Experts Question Legality of Use of Regin Malware by Intel Agencies

The disclosure of the Regin APT malware campaign this week has spurred much speculation about the source of the attack, with many experts pointing the finger at either the NSA or GCHQ, the British spy agency. Though security researchers involved in uncovering the attack have remained mum on the...

Costin Raiu on the Regin APT Malware

Denis Fisher talks with Costin Raiu of the Kaspersky Lab GReAT Team about the discovery of the Regin APT malware, the threat’s targets and tactics, its ability to compromise GSM base stations and its other capabilities. Download: digitalunderground173.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Regin Cyberespionage Malware Platform Targets GSM Networks

Researchers have uncovered a complex espionage platform reminiscent of Duqu that has been used since at least 2008 not only to spy on and extract email and documents from government agencies, research institutions and banks, but also one that targets GSM network operators in order to launch...

DCOM the front of the pass to kill the vulnerability ms03-0 4 3 The use of code-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Because you can go udp135 and UDP1024 more than one dynamic port, when many engage in an APT opening-day network firewall-black ice the white list of the machine is also easy to get. I often say that the inside of that MSG vulnerabilities. Aware of the RPC of the importance of after, a series of...

Citadel Variant Targets Password Managers

The Citadel Trojan has once again branched out beyond its roots as banking malware and is now targeting the master passwords guarding major password management products. Researchers from IBM Trusteer today said they’ve notified makers of the nexus Personal Security Client, Password Safe and KeePa...

OnionDuke APT Malware served through Tor Network

The malicious Russian Tor exit node, which was claimed to be patching binary files, is actually distributing a malware program to launch cyber-espionage attacks against European government agencies. The group behind the rogue Tor exit node had likely been infecting files for more than a year,...

Updated apt packages fix security vulnerability

The Google Security Team discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the HTTP transport code in apt-get. An attacker able to man-in-the-middle a HTTP request to an apt repository can trigger the buffer overflow, leading to a crash of the "http" apt method binary, or potentially to arbitrary cod...

Darkhotel APT Malware Targets Global CEOs Using Hotel Internet

A seven-year-old cyber espionage campaign has targeted senior level executives from large global companies by using a specialized Advanced Persistent Threat APT, zero-day exploits, and well-developed keyloggers to extract information from them when they stay in luxury hotels during their business...

Darkhotel APT Group Targeting Top Executives in Long-Term Campaign

APT groups tend to be grouped together in a large amorphous blob of sinister intentions and similar targets, but not all APT crews are created equal. Researchers have identified a group that’s been operating in Asia for at least seven years and has been using hotel networks as key infection point...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3070-1 (kfreebsd-9 - security update)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the FreeBSD kernel that may lead to a denial of service or information disclosure. CVE-2014-3711 Denial of service through memory leak in sandboxed namei lookups. CVE-2014-3952 Kernel memory disclosure in sockbuf control messages. CVE-2014-3953 Kern...

CVE-2014-0490

The apt-get download command in APT before 1.0.9 does not properly validate signatures for packages, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted package...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0487

APT before 1.0.9 does not verify downloaded files if they have been modified as indicated using the If-Modified-Since header, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors...

CVE-2014-0487

APT before 1.0.9 does not verify downloaded files if they have been modified as indicated using the If-Modified-Since header, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors...

CVE-2014-0487

APT before 1.0.9 does not verify downloaded files if they have been modified as indicated using the If-Modified-Since header, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors...

CVE-2014-0490

The apt-get download command in APT before 1.0.9 does not properly validate signatures for packages, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted package...

CVE-2014-0489

APT before 1.0.9, when the Acquire::GzipIndexes option is enabled, does not validate checksums, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted package...

CVE-2014-0488

APT before 1.0.9 does not "invalidate repository data" when moving from an unauthenticated to authenticated state, which allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via crafted repository data...

CVE-2014-0488

APT before 1.0.9 does not "invalidate repository data" when moving from an unauthenticated to authenticated state, which allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via crafted repository data...

CVE-2014-0489

APT before 1.0.9, when the Acquire::GzipIndexes option is enabled, does not validate checksums, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted package...

Code injection

APT before 1.0.9, when the Acquire::GzipIndexes option is enabled, does not validate checksums, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted package...