Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added ownCloud and Google Chrome vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Skia is an open-source 2D graphics library that provides common APIs that work across a variety of hardware and software platforms. x before 0.2.1 x before 0.3.1.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 19, 2020

As part of a recent initiative at ForAllSecure to analyze more open source software with Mayhem, a next-generation fuzzing solution, we decided to investigate some cryptographic libraries. Why Crypto Libraries? Why look at crypto libraries? Fuzzing MatrixSSL. We chose to look at parsing x509 certificates. include "x509.h"

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ForAllSecure

MAY 19, 2020

As part of a recent initiative at ForAllSecure to analyze more open source software with Mayhem, a next-generation fuzzing solution, we decided to investigate some cryptographic libraries. Why Crypto Libraries? Why look at crypto libraries? Fuzzing MatrixSSL. We chose to look at parsing x509 certificates. include "x509.h"

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Application security tools and software solutions are designed to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities and threats in software applications. These tools play a vital role in ensuring the security, integrity, and confidentiality of sensitive information, such as personal data and financial records.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Immediately after the disclosure of the Log4Shell flaw in Log4j library threat actors started including the exploit code in Linux botnets. Researchers at NetLab 360 reported that their Anglerfish and Apacket honeypots were already hit by attacks attempting to trigger the Log4Shell flaw in the Log4j library. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Application security is the practice of securing software and data from hackers, whether that application comes from a third party or was developed in house, regardless of where it resides or how it’s accessed. How Does Application Security Work? What Are the Types of Application Security?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 1, 2024

While most issues can be fixed through prompt patching and updating, a few remain unfixed and may require more significant changes to the security stack to block possible attacks. March 22, 2024 Emergency Out-of-Band Windows Server Security Updates Type of vulnerability (or attack): Memory leak. Upgrade versions 7.2.0 through 7.2.2

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2023

In order to compromise a target system, the samples require special conditions on it, such as the use of specific arguments and targeted services already being installed (with weak passwords). ” reads the analysis published by Palo Alto Networks. “Malware like GoBruteforcer takes advantage of weak (or default) passwords.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2022

Security expert ProxyLife and Cyble researchers recently uncovered a Qakbot campaign that was leveraging the Windows 7 Calculator app for DLL side-loading attacks. Dynamic-link library (DLL) side-loading is an attack method that takes advantage of how Microsoft Windows applications handle DLL files. Report Jul 14 47787.iso

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Hundreds of millions of Android users are potentially exposed to the risk of hack due to the use of Android Play Core Library versions vulnerable to CVE-2020-8913. The CVE-2020-8913 flaw is a local, arbitrary code execution vulnerability that resides exists in the SplitCompat.install endpoint in Android’s Play Core Library.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2023

The spear-phishing message appears as a benign conversation lure masquerading as a senior fellow with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) to the public media contact for a nuclear security expert at a US-based think tank focused on foreign affairs. ” reads the analysis published by Proofpoint.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2023

In March 2018, security researchers at Antivirus firm Dr. Web discovered that 42 models of low-cost Android smartphones are shipped with the Android.Triada.231 ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. 231 banking malware. The function is called when the print logs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The executable is a backdoor that accesses the Linux API and invokes syscalls using the statically linked dietlibc library. “Today, informed by the findings from Kaspersky Lab, we became aware of a past security incident from 2020. Now the maintainers of Free Download Manager (FDM) have shared findings from their investigation.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

“An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when an attacker establishes a vulnerable Netlogon secure channel connection to a domain controller, using the Netlogon Remote Protocol ( MS-NRPC ). published a detailed analysis of the flaw. published a detailed analysis of the flaw. ” concludes the research paper.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A surge of critical vulnerabilities and zero-day exploits has made for a very busy week in IT security, affecting a range of tech giants like Atlassian, Cisco, Apple, Arm, Qualcomm and Microsoft. And Linux distributions and the TorchServe AI tool were confronted with major security flaws too.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The experts also discovered that the libraries bundled with the malicious Tor Browser is infected with spyware. “More importantly, one of the libraries bundled with the malicious Tor Browser is infected with spyware that collects various personal data and sends it to a command and control server. . ” concludes the report.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 15, 2024

From analyzing attack methods and suggesting defense tactics to doing vulnerability assessments, it provides users with the knowledge to improve their security posture. Aside from ethical hacking, HackerGPT seeks to assist professionals and improve security assessments. It has an intuitive UI similar to ChatGPT.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2022

