This week on the Lock and Code podcast… Ready to know what Malwarebytes knows? Ask us your questions and get some answers. What is a passphrase and what makes it—what’s the word? Strong? Every day, countless readers, listeners, posters, and users ask us questions about some of the most commonly...
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China-Linked Hackers Infiltrate East Asian Firm for 3 Years Using F5 Devices
A suspected China-nexus cyber espionage actor has been attributed as behind a prolonged attack against an unnamed organization located in East Asia for a period of about three years, with the adversary establishing persistence using legacy F5 BIG-IP appliances and using it as an internal...
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What is DevSecOps and Why is it Essential for Secure Software Delivery?
Traditional application security practices are not effective in the modern DevOps world. When security scans are run only at the end of the software delivery lifecycle (either right before or after a service is deployed), the ensuing process of compiling and fixing vulnerabilities creates massive.....
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A cross-site scripting issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 5.1 before 16.10.7, all versions starting from 16.11 before 16.111.4, all versions starting from 17.0 before 17.0.2. When viewing an XML file in a repository in raw mode, it can be made to render as...
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A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, affecting document ingestion when an index template contains a dynamic field mapping of “passthrough” type. Under certain circumstances, ingesting documents in this index would cause a StackOverflow exception to be thrown and ultimately lead to a Denial of...
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A week in security (June 10 – June 16)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Truist bank confirms data breach Update now! Google Pixel vulnerability is under active exploitation Adobe clarifies Terms of Service change, says it doesn’t train AI on customer content 23andMe data breach under joint investigation in two countries When things go...
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Hackers Exploit Legitimate Websites to Deliver BadSpace Windows Backdoor
Legitimate-but-compromised websites are being used as a conduit to deliver a Windows backdoor dubbed BadSpace under the guise of fake browser updates. "The threat actor employs a multi-stage attack chain involving an infected website, a command-and-control (C2) server, in some cases a fake browser....
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NiceRAT Malware Targets South Korean Users via Cracked Software
Threat actors have been observed deploying a malware called NiceRAT to co-opt infected devices into a botnet. The attacks, which target South Korean users, are designed to propagate the malware under the guise of cracked software, such as Microsoft Windows, or tools that purport to offer license...
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A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in Vermeg Agile Reporter v23.2.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the Message field under the Set Broadcast Message...
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Netatalk 3.2.0 has an off-by-one error, and resultant heap-based buffer overflow and segmentation violation, because of incorrectly using FPLoginExt in BN_bin2bn in etc/uams/uams_dhx_pam.c. The original issue 1097 report stated: 'The latest version of Netatalk (v3.2.0) contains a security...
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Netatalk 3.2.0 has an off-by-one error, and resultant heap-based buffer overflow and segmentation violation, because of incorrectly using FPLoginExt in BN_bin2bn in etc/uams/uams_dhx_pam.c. The original issue 1097 report stated: 'The latest version of Netatalk (v3.2.0) contains a security...
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Netatalk 3.2.0 has an off-by-one error, and resultant heap-based buffer overflow and segmentation violation, because of incorrectly using FPLoginExt in BN_bin2bn in etc/uams/uams_dhx_pam.c. The original issue 1097 report stated: 'The latest version of Netatalk (v3.2.0) contains a security...
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U.K. Hacker Linked to Notorious Scattered Spider Group Arrested in Spain
Law enforcement authorities have allegedly arrested a key member of the notorious cybercrime group called Scattered Spider. The individual, a 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom, was arrested this week in the Spanish city of Palma de Mallorca as he attempted to board a flight to Italy. The...
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Netatalk 3.2.0 has an off-by-one error, and resultant heap-based buffer overflow and segmentation violation, because of incorrectly using FPLoginExt in BN_bin2bn in etc/uams/uams_dhx_pam.c. The original issue 1097 report stated: 'The latest version of Netatalk (v3.2.0) contains a security...
0.0004EPSS
Grandoreiro Banking Trojan Hits Brazil as Smishing Scams Surge in Pakistan
Pakistan has become the latest target of a threat actor called the Smishing Triad, marking the first expansion of its footprint beyond the E.U., Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., and the U.S. "The group's latest tactic involves sending malicious messages on behalf of Pakistan Post to customers of mobile...
