Guidance for investigating attacks using CVE-2022-21894: The BlackLotus campaign

This guide provides steps that organizations can take to assess whether users have been targeted or compromised by threat actors exploiting CVE-2022-21894 via a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI bootkit called BlackLotus. UEFI bootkits are particularly dangerous as they run at computer...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: ignition-2.14.0-3.fc36

Ignition is a utility used to manipulate systems during the initramfs. This includes partitioning disks, formatting partitions, writing files regular files, systemd units, etc., and configuring users. On first boot, Ignition reads its configuration from a source of truth remote URL, network...

Das U-Boot Input Validation Error Vulnerability

Das U-Boot is a boot loader program mainly for embedded systems. The program supports many different computer system architectures such as PPC, ARM, AVR32, MIPS, x86, 68k, Nios and MicroBlaze. An input validation error vulnerability exists in Das U-Boot 2020.01 and earlier versions, which can be...

PT-2020-12267 · Denx +2 · Das U-Boot +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Das U-Boot versions through 2020.01 Description: The issue allows attackers to bypass verified boot restrictions and subsequently boot arbitrary images by providing a crafted FIT image to a system configured to boot the default configuration...

Provisioning Services :Error: "Missing Operating System" During Vdisk Imaging Process

In the process of two-stage imaging, the target device gives an error of "Missing Operating System" after it is configurd to boot from network...

The vulnerability of the Qualcomm Storage Services component in the Android operating system allows attackers to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the Qualcomm Storage Services component in the Android operating system is related to the “SKIPSECBOOTCHECKNOTRECOMMENDEDBYQUALCOMM” flag being enabled in the standard configuration of BOOT.BF.3.0. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the...

Cisco EPC 3928 XSS / DoS / Command Execution

Title: Cisco EPC 3928 Multiple Vulnerabilities Vendor: http://www.cisco.com/ Vulnerable Versions: Cisco Model EPC3928 DOCSIS 3.0 8x4 Wireless Residential Gateway CVE References: CVE-2015-6401 / CVE-2015-6402 / CVE-2016-1328 / CVE-2016-1336 / CVE-2016-1337 Author: Patryk Bogdan from Secorda securi...

The vulnerability of the Windows operating system, which allows a perpetrator to bypass the secure loading mechanism

The vulnerability of the Windows operating system’s kernel is related to security configuration errors. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to bypass the trusted boot process by using a specially crafted BCD configuration...

FixMeStick PRO : Best remote malware remediation product

This week Corey and Marty over at FixMeStick shared the specs of their recently released FixMeStick PRO with me. This Pro is the best remote malware remediation product we've seen. It retails for $299.99 per year, or $209.99 for the first 50 'The Hacker News' readers use coupon code 'THNFIX' for...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libvirt on SL6.x i386/x86_64

The libvirt library is a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. In addition, libvirt provides tools for remotely managing virtualized systems. An integer overflow flaw was found in libvirtd's RPC call handling. An attacker abl...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: libvirt security and bug fix update

Updated libvirt packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severi...