Threat Roundup for October 4 to October 11

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Oct. 4 and Oct. 11. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Apple iTunes and iCloud for Windows 0-Day Exploited in Ransomware Attacks

Watch out Windows users! The cybercriminal group behind BitPaymer and iEncrypt ransomware attacks has been found exploiting a zero-day vulnerability affecting a little-known component that comes bundled with Apple's iTunes and iCloud software for Windows to evade antivirus detection. The vulnerab...

PT-2019-5851 · Imagemagick +5 · Imagemagick +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: ImageMagick versions prior to 7.0.8-69 Description: A flaw was found in ImageMagick in MagickCore/statistic.c. An attacker who submits a crafted file that is processed by ImageMagick could trigger undefined behavior in the form of values...

Too Interested?

I was asked to investigate an incident a while back where my client was being subjected to a sizeable DDoS attack. It was causing them significant pain and, owing to the nature of their business, implementing something like CloudFlare quickly wasn’t an option. It had the hallmarks of a...

PT-2019-5855 · Imagemagick +5 · Imagemagick +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: ImageMagick versions prior to 7.0.9-0 Description: The issue is related to multiple unconstrained pixel offset calculations in functions CatromWeights, MeshInterpolate, InterpolatePixelChannel, InterpolatePixelChannels, and InterpolatePixelIn...

PT-2019-5864 · Imagemagick +5 · Imagemagick +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: ImageMagick versions prior to 7.0.9-0 Description: A flaw was found in ImageMagick in MagickCore/segment.c, where an attacker who submits a crafted file that is processed by ImageMagick could trigger undefined behavior in the form of math...

PT-2019-5854 · Imagemagick +5 · Imagemagick +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: ImageMagick versions prior to 7.0.9-0 Description: The issue is related to the CropImage and CropImageToTiles routines in MagickCore/transform.c, where rounding calculations on unconstrained pixel offsets caused undefined behavior, including...

A week in security (September 30 – October 6)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, Malwarebytes renewed its pledge to fight stalkerware for National Cybersecurity Awareness NCSA and Domestic Violence Awareness Month. We also looked into what security orchestration is and reported about partnering with security firm, HYAS, to determine the...

Service workers at TPAC

Last month we had a service worker meeting at the W3C TPAC conference in Fukuoka. For the first time in a few years, we focused on potential new features and behaviours. Here's a summary: Resurrection finally killed reg.unregister; If you unregister a service worker registration, it's removed fro...

PT-2019-5726 · Imagemagick +5 · Imagemagick +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: ImageMagick versions prior to 7.0.8-68 Description: A flaw was found in ImageMagick in MagickCore/colorspace-private.h and MagickCore/quantum.h. An attacker who submits a crafted file that is processed by ImageMagick could trigger undefined...

Command injection

While processing QCANL80211VENDORSUBCMDAVOIDFREQUENCY vendor command, driver does not validate the data obtained from the user space which could be invalid and thus leads to an undesired behaviour in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdrago...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-10082

In Apache HTTP Server 2.4.18-2.4.39, using fuzzed network input, the http/2 session handling could be made to read memory after being freed, during connection shutdown...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: Qbot/Qakbot Attempts to Evade Detection By Overwriting Itself

Qbot, or Qakbot, is a banking trojan that has been seen in the wild for at least 10 years. Recent campaigns have been often delivered by exploit kits and weaponized documents delivered via context-aware phishing campaigns. Qbot has also been suspected of delivering MegaCortex ransomware. Many...

Cynet 360: The Next Generation of EDR

Many organizations regard Endpoint Detection and Response EDR as their main protection against breaches. EDR, as a category, emerged in 2012 and was rapidly acknowledged as the best answer to the numerous threats that legacy AV unsuccessfully struggled to overcome – exploits, zero-day malware and...

Device Hopping Shoppers Drive Up Bounce Rates Leading Into Holiday 2019

Executive Summary In 2018, Akamai reported for the first time that shoppers used mobile devices more than desktops for all the major peak traffic events we measured. Interestingly, they often don't complete their purchase on a mobile device. If the most recently concluded back-to-school shopping...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for chromium (openSUSE-SU-2019:2153-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 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...

FreeBSD -- Improper checking in SCTP-AUTH shared key update

Problem Description: The SCTP layer does improper checking when an application tries to update a shared key. Therefore an unprivileged local user can trigger a use-after- free situation, for example by specific sequences of updating shared keys and closing the SCTP association. Impact: Triggering...

Integer Overflow

numpy is vulnerable to integer overflow. When numpy.pad with mode="linearramp" is configured, the array's edge value is not used as the end value, but instead the value range maximum of the array's dtype. This happens for uint dtypes and only if endvalue edgevalue. This vulnerability can result i...

Undefined Behavior in sailsjs-cacheman

All versions of sailsjs-cacheman have a vulnerability that may lead to Undefined Behavior. The config variable is exposing to the global scope which may overwrite other variables and cause the application to misbehave. Recommendation No fix is currently available. Consider using an alternative...

Introducing the Cognitive Attack Loop and Its 3 Phases

At Carbon Black, we believe that the more insight we have into cybercriminal behavior, the more effective our technology can be at successfully recognizing suspicious activity and combating it. By conducting behavioral threat research, we discover new patterns attackers are using across the kill...