Quasar RAT Leverages DLL Side-Loading to Fly Under the Radar

The open-source remote access trojan known as Quasar RAT has been observed leveraging DLL side-loading to fly under the radar and stealthily siphon data from compromised Windows hosts. "This technique capitalizes on the inherent trust these files command within the Windows environment," Uptycs...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Adobe Bridge and Photoshop

Adobe has fixed vulnerabilities in Photoshop and Bridge. A malicious party could exploit the vulnerabilities to execute attacks that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code with the victim's privileges. In order for the code to be executed in order for the code to be executed, the malicious...

Vulnerability fixed in libcurl

There is a vulnerability in the SOCKS5 proxy handshake of libcurl. A malicious party could potentially exploit the vulnerability to cause a crash in the application using libcurl. To perform this attack successfully, several conditions must be met such as using a SOCKS5 proxy, the use of a long...

Over 3 Dozen Data-Stealing Malicious npm Packages Found Targeting Developers

Nearly three dozen counterfeit packages have been discovered in the npm package repository that are designed to exfiltrate sensitive data from developer systems, according to findings from Fortinet FortiGuard Labs. One set of packages – named @expue/webpack, @expue/core, @expue/vue3-renderer,...

curl: CVE-2023-38545: socks5 heap buffer overflow

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GitHub Repositories Hit by Password-Stealing Commits Disguised as Dependabot Contributions

A new deceptive campaign has been observed hijacking GitHub accounts and committing malicious code disguised as Dependabot contributions with an aim to steal passwords from developers. "The malicious code exfiltrates the GitHub project's defined secrets to a malicious C2 server and modify any...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Google Chrome

Google has fixed vulnerabilities in Chrome. Although a total of 10 vulnerabilities have been fixed, Google has made some information of only 3 vulnerabilities made some information available. The listed vulnerabilities allow a malicious party to cause a denial-of-service, or to execute arbitrary...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Apple macOS

Apple has fixed vulnerabilities in macOS. A malicious party could exploit the vulnerabilities to circumvent a security measure circumvention or to grant himself elevated privileges and possibly execute code execute code with higher privileges than the user. Successful exploitation requires the...

Steer clear of cryptocurrency recovery phrase scams

The dangers of cryptocurrency phishing are back in the news, after tech investor Mark Cuban was reported to have lost around $870k via a phishing link. Cuban lost a combination of coin types as asset movement flagged up after months of inactivity from his wallet. Cuban discovered some of the...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Autodesk AutoCad

Autodesk has fixed vulnerabilities in several products of AutoCad. A malicious party could exploit the vulnerabilities to cause a denial-of-service, execute code with privileges of the user, or to gain access to sensitive data in the scope of the application. Successful exploitation requires the...

3AM Ransomware: LockBit’s Failed Standoff Revealed

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A new ransomware variant, self-dubbed 3AM has arisen as a result of a rogue attack conducted by a ransomware affiliate. Initially, this affiliate attempted to install the LockBit ransomware on a targets...

Vulnerability fixed in Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader

Adobe has fixed a vulnerability in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. A malicious party could exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with user privileges. It is possible that by executing code, access can be gained to sensitive data in the victim's context. Successful exploitation requires...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Adobe Connect

Adobe has fixed vulnerabilities in Connect. A malicious person could exploit the vulnerabilities to launch a Cross-Site Scripting attack attack. Such an attack could lead to execution of arbitrary code in the victim's browser, or access to sensitive data in the context of the victim's browser. Fo...

Rouge ward can remove auth permission from other wards and then remove themselves

Lines of code Vulnerability details In a protocol, the deny function is used to remove the ward permissions from an address. This is actually a serious thing to consider that can actually occur, if a ward contract or account is obtained and other wards are not aware, the rogue ward can actually...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Cisco IOS XR

Cisco has fixed vulnerabilities in IOS XR. A unauthenticated malicious party could exploit the vulnerabilities to cause a denial-of-service, or to bypass existing ACLs bypassing them by sending specially prepared network traffic. Cisco has also fixed vulnerabilities that allow a local,...

Vulnerabilities fixed in FoxIT PDF Reader and PDF Editor

FoxIT has fixed vulnerabilities in PDF Reader and PDF Editor formerly PhantomPDF. A malicious person could exploit them to cause a denial-of-service, to execute arbitrary execute code with user privileges, or to access gain access to sensitive data in the context of the PDF software. Successful...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Microsoft Developer Tools

Microsoft has fixed vulnerabilities in several Developer Tools. A malicious party could exploit the vulnerabilities to cause a denial-of-service, grant himself elevated privileges granted privileges or execute arbitrary code with privileges from the developer. Successful exploitation requires the...

Zeroday vulnerability fixed in Google Chrome

Google has fixed a Zeroday vulnerability in Chrome. A malicious party can exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system with permissions from the victim. If the victim's privileges are high enough are high enough, this allows the...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Notepad++

Vulnerabilities have been fixed in Notepad++. A malicious person could exploit the vulnerabilities to gain access to memory locations to which the malicious party is not authorized, or potentially execute arbitrary code with privileges of the victim. Successful exploitation requires the malicious...

Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory < 1.2.3 - Improper escaping of LDAP entries

Description The plugin does not sanitize and escape data returned from the LDAP server before rendering it in the page, allowing users who can control their entries in the LDAP directory to inject malicious javascript which could be used against high-privilege users such as a site admin. Add a...