Monero: Locked_Transfer functional burning

Summary: Using the lockedtransfer command in the monero-wallet-cli users can send outputs with high lock times like 1,000,000 blocks. A vendor will accept these transactions with no warnings and credit a user balance. The user can now withdrawal or sell this balance and the vendor is left with...

Monero: DoS for remote nodes using Slow Loris attack

Summary: Using the slow loris attack it's possible to make the the daemon unresponsive to all RPC requests without at least a restart. Description: I used this node.js application https://www.npmjs.com/package/sloww to perform the attack on one of my remote nodes, but any other implementation of...

Monero (Lithium Luna) Epee Library Code Execution Vulnerability

Monero Lithium Luna is a digital currency. epee library is one of the open source Levin libraries. A security vulnerability exists in the Levin deserialization feature of Epee library used in Monero Lithium Luna version 0.12.2.0-master-ffab6700 and other cryptocurrencies. An attacker could exploi...

CVE-2018-3972

CVE-2018-3972 is a remote code execution vulnerability in the Levin deserialization path of the Monero Epee library. The flaw arises in epee’s Levin deserialization of network packets, where a specially crafted packet can trigger a logic error and remote code execution. The TALOS/Cisco advisory a...

CVE-2018-3972

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the Levin deserialization functionality of the Epee library, as used in Monero 'Lithium Luna' v0.12.2.0-master-ffab6700 and other cryptocurrencies. A specially crafted network packet can cause a logic flaw, resulting in code execution. An...

CVE-2018-3972

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the Levin deserialization functionality of the Epee library, as used in Monero 'Lithium Luna' v0.12.2.0-master-ffab6700 and other cryptocurrencies. A specially crafted network packet can cause a logic flaw, resulting in code execution. An...

CVE-2018-3972

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the Levin deserialization functionality of the Epee library, as used in Monero 'Lithium Luna' v0.12.2.0-master-ffab6700 and other cryptocurrencies. A specially crafted network packet can cause a logic flaw, resulting in code execution. An...

Deserialization of untrusted data

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the Levin deserialization functionality of the Epee library, as used in Monero 'Lithium Luna' v0.12.2.0-master-ffab6700 and other cryptocurrencies. A specially crafted network packet can cause a logic flaw, resulting in code execution. An...

PT-2018-16352 · Monero · Epee Library +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Epee library as used in Monero version 0.12.2.0-master-ffab6700 Description: A code execution issue exists in the Levin deserialization functionality of the Epee library. This is caused by a logic flaw that can be triggered by a specially...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Epee Levin Packet Deserialization Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability was discovered by Lilith of Cisco Talos. Overview The Epee library, which is leveraged by a large number of cryptocurrencies, contains an exploitable code execution vulnerability in the Levin deserialization functionality. An attacker can send a specially crafted network packet...

Epee Levin Packet Deserialization Code Execution Vulnerability

Summary An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the Levin deserialization functionality of the epee library. A specially crafted network packet can cause a logic flaw, resulting in code execution. An attacker can send a packet to trigger this vulnerability. Tested Versions Monero...

Cybercriminals Target Kodi Media Player for Malware Distribution

The Kodi media player has emerged as a malware distribution platform for cybercriminals, recently becoming the target for a cryptomining campaign that compromised about 5,000 machines before being thwarted. Those victims are still at risk, researchers warned. Kodi is free and open-source, and can...

Active Campaign Exploits Critical Apache Struts 2 Flaw in the Wild

It was only a matter of time before attacks were seen in the wild, and now it’s happened. A known threat actor has mounted a large cryptomining campaign using the recently disclosed Apache Struts 2 critical remote code-execution vulnerability. It uses a new malware designed for persistence and...

MEGA Chrome extension hacked with cryptocurrency malware

By Waqas Cloud storage solution MEGA delivered Monero cryptocurrency malware. 21st-century technologies like blockchain are regarded as groundbreaking inventions. However, the security aspect of the new age digital systems has always been criticized for being lackluster and flawed. This concern i...

New Threat Actor ‘Rocke’: A Rising Monero Cryptomining Menace

Researchers are warning of a Chinese-language threat actor leveraging a wide array of Git repositories to infect vulnerable systems with Monero-based cryptomining malware. Researchers at Cisco Talos, who discovered the threat actor they call “Rocke”, said they have been tracking the adversary sin...

Qualys BrowserCheck CoinBlocker Protects Users From Active Cryptojacking Campaigns

Qualys Malware Research Labs recently released the Qualys BrowserCheck CoinBlocker Chrome Extension. We have seen enthusiastic adoption from users across the globe in the first week since its release, which has given us enough telemetry data to indicate success in protecting users from popular...

Monero: Malicious get_random_rct_outs.bin rpc can cause a near-infinite loop

Summary: An unsanitized getrandomrctouts.bin rpc request can cause the rpc handler to go into an effectively infinite-loop, peg the cpu, and block other requests from completing. Description: The rpc endpoint /getrandomrctouts.bin takes a uint64 outscount as input and will return that many random...

Monero: Stack Overflow in JSON RPC Server

Summary: There is a stack overflow bug in jsonparser when parsing nesting objects. Description: Monero's json parser handled by epee libraries doesn't check object tree depth while parsing Steps To Reproduce: Up the service bash monerod run bash python2 poc.py backtrace SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer:...

ZombieBoy cryptomining malware exploits CVEs to evade detection

By Waqas ZombieBoy malware makes $1,000 Monero on a monthly basis. An independent security expert James Quinn has discovered a new family of cryptominers that has been dubbed as ZombieBoy. According to Quinn’s analysis, the newly discovered cryptomining worm clocked in at 43 KH/s which means as p...

Hackers Infect Over 200,000 MikroTik Routers With Crypto Mining Malware

Security researchers have discovered at least three massive malware campaigns exploiting hundreds of thousands of unpatched MikroTik routers to secretly install cryptocurrency miners on computers connected to them. In all, the malware campaigns have compromised more than 210,000 routers from...