China Chopper still active 9 years later

By Paul Rascagneres and Vanja Svajcer. Introduction Threats will commonly fade away over time as they're discovered, reported on, and detected. But China Chopper has found a way to stay relevant, active and effective nine years after its initial discovery. China Chopper is a web shell that allows...

MuddyWater expands operations

Summary MuddyWater is a relatively new APT that surfaced in 2017. It has focused mainly on governmental targets in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, according to past telemetry. However, the group behind MuddyWater has been known to target other countries in the Middle East, Europe and the US. We recently...

Ansible: Compromised remote hosts can lead to running commands on the Ansible controller

An input validation vulnerability was found in Ansible's handling of data sent from client systems. An attacker with control over a client system being managed by Ansible and the ability to send facts back to the Ansible server could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the Ansible server...

BigTree CMS 4.2.3 - (Authenticated) SQL Injection

BigTree CMS 4.2.3: Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities Security Advisory – Curesec Research Team Online-Reference: http://blog.curesec.com/article/blog/BigTree-CMS-423-Multiple-SQL-Injection-Vulnerabilities-39.html 1. Introduction Affected Product: BigTree CMS 4.2.3 Fixed in: 4.2.4 Fixed Versi...

Wireless Network Auditing Tool: FruityWifi

FruityWifi is an open source tool to audit wireless networks. It allows the user to deploy advanced attacks by directly using the web interface or by sending messages to it. Initialy the application was created to be used with the Raspberry-Pi, but it can be installed on any Debian based system...

Sefnit Click-Fraud Malware Related to Mevade Tor Botnet

A malware family, likely developed by the same authors who built a massive botnet recently discovered on the Tor network, has been revived with a stealthy new click-fraud scam. Microsoft reports a rash of new click-fraud activity linked to the Sefnit malware, which was thought dead and buried as ...

Gumblar: New Generation of Self-Building Botnets

We’ve been looking at the infrastructure of the Gumblar malware and found some curious facts on how Gumblar operates which we would like to share to make hosting owners aware of the Gumblar threat. Analysis of some infected websites showed that the only way to inject the infection of Gumblar was ...

4553 Parasite Mothership Backdoor Detection

The backdoor software '4553' seems to be installed on this host, which indicates it has been compromised. This script was written by Chris Gragsone This script is for finding hosts that are running the 4553 parasite "mothership" include"compat.inc"; ifdescription scriptid11187;...