It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month and there is still a lot to do

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month NCSAM. And there is still a lot to do! For the last 17 years, the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month NCSAM campaign, driven by the Department of Homeland Security, has raised awareness about the importance of cyber security across the Nation...

CISA, FBI, and CNMF Identify a New Malware Variant: ComRAT

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the Department of Defense Cyber National Mission Force CNMF have identified a malware variant—referred to as ComRAT—used by the Russian-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT actor Turla. In...

North Korea-Backed Spy Group Poses as Reporters in Spearphishing Attacks, Feds Warn

The North Korean advanced persistent threat APT group known as Kimsuky is actively attacking commercial-sector businesses, often by posing as South Korean reporters, according to an alert from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA. Kimsuky a.k.a. Hidden Cobra has been...

Oracle E-Business Suite Advanced Outbound Telephony Cross-Site Scripting (CVE-2020-2856)

A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in Oracle E-Business Suite Advanced Outbound Telephony. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script into the affected system...

ALPINE-CVE-2020-27670

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service data corruption, cause a data leak, or possibly gain privileges because an AMD IOMMU page-table entry can be half-updated...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-27670

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service data corruption, cause a data leak, or possibly gain privileges because an AMD IOMMU page-table entry can be half-updated...

WordPress Advanced Booking Calendar plugin <= 1.6.1 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection (SQLi) vulnerability

Unauthenticated SQL Injection SQLi vulnerability found by Lenon Leite in WordPress Advanced Booking Calendar plugin versions = 1.6.1. Solution Update the WordPress Advanced Booking Calendar plugin to the latest available version at least 1.6.2...

CVE-2020-3982

VMware ESXi 7.0 before ESXi7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7 before ESXi670-202008101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202007101-SG, Workstation 15.x, Fusion 11.x before 11.5.6 contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability due to a time-of-check time-of-use issue in ACPI device. A malicious actor with administrative...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:8.1 and virt-devel:8.1 security update

An update for the virt:8.1 and virt-devel:8.1 modules is now available for Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.1.1. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:8.2 and virt-devel:8.2 security and bug fix update

An update for the virt:8.2 and virt-devel:8.2 modules is now available for Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.2.1. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating...

A week in security (October 12 – October 18)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at journalism’s role in cybersecurity on our Lock and Code podcast, gave tips for safer shopping on Amazon Prime day, and discussed an APT attack springing into life as Academia returned to the real and virtual campus environment. We also dug into potenti...

Greg Rattray Invented the Term Advanced Persistent Threat

I was so pleased to read this Tweet yesterday from Greg Rattray: "Back in 2007, I coined the term “Advanced Persistent Threat” to characterize emerging adversaries that we needed to work with the defense industrial base to deal with... Since then both the APT term and the nature of our adversarie...

The vulnerability of the ASF_Support::ReadHeaderObject function in the “exempi” utility allows a attacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the ASFSupport::ReadHeaderObject function XMPFiles/source/FormatSupport/ASFSupport.cpp in the “exempi” utility is related to the use of memory after it is freed. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a service failure by using a specially created “.as...

advanced-courier.com Improper Access Control vulnerability OBB-1381247

Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

Rapid7 Introduces “Active Response” for End-to-End Detection and Response

We know your cybersecurity team is facing unprecedented challenges, including new and complex attacks that exploit your remote workforce and deliver malicious payloads which, despite your best defenses, can bypass proactive security controls. Managed Detection and Response MDR providers offer...

CVE-2020-24569

An issue was discovered in MB CONNECT LINE mymbCONNECT24 and mbCONNECT24 through 2.6.1. There is a blind SQL injection in the knximport component via an advanced attack vector, allowing logged in attackers to discover arbitrary information...

Sql injection

An issue was discovered in MB CONNECT LINE mymbCONNECT24 and mbCONNECT24 through 2.6.1. There is a blind SQL injection in the knximport component via an advanced attack vector, allowing logged in attackers to discover arbitrary information...

BearShare Lite 5.2.5 Buffer Overflow

Title: BearShare Lite 5.2.5 - 'Advanced Search'Buffer Overflow in PoC Date: 2020-09-29 Author: Christian Vierschilling Vendor Homepage: http://www.bearshareofficial.com/ Software Link: http://www.oldversion.com.de/windows/bearshare-lite-5-2-5 Versions: 5.1.0 - 5.2.5 Tested on: Windows 10 x64 EN/D...

CVE-2020-24569

An issue was discovered in MB CONNECT LINE mymbCONNECT24 and mbCONNECT24 through 2.6.1. There is a blind SQL injection in the knximport component via an advanced attack vector, allowing logged in attackers to discover arbitrary information...

BearShare Lite 5.2.5 - (Advanced Search) Buffer Overflow Exploit

Title: BearShare Lite 5.2.5 - 'Advanced Search'Buffer Overflow in PoC Author: Christian Vierschilling Vendor Homepage: http://www.bearshareofficial.com/ Software Link: http://www.oldversion.com.de/windows/bearshare-lite-5-2-5 Versions: 5.1.0 - 5.2.5 Tested on: Windows 10 x64 EN/DE CVE: NA ---...