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Posted on 11th Jun, 2021 | By Priya Ravindran 3 minutes
All About Qlocker
Researchers at Cyber Security Works (CSW) have been tracking Qlocker, a recently discovered ransomware family. This new strain began surfacing across QNAP devices in April 2021 exploiting CVE-2021-28799, a zero-day vulnerability.
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Posted on 4th Jun, 2021 | By Priya Ravindran 5 minutes
FiveHands Ransomware Analysis: Can a Risk-Based Approach Help Prevent Future Attacks?
Early this year, threat actors exploited a vulnerability (CVE-2021-20016) even before the vendor could publish it on the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and attacked an organization and stole information.
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Posted on 31st May, 2021 | By Priya Ravindran 3 minutes
CVE-2021-21985: Patch this Trending VMware Vulnerability
On the 25th of May 2021, VMware published an advisory warning of two vulnerabilities - CVE-2021-21985 and CVE-2021-21986 - in their vCenter Server and Cloud Foundation products.
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Posted on 18th May, 2021 | By Sumeetha 3 Minutes
Darkside: The Ransomware that brought a US pipeline to a halt
As of today our research has associated 260 vulnerabilities to ransomware. Remediating and patching these vulnerabilities on priority could have averted the Colonial Pipeline attack.
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Posted on 4th May, 2021 | By Sumeetha 3 Minutes
NSA Validates CSW’s warning on two critical vulnerabilities
In May 2020, CSW warned the industry of two critical vulnerabilities in Pulse Secure VPN and Citrix’s Remote Desktop solution that could be used by Ransomware or APT groups. One year after our warning, NSA, FBI and CISA validated the same.
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Posted on 26th Apr, 2021 | By Sumeetha 3 minutes
Why 'Old is Gold' for Ransomware?
In our recently published Ransomware Spotlight report 2020 we tracked down vulnerabilities that are being used by Ransomware to launch attacks on organizations worldwide. Here are a few surprising findings about old vulnerabilities in this report
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Posted on 16th Apr, 2021 | By Pavithra Shankar 7 minutes
All about Ryuk
Ryuk is a crypto-ransomware strain that encrypts access to a system, device or a file and demands ransom to release it. Ryuk is unleashed on target assets through malware, notably TrickBot and is used to gain access to a system through remote desktop services.
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Posted on 8th Mar, 2021 | By Sumeetha Manikandan 3 minutes
Cyber Women We Admire
This women’s day, we spoke to a few inspiring women executives who are breaking the myth and are soaring high. They are skilled, motivated, and talented and they come from different geographies, backgrounds but are united by their passion for cybersecurity.
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Posted on 2nd Mar, 2021 | By Sumeetha 3 minutes
Google Trends: Most searched top 10 vulnerabilities in 2020
CSW experts compiled the list of vulnerabilities that were highly searched in Google and came up with top 10 CVEs.
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Posted on 15th Feb, 2021 | By Sumeetha 3 minutes
Ransomware Spotlight Report 2021: 223 Vulnerabilities tied to Ransomware
Research Study Also Found that Ransomware associated Vulnerabilities have Quadrupled with many linked to Hostile State-sponsored APT Groups
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Posted on 11th Feb, 2021 | By Sumeetha 3 Minutes
Sri Lankan Domain Attack: Exposed Credentials available in Dark Web for Eight Years!
Investigations on the Sri Lankan Domain attack reveal that threat actors could have used exposed credentials and vulnerabilities to breach and redirect the websites. These credentials have been exposed on the dark web for the past eight years!
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Posted on 21st Jan, 2021 | By Sumeetha 3 minutes
Could Google’s most searched Top 10 vulnerabilities in 2020 be key attack indicators?
2020 was a productive year for threat actors. With the world’s workforce working remotely while dealing with the pandemic, threat actors were busy weaponizing critical vulnerabilities that had a global impact. Many organizations fell prey to ransomware and sophisticated cyber attacks that allowed remote and privileged access to sensitive information.
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Posted on 21st Jan, 2021 | By Sindhuja Sreenivasan 3 minutes
Eight Cybersecurity Predictions from CSW Security Experts
What does 2021 have in store for cybersecurity? Will we take note of the lessons learned in 2020 and start taking security seriously? Will we see more cyberattacks? We asked our exclusive team of pentesting experts to predict the trends for us, and here is what they said.
