Who Wasn’t Responsible for Olympic Destroyer?

This blog post is authored by Paul Rascagneres and Martin Lee. Summary Absent contributions from traditional intelligence capacities, the available evidence linking the Olympic Destroyer malware to a specific threat actor group is contradictory, and does not allow for unambiguous attribution. The...

Boomerang spam bombs Malwarebytes forum—not a smart move

Tech support scammers are generally not the best and brightest. As such, they will occasionally post ads for their fake companies in the comment sections here or on the Malwarebytes forums. Last week, however, scammers struggled with configuring their spambots, resulting in spam bombs on the foru...

The vulnerability in the Splunk Web platform for operational analysis of Splunk Enterprise’s web interface allows a perpetrator to bypass existing access restrictions or perform arbitrary actions on behalf of legitimate users.

The vulnerability of the Splunk Web platform for operational analysis in Splunk Enterprise is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to circumvent existing access restrictions or perform arbitrary actions on behalf of legitimate syst...

New Chrome and Firefox extensions block their removal to hijack browsers

What you don't see won't hurt you, must have been the reasoning of the threat actors who created the latest batch of extensions that make these browser hijackers even more difficult to remove. The extensions redirect users away from pages where they can disable or delete them in order to drive...

The vulnerability of the PCRE library in the Mac OS X operating system allows a hacker to cause a service failure or exert other effects.

Vulnerability of the PCRE library in the Mac OS X operating system. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service failure application termination or have other adverse effects...

Denial of Service

Overview Affected versions of mqtt do not properly handle PUBLISH packets returning from the server, leading to a Denial of Service condition. The vulnerability is completely mitigated if the only connected servers are trusted, guaranteed not to be under the control of a malicious actor. Proof of...

WordPress Plugin WordPress Download Manager 2.9.60 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

WordPress Plugin WordPress Download Manager 2.9.60 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Exploit Title: WordPress Download Manager CSRF Discovery Date: 2017-12-12 Exploit Author: Panagiotis Vagenas Author Link: https://twitter.com/panVagenas Vendor Homepage: https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/ Software Lin...

Microsoft Releases Patches for 16 Critical Flaws, Including a Zero-Day

If you think that only CPU updates that address this year's major security flaws—Meltdown and Spectre—are the only ones you are advised to grab immediately, there are a handful of major security flaws that you should pay attention to. Microsoft has issued its first Patch Tuesday for 2018 to addre...

Movie Guide 2.0 - SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Movie Guide 2.0 - SQL Injection Dork: N/A Date: 15.12.2017 Vendor Homepage: http://applebitemedia.com/ Software Link: http://applebitemedia.com/amwdl/AMMovieGuide.tar.gz Version: 2.0 Category: Webapps Tested on: WiN7x64/KaLiLinuXx64 CVE: N/A Exploit Author: Ihsan Sencan Author Web:...

Attackers Deploy New ICS Attack Framework “TRITON” and Cause Operational Disruption to Critical Infrastructure

Introduction Mandiant recently responded to an incident at a critical infrastructure organization where an attacker deployed malware designed to manipulate industrial safety systems. The targeted systems provided emergency shutdown capability for industrial processes. We assess with moderate...

Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Review of the Year 2017

Introduction The end of the year is a good time to take stock of the main cyberthreat incidents that took place over the preceding 12 months or so. To reflect on the impact these events had on organizations and individuals, and consider what they could mean for the overall evolution of the threat...

Magnitude EK actor goes for Bitcoin multiplier scam (updated)

It is well known that hot commodities tend to attract scammers and online criminals. The continuous rise of Bitcoin over the past year valued at over USD $7,188 at the time of writing is generating frenzy amongst fans of cryptocurrencies as well as those watching from the sidelines. While the...

Paratrooper-newrelic Exposes of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The paratrooper-newrelic gem 1.0.1 for Ruby allows local users to obtain the X-Api-Key value by listing the curl process...

GHSA-959J-5G9V-3FPQ Paratrooper-newrelic Exposes of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The paratrooper-newrelic gem 1.0.1 for Ruby allows local users to obtain the X-Api-Key value by listing the curl process...

Spoofed SEC Emails Distribute Evolved DNSMessenger

This post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Colin Grady, with contributions from Dave Maynor and @Simpo13.Executive SummaryCisco Talos previously published research into a targeted attack that leveraged an interesting infection process using DNS TXT records to create a bidirectional command and...

The vulnerability in the visual Git client SourceTree exists due to the lack of measures taken to neutralize special elements used in the operating system command. This allows a malicious user to execute arbitrary commands.

The vulnerability of the visual Git client SourceTree exists because measures to neutralize special elements used in the operating system command are not taken. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the URL address...

CVE-2017-7687

When handling a decoding failure for a malformed URL path of an HTTP request, libprocess in Apache Mesos before 1.1.3, 1.2.x before 1.2.2, 1.3.x before 1.3.1, and 1.4.0-dev might crash because the code accidentally calls inappropriate function. A malicious actor can therefore cause a denial of...

CCleaner Command and Control Causes Concern

This post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Earl Carter, Warren Mercer, Matthew Molyett, Matthew Olney, Paul Rascagneres and Craig Williams.Note: This blog post discusses active research by Talos into a new threat. This information should be considered preliminary and will be updated as research...

The vulnerability of the audio driver of the mobile application MSM for the Android operating system allows a hacker to trigger a stack overflow.

The vulnerability of the Android mobile application’s audio driver relates to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to select certain values in the user’s environment, which may lead to stack overflow...

OpenJDK: DSA implementation timing attack (JCE, 8175106)

A covert timing channel flaw was found in the DSA implementation in the JCE component of OpenJDK. A remote attacker able to make a Java application generate DSA signatures on demand could possibly use this flaw to extract certain information about the used key via a timing side channel...