Infection Monkey v1.6 - An Automated Pentest Tool

The Infection Monkey is an open source security tool for testing a data center's resiliency to perimeter breaches and internal server infection. The Monkey uses various methods to self-propagate across a data center and reports success to a centralized Monkey Island server. The Infection Monkey i...

Threat Roundup for November 2 to November 9

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Nov. 02 and Nov. 09. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (openSUSE-SU-2018:2407-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 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...

Apache CXF TLS hostname verification does not work correctly with com.sun.net.ssl.*

It is possible to configure Apache CXF to use the com.sun.net.ssl implementation via 'System.setProperty"java.protocol.handler.pkgs", "com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol";'. When this system property is set, CXF uses some reflection to try to make the HostnameVerifier work with the old...

The Bouncy Castle JCE Provider carry a propagation bug

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider versions 1.51 to 1.55, a carry propagation bug was introduced in the implementation of squaring for several raw math classes have been fixed org.bouncycastle.math.raw.Nat???. These classes are used by our custom elliptic curve implementations...

GHSA-R97X-3G8F-GX3M The Bouncy Castle JCE Provider carry a propagation bug

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider versions 1.51 to 1.55, a carry propagation bug was introduced in the implementation of squaring for several raw math classes have been fixed org.bouncycastle.math.raw.Nat???. These classes are used by our custom elliptic curve implementations...

Innovative Phishing Tactic Makes Inroads Using Azure Blob

A fresh tactic for phishing Office 365 users employs credential-harvesting forms hosted on Azure Blob storage – signed with legitimate Microsoft SSL certificates to lend an air of legitimacy. Azure Blob Storage is a cloud storage solution for hosting unstructured data such as images, video or tex...

Updated bouncycastle packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated bouncycastle packages fix security vulnerabilities: Ensure full validation of ASN.1 encoding of signature on verification. It was possible to inject extra elements in the sequence making up the signature and still have it validate, which in some cases may have allowed the introduction of...

XBash Malware Packs Double Punch: Destroys Data and Mines for Crypto Coins

Researchers have discovered a new sophisticated malware family in the wild, which wrecks havoc on Windows and Linux systems with a combination of data destructive ransomware and malicious cryptomining. The malware, dubbed by Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researchers who discovered it as Xbash, has...

Storefront 3.15 | Storefront propagation fails.

Propagation fails on Server 2012R2 machine. In event logs: Log Name: Citrix Delivery Services Source: Citrix Configuration Replication An error occurred when starting the 'WAS' Windows service. System.ServiceProcess.TimeoutException, System.ServiceProcess, Version-4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,...

openssl: bn_sqrx8x_internal carry bug on x86_64

There is a carry propagating bug in the x8664 Montgomery squaring procedure in OpenSSL before 1.0.2m and 1.1.0 before 1.1.0g. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely...

Security Bulletin: WebSphere DataPower Appliances is affected by multiple issues

Summary WebSphere DataPower Appliances has addressed the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-1447 CVE-2018-1388 CVE-2016-0702 CVE-2016-0705 CVE-2017-3732 CVE-2017-3736 CVE-2018-1428 Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1447 DESCRIPTION: The GSKit CMS KDB logic fails to salt the hash function...

bouncycastle: Carry propagation bug in math.raw.Nat??? class

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider versions 1.51 to 1.55, a carry propagation bug was introduced in the implementation of squaring for several raw math classes have been fixed org.bouncycastle.math.raw.Nat???. These classes are used by our custom elliptic curve implementations...

apache-cxf: TLS hostname verification does not work correctly with com.sun.net.ssl.*

It was discovered that when Apache CXF is configured to use the system property com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol ,it uses reflection to make the HostnameVerifier work with old com.sun.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier interface. Although the CXF implementation throws an exception, which is caught in...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:2345-1) (Foreshadow)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.61-52128 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-3646: Local attackers in virtualized guest systems could use speculative code patterns on hyperthreaded processors to read data present in the L1 Datacache used by other...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:2348-1) (Foreshadow)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606488 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-3646: Local attackers in virtualized guest systems could use speculative code patterns on hyperthreaded processors to read data present in the L1 Datacache used by other...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:2364-1) (Foreshadow)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.74-606493 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-3646: Local attackers in virtualized guest systems could use speculative code patterns on hyperthreaded processors to read data present in the L1 Datacache used by other...

Emotet Malware Evolves Beyond Banking to Threat Delivery Service

The Emotet trojan has been popping up in the news for years: From widespread malspam infections of banking German targets in 2014, all the way up to the costly infection of a New Hampshire town’s computer network in July. And while the tricky Emotet malware first emerged targeting banking...

Drupal, Phishing and A New Cryptomining Botnet

It’s a well-known fact that security solutions must quickly adapt to new attack methods. There are several ways to achieve this goal, regularly applying security patches and updates, relying on threat intelligence and more. At Imperva, we use pattern anomaly detection as one of the tools to...

Pbot: evolving adware

The adware PBot PythonBot got its name because its core modules are written in Python. It was more than a year ago that we detected the first member of this family. Since then, we have encountered several modifications of the program, one of which went beyond adware by installing and running a...