Month: April 2024
A suspected Vietnamese-origin threat actor has been observed targeting victims in several Asian and Southeast Asian countries with malware designed to harvest valuable data since at least May 2023. Cisco Talos is tracking the cluster under the name CoralRaider, describing it as financially motivated. Targets of the campaign include India, China, South Korea, Bangladesh, Pakistan,…
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Google has issued a security advisory to owners of its Android Pixel smartphones, warning that it has discovered someone has been targeting some devices to bypass their built-in security. What makes the reported attacks particularly interesting is that traditional cybercriminals may not be behind them, but rather “forensic companies” exploiting two vulnerabilities to extract information…
Read MoreCISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise. Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities established the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog…
Read MoreCISA released two Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on April 4, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisory for technical details and mitigations. Source link lol
Read MoreIvanti has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in all supported versions (9.x and 22.x) of Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure gateways. A cyber threat actor could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. Users and administrators are encouraged to review the following Ivanti advisory and apply the necessary updates: …
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A cybercrook who has been setting up websites that mimic the self-destructing message service privnote.com accidentally exposed the breadth of their operations recently when they threatened to sue a software company. The disclosure revealed a profitable network of phishing sites that behave and look like the real Privnote, except that any messages containing cryptocurrency addresses…
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New QakBot Campaign Qakbot, also known as QBot, is a banking trojan and botnet that has been active since 2008. However, last year, the servers associated with Qakbot were taken down in a multinational law enforcement operation called Operation Duck Hunt. Recently, Binary Defense threat researchers analyzed the reemergence of the QakBot botnet. The…
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Apr 04, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Internet Protocol New research has found that the CONTINUATION frame in the HTTP/2 protocol can be exploited to conduct denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The technique has been codenamed HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood by security researcher Bartek Nowotarski, who reported the issue to the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) on January 25, 2024. “Many HTTP/2…
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Operational Technology (OT) refers to the hardware and software used to change, monitor, or control the enterprise’s physical devices, processes, and events. Unlike traditional Information Technology (IT) systems, OT systems directly impact the physical world. This unique characteristic of OT brings additional cybersecurity considerations not typically present in conventional IT security architectures. The convergence of…
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As the Omni online systems were out, the company resorted to an offline mode of running critical business operations, including manual check-ins. “Checking in on paper, no card machines work, even room keys do not work,” said another hotel guest who was staying at the Louisville Omni. “Everyone has to be escorted to their room…
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