An Italian surveillance company is tracking people all over the world on a grand scale on behalf of its clients – including in countries with a recent history of corruption and human rights abuses. Its powerful spyware was recently found in Kazakhstan and Romania. Europe’s parliamentarians voice growing concern about an out-of-control surveillance industry and call for it to be regulated.
On March 2nd, I reported several security vulnerabilities to VMWare impacting their Identity Access Management (IAM) solution. In this blog post I will discu...
Editor’s Note: Last April, a ransomware group threatened to expose police informants and other sensitive information if the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department did not pay a demand.
The brazen attack was the work of a gang known as Babuk, which in early 2021 gained a reputation for posting stolen databases on its website from victims that refused to pay a ransom. Just days after it tried to extort the Metropolitan Police Department, Babuk announced it was closing its ransomware affiliate program, and would focus on data theft and extortion instead.
Netfilter is a framework in the Linux kernel for implementing various networking-related tasks with user-defined handlers. Netfilter provides various functions for packet filtering, network address translation and port translation, and packet logging. Netfilter represents a set of hooks that allow other kernel modules to register callback functions in the kernel’s networking stack.
Over 130 organizations have been compromised in a sophisticated attack using simple phishing kits
Threat actors evade detection by adopting the Sliver command-and-control (C2) framework in intrusion campaigns.
Microsoft security researchers have discovered a post-compromise capability we’re calling MagicWeb, which is used by a threat actor we track as NOBELIUM to maintain persistent access to compromised environments.
Platform-abuse phishing is on the rise. We analyze how attackers use services such as website builders to host phishing pages.
New domains and new behavioral indicators, but malware authors stick to tried and tested architecture despite Apple’s updates.
Operating system access controls, that constrain which programs can open which files, have existed for almost as long as computers themselves. Access controls are still widely used and are more flexible and efficient when compared to cryptographically protecting files. Despite the long history, ther
In February 2022, Microsoft patched the vulnerability I used in TianfuCup 2021 for escaping Adobe Reader sandbox, assigned CVE-2022-22715. The vulnerability existed in Named Pipe File System nearly 10 years since the AppContainer was born. We called it "Windows Dirty Pipe".
In this article, I will share the root cause and exploitation of Windows Dirty Pipe. So let's start our journey.
Google has an automated tool to detect abusive images of children. But the system can get it wrong, and the consequences are serious.
Cybereason GSOC observed distribution of the Bumblebee Loader and post-exploitation activities including privilege escalation, reconnaissance and credential theft. Bumblebee operators use the Cobalt Strike framework throughout the attack and abuse credentials for privilege escalation to access Active Directory, as well as abusing a domain administrator account to move laterally, create local user accounts and exfiltrate data...
A ransomware group has hit at least one water company in the United Kingdom, but there is some confusion over whose systems were actually breached.
We reveal how hackers have begun leveraging fake DDoS protection pages to trick users into downloading remote access trojans (RATs) onto their computers.
Lloyd’s of London will require its insurer groups globally to exclude catastrophic state-backed hacks from stand-alone cyber insurance policies starting next year.
On May 10, 2022, Zimbra released versions 9.0.0 patch 24 and 8.8.15 patch 31 to address multiple vulnerabilities in Zimbra Collaboration Suite, including CVE-2…
The RSA method was created by Rivest, Shamir and Adleman in 1978, and it is still used to encrypt and sign for data. The core of trust on the Internet is the usage of PKI, and where Web sites have a…
Jamf Threat Labs updates Jamf Protect to completely prevent CloudMensis from threatening the security of your macOS fleet.
End of June 2021, Qrator Labs started to see signs of a new assaulting force on the Internet – a botnet of a new kind. That is a joint research we conducted together with Yandex to elaborate on the specifics of the DDoS attacks enabler emerging in almost real-time.
