Jan 25, 2024NewsroomRemote Access Trojan Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on the command-and-control (C2) server of a known malware family called SystemBC. “SystemBC can be purchased on underground marketplaces and is supplied in an archive containing the implant, a command-and-control (C2) server, and a web administration portal written in PHP,” Kroll said in an analysis […]
Jan 25, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Software Security The maintainers of the open-source continuous integration/continuous delivery and deployment (CI/CD) automation software Jenkins have resolved nine security flaws, including a critical bug that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution (RCE). The issue, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-23897, has been described as an arbitrary file read […]
Jan 25, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Data Breach Hackers with links to the Kremlin are suspected to have infiltrated information technology company Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) cloud email environment to exfiltrate mailbox data. “The threat actor accessed and exfiltrated data beginning in May 2023 from a small percentage of HPE mailboxes belonging to individuals in our […]
Jan 25, 2024NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Malware Research A new Go-based malware loader called CherryLoader has been discovered by threat hunters in the wild to deliver additional payloads onto compromised hosts for follow-on exploitation. Arctic Wolf Labs, which discovered the new attack tool in two recent intrusions, said the loader’s icon and name masquerades as the […]
Jan 24, 2024NewsroomCloud Security / Kubernetes Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a loophole impacting Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that could be potentially exploited by threat actors with a Google account to take control of a Kubernetes cluster. The critical shortcoming has been codenamed Sys:All by cloud security firm Orca. As many as 250,000 active GKE clusters […]
Jan 24, 2024The Hacker NewsSaaS Security / Endpoint Security In today’s highly distributed workplace, every employee has the ability to act as their own CIO, adopting new cloud and SaaS technologies whenever and wherever they need. While this has been a critical boon to productivity and innovation in the digital enterprise, it has upended traditional […]
Jan 24, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Endpoint Security A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Fortra’s GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT) software that could be abused to create a new administrator user. Tracked as CVE-2024-0204, the issue carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10. “Authentication bypass in Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT prior to 7.4.1 allows […]
Jan 24, 2024The Hacker NewsVulnerability / Software Security In a world where more & more organizations are adopting open-source components as foundational blocks in their application’s infrastructure, it’s difficult to consider traditional SCAs as complete protection mechanisms against open-source threats. Using open-source libraries saves tons of coding and debugging time, and by that – shortens […]
Jan 24, 2024NewsroomCryptocurrency / Cybercrime Governments from Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. have imposed financial sanctions on a Russian national for his alleged role in the 2022 ransomware attack against health insurance provider Medibank. Alexander Ermakov (aka blade_runner, GistaveDore, GustaveDore, or JimJones), 33, has been tied to the breach of the Medibank network as […]