Malicious Package

Overview All versions of soket.js 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...

CoinVault Ransomware Authors Sentenced to 240 Hours of Community Service

Almost three years after the arrest of two young Dutch brothers, who pleaded guilty to their involvement in creating and distributing CoinVault ransomware malware, a district court in Rotterdam today sentenced them to 240 hours of community service. In 2015, the two suspects — Melvin 25-year-old...

Gaza Cybergang Returns With New Attacks On Palestinian Authority

Security researchers from Check Point Threat Intelligence Team have discovered the comeback of an APT advanced persistent threat surveillance group targeting institutions across the Middle East, specifically the Palestinian Authority. The attack, dubbed "Big Bang," begins with a phishing email se...

Chinese Hackers Carried Out Country-Level Watering Hole Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an espionage campaign that has targeted a national data center of an unnamed central Asian country in order to conduct watering hole attacks. The campaign is believed to be active covertly since fall 2017 but was spotted in March by security researchers fr...

Adobe Issues Patch for Actively Exploited Flash Player Zero-Day Exploit

If you have already uninstalled Flash player, well done! But if you haven't, here's another great reason for ditching it. Adobe has released a security patch update for a critical vulnerability in its Flash Player software that is actively being exploited in the wild by hackers in targeted attack...

Design/Logic Flaw

The module npm-script-demo opened a connection to a command and control server. It has been removed from the npm registry...

Word Attachment Delivers FormBook Malware, No Macros Required

A new wave of document attacks targeting inboxes do not require enabling macros in order for adversaries to trigger an infection chain that ultimately delivers FormBook malware. Researchers at Menlo Security are reporting a wave of attacks that began last month that are targeting financial and...

Cisco Secure Access Control Server Detection (HTTP)

Detection of running version of Cisco Secure Access Control Server. This script sends an HTTP GET request and tries to get the version from the response. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the...

CVE-2018-0218

A vulnerability in the web-based user interface of the Cisco Secure Access Control Server prior to 5.8 patch 9 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain read access to certain information in the affected system. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of XML External Entities...

CVE-2018-0207

A vulnerability in the web-based user interface of the Cisco Secure Access Control Server prior to 5.8 patch 9 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain read access to certain information in the affected system. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of XML External Entities...

CVE-2018-0207

CVE-2018-0207 affects the Cisco Secure Access Control Server web-based UI (pre-5.8 patch 9). It’s an XXE handling flaw in XML parsing that could let an unauthenticated, remote attacker gain read access to certain information by enticing an administrator to import a crafted XML file. Concrete affe...

CVE-2018-0207

A vulnerability in the web-based user interface of the Cisco Secure Access Control Server prior to 5.8 patch 9 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain read access to certain information in the affected system. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of XML External Entities...

CVE-2018-0218

CVE-2018-0218 affects Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) web UI prior to 5.8 patch 9. The issue arises from improper handling of XML External Entities (XXEs) when parsing XML files, enabling an unauthenticated, remote attacker to read information from the system. Connected sources identify ...

CVE-2018-0218

A vulnerability in the web-based user interface of the Cisco Secure Access Control Server prior to 5.8 patch 9 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain read access to certain information in the affected system. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of XML External Entities...

Cisco Secure Access Control Server XML External Entity Injection Vulnerability

The Cisco Secure Access Control Server provides a comprehensive identity-based access control solution for Cisco intelligent information networks. An XML external entity injection vulnerability exists in the web-based user interface of Cisco Secure Access Control Server. The vulnerability occurs...

CHM Help Files Deliver Brazilian Banking Trojan

Security researchers are warning of a new spam campaign targeting Brazilian institutions that contain Compiled HTML file attachments that are used to deliver a banking Trojan. Spam messages contain a malicious CHM attachment called “comprovante.chm”, wrote Rodel Mendrez, senior security researche...

Newly Observed Ursnif Variant Employs Malicious TLS Callback Technique to Achieve Process Injection

Introduction TLS Thread Local Storage callbacks are provided by the Windows operating system to support additional initialization and termination for per-thread data structures. As previously reported, malicious TLS callbacks, as an anti-analysis trick, have been observed for quite some time and...

BankBot Returns On Play Store – A Never Ending Android Malware Story

Even after so many efforts by Google for making its Play Store away from malware, shady apps somehow managed to fool its anti-malware protections and infect people with malicious software. A team of researchers from several security firms has uncovered two new malware campaigns targeting Google...

Mitigating and eliminating info-stealing Qakbot and Emotet in corporate networks

The threat to sensitive financial information is greater than ever. Data breaches, phishing attacks, and other forms of information theft are all too common in today’s threat landscape. Point-of-sale systems and ATMs have been targeted by hackers. Information-stealing trojans pose a risk to data...

System Compromise

npm-script-demo compromises the system. It is possible because the module can create an unauthorized connection to a command and control server when it is installed...