Fixed in Apache Tomcat 9.0.20

Important: Denial of Service CVE-2019-10072 The fix for CVE-2019-0199 was incomplete and did not address HTTP/2 connection window exhaustion on write. By not sending WINDOWUPDATE messages for the connection window stream 0 clients were able to cause server-side threads to block eventually leading...

Fixed in Apache Tomcat 8.5.41

Important: Denial of Service CVE-2019-10072 The fix for CVE-2019-0199 was incomplete and did not address HTTP/2 connection window exhaustion on write. By not sending WINDOWUPDATE messages for the connection window stream 0 clients were able to cause server-side threads to block eventually leading...

Threat Source newsletter (May 9)

Newsletter compiled by Jonathan Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. If you haven’t yet, there’s still time to register for this year’s Talos Threat Research Summit — our second annual conference by...

UK Government gets serious about consumer IoT security. Legislation on the way

The Digital Minister Margot James today announced a concrete mandate for dealing with the slew of insecure IoT dross that has plagued consumers over the last few years. The aim is simple, to ensure that the millions of household items that are connected to the internet are better protected from...

Researchers Compromise Netflix Content in Widevine DRM Hack

Researchers have used a proof-of-concept PoC side-channel attack to download an unencrypted raw file for Netflix’ Stranger Things, in a format that’s ready to distribute out to any buyer on the internet. This pirate’s booty is the result of breaking open the widely deployed digital rights...

Beers with Talos Ep. #52: I don't trust you because I care

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. 52 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded April 26, 2019 - Since Craig decided to skip the podcast today, we decided to invite one of Austin’s top actual security...

DNSpionage group’s Karkoff malware selectively pick victims

By Ryan De Souza Karkoff creates a timeline of the command execution which can be "extremely" useful when responding to this type of threat. The IT security researchers at Cisco's Talos threat research team have discovered a new malware that has been developed by the threat actors behind the...

Threat Source (April 25)

Newsletter compiled by Jonathan Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. If you haven’t yet, there’s still time to register for this year’s Talos Threat Research Summit — our second annual conference by...

Hackers using Google Sites to spread banking malware

By Uzair Amir The IT security researchers at Netskope Threat Research Labs have discovered a new malware hosted on the Google Sites, a dedicated platform offered by Google for developing websites. Dubbed LoadPCBanker by researchers; the malware is actually an executable that is hidden inside a PD...

Threat Source (April 4)

Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. If you haven’t yet, there’s still time to register for this year’s Talos Threat Research Summit — our second annual conference by defenders, for defenders. This year’s Summ...

Crooks are selling “Digital Doppelgangers” to bypass anti-fraud protection

By Waqas Financial Crimes to Reach an Unprecedented High by 2023 if Dark Web marketplaces like Genesis are allowed to Operate- Researchers Claim. According to the latest research from Juniper Research, cybercriminals have developed a wide range of advanced tools to help users evade machine...

Open-Xchange: Memory corruption in imap-parser.c

Hello Dovecot devs, this is a report from Nick Roessler and Rafi Rubin. We are researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. We’ve been fuzzing Dovecot and have triggered some memory errors---this one is the most serious, and can be used for controlled indirect out-of-bounds writes into heap...

Fixed in Apache Tomcat 9.0.19

Note: The issues below were fixed in Apache Tomcat 9.0.18 but the release vote for the 9.0.18 release candidate did not pass. Therefore, although users must download 9.0.19 to obtain a version that includes a fix for these issues, version 9.0.18 is not included in the list of affected versions...

Fixed in Apache Tomcat 8.5.40

Important: Remote Code Execution on Windows CVE-2019-0232 When running on Windows with enableCmdLineArguments enabled, the CGI Servlet is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution due to a bug in the way the JRE passes command line arguments to Windows. The CGI Servlet is disabled by default. For a...

Threat Source (April 11)

Newsletter compiled by Jonathan Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. If you haven’t yet, there’s still time to register for this year’s Talos Threat Research Summit — our second annual conference by...

SAS 2019: Gaza Cybergang Blends Sophistication Levels in Highly Effective Spy Effort

SINGAPORE — Around 240 high-profile victims in 39 countries worldwide have become victims of an APT cyber-espionage attack, led by an organization dubbed the Gaza Cybergang that comprises several groups of varying sophistication. The victims, who were all targeted last year, include political,...

Beers with Talos Ep. #50: Operating under the cover of… nothing

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. No. 50 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded March 29, 2019 - Matt and Joel are both on the road this week, and Omar Santos from Cisco PSIRT joins the crew to...

Adversarial Machine Learning against Tesla's Autopilot

Researchers have been able to fool Tesla's autopilot in a variety of ways, including convincing it to drive into oncoming traffic. It requires the placement of stickers on the road. Abstract: Keen Security Lab has maintained the security research work on Tesla vehicle and shared our research...

SAS 2019 to Tackle APTs, Supply Chains and More

Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit kicks off in Singapore next week, where elite researchers, top cybersecurity firms and global law-enforcement agencies will discuss today’s biggest cybersecurity threats and how best to squash them. This year marks the first time the global security...

Microsoft Bounty Program Updates: Faster bounty review, faster payments, and higher rewards

In 2018 The Microsoft Bounty Program awarded over $2,000,000 to encourage and reward external security research in key technologies to protect our customers. Building on that success, we are excited to announce a number of improvements in our bounty programs to better serve the security research...