The 8220 Cryptomining Gang massively expands Cloud Botnets

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The 8220 gang has significantly expanded their cloud bot armies around the world, targeting AWS, Azure, GCP, Alitun, and QCloud cloud service hosts. The group is being detected using a new version of the IRC...

Fedora: Security Advisory for seamonkey (FEDORA-2022-90618703d0)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Microsoft Warns of Cryptomining Malware Campaign Targeting Linux Servers

A cloud threat actor group tracked as 8220 has updated its malware toolset to breach Linux servers with the goal of installing crypto miners as part of a long-running campaign. "The updates include the deployment of new versions of a crypto miner and an IRC bot," Microsoft Security Intelligence...

[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: weechat-3.5-2.fc35

WeeChat Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat is a portable, fast, light and extensible IRC client. Everything can be done with a keyboard. It is customizable and extensible with scripts...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: weechat-3.5-2.fc36

WeeChat Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat is a portable, fast, light and extensible IRC client. Everything can be done with a keyboard. It is customizable and extensible with scripts...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: weechat-3.5-2.fc34

WeeChat Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat is a portable, fast, light and extensible IRC client. Everything can be done with a keyboard. It is customizable and extensible with scripts...

Fedora: Security Advisory for weechat (FEDORA-2022-127b6e8a95)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Fedora: Security Advisory for weechat (FEDORA-2022-6e226a21ed)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Fedora: Security Advisory for weechat (FEDORA-2022-d165104234)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

GHSA-37HR-348P-RMF4 Improper handling of multiline messages in node-irc affects matrix-appservice-irc

matrix-appservice-irc provides an IRC bridge for Matrix. The vulnerability in node-irc allows an attacker to manipulate a Matrix user into executing IRC commands by having them reply to a maliciously crafted message. The vulnerability has been patched in matrix-appservice-irc 0.33.2. In terms of ...

Improper handling of multiline messages in node-irc affects matrix-appservice-irc

matrix-appservice-irc provides an IRC bridge for Matrix. The vulnerability in node-irc allows an attacker to manipulate a Matrix user into executing IRC commands by having them reply to a maliciously crafted message. The vulnerability has been patched in matrix-appservice-irc 0.33.2. In terms of ...

Fedora: Security Advisory for pidgin (FEDORA-2022-4490dce823)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2022 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: pidgin-2.14.6-3.fc35

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just add an...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: pidgin-2.14.8-3.fc36

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just add an...

Jenkins IRC Plugin stores credentials in plain text

Jenkins IRC Plugin stores credentials unencrypted in its global configuration file hudson.plugins.ircbot.IrcPublisher.xml on the Jenkins controller. These credentials can be viewed by users with access to the Jenkins controller file system...

GHSA-VRV9-CCJ3-G284 Jenkins IRC Plugin stores credentials in plain text

Jenkins IRC Plugin stores credentials unencrypted in its global configuration file hudson.plugins.ircbot.IrcPublisher.xml on the Jenkins controller. These credentials can be viewed by users with access to the Jenkins controller file system...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: seamonkey-2.53.12-1.fc36

SeaMonkey is an all-in-one Internet application suite previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla. It includes an Internet browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup and feed client, a calendar, IRC client, HTML editor and a tool to inspect the DOM for web pages. It is derived from the application...

[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: seamonkey-2.53.12-1.fc35

SeaMonkey is an all-in-one Internet application suite previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla. It includes an Internet browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup and feed client, a calendar, IRC client, HTML editor and a tool to inspect the DOM for web pages. It is derived from the application...

Fedora: Security Advisory for unrealircd (FEDORA-2022-c51b3a7f19)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: unrealircd-6.0.3-1.fc36

UnrealIRCd is an Open Source IRC server based on the branch of IRCu called Dreamforge, formerly used by the DALnet IRC network. Since the beginning of development on UnrealIRCd in May of 1999, it has become a highly advanced IRCd with a strong focus on modularity, an advanced and highly...