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December 18, 2024Ravi LakshmananSaaS Security / Incident Response BeyondTrust has disclosed details of a critical security flaw in its Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) products that could potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary commands. Privileged Remote Access monitors, manages, and validates privileged accounts and credentials, offering internal, external, and third-party users zero-trust access to on-premises and cloud resources. Remote support allows support staff to securely connect to remote systems and mobile devices. Vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12356 (CVSS score: 9.8), was described as an instance of team introduction. “A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the Privileged…
December 18, 2024Hacker newsThreat Detection / Endpoint Security For small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and managed service providers, a top priority for cybersecurity managers is keeping the IT environment up and running. To protect against cyber threats and prevent data breaches, it is vital to understand the current cybersecurity vendor landscape and continually evaluate the effectiveness of available solutions. Fortunately, the 2024 MITER ATT&CK Evaluation—the most trusted resource for tracking effective solutions—is now available. this practical guidance distills the main findings and advice on interpreting the results. Cynet was the only vendor to achieve 100% visibility and 100% protection in…
December 18, 2024Ravi LakshmananEmail Security / Cloud Security Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new phishing campaign targeting European companies to obtain account credentials and take control of victims’ Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. Division 42 of Palo Alto Networks codenamed the company HubPhish for abusing HubSpot’s tools in the attack chain. The targets include at least 20,000 users in the automotive, chemical and industrial industries in Europe. “Company phishing attempts peaked in June 2024 with fake forms created using HubSpot’s Free Form Builder service,” security researchers Shachar Roitman, Ohad Benjamin Maimon, and William Gamazo said in a report shared with The…
December 18, 2024Ravi LakshmananCyber espionage / malware Russia-linked threat actor APT29 has been seen repurposing legitimate red teaming attack methodology as part of cyberattacks using malicious Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configuration files. Activities targeting governments and armed forces, think tanks, academic researchers, and Ukrainian organizations entail adopting the “rogue RDP” method that was previously documented Black Hills Information Security in 2022, Trend Micro report says. “A victim of this technique would give partial control of their machine to an attacker, potentially leading to data leakage and the installation of malware,” researchers Feike Hackebord and Steven Hilt said. The cyber security…
In my nearly eight years at ActiveState, I’ve seen many iterations of our product. However, one thing has remained true over the years: our commitment to the open source community and companies that use open source in their code. ActiveState has been helping enterprises manage open source for more than a decade. In the early days, open source was in its infancy. We focused mainly on the developer case, helping to get open source on platforms like Windows. Over time, our focus has shifted from helping open source companies to supporting businesses running open source when the community wasn’t building…
December 18, 2024Ravi LakshmananCyber Fraud / Social Engineering INTERPOL is calling for a linguistic shift that aims to end the term “butchering of pigs,” instead advocating the use of “romance baiting” to refer to online scams in which victims are tricked into investing in fake cryptocurrency schemes under the guise of a romantic relationship. “The term ‘pig killer’ dehumanizes and shames the victims of such scams, discouraging people from seeking help and providing information to the authorities,” the agency notes. said in the statement. The word originates from the Chinese phrase “杀猪盘” (“shā zhū pán”), which literally translates to “slaughtering…
December 18, 2024Ravi LakshmananCyber Attack / Vulnerability Threat actors are attempting to exploit a recently disclosed security flaw affecting Apache Struts that could open the way for remote code execution. Issue tracked as CVE-2024-53677has a CVSS score of 9.5 out of 10.0, indicating critical severity. This vulnerability is similar to another critical bug that the developers of the project fixed in December 2023. (CVE-2023-50164CVSS score: 9.8) that too came under active exploitation shortly after public disclosure. “An attacker could manipulate file download parameters to allow path traversal, and under some circumstances this could lead to the download of a malicious…
December 18, 2024Ravi LakshmananData Breach / Privacy Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads, was fined 251 million euros (about $263 million) for a data breach in 2018 that affected millions of users in the block. the latest financial hit the company has been found guilty of violating strict privacy laws. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) said the data breach affected around 29 million Facebook accounts worldwide, of which around 3 million are located in the European Union and the European Economic Area (EEA). It should be noted that initial estimates by the tech giant…
December 17, 2024Ravi LakshmananMalware / credential theft A new social engineering company has used Microsoft Teams as a way to facilitate the deployment of a known malware called DarkGate. “An attacker used social engineering via a Microsoft Teams challenge to impersonate a user’s client and gain remote access to their system,” Trend Micro researchers Catherine Laveria, Jovit Samaniego and Gabriel Nicoletta said. “The attacker failed to install the Microsoft Remote Support application, but successfully instructed the victim to download AnyDesk, a tool commonly used for remote access.” How recently documented By cybersecurity firm Rapid7, the attack involved bombarding a target’s…
December 17, 2024Ravi LakshmananCyber attack / malware A new phishing campaign has been spotted using tax-themed lures to deliver hidden backdoor payloads in attacks against Pakistan. Cybersecurity company Securonix, which tracks activity under the name FLUX#CONSOLEsaid it most likely starts with a phishing link to an email or attachment, although it said it could not obtain the original email used to launch the attack. “One of the most notable aspects of the campaign is how threat actors use Microsoft Common Console Document (MSC) files to deploy a bootloader and dual-purpose bootloader to deliver further malicious payloads,” security researchers Dan Yuzwick…