Cyberattaque contre France Travail : trois personnes mises en examen et incarcérées après le vol massif de données
Les suspects, âgés de 21, 22 et 23 ans, ont été arrêtés dimanche. L'attaque qu'ils sont soupçonnés d'avoir menée concerne potentiellement les données de 43 millions d'inscrits.
Two Bytes is Plenty: FortiGate RCE with CVE-2024-21762
Early this February, Fortinet released an advisory for an "out-of-bounds write vulnerability" that could lead to remote code execution. The issue affected the SSL VPN component of their FortiGate network appliance and was potentially already being exploited in the wild. In this post we detail the steps we took to identify the patched vulnerability and produce a working exploit.
Misconfigured Firebase instances leaked 19 million plaintext passwords
Three cybersecurity researchers discovered close to 19 million plaintext passwords exposed on the public internet by misconfigured instances of Firebase, a Google platform for hosting databases, cloud computing, and app development.
CEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founded Dozens of People-Search Firms
The data privacy company Onerep.com bills itself as a Virginia-based service for helping people remove their personal information from almost 200 people-search websites. However, an investigation into the history of onerep.com finds this company is operating out of Belarus and…
Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Poland, South Korea added to US-led spyware agreement
The signees, which already included about a dozen other nations, agree to establish “robust guardrails and procedures" around spyware, while preventing the export of technology that will be used for malicious cyber activity.
Interesting Multi-Stage StopCrypt Ransomware Variant Propagating in the Wild
Overview The SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team recently observed an interesting variant of StopCrypt ransomware. The ransomware executes its malicious activities by utilizing multi-stage shellcodes before launching a final payload that contains the file […]
Since early 2022, we have been monitoring an APT campaign that targets several government entities worldwide, with a strong focus in Southeast Asia, but also seen targeting Europe, America, and Africa.
What a Cluster: Local Volumes Vulnerability in Kubernetes
Akamai security researcher Tomer Peled recently discovered a high-severity vulnerability in Kubernetes that was assigned CVE-2023-5528 with a CVSS score of 7.2. The vulnerability allows remote code execution with SYSTEM privileges on all Windows endpoints within a Kubernetes cluster. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker needs to apply malicious YAML files on the cluster. This vulnerability can lead to full takeover on all Windows nodes in a cluster. This vulnerability can be exploited on default installations of Kubernetes (earlier than version 1.28.4), and was tested against both on-prem deployments and Azure Kubernetes Service. In this blog post, we provide a proof-of-concept YAML file as well as an Open Policy Agent (OPA) rule for blocking this vulnerability.
APT28 Hacker Group Targeting Europe, Americas, Asia in Widespread Phishing Scheme
The Russia-linked threat actor known as APT28 has been linked to multiple ongoing phishing campaigns that employ lure documents imitating government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Europe, the South Caucasus, Central Asia, and North and South America. "The uncovered lures include a mixture of internal and publicly available documents, as well as possible actor-generated documents associated with finance, critical infrastructure, executive engagements, cyber security, maritime security, healthcare, business, and defense industrial production," IBM X-Force said in a report published last week.
Ongoing ITG05 operations leverage evolving malware arsenal in global campaigns
X-Force is tracking multiple ongoing ITG05 phishing campaigns featuring lure documents covering several topics. Learn more about this continuing threat.
Google Paid Out $10 Million via Bug Bounty Programs in 2023
Google on Tuesday announced that it paid out a total of $10 million through its bug bounty programs in 2023, bringing the total amount awarded by the tech giant for vulnerabilities found in its products since 2010 to $59 million. The total paid out in 2023 is less than the $12 million handed out in 2022, but it’s still a significant amount. The money was earned last year by 632 researchers from 68 countries. The highest single reward was $113,337.
Why hackers are targeting young public school students
Districts store all kinds of sensitive student data, which means the consequences of a school cyberattack can follow pupils well into adulthood. And it's not just their credit that's at risk.
La loi sur l’IA est le tout premier cadre juridique en matière d’IA, qui traite des risques liés à l’IA et positionne l’Europe pour qu’elle joue un rôle de premier plan à l’échelle mondiale.
France Travail : la CNIL enquête sur la fuite de données et donne des conseils pour se protéger
Quelles données personnelles sont concernées ? Le 8 mars, France Travail (anciennement Pôle emploi) et Cap emploi ont informé la CNIL avoir été victime d’une intrusion dans leurs systèmes d’information. Cette attaque aurait potentiellement permis l’extraction de données de 43 millions d’usagers. Ce nombre, à confirmer, concerne les personnes actuellement inscrites sur la liste des demandeurs d'emploi ou qui l’ont été au cours des 20 dernières années, ainsi que des personnes ayant un espace candidat sur francetravail.fr.
Exclusive: After LockBit’s takedown, its purported leader vows to hack on
This week, the Click Here podcast landed a rare interview with the purported leader of the LockBit ransomware group – he goes by the name LockBitSupp. He’s under pressure because last month an international police operation infiltrated the group and seized not just their platform, but their hacking tools, cryptocurrency accounts and source code ending a four year ransomware rampage.
Google Chrome gets real-time phishing protection later this month
Google will roll out a Safe Browsing update later this month that will provide real-time malware and phishing protection to all Chrome users, without compromising their browsing privacy. The company launched Safe Browsing in 2005 to defend users against web phishing attacks and has since upgraded it to block malicious domains that push malware, unwanted software, and various social engineering schemes.
Kubernetes Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution on Windows Endpoints
The exploitation of a high-severity Kubernetes vulnerability can lead to arbitrary code execution with System privileges on all Windows endpoints in a cluster, Akamai warns. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-5528 and impacting default Kubernetes installations, exists in the way the open source container orchestration system processes YAML files, which it uses for virtually every function. In some regards, the vulnerability is like CVE-2023-3676, a lack of sanitization in the subPath parameter in YAML files leading to code injection when creating pods with volumes.
DarkGate Opens Organizations for Attack via Skype, Teams
From July to September, we observed the DarkGate campaign (detected by Trend Micro as TrojanSpy.AutoIt.DARKGATE.AA) abusing instant messaging platforms to deliver a VBA loader script to victims. This script downloaded and executed a second-stage payload consisting of a AutoIT scripting containing the DarkGate malware code. It’s unclear how the originating accounts of the instant messaging applications were compromised, however is hypothesized to be either through leaked credentials available through underground forums or the previous compromise of the parent organization.