” reads the analysis published by Cisco Talos. Collect Wi-Fi SSID information, including passwords using the command: netsh wlan show profile <WIFI_NAME> key=clear Obtain Premiumsoft Navicat credentials Take screenshots of the current desktop. library repository for the dependency resolving. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2022

The cyber security landscape offered similarly familiar topics: there were huge data breaches at Facebook and LinkedIn, while the threat of ransomware reached catastrophic levels. You can read more about that attack, along with the year’s other biggest stories, in our 2021 cyber security review of the year.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert to warn of a surge of Emotet attacks that have targeted multiple state and local governments in the U.S. Emotet is a modular malware, its operators could develop new Dynamic Link Libraries to update its capabilities. since August. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Security experts discovered a new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet dubbed Roboto that is targeting Linux servers running unpatched Webmin installs. ” reads the analysis published by 360 Netlab. One of the addresses disguised the Bot sample as a Google font library “ roboto. ” reads the analysis.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The post The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Among those affected was SAP SE.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Researchers at Cybereason’s Nocturnus team have uncovered a new Astaroth Trojan campaign that is currently exploiting the Avast antivirus and security software developed by GAS Tecnologia to steal information and drop malicious modules. ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason. . ” concludes Cybereason.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. CLI tool and library to obfuscate bash scripts.” Then it overwrites all existing user passwords with “megapassword” and deletes all existing users. The “Supermicro_cr_third” script in this directory seems to be the most complete version of the ransomware.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The activity of the cyber espionage group was first documented by ESET experts Matthieu Faou and Francis Labelle in a talk at the Virus Bulletin 2020 security conference. The malware samples analyzed by the researchers are slightly obfuscated using string obfuscation and dynamic Windows API library loading. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2023

The stealthy nature of these attacks can make them effective — and difficult for security teams to detect and prevent. To prevent LOTL attacks, security teams must use sophisticated detection methods, as well as closing loops in popular computer programs with known vulnerabilities. How Do LOTL Attackers Access Your Machine?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2019

Victims of the PyLocky Ransomware can use a tool released by security researcher Mike Bautista at Cisco Talos group to decrypt their files for free. The good news is that security researcher Mike Bautista at Cisco Talos group released a decryption tool that allows them to decrypt their files for free. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Also this week, NIST released four draft publications “intended to help improve the safety, security and trustworthiness of [AI] systems”.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Even better, security tools like behavioral analytics can spot attacks simply by noticing anomalous activity, important technology for catching zero-day threats and adversarial attacks. The most common ML security approach is the regression technique, also known as the prediction. Logs analysis to find trends and patterns.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli has analyzed the recently leaked APT34 hacking tool tracked as Jason – Exchange Mail BF. Today I want to share a quick analysis on a new leaked APT34 Tool in order to track similarities between APT34 public available toolsets. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Security researchers from TrendMicro have uncovered a cyber espionage campaign carried out by an APT group tracked as DRBControl that employed a new family of malware. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. The post DRBControl cyber-espionage group targets gambling, betting companies appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Agent Tesla is a fully customizable password info-stealer offered as malware-as-a-service , many cyber criminals are choosing it as their preferred recognition tool. . Nowadays the Malware-As-A-Service is one of the criminal favorite ways to breach security perimeter. Technical Analysis. Introduction. Load()” method.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2018

Security researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered a supply chain attack, tracked as Operation Red Signature, against organizations in South Korea. ” reads the analysis published by TrendMicro. ” continues the analysis. ” continues the analysis. SQL Password dumper. zip and file001.zip

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Regarding a broad analysis, it looks like the Trojan-Banker.Win32.ChePro ChePro family, but with improvements that make hard its detection and analysis. For more details and complete analysis of this malicious campaign see the Technical Analysis below. Technical Analysis. ChePro family.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2018

“For example, the archive mentioned above contains an executable file, which has the same name and is a password-protected self-extracting archive. The malicious library includes the system file winspool.drv that is located in the system folder and is used to send documents to the printer. ” continues the analysis.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 7, 2023

Vulnerability scanning is critically important for identifying security flaws in hardware and software, but vulnerability scanning types are as varied as the IT environments they’re designed to protect. The agent does the vulnerability scan and sends the results to a central server for analysis and remediation. Tenable.io

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2019

Technical Analysis. The macro code inside the 2017 document is password protected, just like the last suspicious document we analyzed to investigate a possible Ukraine elections interference by Russian groups. Both documents under analysis use protected macro code. exe” system utility. Figure 4: “mrset.bat” file code.

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