Stealthy Symbiote Linux malware is after financial institutions

Symbiote, a new "nearly impossible to detect" Linux malware, targeted financial sectors in Latin America—and the threat actors behind it might have links to Brazil. These findings were revealed in a recent report, a joint effort between the Blackberry Research Team and Dr. Joakim Kennedy, a...

Panchan?s Mining Rig: New Golang Peer-to-Peer Botnet Says ?Hi!?

Akamai researchers have discovered a new P2P botnet targeting APJ. Read about it here...

Frequency Scaling Timing Power Side-Channels

Bulletin ID: AMD-SB-1038 Potential Impact: Information Disclosure Severity: Medium Summary AMD is aware of the academic research paper titled “Hertzbleed: Turning Power Side-Channel Attacks Into Remote Timing Attacks on x86”. AMD has been notified the researchers intend to submit their paper to...

Malicious code in brave-research-participation-tool (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware aabb0d4d11817436c523cc8b6a7cec461ac62c46889ef22bddae8fb9a66a6e4d Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Trellix Threat Labs Uncovers Critical Flaws in Widely Used Building Access Control System

Trellix Threat Labs Uncovers Critical Flaws in Widely Used Building Access Control System By Trellix · June 9, 2022 This story was also written by Steve Povolny and Sam Quinn. Today at the Hardwear.io Security Trainings and Conference, Trellix Threat Labs is sharing new research into...

Prometheus ransomware’s flaws inspired researchers to try to build a near-universal decryption tool

This blog is part of our live coverage from RSA Conference 2022: Prometheus—a ransomware build based on Thanos that locked up victims’ computers in the summer of 2021—included a major “vulnerability” that led security researchers at IBM to try and build a one-size-fits-all ransomware decryptor th...

Why It’s Time to Map the Digital Attack Surface

Trend Micro research reveals struggle to control cyber risks against mounting digital attack surfaces...

Why It’s Time to Map the Digital Attack Surface

Trend Micro research reveals struggle to control cyber risks against mounting digital attack surfaces...

Imperva Customers are protected from Atlassian Confluence CVE-2022-26134

This is an evolving storyline. Last update: June 4, 2022. On June 2, 2022, Atlassian published a security advisory regarding a CVE for versions of Confluence Server and Data Center applications greater than 1.3.0. The advisory details a critical severity unauthenticated remote code execution...

What Counts as “Good Faith Security Research?”

The U.S. Department of Justice DOJ recently revised its policy on charging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA, a 1986 law that remains the primary statute by which federal prosecutors pursue cybercrime cases. The new guidelines state that prosecutors should avoid charging securit...

CVE-2021-40186

The AppCheck research team identified a Server-Side Request Forgery SSRF vulnerability within the DNN CMS platform, formerly known as DotNetNuke. SSRF vulnerabilities allow the attacker to exploit the target system to make network requests on their behalf, allowing a range of possible attacks. In...

New XLoader Botnet Version Using Probability Theory to Hide its C&C Servers

An enhanced version of the XLoader malware has been spotted adopting a probability-based approach to camouflage its command-and-control C&C infrastructure, according to the latest research. "Now it is significantly harder to separate the wheat from the chaff and discover the real C&C servers amon...

Design/Logic Flaw

eLabFTW is an electronic lab notebook manager for research teams. Prior to version 4.3.0, a vulnerability allows an authenticated user with an administrator role in a team to assign itself system administrator privileges within the application, or create a new system administrator account. The...

Is quantum teleportation the future of secure communications?

“Beam me up Scotty” will always remain my first association with teleportation. And as it stands now, we are still a long way from teleporting matter, but the teleportation of information has recently made a huge step forward. Researchers in Delft say they have succeeded in teleporting quantum...

EnemyBot Malware Targets Web Servers, CMS Tools and Android OS

A rapidly evolving IoT malware dubbed “EnemyBot” is targeting content management systems CMS, web servers and Android devices. Threat actor group “Keksec” is believed behind the distribution of the malware, according to researchers. “Services such as VMware Workspace ONE, Adobe ColdFusion,...

BinAbsInspector - Vulnerability Scanner For Binaries

BinAbsInspector Binary Abstract Inspector is a static analyzer for automated reverse engineering and scanning vulnerabilities in binaries, which is a long-term research project incubated at Keenlab. It is based on abstract interpretation with the support from Ghidra. It works on Ghidra's Pcode...

Hacktivists Expanding DDoS Attacks as Part of International Cyber Warfare Strategy

In April 2022 it was reported that pro-Russian hacktivist group, KILLNET, carried out a series of Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks against a number of websites including the United Nations UN, The Organization for Security and Cooperation OSCE an organization founded in Finland, and oth...

Exploit for Off-by-one Error in Sudo_Project Sudo

CVE-2021-3156 Root shell PoC for CVE-2021-3156 no brutef...

CISA and DoD Release 5G Security Evaluation Process Investigation Study

CISA and the Department of Defense DoD have released their 5G Security Evaluation Process Investigation Study for federal agencies. The new features, capabilities, and services offered by fifth-generation 5G cellular network technology can transform mission and business operations; and federal...

[Security Nation] Omer Akgul and Richard Roberts on YouTube VPN Ads

!\Security Nation\ Omer Akgul and Richard Roberts on YouTube VPN Adshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/05/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with academics Omer Akgul and Richard Roberts about their recent paper, “Investigating Influencer VPN Ads ...