Movie Tech Review: Child’s Play 2019

A while back, Rik & Kasia Ferguson shared their thoughts on the movie, “Unfriended: The Dark Web.” The dark web and technology in general plays a pivotal role in the movie's plot, so the team decided it would be interesting to have a real-world expert review. Everyone had a lot of fun, and thus...

Labs report: Malicious AI is coming—is the security world ready?

Imagine a world in which artificial intelligence has gone rogue—the robots have revolted against their masters and have now enslaved all of humanity. There's no more natural beauty in the world and everything is awful. Get that out of your system? Good. The reality of malicious AI, at least in th...

The Next Big Privacy Hurdle? Teaching AI to Forget

Opinion: The inability to forget doesn’t only impact personal privacy—it could also lead to real problems for our global security...

A week in security (May 20 – 26)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a look at a skimmer pretending to be a payment service provider, gave an overview of what riskware is, took a deep dive into concerns about PACS leaks, and dug around in the land of “These Governments said fix it…hurry up”. Other cybersecurity news Changes...

Darktrace Enterprise Immune System 3.0.9 / 3.0.10 Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

Darktrace Enterprise Immune System versions 3.0.9 and 3.0.10 contain multiple cross site request forgery vulnerabilities. It is highly likely that older versions are affected as well, but this has not been confirmed. An attacker can whitelist domains and/or change core Darktrace configuration. 1 ...

CVE-2018-20007

Yeelight Smart AI Speaker 3.3.100074 devices have improper access control over the UART interface, allowing physical attackers to obtain a root shell. The attacker can then exfiltrate the audio data, read cleartext Wi-Fi credentials in a log file, or access other sensitive device and user...

Improper access control

Yeelight Smart AI Speaker 3.3.100074 devices have improper access control over the UART interface, allowing physical attackers to obtain a root shell. The attacker can then exfiltrate the audio data, read cleartext Wi-Fi credentials in a log file, or access other sensitive device and user...

CVE-2018-20007

CVE-2018-20007 affects Yeelight Smart AI Speaker version 3.3.10_0074. The vulnerability is due to improper access control over the UART interface, enabling a physical attacker to obtain a root shell and then exfiltrate audio data, read cleartext Wi‑Fi credentials in a log file, or access other se...

CVE-2018-20007

Yeelight Smart AI Speaker 3.3.100074 devices have improper access control over the UART interface, allowing physical attackers to obtain a root shell. The attacker can then exfiltrate the audio data, read cleartext Wi-Fi credentials in a log file, or access other sensitive device and user...

Words of Wisdom: Advice for Pursuing a Career in Tech

The introduction of AI into the workplace is creating uncertainty over the future of employment. However, research shows that tech will create "133 million" more jobs before 2022 than it will dissolve, as "new entities in the economy replace obsolete...

Emerson DeltaV SE4307T01 IS AI 4-20 mA HART CHARM Communications Adapter Detection

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Unauthorized access vulnerability in Xiaomi ai speakers

Xiaomi ai speaker is a smart speaker product from Xiaomi. Xiaomi ai speaker has an unauthorized access vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to control the speaker to play remote and local arbitrary audio files...

Binary vulnerability between Xiaomi Xiao Ai MINI smart speaker, Xiaomi Xiao Ai AI smart speaker voice devices

Xiaomi Xiao Ai MINI Smart Speaker and Xiaomi Xiao Ai AI Smart Speaker are both smart speaker products from Xiaomi Technology. A binary vulnerability exists between the Xiaomi Xiao-ai MINI Smart Speaker and Xiaomi Xiao-ai AI Smart Speaker voice devices, which can be exploited by an attacker to...

Binary vulnerability in Xiaomi's Xiaoxia MINI smart speaker

Xiaomi Xiao Ai MINI Smart Speaker is a smart speaker product from Xiaomi Technology Company. Xiaomi Xiao-ai MINI Smart Speaker has a binary vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to allow the target speaker to receive voice commands...

Visit Wallarm at Google Cloud Next

April 9–11, San Francisco, CA We are excited to join the community of the GCP professionals and demonstrate Wallarm web and API protection solutions custom-built for Google Cloud-powered applications. A certified GCP-partner, Wallarm delivers AI-powered security solution built to help your busine...

The Five Most Startling Statistics from this 2019 Global Survey of 1,200 Cybersecurity Pros [Infographic]

For those of us in the security industry, the annual Cyberthreat Defense Report is a gold mine of insights into the minds of IT security professionals, including what threats keep them up at night, and how they plan to defend against them. The 6th edition of the report from the CyberEdge Group wa...

Machines Shouldn’t Have to Spy On Us to Learn

We need a breakthrough that allows us to reap the benefits of AI without savaging data privacy...

CUJO Smart Firewall mdnscap mDNS record parsing code execution vulnerability

Summary An exploitable double free vulnerability exists in the mdnscap binary of the CUJO Smart Firewall. When parsing mDNS packets, a memory space is freed twice if an invalid query name is encountered, leading to arbitrary code execution in the context of the mdnscap process. An unauthenticated...

CUJO Smart Firewall static DHCP hostname command injection vulnerability

Summary An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the DHCP daemon configuration of the CUJO Smart Firewall. When adding a new static DHCP address, its corresponding hostname is inserted into the dhcpd.conf file without prior sanitization, allowing for arbitrary execution of system...

CUJO Smart Firewall mdnscap mDNS SRV record denial-of-service vulnerability

Summary An exploitable integer underflow vulnerability exists in the mdnscap binary of the CUJO Smart Firewall, version 7003. When parsing SRV records in an mDNS packet, the “RDLENGTH” value is handled incorrectly, leading to an out-of-bounds access that crashes the mdnscap process. An...