eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU), led by researchers Joe Stewart and Keegan Keplinger, have launched a multi-pronged offensive against a growing cyberthreat: the Gootloader Initial Access-as-a-Service Operation. The Gootloader Operation is an expansive cybercrime business, and it has been active since 2018. For the past 15 months, the Gootloader Operator has been launching ongoing attacks targeting legal professionals working for both law firms and corporate legal departments in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia. Between January and March 2023, TRU shut down Gootloader attacks against 12 different organizations, seven of which were law firms.
Researchers from Bitsight and Curesec have jointly discovered a high-severity vulnerability — tracked as CVE-2023-29552 — in the Service Location Protocol (SLP)
During our security research we found that smart phones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm. This data is sent without user consent, unencrypted, and even when using a Google-free Android distribution. This is possible because the Qualcomm chipset itself sends the data, circumventing any potential Android operating system setting and protection mechanisms. Affected smart phones are Sony Xperia XA2 and likely the Fairphone and many more Android phones which use popular Qualcomm chips.
Tallinn, Estonia – From 18 to 21 April, the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCDCOE) is hosting Locked Shields 2023, the world’s largest live-fire cyber defense exercise. Over 3,000 participants from 38 nations are taking part in the exercise, which involves protecting real computer systems from real-time attacks and simulating tactical and strategic decisions in critical situations.
Our team is tracking in-the-wild exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities against PaperCut MF/NG which allow for unauthenticated remote code execution due to an authentication bypass.
We learned some remarkable new details this week about the recent supply-chain attack on VoIP software provider 3CX, a complex, lengthy intrusion that has the makings of a cyberpunk spy novel: North Korean hackers using legions of fake executive accounts…