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Mon 22 Apr 202450 articles
- ToddyCat APT Is Stealing Data on 'Industrial Scale'
The threat actor is deploying multiple connections into victim environments to maintain persistence and steal data.
Dark Reading - Russia-linked APT28 used post-compromise tool GooseEgg to exploit CVE-2022-38028 Windows flaw
Russia-linked APT28 group used a previously unknown tool, dubbed GooseEgg, to exploit Windows Print Spooler service flaw. Microsoft reported that the Russia-linked APT28 group (aka “Forest Blizzard”, “Fancybear” or “Strontium” used a previously unknown tool,…
Security Affairs - Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in Cybercrime Bribery Scheme
The head of counterintelligence for a division of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was sentenced last week to nine years in a penal colony for accepting a USD $1.7 million bribe to ignore the activities of a prolific Russian cybercrime group that…
Krebs on Security - Nespresso Domain Serves Up Steamy Cup of Phish, No Cream or Sugar
An open direct vulnerability in the Nespresso Web domain lets attackers bypass detection as they attempt to steal victims' Microsoft credentials.
Dark Reading - MITRE ATT&CKED: InfoSec's Most Trusted Name Falls to Ivanti Bugs
The irony is lost on few, as a Chinese threat actor used eight MITRE techniques to breach MITRE itself — including exploiting the Ivanti bugs that attackers have been swarming on for months.
Dark Reading - Zero-Trust Takes Over: 63% of Orgs Implementing Globally
Though organizations are increasingly incorporating zero-trust strategies, for many, these strategies fail to address the entirety of an operation, according to Gartner.
Dark Reading - Microsoft: APT28 hackers exploit Windows flaw reported by NSA
Microsoft warns that the Russian APT28 threat group exploits a Windows Print Spooler vulnerability to escalate privileges and steal credentials and data using a previously unknown hacking tool called GooseEgg. [...]
BleepingComputer - Microsoft: APT28 hackers exploit Windows flaw reported by NSA
Microsoft warns that the Russian APT28 threat group exploits a Windows Print Spooler vulnerability to escalate privileges and steal credentials and data using a previously unknown hacking tool called GooseEgg. [...]
BleepingComputer - Picking fights and gaining rights, with Justin Brookman: Lock and Code S05E09
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Our Lock and Code host, David Ruiz, has a bit of an apology to make: “Sorry for all the depressing episodes.” When the Lock and Code podcast explored online harassment and abuse this year, our guest provided several...
Malwarebytes - Synlab Italia suspends operations following ransomware attack
Synlab Italia has suspended all its medical diagnostic and testing services after a ransomware attack forced its IT systems to be taken offline. [...]
BleepingComputer - Russian Hacker Group ToddyCat Uses Advanced Tools for Industrial-Scale Data Theft
The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been observed using a wide range of tools to retain access to compromised environments and steal valuable data. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky characterized the adversary as relying on various programs to harv...
The Hacker News - GitLab affected by GitHub-style CDN flaw allowing malware hosting
BleepingComputer recently reported how a GitHub flaw, or possibly a design decision, is being abused by threat actors to distribute malware using URLs associated with Microsoft repositories, making the files appear trustworthy. It turns out, GitLab is also…
BleepingComputer - Malicious PyPI Package Attacking Discord Users To Steal Credentials
Hackers often target PyPI packages to exploit vulnerabilities and inject malicious code into widely used Python libraries. Recently, cybersecurity researchers at FortiGuard Labs identified a malicious PyPI package attacking Discord users to steal…
gbhackers.com - Beware Of Weaponized Zip Files That Deliver WINELOADER Malware
APT29, a Russian threat group, targeted German political parties with a new backdoor called WINELOADER using spear-phishing emails containing malicious links to ZIP files hosted on compromised websites. The ZIP files deployed an HTA that initiated a…
gbhackers.com - Citrix UberAgent Flaw Let Attackers Elevate Privileges
A significant vulnerability has been identified in Citrix’s monitoring tool, uberAgent. If exploited, this flaw could allow attackers to escalate their privileges within the system, posing a serious risk to organizations using affected software versions.…
gbhackers.com - Where Hackers Find Your Weak Spots
The five intelligence sources that power social engineering scams.
Dark Reading - Research Shows How Attackers Can Abuse EDR Security Products
Vulnerabilities in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR allowed a security researcher to turn it into a malicious offensive tool.
SecurityWeek - Hackers Group Claims To Have Broke Into IDF & Stolen Documents
Anonymous claims a successful cyberattack against the Israeli Defence Force (IDF), gaining access to 20 gigabytes of data, which allegedly includes over 233,000 military documents in various formats, like PDFs, Word files, and presentations. The IDF…
gbhackers.com - Rural Texas Towns Report Cyberattacks That Caused One Water System to Overflow
A hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow in January has been linked to a shadowy Russian hacktivist group, the latest case of a U.S. public utility becoming a target of foreign cyberattacks.
SecurityWeek - Hackers threaten to leak a copy of the World-Check database used to assess potential risks associated with entities
A financially motivated group named GhostR claims the theft of a sensitive database from World-Check and threatens to publish it. World-Check is a global database utilized by various organizations, including financial institutions, regulatory bodies, and law…
Security Affairs - Russian Sandworm hackers targeted 20 critical orgs in Ukraine
Russian hacker group Sandworm aimed to disrupt operations at around 20 critical infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, according to a report from the Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA). [...]