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Posted on 11th Jan, 2021 | By Sindhuja 3 minutes
Seven Predictions by Women Cyber Security Experts
What does 2021 have in store for cybersecurity? Will we take note of the lessons learned in 2020 and start taking security seriously? Will we see more cyberattacks?
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Posted on 8th Jan, 2021 | By Bhavithra 3 minutes
CSW Disclosed 4 Hardcoded Credentials on D-Link Products
Asset and lifecycle management are complex initiatives that organizations should keep pace with as products reach the end of life (EOL) or end of support (EOS) and become obsolete. This obsolescence gives rise to security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by threat actors.
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Posted on 18th Dec, 2020 | By Pavithra Shankar 3 minutes
How to Detect SolarWinds Orion Product running on your network?
Popular scanners such as Tenable, Qualys and Nexpose are missing 48 vulnerabilities out of 102 vulnerabilities. To help 18000 customers who have been affected, CSW team has come up with a script that would help detect SolarWinds Orion Product running on your network.
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Posted on 16th Dec, 2020 | By Sumeetha 3 minutes
CSW Analysis of SolarWinds: Top Scanners miss most of the vulnerabilities
The massive breach of SolarWinds Network Management product has compromised as many as 18,000 organizations outside of U.S Government entities, security agencies, defense entities. We took a closer look at the weaknesses that exist in other SolarWinds products and found that top scanners miss most of the vulnerabilities.
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Posted on 15th Dec, 2020 | By Sumeetha 5 minutes
Vulnerability Analysis: SolarWinds Orion Network Management
SolarWinds disclosed on Dec 13 that vulnerabilities in their network management tool Orion was used to mount attacks on FireEye and on several Government agencies. CSW analyzed Orion’s 15 Vulnerabilities and has found that CVE-2019-9546 – with a known critical Privilege Execution Exploit needs immediate remediation along with an upgrade to Orion Platform version 2020.2.1 HF.1.
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Posted on 10th Dec, 2020 | By Sumeetha 3 Minutes
FireEye’s stolen Pentesting Tools & the vulnerabilities they target
CSW analyzed the vulnerabilities (impacted by FireEye’s stolen pentesting tools) and found that Chinese & Iranian APT Groups target them routinely. These CVEs are also favorite targets of Ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Netwalker.
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Posted on 2nd Dec, 2020 | By Pavithra Shankar 5 minutes
Fortinet’s 50,000 VPN Leak Highlights Lack of Cyber Hygiene
A threat hacker group named “Pumpedkicks” has leaked credentials for 50,000 Fortinet VPN devices that impact 140 countries around the world. Check out CSW’s analysis and recommendations for this vulnerability.
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Posted on 27th Nov, 2020 | By Bhavithra 3 minutes
How to detect CVE- 2020-24600?
A new zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2020-24600, was discovered by Cyber Security Works in Shilpi Soft - Capexweb 1.1.
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Posted on 6th Nov, 2020 | By Pavithra Shankar 7 minutes
Top 25 Vulnerabilities Exploited by Chinese Sponsored Hackers
The National Security Agency listed 25 vulnerabilities that are being targeted by Chinese state sponsored cyber attackers popularly known as APT41. Know more about these vulnerabilities and patch them before you fall prey to a breach.
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Posted on 3rd Nov, 2020 | By Sumeetha 3 minutes
Cyber Security Works becomes a CVE Numbering Authority
Cyber Security Works (CSW) has been successfully admitted by the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA).
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Posted on 2nd Nov, 2020 | By Sumeetha 5 Minutes
Ryuk raising the Temperature in Healthcare
Security Agencies CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency), FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have issued a high alert joint security advisory to hospitals to take actions to secure themselves from Ryuk ransomware in particular.
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Posted on 15th Oct, 2020 | By Sumeetha 5 Minutes
Cyber Hygiene: Ransomware is causing critical care disruption in hospitals
We analyzed three ransomware incidents (Ryuk, Revil & AKO) and found 16 CVEs associated with them. Incidentally, CSW warned about five of these CVEs in our cyber risk series way back in March 2020!
