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Russia-Linked APT28 Exploited MDaemon Zero-Day to Hack Government Webmail Servers

Russia-Linked APT28 Exploited MDaemon Zero-Day to Hack Government Webmail Servers

May 15, 2025 Vulnerability / Email Security
A Russia-linked threat actor has been attributed to a cyber espionage operation targeting webmail servers such as Roundcube, Horde, MDaemon, and Zimbra via cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, including a then-zero-day in MDaemon, according to new findings from ESET. The activity, which commenced in 2023, has been codenamed Operation RoundPress by the Slovak cybersecurity company. It has been attributed with medium confidence to the Russian state-sponsored hacking group tracked as APT28, which is also referred to as BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, Fighting Ursa, Forest Blizzard, FROZENLAKE, Iron Twilight, ITG05, Pawn Storm, Sednit, Sofacy, and TA422. "The ultimate goal of this operation is to steal confidential data from specific email accounts," ESET researcher Matthieu Faou said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "Most victims are governmental entities and defense companies in Eastern Europe, although we have observed governments in Africa, Europe, and South ...
Hackers Exploit Roundcube Webmail XSS Vulnerability to Steal Login Credentials

Hackers Exploit Roundcube Webmail XSS Vulnerability to Steal Login Credentials

Oct 20, 2024 Vulnerability / Email Security
Unknown threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a now-patched security flaw in the open-source Roundcube webmail software as part of a phishing attack designed to steal user credentials. Russian cybersecurity company Positive Technologies said it discovered last month an email that was sent to an unspecified governmental organization located in one of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. However, it bears noting that the message was originally sent in June 2024. "The email appeared to be a message without text, containing only an attached document," it said in an analysis published earlier this week. "However, the email client didn't show the attachment. The body of the email contained distinctive tags with the statement eval(atob(...)), which decode and execute JavaScript code." The attack chain, per Positive Technologies, is an attempt to exploit CVE-2024-37383 (CVSS score: 6.1), a stored cross-site scripting ( XSS ) v...
New Unpatched Horde Webmail Bug Lets Hackers Take Over Server by Sending Email

New Unpatched Horde Webmail Bug Lets Hackers Take Over Server by Sending Email

Jun 01, 2022
A new unpatched security vulnerability has been disclosed in the open-source Horde Webmail client that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution on the email server simply by sending a specially crafted email to a victim. "Once the email is viewed, the attacker can silently take over the complete mail server without any further user interaction," SonarSource said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "The vulnerability exists in the default configuration and can be exploited with no knowledge of a targeted Horde instance." The issue, which has been assigned the CVE identifier  CVE-2022-30287 , was reported to the vendor on February 2, 2022. The maintainers of the Horde Project did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the unresolved vulnerability. At its core, the issue makes it possible for an authenticated user of a Horde instance to run malicious code on the underlying server by taking advantage of a quirk in how the client...
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