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? We chose to look at parsing x509 certificates. Despite its use in many places, ASN.1

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This might mean password-protecting files or setting up access controls. You wouldn’t, for instance, keep the customer account details, such as their username and password, in the same files as their other personal data. The second element of the CIA triad is integrity. Confidentiality doesn’t only refer to personal data, though.

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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? We chose to look at parsing x509 certificates. Despite its use in many places, ASN.1

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Libraries IoT Security Passwords 52

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? We chose to look at parsing x509 certificates. Despite its use in many places, ASN.1

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2023

SonicWall researchers pointed out that the Apache OfBiz is part of the supply chain of prominent software, such as Atlassian’s JIRA (used by over 120K companies ). “As a result, like with many supply chain libraries, the impact of this vulnerability could be severe if leveraged by threat actors.”

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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.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-49103 , resides in the Graphapi app, which relies on a third-party GetPhpInfo.php library that provides a URL. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-49103 , resides in the Graphapi app, which relies on a third-party GetPhpInfo.php library that provides a URL.

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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). For MySQL and Postgres services, the malware scans for open ports 3306 and 5432, then pings the host’s database with a certain username and password.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The company pointed out that no one’s content, passwords, or payment information were accessed, it also remarked that the issue was quickly resolved. Dropbox disclosed a security breach, threat actors gained unauthorized access to 130 of its source code repositories on GitHub. ” reads the advisory published by the company.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2022

email and password pairs leaked online. The Largest compilation of emails and passwords (COMB), more than 3.2 A zero-day exploit for Log4j Java library could have a tsunami impact on IT giants. The popular whistleblower Edward Snowden recommends customers of ExpressVPN VPN service to stop using it. COMB breach: 3.2B

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Library branches remain open, Wi-Fi is still available and materials can still be borrowed. Records breached: According to the library’s 4 November update , there is “no evidence that the personal information of our staff or customers has been compromised”. However, public computers and printing services are unavailable.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2023

Recently, the password management software firm disclosed a “second attack,” a threat actor used data stolen from the August security breach and combined it with information available from a third-party data breach. The hackers installed a keylogger on the DevOp engineer’s computed and captured his master password.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 1, 2024

or above March 25, 2024 Hackers Pollute Python Package Index Open-Source Libraries Type of vulnerability (or attack): Malicious library code. Checkmarx estimates over 170,000 developers use affected libraries and might possess corrupted code. The fix: Update affected versions ASAP: FortiClient EMS 7.2: Upgrade versions 7.2.0

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The experts noticed that both the Domino and Agile software appear to be using old certificates and the Agile servers use old vulnerable libraries. The attackers used two legitimate software packages, the HCL Domino (formerly IBM Domino) and the Agile DGS and Agile FD servers. Modified versions of the publicly available Lilith RAT.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Google also addressed this month the following vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser: [$TBD][ 1478889 ] High CVE-2023-5186: Use after free in Passwords. The CVE-2023-5217 is a high-severity heap buffer overflow that affects vp8 encoding in libvpx. “High CVE-2023-5217: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2024

As a result, like with many supply chain libraries, the impact of this vulnerability could be severe if leveraged by threat actors.” SonicWall researchers pointed out that the Apache OfBiz is part of the supply chain of prominent software, such as Atlassian’s JIRA (used by over 120K companies ). “As reads the report published by SonicWall.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

It is a shared object (SO) library that is loaded into all running processes using LD_PRELOAD (T1574.006), and like a parasite infects the machine. Symbiote can be loaded by the linker via the LD_PRELOAD directive before any other shared objects allowing to “hijack the imports” from the other library files loaded for the application.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2022

Dynamic-link library (DLL) side-loading is an attack method that takes advantage of how Microsoft Windows applications handle DLL files. In this campaign, the spam message contains an HTML file that has base64 encoded images and a password-protected ZIP file. The password-protected zip file contains an ISO file (i.e.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2023

