A coin miner with a “Heaven’s Gate”

You might call the last two years the years of ransomware. Ransomware was, without a doubt, the most popular type of malware. But at the end of last year, we started observing that ransomware was losing its popularity to coin miners. It is very much possible that this trend will grow as 2018...

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Zhejiang Dahua Playback Library SDK (CNVD-2018-01922)

Playback Library SDK is a development kit based on Dahua's private code stream encapsulation protocol developed to serve network DVRs, network video servers, network cameras, network dome cameras, intelligent devices and other products. A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in dhplay.dll in th...

A week in security (January 8 – January 14)

It's very early in the year, yet everyone has already had a complete meltdown pun intended over a number of serious vulnerabilities found in legacy and modern microprocessors. Last week, rightly so, vendors released patches for hardware and OSes to help mitigate these threats. However, problems i...

RIG exploit kit campaign gets deep into crypto craze

There isn't a day that goes by without a headline about yet another massive spike in Bitcoin valuation, or a story about someone mortgaging their house to purchase the hardware required to become a serious cryptocurrency miner. If many folks are thinking about joining the 'crypto craze' movement,...

Our Analysis of 1,019 Phishing Kits

In recent years phishing activity has grown rapidly, with thousands of phishing sites popping for a virtual moment that last weeks, days or even hours, before becoming ineffective—either getting blacklisted by security providers, or brought down by internet providers and authorities, or in most...

CVE-2017-13848

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.2 is affected. The issue involves the "IOKit" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via a crafted app...

CVE-2017-17821

WTF/wtf/FastBitVector.h in WebKit, as distributed in Safari Technology Preview Release 46, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service buffer overflow or possibly have unspecified other impact because it calls the FastBitVectorWordOwner::resizeSlow function in WTF/wtf/FastBitVector.cpp f...

How to script removing and rescanning "Ghost NIC" devices in Windows

It's sometimes necessary to run DevMgr in "nonpresent device" mode to remove all nonpresent NIC devices, and sometimes the present NIC too, and then rescan the network to fix problems. It's possible, using the Microsoft Windows Development Kit tool DEVCON.EXE, to script this operation if you know...

A week in security (December 11 – December 17)

Last week we explained what fast flux is and how it's being abused, we showed you all kinds of Bitcoin-related scams, presented a video recording of a tech support scammer trying to sell free software, and pointed out some free software to keep an eye on your Internet traffic. We also informed yo...

RHEL 6 : java-1.8.0-ibm (RHSA-2017:3453)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:3453 advisory. IBM Java SE version 8 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit. This update upgrades IBM Java SE ...

Zero-Day Remote 'Root' Exploit Disclosed In AT&T DirecTV WVB Devices

Security researchers have publicly disclosed an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in the firmware of AT&T DirecTV WVB kit after trying to get the device manufacturer to patch this easy-to-exploit flaw over the past few months. The problem is with a core component of the Genie DVR system that's...

Cobalt Strike Payload Remote Code Execution

Cobalt Strike is an exploit kit that operates by delivering malicious payload to the victim's computer...

CentOS 6 / 7 : java-1.7.0-openjdk (CESA-2017:3392)

An update for java-1.7.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, ...

USN-3497-1 openjdk-7 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Smart Card IO subsystem in OpenJDK did not properly maintain state. An attacker could use this to specially construct an untrusted Java application or applet to gain access to a smart card, bypassing sandbox restrictions. CVE-2017-10274 Gaston Traberg discovered that th...

Terdot Trojan likes social media

We usually advise people that have fallen victim to banker Trojans to change all their passwords, especially the ones that are related to their financial sites and apps. Besides the dangers of re-used passwords, there are other reasons why this is important. This advice is especially applicable t...

Banking Trojan Gains Ability to Steal Facebook, Twitter and Gmail Accounts

Security researchers have discovered a new, sophisticated form of malware based on the notorious Zeus banking Trojan that steals more than just bank account details. Dubbed Terdot, the banking Trojan has been around since mid-2016 and was initially designed to operate as a proxy to conduct...

SUSE-SU-2017:3000-1 Security update for storm, storm-kit

This update for storm, storm-kit fixes the following issues: - Update storm to version 1.0.5 bsc1059463, CVE-2017-9799 - Update storm-kit to version 1.0.5 bsc1059463, CVE-2017-9799 - Initial package bsc1048688, fate323204...

Disdain exploit kit and a side of social engineering deliver Neutrino Bot

Today we picked up new activity from an exploit kit that was first discovered back in August of this year. The Disdain exploit kit, simply identified by a string of the same name found in its source code, is being distributed again after a short interruption via malvertising chains. Disdain EK...

Magnitude EK actor goes for Bitcoin multiplier scam (updated)

It is well known that hot commodities tend to attract scammers and online criminals. The continuous rise of Bitcoin over the past year valued at over USD $7,188 at the time of writing is generating frenzy amongst fans of cryptocurrencies as well as those watching from the sidelines. While the...

ATM Users May Soon Face More Malware

By: David Sancho, Senior Threat Researcher at Trend Micro and Juan Jesús León, Product and New Development Manager of GMV Secure e-Solutions Trend Micro and GMV - an industry expert on ATM security - presented last week in London, during ATMSec, a conference focused on the topic. Our presentation...