CVE-2012-2312

CVE-2012-2312 affects JBoss AS 7 Community Release. The issue arises from improper security context propagation: a thread-pool-reused security context may retain the previous process’s context, enabling a local user to obtain elevated privileges. The connected documents corroborate the elevated-p...

PT-2019-6761

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions JBoss AS 7 Community Release affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to the improper implementation of security context propagation in JBoss AS 7 Community Release. This allows a local user to obtain elevated privilege...

CVE-2012-2312: Improper Privilege Management

An Elevated Privileges issue exists in JBoss AS 7 Community Release due to the improper implementation in the security context propagation, A threat gets reused from the thread pool that still retains the security context from the process last used, which lets a local user obtain elevated...

Gustuff return, new features for victims

By Vitor Ventura with contributions from Chris Neal. Executive summary The Gustuff banking trojan is back with new features, months after initially appearing targeting financial institutions in Australia. Cisco Talos first reported on Gustuff in April. Soon after, the actors behind Gustuff starte...

Masad Spyware Uses Telegram Bots for Command-and-Control

A freshly discovered commercial spyware dubbed the “Masad Clipper and Stealer” is using Telegram bots as its command-and-control C2 hub. Masad harvests information from Windows and Android users and also comes with a full cadre of other malicious capabilities, including the ability to steal...

Emotet Returns from Summer Vacation, Ramps Up Stolen Email Tactic

Emotet, the banking trojan that has evolved into so much more, is back after a summer hiatus, dropping other banking trojans, information stealers, email harvesters, self-propagation mechanisms and ransomware. According to researchers at Cisco Talos, Emotet took a breather at the beginning of Jun...

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...

ruby: Tainted flags are not propagated in Array#pack and String#unpack with some directives

An issue was discovered in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. It does not taint strings that result from unpacking tainted strings with some formats...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby security update

An update for ruby is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the C...

CVE-2019-9628

The CVE-2019-9628 entry concerns the XMLTooling library (versions prior to V3.0.4) bundled with OpenSAML and Shibboleth SP. A parsing issue in the XML declaration causes an exception type that is not properly handled, propagating an unexpected exception. OpenSUSE/SUSE advisories explicitly link C...

Emotet revisited: pervasive threat still a danger to businesses

One of the most common and pervasive threats for businesses today is Emotet, a banking Trojan turned downloader that has been on our list of top 10 detections for many months in a row. Emotet, which Malwarebytes detects as Trojan.Emotet, has been leveled at consumers and organizations across the...

openssl security update

1.0.2k-16.0.1.el76.1 - Bump release for rebuild. 1.0.2k-16.1 - use SHA-256 in FIPS RSA pairwise key check - fix CVE-2018-5407 - EC signature local timing side-channel key extraction 1.0.2k-16 - fix CVE-2018-0495 - ROHNP - Key Extraction Side Channel on DSA, ECDSA - fix incorrect error message on...

Does Zero Trust Security Have to be Hard to be Effective?

The short answer is no. As expected, the long answer is a little more nuanced. But first, a quick refresher on Zero Trust security for those who haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet. For those who have, feel free to skip the next section. Zero Trust Security Recap We know that the defensible netwo...

SpeakUp Linux Backdoor Sets Up for Major Attack

LAS VEGAS — A backdoor trojan dubbed “SpeakUp” has been spotted exploiting the Linux servers that run more than 90 percent of the top 1 million domains in the U.S. It uses a complex bag of tricks to infect hosts and to propagate, which analysts say could indicate that it’s poised for a major...

Security update for singularity (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for singularity Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:0095-1 Rating: moderate References: 1100333 1111411 Cross-References: CVE-2018-12021 CVE-2018-19295 Affected Products: SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 An update that fixes two vulnerabilities...

How threat actors are using SMB vulnerabilities

Some of the most devastating ransomware and Trojan malware variants depend on vulnerabilities in the Windows Server Message Block SMB to propagate through an organization’s network. Windows SMB is a protocol used by PCs for file and printer sharing, as well as for access to remote services. A pat...

Cisco Coverage for Shamoon 2 & 3

Update Dec. 14, 2018 10:30 CST: Added new Shamoon 3 IOCs Shamoon is a type of destructive malware that has been previously associated with attacks against various organizations in the oil and gas industry that we've been tracking since 2012. A new variant of this threat, identified as Shamoon 2,...

Crypto currency mining machine using Elasticsearch vulnerability propagation-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

ElasticSearch is based on Lucene search server. It provides a distributed multi-user capability of the full-text search engine, based on the RESTful web interface. Elasticsearch is developed in Java, and as the Apache license under the terms of the open source release, is the current popular...

Old-School Bagle Worm Still Ready for Modern Spam Campaigns

The long-running Bagle worm, affecting Microsoft Windows machines, is still out there, a throwback to an earlier time. Also referred to as Beagle, Bagle contains a backdoor that listens on TCP port 6777 which is hardcoded in the worm’s body. This backdoor component provides remote access to the...

ruby: Tainted flags are not propagated in Array#pack and String#unpack with some directives

An issue was discovered in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. It does not taint strings that result from unpacking tainted strings with some formats...