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May 15, 2023Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / SCADA Several security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in cloud management platforms associated with three industrial cellular router vendors that could expose operational technology (OT) networks to external attacks. The findings were presented by Israeli industrial cybersecurity firm OTORIO at the Black Hat Asia 2023 conference last week. The 11

May 12, 2023Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Malware As many as five security flaws have been disclosed in Netgear RAX30 routers that could be chained to bypass authentication and achieve remote code execution. “Successful exploits could allow attackers to monitor users’ internet activity, hijack internet connections, and redirect traffic to malicious websites or inject malware into

May 13, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS or PaaS) platform named Greatness has been leveraged by cybercriminals to target business users of the Microsoft 365 cloud service since at least mid-2022, effectively lowering the bar to entry for phishing attacks. “Greatness, for now, is only focused on Microsoft 365 phishing pages, providing its affiliates

May 12, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an ongoing phishing campaign that makes use of a unique attack chain to deliver the XWorm malware on targeted systems. Securonix, which is tracking the activity cluster under the name MEME#4CHAN, said some of the attacks have primarily targeted manufacturing firms and healthcare clinics

A previously undetected advanced persistent threat (APT) actor dubbed Red Stinger has been linked to attacks targeting Eastern Europe since 2020. “Military, transportation, and critical infrastructure were some of the entities being targeted, as well as some involved in the September East Ukraine referendums,” Malwarebytes disclosed in a report published today. “Depending on the campaign,

May 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Safety / Security Google unveiled a slew of new privacy, safety, and security features today at its annual developer conference, Google I/O. The tech giant’s latest initiatives are aimed at protecting its users from cyber threats, including phishing attacks and malicious websites, while providing more control and transparency over their

May 09, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Crime / DDoS Attack U.S. authorities have announced the seizure of 13 internet domains that offered DDoS-for-hire services to other criminal actors. The takedown is part of an ongoing international initiative dubbed Operation PowerOFF that’s aimed at dismantling criminal DDoS-for-hire infrastructures worldwide. The development comes almost five months after a “sweep”

May 08, 2023The Hacker NewsWebinar / Ransomware Are you concerned about ransomware attacks? You’re not alone. In recent years, these attacks have become increasingly common and can cause significant damage to organizations of all sizes. But there’s good news – with the right security measures in place, such as real-time MFA and service account protection,

May 06, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan Users of Advanced Custom Fields plugin for WordPress are being urged to update version 6.1.6 following the discovery of a security flaw. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2023-30777, relates to a case of reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) that could be abused to inject arbitrary executable scripts into otherwise benign websites. The

May 06, 2023Ravie LakshmananAdvanced Persistent Threat An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Dragon Breath has been observed adding new layers of complexity to its attacks by adopting a novel DLL side-loading mechanism. “The attack is based on a classic side-loading attack, consisting of a clean application, a malicious loader, and an encrypted payload,

May 05, 2023Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Android Various sectors in East Asian markets have been subjected to a new email phishing campaign that distributes a previously undocumented strain of Android malware called FluHorse that abuses the Flutter software development framework. “The malware features several malicious Android applications that mimic legitimate applications, most of which have

May 04, 2023Ravie LakshmananAPI Management / Vulnerability Three new security flaws have been disclosed in Microsoft Azure API Management service that could be abused by malicious actors to gain access to sensitive information or backend services. This includes two server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaws and one instance of unrestricted file upload functionality in the API

May 03, 2023Ravie LakshmananPassword Security / Authentication Almost five months after Google added support for passkeys to its Chrome browser, the tech giant has begun rolling out the passwordless solution across Google Accounts on all platforms. Passkeys, backed by the FIDO Alliance, are a more secure way to sign in to apps and websites without

May 02, 2023Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered weaknesses in a software implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) that could be weaponized to achieve a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on vulnerable BGP peers. The three vulnerabilities reside in version 8.4 of FRRouting, a popular open source internet routing protocol suite for Linux

May 01, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan An analysis of over 70 billion DNS records has led to the discovery of a new sophisticated malware toolkit dubbed Decoy Dog targeting enterprise networks. Decoy Dog, as the name implies, is evasive and employs techniques like strategic domain aging and DNS query dribbling, wherein a series of queries are transmitted

Apr 29, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Safety / Privacy / AI OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has officially made a return to Italy after the company met the data protection authority’s demands ahead of April 30, 2023, deadline. The development was first reported by the Associated Press. OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, tweeted, “we’re excited ChatGPT is available

