Researchers Claim CIA Was Behind 11-Year-Long Hacking Attacks Against China

Qihoo 360, one of the most prominent cybersecurity firms, today published a new report accusing the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA to be behind an 11-year-long hacking campaign against several Chinese industries and government agencies. The targeted industry sectors include aviation...

MediaTek Bug Actively Exploited, Affects Millions of Android Devices

Google has addressed a high-severity flaw in MediaTek’s Command Queue driver that developers said affects millions of devices – and which has an exploit already circulating in the wild. Also in its March 2020 Android Security bulletin, issued this week, Google disclosed and patched a critical...

TrickBot Adds ActiveX Control, Hides Dropper in Images

The TrickBot banking trojan has gotten trickier, with the addition of a Windows 10 ActiveX control to execute malicious macros in boobytrapped documents. Michael Gorelik, researcher at Morphisec Labs, said that at least two dozen documents have come to light in the last few weeks that use ActiveX...

Patrick Wardle: Apple Devices Hit With Recycled macOS Malware

SAN FRANCISCO – Advanced persistent threat APT groups are hitting Apple devices with malware that has been reverse engineered and redeployed for malicious acts. This technique is complicating attribution efforts, Patrick Wardle, security researcher with Jamf, said this week during RSA Conference...

New Research Paper: Prevalence and impact of low-entropy packing schemes in the malware ecosystem

Detection of malware is a constant battle between the technologies designed to detect and prevent malware and the authors creating them. One common technique adversaries leverage is packing binaries. Packing an executable is similar to applying compression or encryption and can inhibit the abilit...

Iranian APT Targets Govs With New Malware

SAN FRANCISCO – A never before seen credential-stealing malware, dubbed ForeLord, has been uncovered in recent spear phishing emails. Researchers have attributed the campaign to a known Iranian advanced persistence threat APT group. The emails distributing ForeLord were uncovered as part of a...

M-Trends 2020: Insights From the Front Lines

Today we release M-Trends 2020, the 11th edition of our popular annual FireEye Mandiant report. This latest M-Trends contains all of the statistics, trends, case studies and hardening recommendations that readers have come to expect through the years—and more. One of the most exciting takeaways...

Iranian APT group hacking VPN servers for “Fox Kitten Campaign”

By Waqas An Iranian APT group ran a hacking campaign to hack VPN servers and install backdoors or bugs to access networks of firms across the globe. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Iranian APT group hacking VPN servers for “Fox Kitten Campaign”...

USN-4247-1: python-apt vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Description It was discovered that python-apt would still use MD5 hashes to validate certain downloaded packages. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could potentially be...

USN-4247-2: python-apt regression | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Description USN-4247-1 fixed vulnerabilities in python-apt. The updated packages caused a regression when attempting to upgrade to a new Ubuntu release. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the...

Charming Kitten Uses Fake Interview Requests to Target Public Figures

The Iran-based hacking group Charming Kitten has resurfaced with a new campaign that uses fake interviews to target public figures to launch phishing attacks and steal victims’ email-account information. In a report released Wednesday, security researchers at Certfa Lab say they discovered the...

Gamaredon APT Improves Toolset to Target Ukraine Government, Military

The Gamaredon advanced persistent threat APT group has been supercharging its operations lately, improving its toolset and ramping up attacks on Ukrainian national security targets. Vitali Kremez, head of SentinelLabs, said in research released on Wednesday that he has been tracking an uptick in...

TrickBot Switches to a New Windows 10 UAC Bypass to Evade Detection

The TrickBot trojan has evolved again to bolster its ability to elude detection, this time adding a feature that can bypass Windows 10 User Account Control UAC to deliver malware across multiple workstations and endpoints on a network, researchers have discovered. Researchers at Morphisec Labs te...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for apt-cacher-ng (openSUSE-SU-2020:0124_1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

openSUSE Security Update : apt-cacher-ng (openSUSE-2020-124)

This update for apt-cacher-ng fixes the following issues : - CVE-2019-18899: Fixed a symlink attack which could allow to overwrite arbitrary data boo1157703. - CVE-2020-5202: Fixed an information leak if a local user won a race condition to listen to localhost:3142 boo1157706. C Tenable Network...

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:0146-1 Security update for apt-cacher-ng

This update for apt-cacher-ng fixes the following issues: - CVE-2019-18899: Fixed a symlink attack which could allow to overwrite arbitrary data boo1157703. - CVE-2020-5202: Fixed an information leak if a local user won a race condition to listen to localhost:3142 boo1157706. This update was...

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:0124-1 Security update for apt-cacher-ng

This update for apt-cacher-ng fixes the following issues: - CVE-2019-18899: Fixed a symlink attack which could allow to overwrite arbitrary data boo1157703. - CVE-2020-5202: Fixed an information leak if a local user won a race condition to listen to localhost:3142 boo1157706...

Security update for apt-cacher-ng (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for apt-cacher-ng Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0146-1 Rating: important References: 1157703 1157706 Cross-References: CVE-2019-18899 CVE-2020-5202 Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1 An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now...

Security update for apt-cacher-ng (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for apt-cacher-ng Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0124-1 Rating: important References: 1157703 1157706 Cross-References: CVE-2019-18899 CVE-2020-5202 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available...

Debian DSA-4609-1 : python-apt - security update

Two security issues were found in the Python interface to the apt package manager; package downloads from unsigned repositories were incorrectly rejected and the hash validation relied on MD5. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...