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Pakistani Hackers Use DISGOMOJI Malware in Indian Government Cyber Attacks
A suspected Pakistan-based threat actor has been linked to a cyber espionage campaign targeting Indian government entities in 2024. Cybersecurity company Volexity is tracking the activity under the moniker UTA0137, noting the adversary's exclusive use of a malware called DISGOMOJI that's written...
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Exploit for Path Traversal in Solarwinds Serv-U
CVE-2024-28995 PoC and Bulk Scanner Overview This...
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Truist bank confirms data breach
On Wednesday June 12, 2024, a well-known dark web data broker and cybercriminal acting under the name "Sp1d3r" offered a significant amount of data allegedly stolen from Truist Bank for sale. Truist is a US bank holding company and operates 2,781 branches in 15 states and Washington DC. By assets,....
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Nextcloud server is a self hosted personal cloud system. Under some circumstance it was possible to bypass the second factor of 2FA after successfully providing the user credentials. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Server is upgraded to 26.0.13, 27.1.8 or 28.0.4 and Nextcloud Enterprise...
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Nextcloud server is a self hosted personal cloud system. Under some circumstance it was possible to bypass the second factor of 2FA after successfully providing the user credentials. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Server is upgraded to 26.0.13, 27.1.8 or 28.0.4 and Nextcloud Enterprise...
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CVE-2024-37313 Nextcloud server allows the by-pass the second factor
Nextcloud server is a self hosted personal cloud system. Under some circumstance it was possible to bypass the second factor of 2FA after successfully providing the user credentials. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Server is upgraded to 26.0.13, 27.1.8 or 28.0.4 and Nextcloud Enterprise...
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CVE-2024-37313 Nextcloud server allows the by-pass the second factor
Nextcloud server is a self hosted personal cloud system. Under some circumstance it was possible to bypass the second factor of 2FA after successfully providing the user credentials. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Server is upgraded to 26.0.13, 27.1.8 or 28.0.4 and Nextcloud Enterprise...
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Ability to by-pass second factor
Description Impact Under some circumstance it was possible to bypass the second factor of 2FA after successfully providing the user credentials. Patches It is recommended that the Nextcloud Server is upgraded to 26.0.13, 27.1.8 or 28.0.4 It is recommended that the Nextcloud Enterprise Server is...
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gstreamer1-plugins-good security update
An update is available for gstreamer1-plugins-good. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of.....
7.6CVSS
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xorg-x11-server-Xwayland security update
An update is available for xorg-x11-server-Xwayland. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list Xwayland is an X server for running X clients under...
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Moderate: gstreamer1-plugins-good security update
GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. The gstreamer1-plugins-good packages contain a collection of well-supported plug-ins of good quality and under the LGPL license. Security Fix(es): gstreamer-plugins-good: integer overflow leading to...
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Important: xorg-x11-server-Xwayland security update
Xwayland is an X server for running X clients under Wayland. Security Fix(es): xorg-x11-server: Heap buffer overread/data leakage in ProcXIGetSelectedEvents (CVE-2024-31080) xorg-x11-server: Heap buffer overread/data leakage in ProcXIPassiveGrabDevice (CVE-2024-31081) xorg-x11-server:...
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Moderate: Image builder components bug fix, enhancement and security update
Image Builder is a service for building customized OS artifacts, such as VM images and OSTree commits, that uses osbuild under the hood. Security Fix(es): osbuild-composer: race condition may disable GPG verification for package repositories (CVE-2024-2307) For more details about the security...
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Image builder components bug fix, enhancement and security update
An update is available for osbuild, osbuild-composer. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list Image Builder is a service for building customized OS...
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Google's Privacy Sandbox Accused of User Tracking by Austrian Non-Profit
Google's plans to deprecate third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome web browser with Privacy Sandbox has run into fresh trouble after Austrian privacy non-profit noyb (none of your business) said the feature can still be used to track users. "While the so-called 'Privacy Sandbox' is advertised.....
