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FBI Warns of Data Extortion Scam Targeting Corporate Executives
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released an alert warning of a scam involving criminal actors masquerading as the “BianLian Group.” The cyber criminals target corporate executives by sending extortion letters threatening to release victims’ sensitive information unless payment is received. CISA encourages organizations to review the following FBI Public Service
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Hitachi Energy Relion 670/650/SAM600-IO
View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 8.6 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Hitachi Energy Equipment: Relion 670/650/SAM600-IO Vulnerability: Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow anyone with user credentials to bypass the security controls enforced by the product. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1 AFFECTED PRODUCTS Hitachi
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CISA Releases Three Industrial Control Systems Advisories
CISA released three Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on March 6, 2025. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-25-065-01 Hitachi Energy PCU400 ICSA-25-065-02 Hitachi Energy Relion 670/650/SAM600-IO ICSA-25-037-02 Schneider Electric EcoStruxure (Update A) CISA encourages users and administrators to review newly released ICS advisories for technical details
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Hitachi Energy PCU400
View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Hitachi Energy Equipment: PCU400, PCULogger Vulnerabilities: Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type (‘Type Confusion’), NULL Pointer Dereference, Use After Free, Double Free, Observable Discrepancy, Out-of-bounds Read 2. RISK EVALUATION Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to access or decrypt
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Analyzing Amadey
Initial Access Amedey is installed by msiexec.exe when you open a malicious excel file. From the document file technique, the threat actor is considered TA505. Excel 4.0 Macro Utilized by TA505 to Target Financial Institutions Recently Threat Actor TA505 Targets Financial Enterprises Using LOLBins and a New Backdoor Malware https://app.any.run/tasks/3430e711-7bb1-49b4-ac07-86b1a6b5c784 The download URL is as
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Steady Evolution of Fallout v4
First We have been observing the Fallout Exploit Kit since August 2018. Fallout is using non-characteristic URL and heavily obfuscated landing page. The user still exists and attacks are observed daily. Recently, we were investigating an attack campaign that infects Raccoon Stealer in the flow of PopAds-> KeitaroTDS-> Fallout. About Fallout, we have already written
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Weak Drive-by Download attack with “Radio Exploit Kit”
First Since July 11 2019, we have observed a new Drive-by Download attack. It is redirected from the ad-network. It does not use a conventional Exploit Kit such as RIG or Fallout, but uses its own exploit kit. We call this “Radio Exploit Kit”. Malvertising -> Unknown EK🚀 -> #AZORult(CC: @malware_traffic, @jeromesegura, @BleepinComputer)https://t.co/CkSfs38D8q pic.twitter.com/Uk37R7g1xh —
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Say hello to Bottle Exploit Kit targeting Japan
First On December 11, 2019, we were strolling through ad-networks. As before, we observed RIG, Fallout and Underminer Exploit Kit, but observed other interesting Drive-by Download attack. We call it “Bottle Exploit Kit”. BottleEK targets only Japanese users. According to our research, BottleEK has been active at least in September 2019. This time we introduce
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An Overhead View of the Royal Road
Abstract Several targeted attack groups share the tools used in the attack and are reported to be doing similar attacks. Attack tools are also shared in attacks targeting Japanese organizations, for example, Tick. Tick may use a tool called Royal Road RTF Weaponizer. And Royal Road is used by targeted attack groups such as Goblin
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Royal Road! Re:Dive
Abstract We introduced the “Royal Road RTF Weaponizer” in our previous blog [1] (and presented at Japan Security Analyst Conference 2020 and CPX 360 CPRCon 2020). Royal Road is a tool shared by many targeted attack groups believed to belong to China. It’s been a year since our previous blog, and Royal Road is still