New GigaWiper Windows Backdoor Bundles Disk Wiping, Fake Ransomware, and Spyware

Microsoft has taken apart a destructive Windows backdoor it calls GigaWiper. What stands out is how it is built: not one tool but three older destructive programs bolted into one, offered as commands the operator can choose from. Each is a different way to break a machine: wipe the whole disk,...

North Korean state-sponsored threat actor Lazarus Group exploiting Chrome Zero-day vulnerability

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here For more than a month before a fix was available, North Korean state hackers known as Lazarus group exploited a zero-day, remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2022-0609 in Google Chromes web browser. The attack mainly targe...

rhev-m: MoveDisk ignores the disk's wipe-after-delete property

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager RHEV-M before 3.1, when moving disks between storage domains, does not properly wipe-after-delete, which prevents disks from being securely deleted and might allow local users to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors...