breached (also known as BreachForums) launched, as a response to the closure and seizure of the popular RaidForums. Breached was launched with the same design by the threat actor “pompompurin” as “an alternative to RaidForums,” offering large-scale database leaks, login credentials, adult content, and hacking tools.
How Russian Trolls Helped Keep the Women’s March Out of Lock Step
As American feminists came together in 2017 to protest Donald Trump, Russia’s disinformation machine set about deepening the divides among them.