Code injection

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.17.1 allow injection of arbitrary data into the debug log via an RPC call...

Design/Logic Flaw

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.10.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service disabled functionality such as a client application crash via an "Easy" attack...

Researchers Warn of Novel PXJ Ransomware Strain

Researchers have discovered a new strain of ransomware, dubbed “PXJ,” which emerged in the wild in early 2020. While PXJ performs functions similar to other ransomware variants, it does not appear to share the same underlying code with most known ransomware families, researchers said. They first...

CVE-2015-3641

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.10.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service disabled functionality such as a client application crash via an "Easy" attack...

CVE-2015-3641

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.10.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service disabled functionality such as a client application crash via an "Easy" attack...

CVE-2015-3641

CVE-2015-3641 affects bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.10.2, allowing a denial-of-service via an “Easy” attack (attackers could disable functionality or crash the client). Connected sources indicate the vulnerability is tied to older Bitcoin Core versions and that mitigation is to upgrade to ve...

CVE-2015-3641

Removed by vendor...

CVE-2018-20586

CVE-2018-20586 affects bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.17.1, where an RPC call can inject arbitrary data into the debug log. Affected component: Bitcoin Core’s RPC/debug logging. Root cause: ability to write arbitrary data via RPC into logs. Impact: log contents could be polluted with attacker...

CVE-2018-20586

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.17.1 allow injection of arbitrary data into the debug log via an RPC call...

CVE-2017-18350

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.15.1 have a stack-based buffer overflow if an attacker-controlled SOCKS proxy server is used. This results from an integer signedness error when the proxy server responds with an acknowledgement of an unexpected target domain name...

CVE-2017-18350

Affected software: bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.15.1. Issue: a stack-based buffer overflow caused by a signedness error when a attacker-controlled SOCKS proxy responds with an acknowledgement to an unexpected domain name. Impact details are consistent with the CVE, including a partial avail...

CVE-2017-18350

Removed by vendor...

CVE-2015-3641: Undefined Security Weakness

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.10.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service disabled functionality such as a client application crash via an "Easy" attack...

CVE-2017-18350: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.15.1 have a stack-based buffer overflow if an attacker-controlled SOCKS proxy server is used. This results from an integer signedness error when the proxy server responds with an acknowledgement of an unexpected target domain name...

CVE-2018-20586: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

bitcoind and Bitcoin-Qt prior to 0.17.1 allow injection of arbitrary data into the debug log via an RPC call...

A week in security (February 10 – 16)

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Hacker Scheme Threatens AdSense Customers with Account Suspension

A new e-mail based extortion attack threatens users of Google’s AdSense banner-ad program with creating online behavior that will warrant them an account suspension—perhaps a permanent one–from Google if they don’t pay the attackers in bitcoin. The scam—revealed in a post by security writer and...

Pay Up, Or We’ll Make Google Ban Your Ads

A new email-based extortion scheme apparently is making the rounds, targeting Web site owners serving banner ads through Google's AdSense program. In this scam, the fraudsters demand bitcoin in exchange for a promise not to flood the publisher's ads with so much bot and junk traffic that Google's...

The 'Robo Revenge' App Makes It Easy to Sue Robocallers

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Ashley Madison Breach Extortion Scam Targets Hundreds

Nearly five years after the high-profile Ashley Madison data breach, hundreds of impacted website users are being targeted by a new extortion attack this past week. The 2015 data breach of the adultery website led to 32 million accounts being publicly dumped online, including victims’ names,...