GHSA-P65H-233C-JXVM Downloads Resources over HTTP in resourcehacker

Affected versions of resourcehacker insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on the...

GHSA-8WG9-92FR-6J7V marionette-socket-host downloads Resources over HTTP

Affected versions of marionette-socket-host insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code executio...

A Bug in Chrome Gives Bad Actors License to Play ‘20 Questions’ with Your Private Data

In a 2013 interview with The Telegraph, Eric Schmidt, then CEO of Google was quoted as saying: “You have to fight for your privacy or lose it.” Five years later, with the ‘Cambridge Analytica’ data breach scandal fresh in our memory, Eric Schmidt’s statement rings as a self-evident truth. Similar...

ThreatList: Financial Services Firms Lag in Patching Habits

Almost half 45 percent of financial services firms in a recent survey have reported a data breach in the last two years – with many of those attacks being completely avoidable if known vulnerabilities were patched. In a Ponemon Institute survey of nearly 3,000 cybersecurity professionals at...

Threat Identity...The First Line of Defense

Last quarter, we discussed zero trust and identity in regard to remote application access. This focus was primarily looking at enterprise users seeking to gain access to applications on a network where there are no boundaries: The internet. In the concept of zero trust, the internet is considered...

FBI Releases Article on Securing the Internet of Things

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article on the risks associated with internet-connected devices, commonly referred to as the Internet of Things IoT. FBI warns that cyber threat actors can use unsecured IoT devices as proxies to anonymously pursue malicious cyber activities...

GHSA-8HJ4-W233-G35Q Downloads Resources over HTTP in react-native-baidu-voice-synthesizer

Affected versions of react-native-baidu-voice-synthesizer insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in...

Downloads Resources over HTTP in react-native-baidu-voice-synthesizer

Affected versions of react-native-baidu-voice-synthesizer insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in...

Downloads Resources over HTTP in haxeshim

Affected versions of haxeshim insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on the syste...

GHSA-CR6C-85FH-CQPG Downloads Resources over HTTP in haxeshim

Affected versions of haxeshim insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on the syste...

GHSA-M79W-4MQV-R39F windows-seleniumjar downloads Resources over HTTP

Affected versions of windows-seleniumjar insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution o...

Facebook Removes 17 Profiles Involved in Political Meddling

Facebook Tuesday said that it has removed 32 pages from its platform involved in “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” The action comes months before the November midterm elections – and at a time when all eyes are on Facebook to see how it protects against potential campaigns attempting to sway...

Case Study: A Cryptomining Attack — With an Assist From Advanced Malware Techniques

In Carbon Black's Quarterly Incident Response Threat Report QIRTR, some of the world’s leading incident response IR professionals reported seeing an uptick in lateral movement, counter incident response, and island-hopping attacks from motivated nation-states. In the case study below, Kroll notes...

Multiple Cobalt Personality Disorder

Introduction Despite the notion that modern cybersecurity protocols have stopped email-based attacks, email continues to be one of the primary attack vectors for malicious actors — both for widespread and targeted operations. Recently, Cisco Talos has observed numerous email-based attacks that ar...

GHSA-J3WH-5M26-2PF7 Downloads Resources over HTTP in mystem-fix

Affected versions of mystem-fix insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on the...

The Data Breach ‘Kill Chain’: Early Detection is Key

Today, organizations rely heavily on data, with a big portion of that data made up of sensitive information. As organizations become the custodians of more and more sensitive information, the frequency of data breaches increases accordingly. In some cases, the origin of a data breach is outside o...

When three isn’t a crowd: Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks explained

Gone are the days when eavesdropping is just the stuff of spies and the town gossip. In fact, it has evolved to become everyone’s favorite pastime. Thanks to the internet, it is exponentially easier now more than ever to idle by and catch juicy information than to press your ear against your...

Malicious PowerShell Detection via Machine Learning

Introduction Cyber security vendors and researchers have reported for years how PowerShell is being used by cyber threat actors to install backdoors, execute malicious code, and otherwise achieve their objectives within enterprises. Security is a cat-and-mouse game between adversaries, researcher...

Code injection

Bitcoin Core before v0.13.0 allows denial of service memory exhaustion triggered by the remote network alert system deprecated since Q1 2016 if an attacker can sign a message with a certain private key that had been known by unintended actors, because of an infinitely sized map. This affects othe...

CVE-2016-10724

Bitcoin Core before v0.13.0 allows denial of service memory exhaustion triggered by the remote network alert system deprecated since Q1 2016 if an attacker can sign a message with a certain private key that had been known by unintended actors, because of an infinitely sized map. This affects othe...