BleepingComputer - CrushFTP Patches Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability
CrushFTP patches a zero-day vulnerability allowing unauthenticated attackers to escape the VFS and retrieve system files.
SecurityWeek - Thousands of Palo Alto Firewalls Potentially Impacted by Exploited Vulnerability
Shadowserver has identified roughly 6,000 internet-accessible Palo Alto Networks firewalls potentially vulnerable to CVE-2024-3400.
SecurityWeek - Pentera's 2024 Report Reveals Hundreds of Security Events per Week, Highlighting the Criticality of Continuous Validation
Over the past two years, a shocking 51% of organizations surveyed in a leading industry report have been compromised by a cyberattack. Yes, over half. And this, in a world where enterprises deploy an average of 53 different security solutions to safegua...
The Hacker News - VMware ESXi Shell Service Exploit on Hacking Forums: Patch Now
A new exploit targeting VMware ESXi Shell Service has been discovered and is circulating on various hacking forums. This vulnerability poses a significant risk to organizations using VMware for their virtual environments, potentially allowing unauthorized…
gbhackers.com - Windows MagicDot Path Flaw Lets Attackers Gain Rootkit-Like Abilities
A new vulnerability has been unearthed, allowing attackers to gain rootkit-like abilities on Windows systems without requiring administrative privileges. Dubbed “MagicDot,” this vulnerability exploits the DOS-to-NT path conversion process within the Windows…
gbhackers.com - Dark Peep #13: Money Laundering 1M1
Dark Peep #13: Money Laundering 1M1 Welcome to Dark Peep #13: Money Laundering 1M1, where the cyber landscape mirrors the shifting sands of the dark web, guided by the astute observations of SOCRadar researchers. This edition delves into the enigmatic…
SOCRadar - MITRE Corporation Breached by Nation-State Hackers Exploiting Ivanti Flaws
The MITRE Corporation revealed that it was the target of a nation-state cyber attack that exploited two zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure appliances starting in January 2024. The intrusion led to the compromise of its Networked Experimentation,…
The Hacker News - Billions of scraped Discord messages up for sale
Four billions public Discord messages are for sale on an internet scraping service called Spy.pet. At first sight there doesn’t seem to be much that is illegal about it. The messages were publicly accessible and there are no laws against scraping data.…
Malwarebytes - Alert! Zero-day Exploit For WhatsApp Advertised On Hacker Forums
A zero-day exploit targeting the popular messaging app WhatsApp has been advertised on underground hacker forums. The exploit has raised serious concerns regarding the safety of users on Android and iOS platforms. This exploit is reported to have the…
gbhackers.com - Windows DOS-to-NT flaws exploited to achieve unprivileged rootkit-like capabilities
Researcher demonstrated how to exploit vulnerabilities in the Windows DOS-to-NT path conversion process to achieve rootkit-like capabilities. SafeBreach researcher Or Yair devised a technique, exploiting vulnerabilities in the DOS-to-NT path conversion…
Security Affairs - Ransomware Double-Dip: Re-Victimization in Cyber Extortion
Between crossovers - Do threat actors play dirty or desperate? In our dataset of over 11,000 victim organizations that have experienced a Cyber Extortion / Ransomware attack, we noticed that some victims re-occur. Consequently, the question arises why we…
The Hacker News - Biggest Cybersecurity Risks SMEs Face and CTI as a Solution
Biggest Cybersecurity Risks SMEs Face and CTI as a Solution Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) can be considered the engine of their country’s economies. Their efforts result in economic growth. The competition they face in the market forces them to be…
SOCRadar - CrushFTP Servers Zero-day Under Active Attack: Update Now
CrushFTP is a file transfer server that supports secure protocols, offers easier configuration, and offers powerful monitoring tools. It also provides a web interface that allows users to transfer files using a web browser. A critical vulnerability…
gbhackers.com - MITRE Hacked by State-Sponsored Group via Ivanti Zero-Days
MITRE R&D network hacked in early January by a state-sponsored threat group that exploited an Ivanti zero-day vulnerability.
SecurityWeek - Researchers Uncover Windows Flaws Granting Hackers Rootkit-Like Powers
New research has found that the DOS-to-NT path conversion process could be exploited by threat actors to achieve rootkit-like capabilities to conceal and impersonate files, directories, and processes. "When a user executes a function that has a path argument…
The Hacker News - Researchers Claim that Windows Defender Can Be Bypassed
Cybersecurity experts from SafeBreach have revealed a series of vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to remotely delete files on a computer using Windows Defender, potentially leading to data loss and system instability. Tomer Bar and Shmuel Cohen,…
gbhackers.com - A week in security (April 15 – April 21)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Law enforcement reels in phishing-as-a-service whopper Mental health company Cerebral failed to protect sensitive personal data, must pay $7 million Cannabis investment scam JuicyFields ends in 9 arrests Should you sha...
Malwarebytes - Oracle VirtualBox Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2024-21111): PoC Published
Security researcher Naor Hodorov has made public a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a severe vulnerability (CVE-2024-21111) in Oracle VirtualBox. This vulnerability plagues VirtualBox versions before 7.0.16 and allows attackers with basic access to a...
SecurityOnline - Apple Removes WhatsApp & Threads from its App Store for China
With the tightening grip of Chinese regulatory measures on foreign digital services, Apple Inc. has removed several major messaging apps, including WhatsApp and Threads by Meta Platforms, from its App Store in China. This decision follows direct orders from…
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