Dropbox discloses breach after hacker stole 130 GitHub repositories
Dropbox disclosed a security breach after threat actors stole 130 code repositories after gaining access to one of its GitHub accounts using employee credentials stolen in a phishing attack. The company discovered the attackers breached the account on October 14 when GitHub notified it of suspicious activity that started one day before the alert was sent. “To date, our investigation has found that the code...
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ABOUT “BLUEBLEED”SERVICE AND THE VULNERABILITY OF MICROSOFT AWS SERVERS
Attack infoFirst seen 2022-09-24 • Last seen 2022-10-19On October 19, 2022, Socradar announced a vulnerability they discovered in several misconfiguredMicrosoft AWS servers. They also announced the launch of the BlueBleed service, which contains datadownloaded from several misconfigured Microsoft AWS servers.Link to the Socradar announcement – hxxps://socradar[.]io/sensitive-data-of-65000-entities-in-111-countries-leaked-due-to-a-single-misconfigured-data-bucket/ The exposed files in the misconfigured bucket include; POE documents,SOW documents,Invoices,Product orders,Product offers,Project details,Signed customer documents,POC (Proof of Concept)...
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New PHP information-stealing malware targets Facebook accounts
A new Ducktail phishing campaign is spreading a never-before-seen Windows information-stealing malware written in PHP used to steal Facebook accounts, browser data, and cryptocurrency wallets. Ducktail phishing campaigns were first revealed by researchers from WithSecure in July 2022, who linked the attacks to Vietnamese hackers. Those campaigns relied on social engineering attacks through LinkedIn, pushing .NET Core malware masquerading as a PDF document supposedly containing details about a marketing...
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Magniber ransomware now infects Windows users via JavaScript files
A recent malicious campaign delivering Magniber ransomware has been targeting Windows home users with fake security updates. Threat actors created in September websites that promoted fake antivirus and security updates for Windows 10. The downloaded malicious files (ZIP archives) contained JavaScript that initiated an intricate infection with the file-encrypting malware. A report from HP’s threat intelligence team notes that Magniber ransomware operators demanded payment of up to $2,500...
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CVE-2022-41352: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration Suite CVSS 3.0: 9.8 (Critical)
Vulnerability DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Zimbra Collaboration (ZCS) 8.8.15 and 9.0. An attacker can upload arbitrary files through amavisd via a cpio loophole (extraction to /opt/zimbra/jetty/webapps/zimbra/public) that can lead to incorrect access to any other user accounts. Zimbra recommends pax over cpio. Also, pax is in the prerequisites of Zimbra on Ubuntu; however, pax is no longer part of a default Red Hat installation...
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Top CVEs Actively Exploited By malicious cyber actor
licious cyber actors continue to exploit known vulnerabilities and use publicly available tools to target networks of interest. Remote code execution (RCE) attacks allow an attacker to remotely execute malicious code on a computer. The impact of an RCE vulnerability can range from malware execution to an attacker gaining full control over a compromised machine. RCE vulnerabilities are some of the most risky and high-impact...
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Worok: A New Cyber Espionage Group Targeting Private and Local Government Entities Mostly in Asia
A new cyber espionage threat group that has been previously unknown named Worok and has been observed using undocumented tools targeting private and local government entities mostly in Asia. Based on the report by ESET, the group has been active for at least 2020 and observed a significant break in operation from 2021-05 to 2022-01, but in 2022-02, their operation resumed, targeting an energy company, and a public...
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CVE-2022-40684: Critical Authentication Bypass in FortiOS and FortiProxy
An authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel vulnerability [CWE-288] in FortiOS, FortiProxy and FortiSwitchManager may allow an unauthenticated atttacker to perform operations on the administrative interface via specially crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests. Exploitation Status: Fortinet recommends immediately validating systems against the following indicator of compromise in the device’s logs:user=”Local_Process_Access” Affected ProductsFortiOS version 7.2.0 through 7.2.1FortiOS version 7.0.0 through 7.0.6FortiProxy version 7.2.0FortiProxy version...
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by CIRT Team
Facebook warns about 400 password-stealing apps! Camera, beauty, VPN apps on the list
The tech giant has uncovered more than 400 malicious Android and iOS apps this year which steal usernames and passwords. 45 out of the 400 apps it found were on iOS, while the rest were on Android. They masquerade themselves as popular services like photo editors, games and VPNs to trick people into downloading them. How do these malicious apps work? Apart from displaying fun...
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Exchange vulnerabilities CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082
Microsoft has confirmed that two reported zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. The first one, identified as CVE-2022-41040, is a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability, and the second one, identified as CVE-2022-41082, allows Remote Code Execution (RCE) when PowerShell is accessible to the attacker. From the note Microsoft added, CVE-2022-41040 can enable an authenticated attacker to remotely trigger CVE-2022-41082. It should...
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