Apr 29, 2023Ravie LakshmananHealthcare / Cybersecurity The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) medical advisory warning of a critical flaw impacting Illumina medical devices. The issues impact the Universal Copy Service (UCS) software in the Illumina MiSeqDx, NextSeq 550Dx, iScan, iSeq 100, MiniSeq, MiSeq, NextSeq 500, NextSeq

Apr 28, 2023Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Cryptocurrency Threat actors are advertising a new information stealer for the Apple macOS operating system called Atomic macOS Stealer (or AMOS) on Telegram for $1,000 per month, joining the likes of MacStealer. “The Atomic macOS Stealer can steal various types of information from the victim’s machine, including Keychain passwords,

Apr 27, 2023Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Cyber Crime Google on Wednesday said it obtained a temporary court order in the U.S. to disrupt the distribution of a Windows-based information-stealing malware called CryptBot and “decelerate” its growth. The tech giant’s Mike Trinh and Pierre-Marc Bureau said the efforts are part of steps it takes to “not only

Apr 26, 2023Ravie LakshmananLinux / Cyber Threat The Chinese nation-state group dubbed Alloy Taurus is using a Linux variant of a backdoor called PingPull as well as a new undocumented tool codenamed Sword2033. That’s according to findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which discovered recent malicious cyber activity carried out by the group targeting

Apr 25, 2023Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / DDoS Details have emerged about a high-severity security vulnerability impacting Service Location Protocol (SLP) that could be weaponized to launch volumetric denial-of-service attacks against targets. “Attackers exploiting this vulnerability could leverage vulnerable instances to launch massive Denial-of-Service (DoS) amplification attacks with a factor as high as 2200 times, potentially

Apr 24, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage The Russian-speaking threat actor behind a backdoor known as Tomiris is primarily focused on gathering intelligence in Central Asia, fresh findings from Kaspersky reveal. “Tomiris’s endgame consistently appears to be the regular theft of internal documents,” security researchers Pierre Delcher and Ivan Kwiatkowski said in an analysis published today. “The

Apr 22, 2023Ravie LakshmananPatch Management / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added three security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The three vulnerabilities are as follows – CVE-2023-28432 (CVSS score – 7.5) – MinIO Information Disclosure Vulnerability CVE-2023-27350 (CVSS score –

Apr 22, 2023Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain / Cyber Threat Lazarus, the prolific North Korean hacking group behind the cascading supply chain attack targeting 3CX, also breached two critical infrastructure organizations in the power and energy sector and two other businesses involved in financial trading using the trojanized X_TRADER application. The new findings, which come courtesy of

Apr 21, 2023Ravie LakshmananKubernetes / Cryptocurrency A large-scale attack campaign discovered in the wild has been exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to create backdoors and run cryptocurrency miners. “The attackers also deployed DaemonSets to take over and hijack resources of the K8s clusters they attack,” cloud security firm Aqua said in a report

Apr 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Vulnerability A chain of two critical flaws has been disclosed in Alibaba Cloud’s ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL and AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL that could be exploited to breach tenant isolation protections and access sensitive data belonging to other customers. “The vulnerabilities potentially allowed unauthorized access to Alibaba Cloud customers’ PostgreSQL

Apr 19, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber War / Cyber Attack Elite hackers associated with Russia’s military intelligence service have been linked to large-volume phishing campaigns aimed at hundreds of users in Ukraine to extract intelligence and influence public discourse related to the war. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which is monitoring the activities of the actor under

Apr 18, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Cyber Risk Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the inner workings of a highly evasive loader named “in2al5d p3in4er” (read: invalid printer) that’s used to deliver the Aurora information stealer malware. “The in2al5d p3in4er loader is compiled with Embarcadero RAD Studio and targets endpoint workstations using advanced anti-VM (virtual machine) technique,”

Apr 17, 2023Ravie LakshmananSurveillance / Privacy Israeli spyware vendor QuaDream is allegedly shutting down its operations in the coming days, less than a week after its hacking toolset was exposed by Citizen Lab and Microsoft. The development was reported by the Israeli business newspaper Calcalist, citing unnamed sources, adding the company “hasn’t been fully active

Apr 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Cyber Security Open source media player software provider Kodi has confirmed a data breach after threat actors stole the company’s MyBB forum database containing user data and private messages. What’s more, the unknown threat actors attempted to sell the data dump comprising 400,635 Kodi users on the now-defunct BreachForums