If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Most internet-exposed Cacti servers exposed to hacking French CNIL fined Tiktok $5.4 Most internet-exposed Cacti servers exposed to hacking French CNIL fined Tiktok $5.4 Most internet-exposed Cacti servers exposed to hacking French CNIL fined Tiktok $5.4

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2024

Employ robust password management techniques, two-factor authentication (2FA), and regular backups of essential data. April 9, 2024 Critical Windows Command Injection Vulnerability in Rust Standard Library Type of vulnerability: Command injection. In addition to securing internal assets, you also need to ensure SaaS data is protected.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The Emotet campaign uses malicious emails that attempt to trick recipients into opening the zipped archive with the password included in the message. Emails accessed in this way require user action: open the file, unzip it with a password. Emails accessed in this way require user action: open the file, unzip it with a password.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2023

This could be done by setting the server data directory to overlap with the content location for a library on which Camera Upload was enabled.” US CISA added remote code execution vulnerability in Plex Media Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. ” reads the advisory published by Plex. in May 2020.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

An attacker could also exploit the flaw to disable security features in the Netlogon authentication process and change a computer’s password on the domain controller’s Active Directory. Microsoft is warning of threat actors that are actively using the Windows Server Zerologon exploits in attacks in the wild.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Spyware is a highly secretive malware that gathers sensitive information, like usernames, passwords, credit card numbers and other personal data, and transmits it back to the attacker without the victim knowing. One of the best-known zero-day vulnerabilities is Log4Shell , a flaw in the widely-used Apache Log4j logging library.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The executable is a backdoor that accesses the Linux API and invokes syscalls using the statically linked dietlibc library. This package turned out to contain an infected postinst script that is executed upon installation. This script drops two ELF files to the paths /var/tmp/crond and /var/tmp/bs. ” reported Kasperksy.

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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. “The file freebl3.dll

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Capability to load other libraries, processes, and DLLs in memory. Collecting user credentials, such as passwords, from a range of popular chat and email programs, as well as web browsers. Ability to collect data of Authentication (2FA) and password-managing software. Ability to enumerate paths, files, and folders.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

Basic Auth exposes servers and other endpoints to MITM (Man In The Middle) and password spraying attacks. or Microsoft Active Directory Authentication Library uses tokens that expire quickly and cannot be reused elsewhere. In contrast, Modern Auth that relies on OAuth 2.0 date and time).

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2022

WatchGuard provides a detailed 4-Step Cyclops Blink Diagnosis and Remediation Plan that includes the following advisories: Use unique passwords for each Firebox. Update passwords regularly. Whether your firewall has been compromised or not, you must patch to the latest version of Fireware to prevent the exploit.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Rhysida ransomware group claimed responsibility for the recent cyberattack on the British Library that has caused a major IT outage. The Rhysida ransomware gang added the British Library to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. It is one of the largest libraries in the world. ” reads the announcement.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

It matches reported vulnerabilities to the open source libraries in code, reducing the number of alerts. WhiteSource detects all vulnerable open source components, including transitive dependencies, in more than 200 programming languages. Metasploit. Metasploit covers the scanning and testing of vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

“By forging an authentication token for specific Netlogon functionality, he was able to call a function to set the computer password of the Domain Controller to a known value. After that, the attacker can use this new password to take control over the domain controller and steal credentials of a domain admin.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2021

– Nissan internal core mobile library – Nissan/Infiniti NCAR/ICAR services – client acquisition and retention tools – sale / market research tools + data – various marketing tools – the vehicle logistics portal (2/n) — tillie, doer of crime (@antiproprietary) January 4, 2021.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2021

CVE-2021-45077 : Plaintext Password Storage. Researchers discovered multiple instances of known vulnerable jQuery libraries (such as jquery 1.4.2), for this reason, they are urging to update them to the latest available versions. CVE-2021-23147 : Insufficient UART Protection Mechanisms.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2020

Cloud security firm Aqua Security uncovered a hacking campaign carried out during the past months, hackers are scanning the Internet for Docker servers running API ports exposed without a password. gopsutil – a process utility library, used for system and processes monitoring. ssh/config,bash_history, /.ssh/known_hosts,

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