Crypto Miners Using Tox P2P Messenger as Command and Control Server

Threat actors have begun to use the Tox peer-to-peer instant messaging service as a command-and-control method, marking a shift from its earlier role as a contact method for ransomware negotiations. The findings from Uptycs, which analyzed an Executable and Linkable Format ELF artifact "72client"...

Malicious creator can create different NFT collections with NFTs corresponding to same ipfs token URI

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact A creator can call the following createNFTCollection function with different name, symbol, and nonce to create different NFT collections. function createNFTCollection string calldata name, string calldata symbol, uint256 nonce external returns address...

A Growing Number of Malware Attacks Leveraging Dark Utilities 'C2-as-a-Service'

A nascent service called Dark Utilities has already attracted 3,000 users for its ability to provide command-and-control C2 services with the goal of commandeering compromised systems. "It is marketed as a means to enable remote access, command execution, distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack...

Attackers leveraging Dark Utilities "C2aaS" platform in malware campaigns

By Edmund Brumaghin, Azim Khodjibaev and Matt Thaxton, with contributions from Arnaud Zobec. Executive Summary Dark Utilities, released in early 2022, is a platform that provides full-featured C2 capabilities to adversaries. It is marketed as a means to enable remote access, command execution,...

Researchers Warns of Increase in Phishing Attacks Using Decentralized IPFS Network

The decentralized file system solution known as IPFS is becoming the new "hotbed" for hosting phishing sites, researchers have warned. Cybersecurity firm Trustwave SpiderLabs, which disclosed specifics of the spam campaigns, said it identified no less than 3,000 emails containing IPFS phishing UR...

Denial Of Service

go-ipfs nodes are vulnerable to Denial of Service when importing malformed CAR files. Importing a malformed CAR can exhaust all available memory...

GHSA-F2GR-7299-487H DOS and excessive memory usage when passing untrusted user input to to dag import

Impact go-ipfs nodes crash when trying to import certain malformed CAR files due to an issue in the go-car dependency. This impacts nodes running ipfs dag import on untrusted user inputs, for example, pinning services with a car ingest endpoint. This include the corresponding HTTP RPC API...

DOS and excessive memory usage when passing untrusted user input to to dag import

Impact go-ipfs nodes crash when trying to import certain malformed CAR files due to an issue in the go-car dependency. This impacts nodes running ipfs dag import on untrusted user inputs, for example, pinning services with a car ingest endpoint. This include the corresponding HTTP RPC API...

Malicious code in ipfs-adapter (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 2ff7251116255f3e856a12347eb0aad27276395f2e10d82a6dd87a6e6eb5efb9 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

MAL-2022-3952 Malicious code in ipfs-adapter (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 2ff7251116255f3e856a12347eb0aad27276395f2e10d82a6dd87a6e6eb5efb9 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

go-ipfs is vulnerable to denial of service. The use of go-codec-dagpb dependency with an issue allows external user who download or export data to traverse certain malformed graphs and cause an application crash...

Information Disclosure

github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs is vulnerable to information disclosure. The vulnerability exists in docker-compose.yaml because the resulting list of listeners when running IPFS are either public or bound to public IPs which allows an attacker to gain admin API access to the IPFS node and control user...

GHSA-FX5P-F64H-93XC Opened exploitable ports in default docker-compose.yaml in go-ipfs

Impact Allows admin API access to the IPFS node. Who ? This affects people running the docker-compose.yaml service in an environment where the docker host is directly attached to a public or untrusted IP. In the vulnerable version, the private API endpoint is publicly forwarded by exposing it as...

Opened exploitable ports in default docker-compose.yaml in go-ipfs

Impact Allows admin API access to the IPFS node. Who ? This affects people running the docker-compose.yaml service in an environment where the docker host is directly attached to a public or untrusted IP. In the vulnerable version, the private API endpoint is publicly forwarded by exposing it as...

GHSA-27PV-Q55R-222G Path traversal in github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs

Impact It is currently possible for path traversal to occur with DAGs containing relative paths during retrieval. This can cause files to be overwritten, or written to incorrect output directories. The issue can only occur when ipfs get is done on an affected DAG. 1. The only affected command is...

Path traversal in github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs

Impact It is currently possible for path traversal to occur with DAGs containing relative paths during retrieval. This can cause files to be overwritten, or written to incorrect output directories. The issue can only occur when ipfs get is done on an affected DAG. 1. The only affected command is...

GHSA-R4GV-VJ59-CCCM Control character injection in console output in github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs

Impact Control characters are not escaped from console output. This can result in hiding input from the user which could result in the user taking an unknown, malicious action. Patches - Patched via https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/7831 in v0.8.0 For more information If you have any questions...

Control character injection in console output in github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs

Impact Control characters are not escaped from console output. This can result in hiding input from the user which could result in the user taking an unknown, malicious action. Patches - Patched via https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/7831 in v0.8.0 For more information If you have any questions...

openSUSE Security Update : opera (openSUSE-2021-712)

This update for opera fixes the following issues : Update to version 76.0.4017.94 - released on the stable branch Update to version 76.0.4017.88 - CHR-8404 Update chromium on desktop-stable-90-4017 to 90.0.4430.85 - DNA-92219 Add bookmark API supports to the front-end - DNA-92409 MAC Present now...

Path Traversal

github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs is vulnerable to path traversal. The use of whyrusleeping/tar-utils which fails to validate tarPath when a get is done on an malicious DAG file allows overwritting of files or writing to incorrect destination folders during retrieval...