Cyber Security Alerts & Threat Intelligence

The newly discovered Python-based malware family targets the Outlook processes, and browser credentials, of Microsoft Windows victims.

Original release date: December 13, 2020 The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of active exploitation of a vulnerability in SolarWinds Orion Platform software versions 2019.4 through 2020.2.1, which was released between March 2020 through June 2020. CISA encourages affected organizations to read the SolarWinds and FireEye advisories for more information and FireEye’s GitHub page for detection countermeasures: SolarWinds Security Advisory FireEye Advisory: Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain to Compromise Multiple Global Victims With SUNBURST Backdoor FireEye GitHub page: Sunburst Countermeasures    This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.

Point-of-sale terminal vendors Verifone and Ingenico have issued mitigations after researchers found the devices use default passwords.

The malware takes aim at PostgreSQL database servers with never-before-seen techniques.

Attackers are targeting students and faculty alike with malware, phishing, DDoS, Zoom bombs and more, the FBI and CISA said.

Original release date: December 11, 2020 Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Jabber for Windows, Jabber for MacOS, and Jabber for mobile platforms. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages users and administrators to review Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-jabber-ZktzjpgO and apply the necessary updates. This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.

Fortinet’s Aamir Lakhani discusses best practices for securing company data against next-gen threats, like edge access trojans (EATs).

Original release date: December 10, 2020 Adobe has released security updates to address a vulnerability in Acrobat and Reader. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages users and administrators to review Adobe Security Bulletin APSB20-75 and apply the necessary updates. This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.

Original release date: December 10, 2020<br/><h3>Summary</h3><p>This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory was coauthored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC).</p> <p>The FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC assess malicious cyber actors are targeting kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12) educational institutions, leading to ransomware attacks, the theft of data, and the disruption of distance learning services. Cyber actors likely view schools as targets of opportunity, and these types of attacks are expected to continue through the 2020/2021 academic year. These issues will be particularly challenging for K-12 schools that…

From eCommerce threats, to attacks at the smart edge, Fortinet researchers discuss the top evolving threats of 2020, heading into the new year.

Ransomware actors behind the attack have breached at least 85,000 MySQL servers, and are currently selling at least compromised 250,000 databases.

A series of bugs, patched in September, still allow remote code execution by attackers.