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Posted on 29th Sep, 2020 | By Sumeetha 3 Minutes
Our warning in 2020 was ignored: Lack of Cyber Hygiene is amplifying Ransomware attacks and causing havoc
Ransomware campaigns are always on prowl for a path of least resistance to gain initial access and move laterally using well known vulnerabilities.
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Posted on 21st Sep, 2020 | By Bhavithra 2 Minutes
How to detect vulnerability CVE-2020-24601?
Cyber Security Works has discovered a new zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2020-24601 in Ignite Realtime Openfire 4.5.1.
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Posted on 21st Sep, 2020 | By Bhavithra 2 Minutes
How to detect vulnerability CVE-2020-24602?
Cyber Security Works discovered a new zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2020-24602 in Ignite Realtime Openfire 4.5.1. Openfire (formerly Wildfire).
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Posted on 21st Sep, 2020 | By Bhavithra 2 Minutes
How to detect Vulnerability CVE-2020-24604?
Cyber Security Works discovered a reflected XSS vulnerability, CVE-2020-24604, in Ignite Realtime Openfire 4.5.1. Openfire (formerly Wildfire).
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Posted on 3rd Sep, 2020 | By Bhavithra 3 Minutes
How to detect the vulnerability CVE-2020-14723?
A new zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2020-14723, was discovered by Cyber Security Works in Oracle Help Technologies related to the Web UIX component.
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Posted on 30th Aug, 2020 | By Sumeetha 2 Minutes
India's Cybersecurity Policy: Disclosure of Data Breaches
Will the new national cybersecurity policy include a disclosure policy similar to what the west has?
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Posted on 5th Aug, 2020 | By Sumeetha 3 Minutes
WastedLocker Ransomware Attack: Indicators of compromise (IOCs)
Evil Corp used compromised legitimate websites to deliver ransomware in Garmin’s environment. The attack caused a 5-day outage for their product users. CSW Analysts have put together a list of domains, hashes, IOCs that have been compromised. Download the list to update your IPS/IDS and avoid being attacked.
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Posted on 28th Jul, 2020 | By Sumeetha 5 Minutes
How to detect CVE-2020-5902?
CVE-2020-5902 is a critical remote code vulnerability that was discovered in the F5 Networks Big-IP administrative interface. From discovery to mitigation, see how things unfolded and check out CSW’s script to detect this vulnerability in Big-IP products.
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Posted on 19th Jul, 2020 | By Sumeetha 3 Minutes
How safe are Web Proxy?
Today, the reliance on applications such as web proxy, remote conferencing, VPNs, etc. are at an all-time high which is yet another reason for threat actors to work overtime to exploit vulnerabilities.
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Posted on 19th Jul, 2020 | By Sumeetha 3 Minutes
How safe are Databases?
Cyber threat actors have been working hard during these pandemic times. Systems, infrastructure, and sensitive information that was hitherto viewed within the secure walls of one’s office is now being accessed through insecure connections and unsafe laptops from one’s home.
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Posted on 19th Jul, 2020 | By Sumeetha 5 Minutes
How safe are Enterprise Data Storage Systems?
While Enterprise data storage systems are great to work with, they are also sitting ducks for threat attacks. Find out how?
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Posted on 19th Jul, 2020 | By Sumeetha 5 Minutes
How safe are VPN solutions?
Travelex fell prey to a ransomware attack (on New Year’s Eve) because they failed to install a patch issued by their VPN - Pulse Secure. How safe are our VPNs? Let's find out.
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Posted on 15th Jul, 2020 | By Sumeetha 5 Minutes
Atlassian’s new features and the Shift Left Revolution
All scanners list out security vulnerabilities but does the developer know what to fix first and how to go about it?
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Posted on 14th Jul, 2020 | By Sumeetha 7 Mins Read
How safe are online conferences?
With the recent breaches in Zoom application and increasing instances of ‘zoombombing’ and data theft, a definitive study of popular online video conferencing tools was needed. Take a read.
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Posted on 14th Jul, 2020 | By Team CSW 5 Mins Read
How safe are your Tech Stacks?
This April, Cognizant fell prey to a nasty ransomware attack whose ripple effect has shaken the world. How safe is your tech stack? Let's take a look.
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