A number of firmware security flaws uncovered in HP’s business-oriented high-end notebooks continue to be left unpatched in some devices even months after public disclosure. Binarly, which first revealed details of the issues at the Black Hat USA conference in mid-August 2022, said the vulnerabilities “can’t be detected by firmware integrity monitoring systems due to limitations of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) measurement.” Firmware flaws can have serious implications...
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Cybercrime Activities At A Glance Introduction The Aviation industry is a critical, strategic, and economically important sector for any nation. The pandemic-struck industry has started showing signs of gradual recovery after two years of volatility, however, attaining the pre-COVID global travel figures seems still farfetched until mid-2023. Amidst epidemic chaos, the Aviation industry steered itself towards embracing technology to reduce human dependence and make a...
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Global Critical Infrastructure Potentially Vulnerable To Reflected Amplification-Based Denial-Of-Service (RDoS) Attacks Introduction Over the past few weeks, Cyble Research & Intelligence Labs has observed the active exploitation of a recently discovered vulnerability found in the Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS operating system that runs the firewalls and could allows a remote Threat Actor (TA) to conduct reflected and amplified TCP denial-of-service (RDoS) attacks against the their...
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Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) has been tracking the activities of various Android Banking Trojans such as Hydra, Ermac, and Amextroll, amongst several others. During a routine threat-hunting exercise, we came across a Twitter post where a researcher mentioned a malware sample. After an in-depth analysis, the malware was identified as a new Android Banking Trojan variant targeting over 40 applications from Peru. The Threat Actor (TA) uses the...
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Technical Details Note: this advisory uses the MITRE ATT&CK® for Enterprise framework, version 11. See MITRE ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced tactics and techniques. Zeppelin ransomware is a derivative of the Delphi-based Vega malware family and functions as a Ransomware as a Service (RaaS). From 2019 through at least June 2022, actors have used this malware to target a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure...
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