A US judge has dismissed most of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accusations against IT management software company SolarWinds and its CISO, Timothy Brown, over a major 2020 cyberattack. In a 107-page decision made public on July 18, US District Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan said SEC statements claiming that SolarWinds and Brown
Malware research involves studying threat actor TTPs, mapping infrastructure, analyzing novel techniques… And while most of these investigations build on existing research, sometimes they start from a hunch, something that looks too simple. At the end of 2023, we stumbled upon an installer named HotPage.exe that deploys a driver capable of injecting code into remote
Businesses across the world have been hit by widespread disruptions to their Windows workstations stemming from a faulty update pushed out by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. “CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts,” the company’s CEO George Kurtz said in a statement. “Mac and
Security researchers have identified several vulnerabilities in SAP AI Core, a platform that enables users to develop, train and run AI services. These vulnerabilities, found by Wiz and discussed in an advisory published on Wednesday, highlight significant risks associated with tenant isolation in AI infrastructure. In particular, the investigation into SAP AI Core revealed that
Jul 18, 2024NewsroomMalware / Windows Security Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on an adware module that purports to block ads and malicious websites, while stealthily offloading a kernel driver component that grants attackers the ability to run arbitrary code with elevated permissions on Windows hosts. The malware, dubbed HotPage, gets its name from the eponymous
Security researchers have unveiled more information about the Qilin ransomware group, which recently targeted the healthcare sector with a $50 million ransom demand. The attack on Synnovis, a pathology services provider, significantlyimpacted several key NHS hospitals in London earlier this month. Since its identification in July 2022, Qilin has gained notoriety for offering Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS)
While blue teams defend, red teams attack. They share a common goal, however – help identify and address gaps in organizations’ defenses before these weaknesses can be exploited by malicious actors. The blue/red team exercises provide invaluable insights across the technical, procedural and human sides of security and can ultimately help organizations fend off actual
Jul 17, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Cryptocurrency Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an updated variant of a known stealer malware that attackers affiliated with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have delivered as part of prior cyber espionage campaigns targeting job seekers. The artifact in question is an Apple macOS disk image (DMG) file named “MiroTalk.dmg”
Security experts have uncovered a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-38112, within the MHTML protocol handler. This vulnerability, dubbed ZDI-CAN-24433, was reported from CVE-2024-38112 to Microsoft upon discovery (and later patched by the tech giant), with evidence suggesting it was actively exploited by the advanced persistent threat (APT) group Void Banshee. Known
Scams Your humble phone number is more valuable than you may think. Here’s how it could fall into the wrong hands – and how you can help keep it out of the reach of fraudsters. Márk Szabó 15 Jul 2024 • , 7 min. read What might be one of the easiest ways to scam
Jul 16, 2024NewsroomMobile Security / Online Security Details have emerged about a “massive ad fraud operation” that leverages hundreds of apps on the Google Play Store to perform a host of nefarious activities. The campaign has been codenamed Konfety – the Russian word for Candy – owing to its abuse of a mobile advertising software
The Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) has revealed significant developments in the activities of the SSH-Snake threat actor. The group, now referred to as CRYSTALRAY, has notably expanded its operations, increasing its victim count tenfold to more than 1500. According to a new advisory published by Sysdig last week, CRYSTALRAY has been observed using a
Jul 15, 2024NewsroomSupply Chain Attack / Cyber Threat Cybersecurity researchers said they discovered an accidentally leaked GitHub token that could have granted elevated access to the GitHub repositories of the Python language, Python Package Index (PyPI), and the Python Software Foundation (PSF) repositories. JFrog, which found the GitHub Personal Access Token, said the secret was
A leading US car parts provider has revealed that a high-profile data breach earlier in 2024 will impact over two million job applicants and current and former employees. Advance Auto Parts is said to operate nearly 5000 stores and employ around 70,000 people across North America. A breach notification letter filed with the Office of
Video The issue of whether to ban ransomware payments is a hotly debated topic in cybersecurity and policy circles. What are the implications of outlawing these payments, and would the ban be effective? 12 Jul 2024 Back in May, we weighed in on the UK’s apparent plan to make it illegal for critical infrastructure entities
