Three critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in RenderDoc, a graphics debugger that supports multiple operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Android and Nintendo Switch. The software holds a prominent position within the gaming development software arena, as it seamlessly integrates with leading gaming software engines such as Unity and Unreal. As per the findings of cybersecurity
by Paul Ducklin Google’s latest Chrome update is out, and this time the company hasn’t minced its words about one of the two security patches it includes: Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2023-3079 exists in the wild. There’s no two-degrees-of-separation verbiage, as we’ve often seen from Google before, to say that the company
Jun 07, 2023Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Attack An unknown threat actor has been observed targeting the U.S. aerospace industry with a new PowerShell-based malware called PowerDrop. “PowerDrop uses advanced techniques to evade detection such as deception, encoding, and encryption,” according to Adlumin, which found the malware implanted in an unnamed domestic aerospace defense contractor in
A new malware campaign has been discovered that exploits the Satacom downloader, also known as LegionLoader, to distribute a browser extension designed to steal cryptocurrency. The Satacom downloader, a notorious malware family that emerged in 2019, is known for using DNS server queries to retrieve the next malware stage from another family associated with Satacom.
by Paul Ducklin Last week, Progress Software Corporation, which sells software and services for user interface development, devops, file management and more, alerted customers of its MOVEit Transfer and related MOVEit Cloud products about a critical vulnerability dubbed CVE-2023-34362. As the name suggests, MOVEit Transfer is a system that makes it easy to store and
Jun 06, 2023Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Data Security Threat actors associated with the Cyclops ransomware have been observed offering an information stealer malware that’s designed to capture sensitive data from infected hosts. “The threat actor behind this [ransomware-as-a-service] promotes its offering on forums,” Uptycs said in a new report. “There it requests a share of
Security researchers at ReversingLabs have discovered a novel attack that used compiled Python code to evade detection. According to ReversingLabs reverse engineer Karlo Zanki, this could be the first instance of a supply chain attack capitalizing on the direct execution capability of Python byte code (PYC) files. The method introduces another supply chain vulnerability for
Jun 05, 2023Ravie LakshmananWebsite Security / Magecart Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new ongoing Magecart-style web skimmer campaign that’s designed to steal personally identifiable information (PII) and credit card data from e-commerce websites. A noteworthy aspect that sets it apart from other Magecart campaigns is that the hijacked sites further serve as “makeshift” command-and-control (C2)
A peek under the hood of a cybercrime operation and what you can do to avoid being an easy target for similar ploys They hacked into corporate emails, stole money from people and businesses, and tricked others into transferring the loot. Nigerian nationals Solomon Ekunke Okpe and Johnson Uke Obogo ran a sophisticated fraud scheme
US and South Korean security agencies have issued a joint warning regarding North Korea’s use of social engineering tactics in cyber-attacks. The document was published on Thursday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the US Department of State, the National Security Agency (NSA), the Republic of Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), the National Police
Jun 03, 2023Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Linux An analysis of the Linux variant of a new ransomware strain called BlackSuit has covered significant similarities with another ransomware family called Royal. Trend Micro, which examined an x64 VMware ESXi version targeting Linux machines, said it identified an “extremely high degree of similarity” between Royal and BlackSuit.
