HTTP Status Codes Command This Malware How to Control Hacked Systems

A new version of COMpfun remote access trojan RAT has been discovered in the wild that uses HTTP status codes to control compromised systems targeted in a recent campaign against diplomatic entities in Europe. The cyberespionage malware—traced to Turla APT with "medium-to-low level of confidence"...

DLA-2210-1 apt - security update

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Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4685-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-2210-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian DLA-2210-1 : apt security update

When normalizing ar member names by removing trailing whitespace and slashes, an out-out-bound read can be caused if the ar member name consists only of such characters, because the code did not stop at 0, but would wrap around and continue reading from the stack, without any limit. For Debian 8...

Innovative Spy Trojan Targets European Diplomatic Targets

A fresh malware trojan has emerged, built from the same code base as the stealthy COMPFun remote access trojan RAT. The malware is using spoofed visa applications to hit diplomatic targets in Europe and may be the work of the Turla APT. According to researchers at Kaspersky, the fake visa...

[SECURITY] [DLA 2210-1] apt security update

Package : apt Version : 1.0.9.8.6 CVE ID : CVE-2020-3810 When normalizing ar member names by removing trailing whitespace and slashes, an out-out-bound read can be caused if the ar member name consists only of such characters, because the code did not stop at 0, but would wrap around and continue...

US Government Exposes North Korean Malware

US Cyber Command has uploaded North Korean malware samples to the VirusTotal aggregation repository, adding to the malware samples it uploaded in February. The first of the new malware variants, COPPERHEDGE, is described as a Remote Access Tool RAT "used by advanced persistent threat APT cyber...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4685-1] apt security update

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[SECURITY] [DSA 4685-1] apt security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4685-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso May 14, 2020 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

USN-4359-1: APT vulnerability

It was discovered that APT incorrectly handled certain filenames during package installation. If an attacker could provide a specially crafted package to be installed by the system administrator, this could cause APT to crash...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4359-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

DSA-4685-1 apt - security update

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : APT vulnerability (USN-4359-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4359-1 advisory. It was discovered that APT incorrectly handled certain filenames during package installation. If an attacker could provide a specially...

Debian DSA-4685-1 : apt - security update

Shuaibing Lu discovered that missing input validation in the ar/tar implementations of APT, the high level package manager, could result in denial of service when processing specially crafted deb files. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-3810

Missing input validation in the ar/tar implementations of APT before version 2.1.2 could result in denial of service when processing specially crafted deb files...

CVE-2020-3810

Missing input validation in the ar/tar implementations of APT before version 2.1.2 could result in denial of service when processing specially crafted deb files...

Naikon’s Aria

Our colleagues at Checkpoint put together a fine research writeup on some Naikon resources and activity related to "aria-body" that we detected in 2017 and similarly reported in 2018. To supplement their research findings, we are summarizing and publishing portions of the findings reported in our...

Naikon APT Hid Five-Year Espionage Attack Under Radar

After five years under the radar, the Naikon APT group has been unmasked in a long-term espionage campaign against several governments in the Asia-Pacific region. The Chinese APT group was first uncovered by Kaspersky researchers in 2015, in attacks against top-level government agencies around th...

This Asia-Pacific Cyber Espionage Campaign Went Undetected for 5 Years

An advanced group of Chinese hackers has recently been spotted to be behind a sustained cyber espionage campaign targeting government entities in Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Brunei—which went undetected for at least five years and is still an ongoing threat...