CVE-2020-15279

An Improper Access Control vulnerability in the logging component of Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools for Windows versions prior to 6.6.23.320 allows a regular user to learn the scanning exclusion paths. This issue was discovered during external security research...

Improper access control

An Improper Access Control vulnerability in the logging component of Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools for Windows versions prior to 6.6.23.320 allows a regular user to learn the scanning exclusion paths. This issue was discovered during external security research...

openSUSE Security Update : perl-Image-ExifTool (openSUSE-2021-707)

This update for perl-Image-ExifTool fixes the following issues : Update to version 12.25 fixes boo1185547 CVE-2021-22204 - JPEG XL support is now official - Added read support for Medical Research Council MRC image files - Added ability to write a number of 3gp tags in video files - Added a new...

Experts Warn About Ongoing AutoHotkey-Based Malware Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an ongoing malware campaign that heavily relies on AutoHotkey AHK scripting language to deliver multiple remote access trojans RAT such as Revenge RAT, LimeRAT, AsyncRAT, Houdini, and Vjw0rm on target Windows systems. At least four different versions of th...

Cisco RV34X系列 权限提升漏洞（CVE-2021-1520）

Advisory: Cisco RV34X Series - Privilege Escalation in vpnTimer May 5, 2021 |In Research |By [email protected] TL;DR A few weeks ago, we published an advisory on the Cisco RV series routers, where we outlined the root cause for authentication bypass and remote command execution issues...

Partnering With Verizon on the 2021 DBIR

By the time you read this post, the 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report DBIR will be published. Akamai has been one of the many partners contributing data to this report for more than half a decade. We greatly value the time, effort, and dedicated data science that goes into providing...

FragAttack: New Wi-Fi vulnerabilities that affect… basically everything

A new set of vulnerabilities with an aggressive name and their own website almost always bodes ill. The name FragAttack is a contraction of fragmentation and aggregation attacks, which immediately indicates the main area where the vulnerabilities were found. The vulnerabilities are mostly in how...

CyberBattleSim - An Experimentation And Research Platform To Investigate The Interaction Of Automated Agents In An Abstract Simulated Network Environments

CyberBattleSim is an experimentation research platform to investigate the interaction of automated agents operating in a simulated abstract enterprise network environment. The simulation provides a high-level abstraction of computer networks and cyber security concepts. Its Python-based Open AI G...

Ryuk Ransomware Attack Sprung by Frugal Student

A European biomolecular research institute involved in COVID-19 research lost a week’s worth of research data, all thanks to a Ryuk ransomware attack traced back to a student trying to save money by buying unlicensed software. Security researchers at Sophos described the attack in a report...

[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: yara-4.1.0-1.fc33

YARA is a tool aimed at but not limited to helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions of malware families or whatever you want to describe based on textual or binary patterns. Each description, a.k.a rule, consists of a set of strin...

Rapid7 Releases New Industry Cyber-Exposure Report (ICER): ASX 200

Today, we are excited to release the third report in our Industry Cyber-Exposure Report ICER series, which digs into cyber-exposure among organizations in Australia’s ASX 200. This series focuses on five key areas we believe CISOs at mega-corporations actually have a shot at accomplishing, and wi...

New Spectre-Like Attacks

Theres new research that demonstrates security vulnerabilities in all of the AMD and Intel chips with micro-op caches, including the ones that were specifically engineered to be resistant to the Spectre/Meltdown attacks of three years ago. Details: The new line of attacks exploits the micro-op...

21Nails: Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities in Exim Mail Server

Update May 7, 2021: Exim has released a security update to address multiple vulnerabilities in Exim versions prior to 4.94.2. See the CISA announcement. Original Post: The Qualys Research Team has discovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in the Exim mail server, some of the which can be chain...

AMD RESPONSE TO “I see dead µops: leaking secrets via Intel/AMD micro-op caches” RESEARCH PAPER

Bulletin ID: AMD-SB-1006 Summary AMD has reviewed the research paper and believes existing mitigations were not being bypassed and no new mitigations are required. AMD recommends its existing side-channel mitigation guidance and standard secure coding practices be followed. CVE Details None...

Buer Malware Tool Rewritten in E-Z Rust Language

A variant of the Buer malware, which is being distributed in emails disguised as DHL support shipping notices, comes with a fresh code rewrite in the popular Rust language and looks like it may be in the process of prepping for rental to other cybercrooks. Join Threatpost for “Fortifying Your...

Microsoft Warns of 25 Critical Vulnerabilities in IoT, Industrial Devices

Security researchers at Microsoft are warning the industry about 25 as-yet undocumented critical memory-allocation vulnerabilities across a number of vendors’ IoT and industrial devices that threat actors could exploit to execute malicious code across a network or cause an entire system to crash...

“BadAlloc” – Memory allocation vulnerabilities could affect wide range of IoT and OT devices in industrial, medical, and enterprise networks

Microsoft’s Section 52, the Azure Defender for IoT security research group, recently uncovered a series of critical memory allocation vulnerabilities in IoT and OT devices that adversaries could exploit to bypass security controls in order to execute malicious code or cause a system crash. These...

“BadAlloc” – Memory allocation vulnerabilities could affect wide range of IoT and OT devices in industrial, medical, and enterprise networks

Microsoft’s Section 52, the Azure Defender for IoT security research group, recently uncovered a series of critical memory allocation vulnerabilities in IoT and OT devices that adversaries could exploit to bypass security controls in order to execute malicious code or cause a system crash. These...

vulhub

This repository is an open-source collection of pre-built vulnerable docker environments, referred to as 'Vulhub'. It is an offensive tool for various areas, including web application security, penetration testing, and vulnerability research. The primary purpose of Vulhub is to provide a convenie...

Ghostwriter Update: Cyber Espionage Group UNC1151 Likely Conducts Ghostwriter Influence Activity

In July 2020, Mandiant Threat Intelligence released a public report detailing an ongoing influence campaign we named “Ghostwriter.” Ghostwriter is a cyber-enabled influence campaign which primarily targets audiences in Lithuania, Latvia and Poland and promotes narratives critical of the North...