Several Cyber Attacks Observed Leveraging IPFS Decentralized Network

A number of phishing campaigns are leveraging the decentralized InterPlanetary Filesystem IPFS network to host malware, phishing kit infrastructure, and facilitate other attacks. "Multiple malware families are currently being hosted within IPFS and retrieved during the initial stages of malware...

Vulnerabilities fixed in FoxIT PDF Reader and Editor

FoxIT has fixed vulnerabilities in PDF Reader and PDF Editor. A malicious party could exploit the vulnerabilities to cause a denial-of-service, gain access to sensitive data or to execute code in the victim's scope. The malicious party must trick the victim into opening a rogue file to open. FoxI...

unbound: novel ghost domain attack that allows attackers to trigger continued resolvability of malicious domain names

A flaw was found in Unbound, which is vulnerable to a novel type of "ghost domain names" attack. The vulnerability works by targeting an Unbound instance. Unbound is queried for a subdomain of a rogue domain name. The rogue nameserver returns delegation information for the subdomain that updates...

unbound: novel ghost domain attack that allows attackers to trigger continued resolvability of malicious domain names

A flaw was found in Unbound, which is vulnerable to a novel type of "ghost domain names" attack. The vulnerability works by targeting an Unbound instance. Unbound is queried for a subdomain of a rogue domain name. The rogue nameserver returns delegation information for the subdomain that updates...

Researchers Detail New Malware Campaign Targeting Indian Government Employees

The Transparent Tribe threat actor has been linked to a new campaign aimed at Indian government organizations with trojanized versions of a two-factor authentication solution called Kavach. "This group abuses Google advertisements for the purpose of malvertising to distribute backdoored versions ...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for unbound (EulerOS-SA-2022-2702)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Xen

Xen's developers have fixed vulnerabilities in Xen. The vulnerabilities are located in the xenstored and allow a malicious with rights to deploy and configure guest images through rogue guests to cause a Denial-of-Service, or potentially gain access to memory of other guest systems and thus...

EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : unbound (EulerOS-SA-2022-2670)

According to the versions of the unbound packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.16.1 is vulnerable to a novel type of the 'ghost domain names' attack. The vulnerability work...

Twilio Reveals Another Breach from the Same Hackers Behind the August Hack

Communication services provider Twilio this week disclosed that it experienced another "brief security incident" in June 2022 perpetrated by the same threat actor behind the August hack that resulted in unauthorized access of customer information. The security event occurred on June 29, 2022, the...

Vulnerability fixed in Google Chrome

Google has fixed a vulnerability in Chrome. The vulnerability allows a malicious party to cause a denial-of-service cause or potentially execute arbitrary code. To do so requires the malicious party to induce the victim to open a rogue web page. Google indicates that exploit code is circulating f...

Vulnerability fixed in Zoom

A vulnerability has been fixed in Zoom. The vulnerability allows a malicious person to bypass a security measure and gain access to sensitive data. To exploit the vulnerability, a malicious person needs to victim to open a rogue link. This enables the malicious party to perform further attacks su...

Unknown Actors are Deploying RomCom RAT to Target Ukrainian Military

The threat actor behind a remote access trojan called RomCom RAT has been observed targeting Ukrainian military institutions as part of a new spear-phishing campaign that commenced on October 21, 2022. The development marks a shift in the attacker's modus operandi, which has been previously...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Apple Safari

Apple has fixed vulnerabilities in Safari. A unauthenticated remote malicious person could exploit the vulnerabilities potentially exploit them to execute arbitrary code under application privileges, gain access to sensitive data or spoofing Safari's user interface. For successful abuse, the...

Vulnerability found in Microsoft Windows

A vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Windows. A malicious party can exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under privileges of the logged-in user. To do this the malicious party must induce the victim to open a rogue file. The vulnerability is located in Mark-of-the-Web...

Hackers Using New Version of FurBall Android Malware to Spy on Iranian Citizens

The Iranian threat actor known as Domestic Kitten has been attributed to a new mobile campaign that masquerades as a translation app to distribute an updated variant of an Android malware known as FurBall. "Since June 2021, it has been distributed as a translation app via a copycat of an Iranian...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Bentley View and MicroStation

Vulnerabilities have been fixed in Bentley View and MicroStation. The vulnerabilities allow a malicious party to access system data and to execute arbitrary code under the user's privileges. To do this, the malicious party must trick the victim into running open a rogue SKP, XMT, or FBX file. It ...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Citrix Hypervisor

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in Citrix Hypervisor. A malicious party could potentially exploit the vulnerabilities to cause a denial-of-service attack. To exploit the vulnerability with reference CVE-2022-33748, two malicious virtual machines need to two rogue virtual machines to work...

Vulnerability fixed in Apple iOS

Apple has fixed a vulnerability in iOS 16. A malicious person could potentially exploit the vulnerability to use a rogue email to effect a crash. At this time, very little information has been shared by Apple about the vulnerability. Also, nothing has been disclosed about possible active misuse a...

Meta accuses apps of stealing WhatsApp accounts

Meta is attempting to clamp down on rogue WhatsApp-styled applications which originate from China. Bleeping Computer reports that no fewer than one million WhatsApp accounts have been compromised, allegedly as a result of using these apps which are claimed to bundle malware. Dubious apps The apps...

ERC1155's Amount Parameter Manipulation To Steal Buyers' Funds

Lines of code Vulnerability details Vulnerability Details We discovered that a rogue seller i.e., attacker can place an order for selling N amount where N 1 of a specific token id of an ERC-1155 NFT collection. However, when the sell order is fulfilled by a buyer, the attacker would spend only 1...