Given the reliance of today’s digital world on APIs and the fact that attacks targeting them continue to rise sharply, API security cannot be an afterthought. Given the increasing reliance of today’s digital world on APIs and the fact that cyberattacks targeting them continue to rise sharply, API security cannot be an afterthought. Here is
Enzo Biochem, a biotechnology company renowned for producing and distributing DNA-based tests designed to identify viral and bacterial diseases, has recently confirmed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it fell victim to a ransomware attack. The malicious cyber assault has exposed the confidential information of 2.47 million patients, including names,
by Paul Ducklin Researchers at firmware and supply-chain security company Eclypsium claim to have found what they have rather dramatically dubbed a “backdoor” in hundreds of motherboard models from well-known hardware maker Gigabyte. In fact, Eclypsium’s headline refers to it not merely as a backdoor, but all in upper case as a BACKDOOR. The good
Jun 02, 2023Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Malware Spanish-speaking users in Latin America have been at the receiving end of a new botnet malware dubbed Horabot since at least November 2020. “Horabot enables the threat actor to control the victim’s Outlook mailbox, exfiltrate contacts’ email addresses, and send phishing emails with malicious HTML attachments to all addresses
As APIs are a favorite target for threat actors, the challenge of securing the glue that holds various software elements together is taking on increasing urgency The application programming interface (API) is an unsung hero of the digital revolution. It provides the glue that sticks together diverse software components in order to create new user
A new cyber threat campaign named “Horabot” has been discovered by cybersecurity firm Cisco Talos targeting Spanish-speaking users in the Americas. Horabot, a botnet software, has been active since November 2020 and is responsible for distributing a banking Trojan and spam tool. According to an advisory published by Cisco Talos earlier today, the threat actor behind
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Jun 02, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / APT U.S. and South Korean intelligence agencies have issued a new alert warning of North Korean cyber actors’ use of social engineering tactics to strike think tanks, academia, and news media sectors. The “sustained information gathering efforts” have been attributed to a state-sponsored cluster dubbed Kimsuky, which is also
A roundup of some of the handiest tools for the collection and analysis of publicly available data from Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms Social media sites are a near-bottomless source of information that almost anyone can use for security and intelligence research, as well as for marketing campaigns. The platforms allow anybody to
A new vulnerability has been discovered in macOS that allows attackers with root access to bypass System Integrity Protection (SIP) and perform arbitrary operations on affected devices. Discovered by Microsoft and dubbed “Migraine,” the flaw was disclosed to Apple through Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) via Microsoft Security Vulnerability Research (MSVR). SIP is a security technology implemented
by Paul Ducklin Over the last two weeks, we’ve seen a series of articles talking up what’s been described as a “master password crack” in the popular open-source password manager KeePass. The bug was considered important enough to get an official US government identifier (it’s known as CVE-2023-32784, if you want to hunt it down),
Jun 01, 2023Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Exploit The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a recently patched critical security flaw in Zyxel gear to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2023-28771 (CVSS score: 9.8), the issue relates to a command injection flaw impacting different firewall
The tactics of a Nigerian cybercrime group have been revealed, including their complex phishing techniques and extensive fraud scheme. The findings, published by ESET in a blog post released earlier today, pertain to the actions of two individuals at the center of a criminal enterprise that resulted in losses of up to $1 million: Solomon
by Paul Ducklin Researchers at web coding security company SALT just published a fascinating description of how they found an authentication bug dubbed CVE-2023-28131 in a popular online app-buildin toolkit known as Expo. The good news is that Expo responded really quickly to SALT’s bug report, coming up with a fix within just a few
May 31, 2023Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Zero Day Enterprise security firm Barracuda on Tuesday disclosed that a recently patched zero-day flaw in its Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances had been abused by threat actors since October 2022 to backdoor the devices. The latest findings show that the critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-2868 (CVSS score: N/A),
Unit 42, Palo Alto Networks threat research team, has found new malicious activity targeting IoT devices, using a variant of Mirai, a piece of malware that turns networked devices running Linux, typically small IoT devices, into remotely controlled bots that can be used in large-scale network attacks. Dubbed IZ1H9, this variant was first discovered in
May 29, 2023Ravie LakshmananAuthentication / Mobile Security Researchers have discovered an inexpensive attack technique that could be leveraged to brute-force fingerprints on smartphones to bypass user authentication and seize control of the devices. The approach, dubbed BrutePrint, bypasses limits put in place to counter failed biometric authentication attempts by weaponizing two zero-day vulnerabilities in the
A critical security flaw in the Expo framework has been discovered that could be exploited to reveal user data in various online services. The vulnerability (CVE-2023-28131) was discovered by Salt Security and has a CVSS score of 9.6. In particular, the bug was found in the way Expo’s Open Authorization (OAuth) social-login feature is implemented.
May 29, 2023Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain / Programming The Python Package Index (PyPI) announced last week that every account that maintains a project on the official third-party software repository will be required to turn on two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of the year. “Between now and the end of the year, PyPI will begin gating
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