New Campaign Targets Middle East Governments with IronWind Malware

Government entities in the Middle East are the target of new phishing campaigns that are designed to deliver a new initial access downloader dubbed IronWind. The activity, detected between July and October 2023, has been attributed by Proofpoint to a threat actor it tracks under the name TA402,...

Inside XWorm: Malware Analysts Decode the Stealthy Tactics of the Latest Variant

XWorm is a relatively new representative of the remote access trojan cohort that has already earned its spot among the most persistent threats across the globe. Since 2022, when it was first observed by researchers, it has undergone a number of major updates that have significantly enhanced its...

GLSA-202309-04 : RAR, UnRAR: Arbitrary File Overwrite

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202309-04 RAR, UnRAR: Arbitrary File Overwrite - RARLAB UnRAR before 6.12 on Linux and UNIX allows directory traversal to write to files during an extract aka unpack operation, as demonstrated by creating a /.ssh/authorizedkeys...

RAR, UnRAR: Arbitrary File Overwrite

Background RAR and UnRAR provide command line interfaces for compressing and decompressing RAR files. Description Due to an error in the validation of symbolic links within archives, RAR and UnRAR can potentially write files to a directory which is outside of the intended unpack directory. Impact...

NodeStealer Malware Now Targets Facebook Business Accounts on Multiple Browsers

An ongoing campaign is targeting Facebook Business accounts with bogus messages to harvest victims' credentials using a variant of the Python-based NodeStealer and potentially take over their accounts for follow-on malicious activities. "The attacks are reaching victims mainly in Southern Europe...

Cybercriminals Combine Phishing and EV Certificates to Deliver Ransomware Payloads

The threat actors behind RedLine and Vidar information stealers have been observed pivoting to ransomware through phishing campaigns that spread initial payloads signed with Extended Validation EV code signing certificates. "This suggests that the threat actors are streamlining operations by maki...

WinRAR Remote Code Execution Exploit

This Metasploit module exploits a vulnerability in WinRAR CVE-2023-38831. When a user opens a crafted RAR file and its embedded document, the decoy document is executed, leading to code execution. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source:...

WinRAR Remote Code Execution

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'zip' class MetasploitModule 'WinRAR CVE-2023-38831 Exploit', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a vulnerability in WinRAR CVE-2023-38831. When a user opens...

Exploit for Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in Rarlab Winrar

WinRAR-CVE-2023-38831 This Metasploit module exploits a vulner...

Debian dla-3543 : rar - security update

The remote Debian 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3543 advisory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3543-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-3543-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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] [DLA 3543-1] rar security update

Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3543-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Markus Koschany August 27, 2023 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS Package : rar Version : 2:6.23-1deb10u1 CVE ID : CVE-2023-40477 A specific flaw within the processing of recovery volumes exists in RAR, an...

DLA-3543-1 rar - security update

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WinRAR Security Flaw Exploited in Zero-Day Attacks to Target Traders

A recently patched security flaw in the popular WinRAR archiving software has been exploited as a zero-day since April 2023, new findings from Group-IB reveal. The vulnerability, cataloged as CVE-2023-38831, allows threat actors to spoof file extensions, thereby making it possible to launch...

The vulnerability of the RAR4 file archiver WinRAR’s volume recovery processing system allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the RAR4 file archive processing system, which is used by WinRAR, relates to the ability to access memory beyond the buffer boundaries. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code by causing the user to open the malicious RAR archive...

Debian dla-3534 : rar - security update

The remote Debian 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3534 advisory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3534-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-3534-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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] [DLA 3534-1] rar security update

Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3534-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Markus Koschany August 17, 2023 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS Package : rar Version : 2:6.20-0.1deb10u1 CVE ID : CVE-2022-30333 Debian Bug : 1012228 The RAR archiver allows directory traversal to write t...

UnRAR Backlink Vulnerability

UnRAR is a command that decompresses files with rar extension. A security vulnerability exists in UnRAR versions prior to 6.2.3. An attacker exploited the vulnerability to extract files outside the target folder via symbolic links...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-250-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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...