Twilio Suffers Data Breach After Employees Fall Victim to SMS Phishing Attack
Customer engagement platform Twilio on Monday disclosed that a "sophisticated" threat actor gained "unauthorized access" using an SMS-based phishing campaign aimed at its staff to gain information on a "limited number" of accounts.
The social-engineering attack was bent on stealing...
U.S. Sanctions Virtual Currency Mixer Tornado Cash for Alleged Use in Laundering
The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday placed sanctions against crypto mixing service Tornado Cash, citing its use by the North Korea-backed Lazarus Group in the high-profile hacks of Ethereum bridges to launder and cash out the ill-gotten money.
Tornado Cash,...
The Truth About False Positives in Security
TL;DR: As weird as it might sound, seeing a few false positives reported by a security scanner is probably a good sign and certainly better than seeing none. Let's explain why.
Introduction
False positives have made a somewhat unexpected appearance in...
10 Credential Stealing Python Libraries Found on PyPI Repository
In what's yet another instance of malicious packages creeping into public code repositories, 10 modules have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) for their ability to harvest critical data points such as passwords and Api tokens.
The packages...
Chinese Hackers Targeted Dozens of Industrial Enterprises and Public Institutions
Over a dozen military-industrial complex enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and Europe have come under a wave of targeted attacks since January 2022 to steal confidential data by simultaneously making use of six different backdoors.
Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky attributed the...
New Orchard Botnet Uses Bitcoin Founder’s Account Info to Generate Malicious Domains
A new botnet named Orchard has been observed using Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto's account transaction information to generate domain names to conceal its command-and-control (C2) infrastructure.
"Because of the uncertainty of Bitcoin transactions, this technique is more unpredictable than using...
The Benefits of Building a Mature and Diverse Blue Team
A few days ago, a friend and I were having a rather engaging conversation that sparked my excitement. We were discussing my prospects of becoming a red teamer as a natural career progression. The reason I got stirred up...
Researchers Uncover Classiscam Scam-as-a-Service Operations in Singapore
A sophisticated scam-as-a-service operation dubbed Classiscam has now infiltrated into Singapore, more than 1.5 years after expanding to Europe.
"Scammers posing as legitimate buyers approach sellers with the request to purchase goods from their listings and the ultimate aim of stealing...
Meta Cracks Down on Cyber Espionage Operations in South Asia Abusing Facebook
Facebook parent company Meta disclosed that it took action against two espionage operations in South Asia that leveraged its social media platforms to distribute malware to potential targets.
The first set of activities is what the company described as "persistent...
Hackers Exploit Twitter Vulnerability to Exposes 5.4 Million Accounts
Twitter on Friday revealed that a now-patched zero-day bug was used to link phone numbers and emails to user accounts on the social media platform.
"As a result of the vulnerability, if someone submitted an email address or phone number...
New IoT RapperBot Malware Targeting Linux Servers via SSH Brute-Forcing Attack
A new IoT botnet malware dubbed RapperBot has been observed rapidly evolving its capabilities since it was first discovered in mid-June 2022.
"This family borrows heavily from the original Mirai source code, but what separates it from other IoT malware families...
Iranian Hackers Likely Behind Disruptive Cyberattacks Against Albanian Government
A threat actor working to further Iranian goals is said to have been behind a set of damaging cyberattacks against Albanian government services in mid-July 2022.
Cybersecurity firm Mandiant said the malicious activity against a NATO state represented a "geographic expansion of...
Single-Core CPU Cracked Post-Quantum Encryption Candidate Algorithm in Just an Hour
A late-stage candidate encryption algorithm that was meant to withstand decryption by powerful quantum computers in the future has been trivially cracked by using a computer running Intel Xeon CPU in an hour's time.
The algorithm in question is SIKE...
Slack Resets Passwords After a Bug Exposed Hashed Passwords for Some Users
Slack said it took the step of resetting passwords for about 0.5% of its users after a flaw exposed salted password hashes when creating or revoking shared invitation links for workspaces.
"When a user performed either of these actions, Slack...
Hackers Exploited Atlassian Confluence Bug to Deploy Ljl Backdoor for Espionage
A threat actor is said to have "highly likely" exploited a security flaw in an outdated Atlassian Confluence server to deploy a never-before-seen backdoor against an unnamed organization in the research and technical services sector.
The attack, which transpired over...
Resolving Availability vs. Security, a Constant Conflict in IT
Conflicting business requirements is a common problem – and you find it in every corner of an organization, including in information technology. Resolving these conflicts is a must, but it isn’t always easy – though sometimes there is a...
Emergency Alert System Flaws Could Let Attackers Transmit Fake Messages
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has warned of critical security vulnerabilities in Emergency Alert System (EAS) encoder/decoder devices.
If left unpatched, the issues could allow an adversary to issue fraudulent emergency alerts over TV, radio, and cable networks.
The...
A Growing Number of Malware Attacks Leveraging Dark Utilities 'C2-as-a-Service'
A nascent service called Dark Utilities has already attracted 3,000 users for its ability to provide command-and-control (C2) services with the goal of commandeering compromised systems.
"It is marketed as a means to enable remote access, command execution, distributed denial-of-service...
Chinese Hackers Using New Manjusaka Hacking Framework Similar to Cobalt Strike
Researchers have disclosed a new offensive framework referred to as Manjusaka that they call is a "Chinese sibling of Sliver and Cobalt Strike."
"A fully functional version of the command-and-control (C2), written in Golang with a User Interface in Simplified...
CISA Adds Zimbra Email Vulnerability to its Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a recently disclosed high-severity vulnerability in the Zimbra email suite to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.
The issue in question is CVE-2022-27924 (CVSS score: 7.5), a command injection...
Phishers who breached Twilio and fooled Cloudflare could easily get you, too
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At least two security-sensitive companies—Twilio and Cloudflare—were targeted in a phishing attack by an advanced threat actor who had possession of home phone numbers of not...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2022 Edition
Microsoft today released updates to fix a record 141 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software. Once again, Microsoft is patching a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Support Diagnostics Tool (MSDT), a service built into Windows....
One of 5G's Biggest Features Is a Security Minefield
New research found troubling vulnerabilities in the 5G platforms carriers offer to wrangle embedded device data.
Patch Tuesday: Yet another Microsoft RCE bug under active exploit
Oh, and that critical VMware auth bypass vuln? Miscreants found it, too August Patch Tuesday clicks off the week of hacker summer camp in Las Vegas this year, so it's basically a code cracker's holiday too. …
