A week in security (November 11 – 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we offered statistics and information on a sneaky new Trojan malware for Android, inspected a bevy of current Facebook scams, and explained the importance of securing food and agriculture infrastructure. We also released our latest report on cybercrime tactics and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: djvulibre-3.5.27-14.fc29

DjVu is a web-centric format and software platform for distributing documen ts and images. DjVu can advantageously replace PDF, PS, TIFF, JPEG, and GIF for distributing scanned documents, digital documents, or high-resolution pictu res. DjVu content downloads faster, displays and renders faster,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: djvulibre-3.5.27-15.fc30

DjVu is a web-centric format and software platform for distributing documen ts and images. DjVu can advantageously replace PDF, PS, TIFF, JPEG, and GIF for distributing scanned documents, digital documents, or high-resolution pictu res. DjVu content downloads faster, displays and renders faster,...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4563-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2019-2212

In poissondistribution of random, there is an out of bounds read. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-8.0 Android-8.1 Android-9 Android-10Android ID:...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-2212

In poissondistribution of random, there is an out of bounds read. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-8.0 Android-8.1 Android-9 Android-10Android ID:...

Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT, a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him with...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4566-1] qemu security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4566-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso November 12, 2019 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DRUPAL-CONTRIB-2019-075

Open Social is a Drupal distribution for online communities. The included social\magic\login module doesn't sufficiently validate magic login URLs for user accounts that do not have a local password, but login via external systems. The lack of validation makes it possible for an adversary to forg...

Trump, Putin and Politics Name-Dropped to Peddle Malware

With the U.S. presidential elections looming, bad actors are tapping into the political craze with several malware distribution campaigns, using high-profile political names to tap into victims’ emotions and convince them to click on malicious links. Researchers have uncovered hundreds of...

How adversaries use politics for compromise

By Nick Biasini and Edmund Brumaghin. Executive Summary With the U.S. presidential primaries just around the corner, even malware authors can't help but get behind the frenzy. Cisco Talos recently discovered several malware distribution campaigns where the adversaries were utilizing the names and...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4556-1] qtbase-opensource-src security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4556-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff October 31, 2019 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

CVE-2018-5735

The Debian backport of the fix for CVE-2017-3137 leads to assertion failure in validator.c:1858; Affects Debian versions 9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u15; 9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u18; 9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u5; 9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1 No ISC releases are affected. Other packages from other distributions who did similar...

CVE-2018-5742 An oversight while backporting a feature leads to an assertion failure in buffer.c:420

While backporting a feature for a newer branch of BIND9, RedHat introduced a path leading to an assertion failure in buffer.c:420. Affects RedHat versions bind-9.9.4-65.el7 - bind-9.9.4-72.el7. No ISC releases are affected. Other packages from other distributions who made the same error may also ...

Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley PowerMonitor 1000 Data Verification Access

The vulnerability of the Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley PowerMonitor 1000 in terms of electrical load distribution is related to deficiencies in data validation by users. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute XSS attacks and gain access to the device...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4549-1] firefox-esr security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4549-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff October 24, 2019 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Gustuff return, new features for victims

By Vitor Ventura with contributions from Chris Neal. Executive summary The Gustuff banking trojan is back with new features, months after initially appearing targeting financial institutions in Australia. Cisco Talos first reported on Gustuff in April. Soon after, the actors behind Gustuff starte...

New Cache Poisoning Attack Lets Attackers Target CDN Protected Sites

A team of German cybersecurity researchers has discovered a new cache poisoning attack against web caching systems that could be used by an attacker to force a targeted website into delivering error pages to most of its visitors instead of legitimate content or resources. The issue could affect...

All Resolvers Aren't Equal - Don't Worry, GTM is Aware

What is GTM Global Traffic Management, or GTM, is a DNS-based load balancing service that offers application owners a level of flexibility and insight that is unmatched by traditional on-prem solutions. Highly scalable and fault-resilient, GTM offers customers a layer of abstraction between...

CentOS 8 with IceWM Desktop Environment

Do you need CentOS 8 with IceWM as desktop Operating System? Most likely not. Especially if you want it to work smoothly without any worries and troubles. However, if you enjoy playing with new desktop environments, you might find it fun. My reasons were as follows: 1. I wanted to use the same...