PT-2017-3585 · Linux +2 · Linux Kernel +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 4.14.13 Description: The issue is related to errors in resource management within the Parallel Crypto Engine crypto/pcrypt.c subsystem of the Linux operating system. It can be exploited by executing a specially...

Crooks Switch from Ransomware to Cryptocurrency Mining

Criminals behind the VenusLocker ransomware have switched to cryptocurrency mining in their latest campaign targeting computer users in South Korea. Instead of attempting to infect targeted computers with ransomware, the group is now trying to install malware on PCs that mines for Monero, an...

Google Play Boots 3 Fake Bitcoin Wallet Apps

Google moved quickly to kick three fake bitcoin wallet apps from its Google Play marketplace earlier this month after researchers at mobile security firm Lookout discovered them. The apps pretended to be legitimate bitcoin wallets, but instead were fake. Apps were designed to trick sellers to...

PT-2018-12618 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 4.15-rc4 Description: A flaw was found in the crypto subsystem of the Linux kernel. The issue involves the "null skcipher" being dropped when each af alg ctx is freed instead of when the aead tfm is freed. This...

CVE-2017-17806

CVE-2017-17806 affects the Linux kernel before 4.14.8. The HMAC implementation (crypto/hmac.c) does not validate that the underlying hash algorithm is unkeyed, allowing a local attacker who can use the AF_ALG-based hash interface (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_HASH) and SHA-3 (CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA3) to tri...

19-Year-Old TLS Vulnerability Weakens Website Crypto

A vulnerability called ROBOT, first identified in 1998, has resurfaced. Impacted are leading websites ranging from Facebook to Paypal, which are vulnerable to attackers that could decrypt encrypted data and sign communications using the sites’ own private encryption key. The vulnerability is foun...

The Bouncy Castle Crypto APIs: CVE-2017-13098 ("ROBOT")

The Legion of the Bouncy Castle reports: Release: 1.59 CVE-2017-13098 "ROBOT", a Bleichenbacher oracle in TLS when RSA key exchange is negotiated. This potentially affected BCJSSE servers and any other TLS servers configured to use JCE for the underlying crypto - note the two TLS implementations...

Largest Crypto-Mining Exchange Hacked; Over $70 Million in Bitcoin Stolen

Bitcoin is breaking every record—after gaining 20% jump last week, Bitcoin price just crossed the $14,800 mark in less than 24 hours—and there can be no better reason for hackers to put all of their efforts to steal skyrocketing cryptocurrency. NiceHash, the largest Bitcoin mining marketplace, ha...

Claymore's Dual Ethereum Miner unauth stack buffer overflow(CVE-2017-16929)

VuNote =================== Author: Ref: https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2017-16929 Version: 0.2 Date: Nov 30th, 2017 Tag: claymore dual ethereum decred crypto currency miner Overview -------- Name: Claymore's Dual ETH + DCR/SC/LBC/PASC GPU Miner Vendor: nanopool/claymore...

Linux kernel denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2017-36476)

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the 'rngapireset' function of the crypto/rng.c file in versions of Linux kernel prior to 4.2. An attacker exploits this...

CEMLink 6 Unrestricted WSDL Service Access / Poor Crypto Implementation Vulnerabilities

CEMLink 6 suffers from having unrestricted WSDL service access and a weak mechanism for password storage. Exploit Title: CEMLink6 multiple vulnerabilities Date Reported to vendor: 8/2/2017 Vendor never replied Exploit Author: email protected Vendor Homepage:...

Threat Round Up for Nov 10 - Nov 17

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between November 10 and November 17. As with previous round-ups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavior...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: libgcrypt-1.7.9-1.fc25

Libgcrypt is a general purpose crypto library based on the code used in GNU Privacy Guard. This is a development version...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: botan-1.10.17-1.fc27

Botan is a BSD-licensed crypto library written in C++. It provides a wide variety of basic cryptographic algorithms, X.509 certificates and CRLs, PKCS \10 certificate requests, a filter/pipe message processing system, and a wide variety of other features, all written in portable C++. The API...

IT threat evolution Q3 2017. Statistics

Q3 figures According to KSN data, Kaspersky Lab solutions detected and repelled 277,646,376 malicious attacks from online resources located in 185 countries all over the world. 72,012,219 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by web antivirus components. Attempted infections by malware that ai...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0167)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Revert 'drivers/char/mem.c: deny access in open operation when securelevel is set' Brian Maly Orabug: 27037811 - xfs: use dedicated log worker wq to avoid deadlock with cil wq Brian Foster Orabug:...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: libgcrypt-1.7.9-1.fc26

Libgcrypt is a general purpose crypto library based on the code used in GNU Privacy Guard. This is a development version...

Insecure Cryptography

crypto-browserify is generates cryptographically insecure random numbers. The library uses the native JavaScript Math.Random to generate random numbers, that has been proven as not secure...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2017-3635)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-3635 advisory. - scsi: scsitransportiscsi: fix the issue that iscsiifrx doesn't parse nlmsg properly Xin Long Orabug: 26988633 CVE-2017-14489 - ipv6: avoid overfl...

Network Time Protocol Crypto-NAK Preemptible Association Denial of Service Vulnerability(CVE-2016-1547)

SUMMARY An off-path attacker can cause a preemptible client association to be demobilized by sending a crypto NAK packet to a victim client with a spoofed source address of an existing associated peer. This is true even if authentication is enabled. Furthermore, if the attacker keeps sending cryp...