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By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Which, if you’ve been on social media at all the past 13 days or read any cybersecurity news website, you surely know already.  As it does every year, I saw Cybersecurity Awareness Month kick off with a lot of snark and memes of people joking about what it even means to be “aware” of cybersecurity and why we even have this month at all. And I get why it’s easy to poke fun at, it is at its core a marketing-driven campaign, and hardcore security experts and researchers have notoriously pushed back against this being a marketing-driven field.  I’m not saying there should be Cybersecurity Awareness Month mascots brought to life on the floor of Black Hat, but it is probably time to pump the brakes on the skepticism and snark. After all, this week should be about broadening the security community, not trying to exclude others from it. I came to Talos ...

Despite dozens of tools and external vendors, 2 in 3 organizations believe their data strategy isn't sustainable beyond three years, which could leave businesses vulnerable.

A previously undocumented command-and-control (C2) framework dubbed Alchimist is likely being used in the wild to target Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. "Alchimist C2 has a web interface written in Simplified Chinese and can generate a configured payload, establish remote sessions, deploy payload to the remote machines, capture screenshots, perform remote shellcode execution, and run

By Chetan Raghuprasad, Asheer Malhotra and Vitor Ventura, with contributions from Matt Thaxton. Cisco Talos discovered a new attack framework including a command and control (C2) tool called "Alchimist" and a new malware "Insekt" with remote administration capabilities. The Alchimist has a web interface in Simplified Chinese with remote administration features. The attack framework is designed to target Windows, Linux and Mac machines. Alchimist and Insekt binaries are implemented in GoLang. This campaign consists of additional bespoke tools such as a MacOS exploitation tool, a custom backdoor and multiple off-the-shelf tools such as reverse proxies. Cisco Talos has discovered a new single-file command and control (C2) framework the authors call "Alchimist [sic]." Talos researchers found this C2 on a server that had a file listing active on the root directory along with a set of post-exploitation tools. Cisco Talos assesses with moderate-high confidence that this framework is being...

Cisco Talos discovered a new attack framework including a command and control (C2) tool called "Alchimist" and a new malware "Insekt" with remote administration capabilities.

Cisco Talos discovered a new attack framework including a command and control (C2) tool called "Alchimist" and a new malware "Insekt" with remote administration capabilities.

This marks the third identity and access management (IAM) company acquired by Thoma Bravo in just the past few months.

Francesco Benvenuto of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw.  Cisco Talos recently discovered nine vulnerabilities in the Robustel R1510 industrial cellular router, several of which could allow an adversary to inject operating system code remotely.  The Robustel R1510 router is a dual-ethernet port wireless router that shares 3G and 4G wireless signals for use in industrial and internet-of-things environments. The router includes the use of open VPN tunneling, a cloud management platform to manage other devices and routers and different safeguards to manage data caps. Talos discovered five operating system command injection vulnerabilities in the router that an adversary could trigger by sending the targeted device a specially crafted network request. All these vulnerabilities have a CVSS severity score of 9.1 out of 10:  TALOS-2022-1578 (CVE-2022-34850)  TALOS-2022-1577 (CVE-2022-33150)  TALOS-2022-1576 (CVE-2022-32765)  TALOS-2022-1573 (CVE-2022-33325 ...

Cisco Talos recently discovered nine vulnerabilities in the Robustel R1510 industrial cellular router, several of which could allow an adversary to inject operating system code remotely.

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday update for the month of October has addressed a total of 85 security vulnerabilities, including fixes for an actively exploited zero-day flaw in the wild. Of the 85 bugs, 15 are rated Critical, 69 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. The update, however, does not include mitigations for the actively exploited ProxyNotShell flaws in Exchange Server