GHSA-WPFC-3W63-G4HM Malicious Package in axois

All versions of axois are considered malicious. The package is malware designed to take advantage of users making a mistake when typing the name of a module to install. When executed, the package calls home to a Command and Control server to execute arbitrary commands. Recommendation This package...

CVE-2020-14978

An issue was discovered in F-Secure SAFE 17.7 on macOS. Due to incorrect client version verification, an attacker can connect to a privileged XPC service, and execute privileged commands on the system. NOTE: the attacker needs to execute code on an already compromised machine...

Code injection

An issue was discovered in F-Secure SAFE 17.7 on macOS. Due to incorrect client version verification, an attacker can connect to a privileged XPC service, and execute privileged commands on the system. NOTE: the attacker needs to execute code on an already compromised machine...

CVE-2020-14978

An issue was discovered in F-Secure SAFE 17.7 on macOS. Due to incorrect client version verification, an attacker can connect to a privileged XPC service, and execute privileged commands on the system. NOTE: the attacker needs to execute code on an already compromised machine...

CB Customer Spotlight: Q&A with Kaas Tailored’s Joe Mrazik

For the past eight years, Joe Mrazik has taken on the role of Network Administrator for Kaas Tailored, protecting the company’s endpoints with CB Defense. Kaas Tailored is an aerospace and furniture manufacturing company that supplies parts to aerospace companies like Boeing. Read on to learn how...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of regenrator are considered malicious. The package is malware designed to take advantage of users making a mistake when typing the name of a module to install. When executed, the package calls home to a Command and Control server to execute arbitrary commands. Recommendatio...

Inside the CCleaner Backdoor Attack

MADRID—As the investigation continues into the backdoor planted inside CCleaner, two members of parent company Avast’s threat intelligence team said today the desktop and cloud versions of the popular software contained different payloads. The revelation was made during a talk at Virus Bulletin...

Click-Fraud Malware Spreading via JavaScript Attachments

A new malware campaign has been spotted that has begun seeding spam messages with a downloader heavily obfuscated with JavaScript. The SANS Internet Storm Center said today that two days ago, a flood of spam messages were observed laced with .js attachments. The JavaScript obfuscates a downloader...

Tunneling C&C Over DNS: dnscat2

This tool is designed to create a command-and-control C&C channel over the DNS protocol, which is an effective tunnel out of almost every network. dnscat2 comes in two parts: the client and the server. The client is designed to be run on a compromised machine. It’s written in C and has the minimu...

New Mac Backdoor Olyx Found Bundled With Windows Malware

Security researchers have discovered a new piece of malware that targets Mac OS X users and installs a remote-control backdoor on compromised machines. The malware, called Olyx, was discovered in a package that also contained some Windows malware and researchers say that the Mac backdoor is...

Analysis of the New Adobe Flash Attacks

When Adobe warned customers earlier this week about a newly discovered vulnerability in the Flash Player software, company officials said that there were already attacks underway against the bug. Those attacks are using malicious Flash files buried in Word documents and Microsoft’s security...