Experts warn threat actors are scanning the web for Drupal installs vulnerable to Drupalgeddon2

Haythem Elmir

After the publication of a working Proof-Of-Concept for Drupalgeddon2 on GitHub for “educational or information purposes,” experts started observing bad actors attempting to exploit the flaw. At the end of March, the Drupal Security Team confirmed that a “highly critical” vulnerability (dubbed Drupalgeddon2), tracked as CVE-2018-7600, was affecting Drupal 7 and 8 core and announced the […]

Researchers Create Malware That Steals Data via Power Lines

Haythem Elmir

A team of academics has successfully developed and tested malware that can exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers via power lines. The team —from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel— named their data exfiltration technique PowerHammer. PowerHammer works by infecting an air-gapped computer with malware that intentionally alters CPU utilization […]

$3.3 Million stolen from main Coinsecure Bitcoin wallet

Haythem Elmir

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinsecure, India’s second exchange, announced that it has suffered a severe issue, 438 bitcoin, $3,3 million worth of bitcoin Cryptocurrency exchange Coinsecure, India’s second exchange, announced that it has suffered a severe issue, 438 bitcoin, $3,3 million worth of bitcoin, have been transferred from the main wallet to an account that is […]

APT33 devised a code injection technique dubbed Early Bird to evade detection by anti-malware tools

Haythem Elmir

The Iran-linked APT33 group continues to be very active, security researchers at Cyberbit have discovered an Early Bird code injection technique used by the group. The Early Bird method was used to inject the TurnedUp malware into the infected systems evading security solutions. The technique allows injecting a malicious code into a legitimate process, it […]