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Content tagged with Advanced Threats posted in September 2015
The Unintended Attack Surface Of The Internet Of Things
Commentary  |  9/29/2015  | 
How a vulnerability in a common consumer WiFi device is challenging today’s enterprise security.
Cisco Offers Free Tool To Detect SYNful Knock Router Malware
News  |  9/24/2015  | 
Tool helps businesses detect routers running known version of newly discovered malicious implant.
Healthcare Organizations Twice As Likely To Experience Data Theft
News  |  9/23/2015  | 
Bad guys very willing to invest in attacking medical data, but healthcare not very willing to invest in defending it.
MiniDuke, CosmicDuke APT Group Likely Sponsored By Russia
News  |  9/17/2015  | 
F-Sure's look at the Dukes' seven years of attack campaigns and impressive portfolio of malware suggests stable financial backing, interest in Russian foreign policy, and no fear of getting caught.
Darknet Is Full Of Criminals & Governments Giving TOR A Bad Name
News  |  9/16/2015  | 
Human traffickers, crowd-sourcing murderers, child pornographers, and governments in the market for juicy zero-days are flooding the Dark Web -- making it hard for the good guys to defend it.
Backdoored Business Routers An Emerging Threat
News  |  9/15/2015  | 
Discovery of malicious implants in 14 Cisco routers, “tip of iceberg” FireEye says
Another Healthcare Insurer, Excellus BCBS, Hit With Mega-Breach
News  |  9/10/2015  | 
Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield and parent company Lifetime Healthcare Companies join ranks of Anthem and Premera after breach that may have exposed more than 10 million patient records.
Attribution & The Nation-State Malware Market
Attribution & The Nation-State Malware Market
Dark Reading Videos  |  9/10/2015  | 
Malware researcher Marion Marschalek visits the Dark Reading News Desk at Black Hat to discuss attribution and the legitimate market for nation-states where "malware" is in the eyes of the beholder.
China's Great Cannon: The Great Firewall's More Aggressive Partner
China's Great Cannon: The Great Firewall's More Aggressive Partner
Dark Reading Videos  |  9/3/2015  | 
Crowdstrike researchers visit Dark Reading News Desk at Black Hat to describe how China went on the offensive and extended its Internet censorship efforts beyond Chinese borders.
New Shifu Banking Trojan An ‘Uber Patchwork’ Of Malware Tools
News  |  9/2/2015  | 
Sophisticated threat hitting banks in Japan combines best features of multiple previous banking malware, new IBM research says.
Malware Author Stamped Code 'For Targeted Attacks Only'
News  |  9/2/2015  | 
When the Microsoft Word Intruder Office malware creation kit got too high-profile, the developer changed terms of service, Sophos report says.
We Can Allow Cybersecurity Research Without Stifling Innovation
Commentary  |  9/1/2015  | 
The U.S. government is in a unique position to become a global leader in cybersecurity. But only if it retains the open spirit of the Internet that kick-started the Information Age.


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I Smell a RAT! New Cybersecurity Threats for the Crypto Industry
David Trepp, Partner, IT Assurance with accounting and advisory firm BPM LLP,  7/9/2021
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Attacks on Kaseya Servers Led to Ransomware in Less Than 2 Hours
Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer,  7/7/2021
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It's in the Game (but It Shouldn't Be)
Tal Memran, Cybersecurity Expert, CYE,  7/9/2021
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CVE-2023-33196
PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
Craft is a CMS for creating custom digital experiences. Cross site scripting (XSS) can be triggered by review volumes. This issue has been fixed in version 4.4.7.
CVE-2023-33185
PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
Django-SES is a drop-in mail backend for Django. The django_ses library implements a mail backend for Django using AWS Simple Email Service. The library exports the `SESEventWebhookView class` intended to receive signed requests from AWS to handle email bounces, subscriptions, etc. These requests ar...
CVE-2023-33187
PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
Highlight is an open source, full-stack monitoring platform. Highlight may record passwords on customer deployments when a password html input is switched to `type="text"` via a javascript "Show Password" button. This differs from the expected behavior which always obfuscates `ty...
CVE-2023-33194
PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
Craft is a CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web.The platform does not filter input and encode output in Quick Post validation error message, which can deliver an XSS payload. Old CVE fixed the XSS in label HTML but didn’t fix it when clicking save. This issue was...
CVE-2023-2879
PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
GDSDB infinite loop in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.5 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.13 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file