APT29 (also known as ‘the Dukes’ or ‘Cozy Bear’) is a suspected Russian Intelligence Cyber Espionage Group. The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre issued detection and mitigation advice for organisations involved in coronavirus vaccine development with custom malware by APT29. The report goes into detail regarding recent Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) of the …
Microsoft has released an update for CVE-2020-1350, a Critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows DNS Server that is classified as a ‘wormable’ vulnerability and has a CVSS base score of 10.0. This issue results from a flaw in Microsoft’s DNS server role implementation and affects all Windows Server versions. Non-Microsoft DNS Servers are …
An OS Command Injection vulnerability in the PAN-OS GlobalProtect portal allows an unauthenticated network based attacker to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. An attacker requires some knowledge of the firewall to exploit this issue This issue cannot be exploited if GlobalProtect portal feature is not enabled. This issue impacts PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier …
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Citrix ADC (formerly known as NetScaler ADC), Citrix Gateway (formerly known as NetScaler Gateway) and Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliance models 4000-WO, 4100-WO, 5000-WO, and 5100-WO. These vulnerabilities, if exploited, could result in a number of security issues including: Attacks that are limited to the management interface System compromise by an unauthenticated user on the management network. System compromise through Cross …
The Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI), also referred to as the Configuration utility, has a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in undisclosed pages This vulnerability allows for unauthenticated attackers, or authenticated users, with network access to the TMUI, through the BIG-IP management port and/or Self IPs, to execute arbitrary system commands, create or delete files, disable …
Paloalto reported a very critical (Severity 10) authentication vulnerability release which affects PAN-OS 9.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.1.3; PAN-OS 9.0 versions earlier than PAN-OS 9.0.9; PAN-OS 8.1 versions earlier than PAN-OS 8.1.15, and all versions of PAN-OS 8.0 (EOL). This issue does not affect PAN-OS 7.1. The Trinidad and Tobago Cyber Security Incident Response …
Multiple vulnerabilities exist in VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion. A malicious actor with local access to a virtual machine with 3D graphics enabled may be able to exploit this vulnerability to execute code on the hypervisor from a virtual machine. There are however, workarounds, patches and updates available to remediate these vulnerabilities. The Trinidad and …
Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Trinidad and Tobago Cyber Security Incident Response Team (TTCSIRT) encourages users and administrators to review the Cisco Security Advisories page and apply the necessary updates. For further reference please …
Microsoft has released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Trinidad and Tobago Cyber Security Incident Response Team (TTCSIRT) encourages users and administrators to review Microsoft’s May 2020 Security Update Summary and Deployment Information and apply the necessary updates. For further …
TT-CSIRT has observed an uptick in local instances of the DoppelPaymer ransomware. According to Threatpost, DoppelPaymer is an emerging type of ransomware that not only locks companies out of their own computer systems by encrypting files—the hallmark of typical ransomware—but also can exfiltrate company data and use it as collateral. The threat actors have also …