FBI removes malware from hundreds of routers across the US

The FBI has used a court order to remove malware from hundreds of routers across the US, and alter the routers’ settings to prevent reinfection. The routers are malware-infected NetGear and Cisco small office/home office SOHO devices that no longer receive updates because they have reached their...

FBI Disrupts Chinese State-Backed Volt Typhoon’s KV Botnet

By Waqas The KV Botnet, a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor group gained widespread attention for compromising hundreds of U.S.-based small office/home office SOHO routers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI Disrupts Chinese State-Backed Volt Typhoons KV Botnet...

Malicious Google Ads Target Chinese Users, Covertly Delivering RATs

Summary: Chinese-speaking users are being targeted in an ongoing malvertising campaign that leverages Google ads. The threat actor employs Google advertiser accounts to create deceptive ads that lure users into downloading Remote Administration Trojans RATs. The malicious ads are designed to mimi...

Tenda AC10U formSetVirtualSer function stack buffer overflow vulnerability

The Tenda AC10 is a wireless router from the Chinese company Tenda. A stack buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Tenda AC10U formSetVirtualSer function, which can be exploited by an attacker to cause a buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the system...

Tenda AC10U fromDhcpListClient Function Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The Tenda AC10 is a wireless router from the Chinese company Tenda. The Tenda AC10U fromDhcpListClient function suffers from a stack buffer overflow vulnerability, which arises from the page/listN parameter of the fromDhcpListClient function failing to properly validate the length of the input...

Malicious Ads on Google Target Chinese Users with Fake Messaging Apps

Chinese-speaking users have been targeted by malicious Google ads for restricted messaging apps like Telegram as part of an ongoing malvertising campaign. "The threat actor is abusing Google advertiser accounts to create malicious ads and pointing them to pages where unsuspecting users will...

Malicious ads for restricted messaging applications target Chinese users

An ongoing campaign of malicious ads has been targeting Chinese-speaking users with lures for popular messaging applications such as Telegram or LINE with the intent of dropping malware. Interestingly, software like Telegram is heavily restricted and was previously banned in China. Many Google...

CVE-2024-23341

TuiTse-TsuSin is a package for organizing the comparative corpus of Taiwanese Chinese characters and Roman characters, and extracting sentences of the Taiwanese Chinese characters and the Roman characters. Prior to version 1.3.2, when using tuitsehtml without quoting the input, there is a html...

PYSEC-2024-22

TuiTse-TsuSin is a package for organizing the comparative corpus of Taiwanese Chinese characters and Roman characters, and extracting sentences of the Taiwanese Chinese characters and the Roman characters. Prior to version 1.3.2, when using tuitsehtml without quoting the input, there is a html...

CVE-2024-23341 TuiTse-TsuSin html injection vulnerability in `tuitse_html` function

TuiTse-TsuSin is a package for organizing the comparative corpus of Taiwanese Chinese characters and Roman characters, and extracting sentences of the Taiwanese Chinese characters and the Roman characters. Prior to version 1.3.2, when using tuitsehtml without quoting the input, there is a html...

CVE-2024-23341 TuiTse-TsuSin html injection vulnerability in `tuitse_html` function

TuiTse-TsuSin is a package for organizing the comparative corpus of Taiwanese Chinese characters and Roman characters, and extracting sentences of the Taiwanese Chinese characters and the Roman characters. Prior to version 1.3.2, when using tuitsehtml without quoting the input, there is a html...

CVE-2024-23341 TuiTse-TsuSin html injection vulnerability in `tuitse_html` function

TuiTse-TsuSin is a package for organizing the comparative corpus of Taiwanese Chinese characters and Roman characters, and extracting sentences of the Taiwanese Chinese characters and the Roman characters. Prior to version 1.3.2, when using tuitsehtml without quoting the input, there is a html...

Apple Issues Patch for Critical Zero-Day in iPhones, Macs - Update Now

Apple on Monday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and Safari web browser to address a zero-day flaw that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-23222, is a type confusion bug in the WebKit browser engine that could be exploited by a...

Chinese Hackers Silently Weaponized VMware Zero-Day Flaw for 2 Years

An advanced China-nexus cyber espionage group previously linked to the exploitation of security flaws in VMware and Fortinet appliances has been attributed to the abuse of a critical vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server as a zero-day since late 2021. "UNC3886 has a track record of utilizing...

CISA Issues Emergency Directive to Federal Agencies on Ivanti Zero-Day Exploits

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Friday issued an emergency directive urging Federal Civilian Executive Branch FCEB agencies to implement mitigations against two actively exploited zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure ICS and Ivanti Policy Secure IPS products...

Experts Warn of macOS Backdoor Hidden in Pirated Versions of Popular Software

Pirated applications targeting Apple macOS users have been observed containing a backdoor capable of granting attackers remote control to infected machines. "These applications are being hosted on Chinese pirating websites in order to gain victims," Jamf Threat Labs researchers Ferdous Saljooki a...

Command Injection Vulnerability in DIR-822+ V1.0.2 of AUO Electronic Equipment (Shanghai) Co.

DIR-822 is a wireless router from D-Link, a Chinese company. A command injection vulnerability exists in the AUO Electronic Devices Shanghai Co. DIR-822+ version V1.0.2, which stems from the SetStaticRouteSettings function failing to correctly filter constructor command special characters,...

A Bloody Pig Mask Is Just Part of a Wild New Criminal Charge Against eBay

Plus: Chinese officials tracked people using AirDrop, Stuxnet mole’s identity revealed, AI chatbot hacking, and more...

Nation-State Actors Weaponize Ivanti VPN Zero-Days, Deploying 5 Malware Families

As many as five different malware families were deployed by suspected nation-state actors as part of post-exploitation activities leveraging two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure ICS VPN appliances since early December 2023. "These families allow the threat actors to circumvent...

Two Zero-Day Flaws Found in Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure

Summary: The active exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887 in Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure gateways presents a serious threat, allowing unauthorized remote code execution. The actor, recognized as the Chinese nation-state-level entity UTA0178,...