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Security Bulletin: IBM Operational Decision Manager for May 2024 - Multiple CVEs addressed
Summary IBM Operational Decision Manager is vulnerable to multiple remote code execution and denial of service attacks in third party and open source used in the product for various functions. See full list below. The vulnerabilities have been addressed. Vulnerability Details ** CVEID:...
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North Korean Hackers Target Brazilian Fintech with Sophisticated Phishing Tactics
Threat actors linked to North Korea have accounted for one-third of all the phishing activity targeting Brazil since 2020, as the country's emergence as an influential power has drawn the attention of cyber espionage groups. "North Korean government-backed actors have targeted the Brazilian...
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org.elasticsearch: elasticsearch is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The vulnerability is due to a StackOverflow exception caused by dynamic field mapping of the passthrough type in an index template. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by ingesting documents under specific conditions....
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Rejetto HFS (HTTP File Server) CVE-2024-23692 Vulnerability...
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PHP < 8.3.8 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (Windows) Exploit
This Metasploit module exploits a PHP CGI argument injection vulnerability affecting PHP in certain configurations on a Windows target. A vulnerable configuration is locale dependant (such as Chinese or Japanese), such that the Unicode best-fit conversion scheme will unexpectedly convert a soft...
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SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2024:2019-1)
The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2019-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following...
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Under Construction / Maintenance Mode from Acurax <= 2.6 - Unauthenticated IP Spoofing
Description The Under Construction / Maintenance Mode from Acurax plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Address Spoofing in all versions up to, and including, 2.6 due to insufficient IP address validation and/or use of user-supplied HTTP headers as a primary method for IP retrieval. This makes.....
5.3CVSS
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Elasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability
A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, affecting document ingestion when an index template contains a dynamic field mapping of “passthrough” type. Under certain circumstances, ingesting documents in this index would cause a StackOverflow exception to be thrown and ultimately lead to a Denial of...
4.9CVSS
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Elasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability
A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, affecting document ingestion when an index template contains a dynamic field mapping of “passthrough” type. Under certain circumstances, ingesting documents in this index would cause a StackOverflow exception to be thrown and ultimately lead to a Denial of...
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How we can separate botnets from the malware operations that rely on them
As I covered in last week's newsletter, law enforcement agencies from around the globe have been touting recent botnet disruptions affecting the likes of some of the largest threat actors and malware families. Operation Endgame, which Europol touted as the "largest ever operation against botnets,"....
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A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, affecting document ingestion when an index template contains a dynamic field mapping of “passthrough” type. Under certain circumstances, ingesting documents in this index would cause a StackOverflow exception to be thrown and ultimately lead to a Denial of...
4.9CVSS
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0.0004EPSS
A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, affecting document ingestion when an index template contains a dynamic field mapping of “passthrough” type. Under certain circumstances, ingesting documents in this index would cause a StackOverflow exception to be thrown and ultimately lead to a Denial of...
4.9CVSS
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CVE-2024-37280 Elasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability
A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, affecting document ingestion when an index template contains a dynamic field mapping of “passthrough” type. Under certain circumstances, ingesting documents in this index would cause a StackOverflow exception to be thrown and ultimately lead to a Denial of...
4.9CVSS
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CVE-2024-37280 Elasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability
A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, affecting document ingestion when an index template contains a dynamic field mapping of “passthrough” type. Under certain circumstances, ingesting documents in this index would cause a StackOverflow exception to be thrown and ultimately lead to a Denial of...
4.9CVSS
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Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (June 3, 2024 to June 9, 2024)
_ Did you know Wordfence runs a Bug Bounty Program for all WordPress plugin and themes at no cost to vendors? __Researchers can earn up to $10,400, for all in-scope vulnerabilities submitted to our Bug Bounty Program! Find a vulnerability, submit the details directly to us, and we handle all the...
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A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Church CRM v5.8.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the Family Name parameter under the Register a New Family...
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A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Church CRM v5.8.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the Family Name parameter under the Register a New Family...
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Arid Viper Launches Mobile Espionage Campaign with AridSpy Malware
The threat actor known as Arid Viper has been attributed to a mobile espionage campaign that leverages trojanized Android apps to deliver a spyware strain dubbed AridSpy. "The malware is distributed through dedicated websites impersonating various messaging apps, a job opportunity app, and a...
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