Jul 12, 2024NewsroomCyber Crime / Online Safety Two Russian-born Australian citizens have been arrested and charged in the country for spying on behalf of Russia as part of a “complex” law enforcement operation codenamed BURGAZADA. This includes a 40-year-old woman, an Australian Defence Force (ADF) Army Private, and her husband, a 62-year-old self-employed laborer. Media
A County in Indiana, US, has filed a disaster declaration following a ransomware attack on local government networks, which has prevented the administration of critical services. Clay County made the declaration after confirming the incident has resulted in an inability to operate Clay County Courthouse and Clay County Probation/Community Corrections facilities. The July 11 declaration
American telecom service provider AT&T has confirmed that threat actors managed to access data belonging to “nearly all” of its wireless customers as well as customers of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) using AT&T’s wireless network. “Threat actors unlawfully accessed an AT&T workspace on a third-party cloud platform and, between April 14 and April 25,
Telecommunications giant AT&T has revealed that customer data has been illegally downloaded by threat actors. Hackers have downloaded the data from AT&T’s its workspace on a third-party cloud platform, the company confirmed in a statement published on July 12. According to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company first learned
Video, Internet of Things As security challenges loom large on the IoT landscape, how can we effectively counter the risks of integrating our physical and digital worlds? 10 Jul 2024 Imagine all traffic lights in a city turning green simultaneously, much like in Die Hard 4. Could a movie plot become a reality? Does it
Jul 12, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cyber Attack Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a short-lived DarkGate malware campaign that leveraged Samba file shares to initiate the infections. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said the activity spanned the months of March and April 2024, with the infection chains using servers running public-facing Samba file shares hosting Visual
The US government has urged software manufacturers to work towards the elimination of operating system (OS) command injection vulnerabilities. The alert from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and FBI was issued in response to several high-profile threat actor campaigns in 2024 that exploited OS command injection defects in network edge devices to compromise
Scams Scammers gonna scam scam scam, so before hunting for your tickets to a Taylor Swift gig or other in-demand events, learn how to stop fraudsters from leaving a blank space in your bank account Phil Muncaster 09 Jul 2024 • , 5 min. read Thanks to advances in technology, buying tickets to your favorite
Jul 11, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Enterprise Security Palo Alto Networks has released security updates to address five security flaws impacting its products, including a critical bug that could lead to an authentication bypass. Cataloged as CVE-2024-5910 (CVSS score: 9.3), the vulnerability has been described as a case of missing authentication in its Expedition migration tool that
A recent surge in fraudulent smishing attacks impersonating India Post, the government-operated postal system, has prompted warnings from Indian authorities and cybersecurity experts. The Press Information Bureau (PIB) issued alerts in June urging vigilance against suspicious messages falsely claiming to be from India Post, part of India’s Ministry of Communications. This tactic, known as smishing,
Jul 10, 2024NewsroomData Breach / Malware A now-patched security flaw in Veeam Backup & Replication software is being exploited by a nascent ransomware operation known as EstateRansomware. Singapore-headquartered Group-IB, which discovered the threat actor in early April 2024, said the modus operandi involved the exploitation of CVE-2023-27532 (CVSS score: 7.5) to carry out the malicious
Evolve Bank & Trust, a prominent US banking-as-a-service company, has recently confirmed that a cyber-attack earlier in 2024 compromised the personal data of millions of customers. In a statement filed with Maine’s attorney general on July 8, Evolve confirmed that the breach affected at least 7.6m individuals, including over 20,000 customers in Maine. This disclosure
Jul 09, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a security vulnerability in the RADIUS network authentication protocol called BlastRADIUS that could be exploited by an attacker to stage Mallory-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks and bypass integrity checks under certain circumstances. “The RADIUS protocol allows certain Access-Request messages to have no integrity or authentication checks,” InkBridge
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new advanced persistent threat (APT) targeting Russian government entities, dubbed CloudSorcerer. This sophisticated cyberespionage tool, discovered by Kaspersky in May 2024 and discussed in an advisory published by the firm on June 8, is designed for stealth monitoring, data collection and exfiltration, utilizing Microsoft Graph, Yandex Cloud and Dropbox for
Jul 08, 2024NewsroomDark Web / Cyber Crime An analysis of information-stealing malware logs published on the dark web has led to the discovery of thousands of consumers of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), indicating how such information could be used to combat serious crimes. “Approximately 3,300 unique users were found with accounts on known CSAM
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