Threat Roundup for October 4 to October 11

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Oct. 4 and Oct. 11. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

HQWar: the higher it flies, the harder it drops

Mobile dropper Trojans are one of today's most rapidly growing classes of malware. In Q1 2019, droppers are in the 2nd or 3rd position in terms of share of total detected threats, while holding nearly half of all Top 20 places in 2018. Since the droppers' main task is to deliver payload while...

Emotet is back after a summer break

By Colin Grady, William Largent, and Jaeson Schultz. Emotet is still evolving, five years after its debut as a banking trojan. It is one of the world's most dangerous botnets and malware droppers-for-hire. The malware payloads dropped by Emotet serve to more fully monetize their attacks, and ofte...

Threat Roundup for August 30 to September 6

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Aug. 30 and Sept. 6. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

ptrace Sudo Token Privilege Escalation Exploit

This Metasploit module attempts to gain root privileges by blindly injecting into the session user's running shell processes and executing commands by calling system, in the hope that the process has valid cached sudo tokens with root privileges. The system must have gdb installed and permit...

Threat Roundup for August 23 to August 30

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Aug. 23 and Aug. 30. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

WARNING — Malware Found in CamScanner Android App With 100+ Million Users

Beware! Attackers can remotely hijack your Android device and steal data stored on it, if you are using free version of CamScanner, a highly-popular Phone PDF creator app with more than 100 million downloads on Google Play Store. So, to be safe, just uninstall the CamScanner app from your Android...

WARNING — Malware Found in CamScanner Android App With 100+ Million Users

Beware! Attackers can remotely hijack your Android device and steal data stored on it, if you are using free version of CamScanner , a highly-popular Phone PDF creator app with more than 100 million downloads on Google Play Store. So, to be safe, just uninstall the CamScanner app from your Androi...

Ahsay Backup 7.x - 8.1.1.50 - Authenticated Arbitrary File Upload Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

Ahsay Backup 7.x - 8.1.1.50 - Authenticated Arbitrary File Upload Remote Code Execution Metasploit Exploit Title: Authenticated insecure file upload and code execution flaw in Ahsay Backup v7.x - v8.1.1.50. Metasploit Date: 26-6-2019 Exploit Author: Wietse Boonstra Vendor Homepage:...

Threat Roundup for June 21 to June 28

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 21 and June 28. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

One-Lin3r v2.0 - Gives You One-Liners That Aids In Penetration Testing Operations, Privilege Escalation And More

One-Lin3r is simple modular and light-weight framework gives you all the one-liners that you will need while penetration testing Windows, Linux, macOS or even BSD systems or hacking generally with a lot of new features to make all of this fully automated ex: you won't even need to copy the...

New FormBook Dropper Harbors Obfuscation, Persistence

Researchers are warning that a future data-theft attack may be brewing after discovering a new sample of the FormBook malware, with a never-before-seen dropper — i.e. a malicious file that is used in the initial infection stage and installs malware on the system. FormBook, a browser form-stealer...

Threat Roundup for May 24 to May 31

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 24 and May 31. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Threat Roundup for May 17 to May 24

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 17 and May 24. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Yum Package Manager Persistence Exploit

This Metasploit module will run a payload when the package manager is used. No handler is run automatically so you must configure an appropriate exploit/multi/handler to connect. Module modifies a yum plugin to launch a binary of choice. grep -F 'enabled=1' /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/ will show what...

APT Package Manager Persistence

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'APT Package Manager Persistence', 'Description' = %q This module will run a payload when the package manager is used. No handler is ran...

ManageEngine Applications Manager 14.0 SQL Injection / Command Injection

This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule "ManageEngine Applications Manager %q This module exploits sqli and command injection vulnerability in the ManageEngine AM 14 and prior versions. I...

Remote Mouse RCE

This module utilizes the Remote Mouse Server by Emote Interactive protocol to deploy a payload and run it from the server on versions use exploit/windows/misc/remote/mouserce msf undefinedmouserce show actions ...actions... msf undefinedmouserce set ACTION msf undefinedmouserce show options ...sh...

Roaming Mantis, part IV

One year has passed since we published the first blogpost about the Roaming Mantis campaign on securelist.com, and this February we detected new activities by the group. This blogpost is follow up on our earlier reporting about the group with updates on their tools and tactics. Mobile config for...

Yum Package Manager Persistence

This module will run a payload when the package manager is used. No handler is ran automatically so you must configure an appropriate exploit/multi/handler to connect. Module modifies a yum plugin to launch a binary of choice. grep -F 'enabled=1' /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/ will show what plugins are...