Low-Cost Ransomware Service Discovered

A new ransomware as a service RaaS called Karmen has been discovered by security researchers at Recorded Future. This service allows anyone, including novices, to set up an account and customize their own ransomware campaign. The Karmen RaaS costs $175 and lets buyers set ransom prices, determine...

Russian Hacker Selling Cheap Ransomware-as-a-Service On Dark Web

Ransomware has been around for a few years, but it has become an albatross around everyone's neck, targeting businesses, hospitals, financial institutions and individuals worldwide and extorting millions of dollars. Forget about developing sophisticated banking trojans and malware to steal money...

Microsoft Bulletin: detection and protection CVE-2017-0005 mention the right vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! 2017 3 October 14, Microsoft released a security Bulletin MS17-013, designed to address the CVE-2017-0005 mention the right vulnerability, Qualys vulnerability Labs Director, Amol Sarwate, said:“CVE-2017-0005 is a zero-day vulnerability issue currently being the abuse, the use of Silverlight as...

sysPass >= 2.0 risky cryptographic algorithm usage Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications CVE-2017-5999 - sysPass risky cryptographic algorithm usage Credit: Guenaelle De Julis & Quentin Olagne CVE: CVE-2017-5999 Dates: 14/02/2017 Vendor: sysPass Product: sysPass Versions Affected: = 2.0 Risk / Severity Rating: 4.4 CVSSv2 SysPass...

Google Achieves First-Ever Successful SHA-1 Collision Attack

SHA-1, Secure Hash Algorithm 1, a very popular cryptographic hashing function designed in 1995 by the NSA, is officially dead after a team of researchers from Google and the CWI Institute in Amsterdam announced today submitted the first ever successful SHA-1 collision attack. SHA-1 was designed i...

openSUSE Security Update : libressl (openSUSE-2017-222)

This update for libressl fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-7056: Difficult to execute cache timing attack that may have allowed a local user to recover the private part from ECDSA P-256 keys boo1019334 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Debian DLA-814-1 : openssl security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in OpenSSL : CVE-2016-7056 A local timing attack was discovered against ECDSA P-256. CVE-2016-8610 It was discovered that no limit was imposed on alert packets during an SSL handshake. CVE-2017-3731 Robert Swiecki discovered that the RC4-MD5 cipher when...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : OpenSSL vulnerabilities (USN-3181-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3181-1 advisory. Guido Vranken discovered that OpenSSL used undefined behaviour when performing pointer arithmetic. A remote attacker could possibly use this...

OpenSSL 1.1.0 - Remote Client Denial of Service

OpenSSL 1.1.0 - Remote Client Denial of Service // Source: https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2017/01/26/cve-2017-3730-openssl-1-1-0-remote-client-denial-of-service-affects-servers-as-well-poc/ / SSL server demonstration program Copyright C 2006-2015, ARM Limited, All Rights Reserved...

openssl -- timing attack vulnerability

Cesar Pereida Garcia reports: The signing function in crypto/ecdsa/ecdsaossl.c in certain OpenSSL versions and forks is vulnerable to timing attacks when signing with the standardized elliptic curve P-256 despite featuring constant-time curve operations and modular inversion. A software defect...

CVE-2016-8741

The Apache Qpid Broker for Java can be configured to use different so called AuthenticationProviders to handle user authentication. Among the choices are the SCRAM-SHA-1 and SCRAM-SHA-256 AuthenticationProvider types. It was discovered that these AuthenticationProviders in Apache Qpid Broker for...

CVE-2016-7056

A timing attack flaw was found in OpenSSL 1.0.1u and before that could allow a malicious user with local access to recover ECDSA P-256 private keys...

Information Leakage

qpid-broker-core is vulnerable to information leakage. It is possible for a remote attacker to determine the existence of user accounts due to a prematurely termination SCRAM SASL negotiation. This vulnerability only applies for applications using the SCRAM-SHA-1 or SCAM-SHA-256...

Apache Qpid Broker For Java 6.1.0 Information Leak Vulnerability

The Apache Qpid Broker for Java can be configured to use different so called AuthenticationProviders to handle user authentication. Among the choices are the SCRAM-SHA-1 and SCRAM-SHA-256 AuthenticationProvider types. It was discovered that these AuthenticationProviders prematurely terminate the...

Gratipay: Certificate signed using SHA-1

Hello, I detected a certificate signed using SHA-1. SHA-1 is a hash algorithm used in digital signatures. It is currently considered deprecated due to the increasing feasibility in breaking it. Impact: Certificates can be forged by capable adversaries. Forged certificates can be used in MITM...

nettle: secp256 calculation bug

The ecc256modp function in ecc-256.c in Nettle before 3.2 does not properly handle carry propagation and produces incorrect output in its implementation of the P-256 NIST elliptic curve, which allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than...

Interactive Disassembler: Plasma

Interactive disassembler for x86/ARM/MIPS. Generates indented pseudo-code with colored syntax code. PLASMA is an interactive disassembler. It can generate a more readable assembly pseudo code with colored syntax. You can write scripts with the available Python api. The project is still in big...

Windows Crypto Ransomware in Go: Ransomware

Windows Crypto Ransomware in Go Ransomware is a type of malware that prevents or limits users from accessing their system, either by locking the system’s screen or by locking the users’ files unless a ransom is paid. More modern ransomware families, collectively categorized as crypto-ransomware,...

libarchive: Unclear crashes in ZIP parser

A vulnerability was found in libarchive. A specially crafted ZIP file could cause a few bytes of application memory in a 256-byte region to be disclosed...

1-click IPSEC VPN in the Cloud: algo

1-click IPSEC VPN in the Cloud Algo short for “Al Gore”, the V ice P resident of N etworks everywhere for inventing the Internet is a set of Ansible scripts that simplifies the setup of an IPSEC VPN. It contains the most secure defaults available, works with common cloud providers, and does not...