Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: ppc64-diag security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated ppc64-diag packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which giv...

New Strain of Banking Trojan Targets Android, Steals SMS

A relatively new Android Trojan that specializes in stealing banking information by intercepting SMS messages has been making the rounds. Researchers at zScaler spotted the as yet unnamed Trojan circulating as 888.apk. Like many types of malware that came before it, at least for the moment, the...

Padding-oracle attack on TLS CBC cipher mode

A vulnerability affecting some implementations of TLS 1.x with CBC cipher modes has been discovered that allows an attacker to decrypt some encrypted contents under certain conditions CVE-2014-8730. This padding-oracle attack on TLS CBC cipher modes is a variant of the POODLE vulnerability,...

Microsoft Warns of Crowti Ransomware

Researchers with Microsoft have spotted a spike in Crowti, a ransomware similar to Cryptolocker that encrypts files on victims’ machines and then asks for payment to unlock them. The malware has existed for several months but it wasn’t until mid-October that Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center...

CVE-2 0 1 4-4 1 1 4 variants of sample analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Found a CVE-2 0 1 4-4 1 1 4 variants of the sample, the sample embedded with malicious code, can be directly to the local trigger, no need to from a remote shared server to download malicious code. Use UltraEdit to open the sample can be found within a block of the PE module information: ! ue.jpg...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3660

parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.2 does not properly prevent entity expansion even when entity substitution has been disabled, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a...

New GameOver Zeus Botnet Malware Variant Surfaces

The GameOver Zeus takedown was trumpeted as a victory against cybercrime, and for all its success, even those involved understood it was likely a temporary win. Researchers at Seculert have spotted a new variant of GameOver Zeus that has spurned previous versions’ peer-to-peer communication...

Havex, It’s Down With OPC

FireEye recently analyzed the capabilities of a variant of Havex referred to by FireEye as “Fertger” or “PEACEPIPE”, the first publicized malware reported to actively scan OPC servers used for controlling SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition devices in critical infrastructure e.g., wate...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4607

Integer overflow in the LZO algorithm variant in Oberhumer liblzo2 and lzo-2 before 2.07 on 32-bit platforms might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Literal Run...

Adobe Acrobat Reader (UNIX) 5.0 6,Xpdf 0.9x Hyperlinks Arbitrary Command Execution

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7912/info A vulnerability has been reported for multiple PDF viewers for Unix variant operating systems. The problem is said to occur when hyperlinks have been enabled within the viewer. Allegedly, by placing a specially...

SGI IRIX <= 6.2 fsdump Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/355/info A number of vulnerabilities exist in the fsdump program included with Silicon Graphics Inc's IRIX operating system. Each of these holes can be used to obtain root privlilege. Variant 1: irix% /var/rfindd/fsdump...

Accipiter DirectServer 6.0 - Remote File Disclosure Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9389/info This vulnerability may allow and attacker to gain access to files that reside outside of the web root directory using a specially crafted URI that contains URL-encoded variations of directory traversal sequences...

Microsoft NetMeeting 3.0.1 4.4.3385 Remote Desktop Sharing DoS Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1798/info The Remote Desktop Sharing component of Microsoft NetMeeting for Windows NT 4.0 / 2000 does not properly handle a particular type of malformed input string sent over port 1720. CPU utilization can be caused to...

PHP 5.4 (5.4.3) Code Execution (Win32)

No description provided by source. // Exploit Title: PHP 5.4 5.4.3 Code Execution 0day Win32 // Exploit author: 0in Maksymilian Motyl // Email: 0indotemailatgmail.com // Bug with Variant type parsing originally discovered by Condis // Tested on Windows XP SP3 fully patched Polish...

PHP <= 5.4.3 - wddx_serialize_* / stream_bucket_* Variant Object Null Ptr Derefernce

No description provided by source. ?php / PHP = 5.4.3 wddxserialize / streambucket Variant Object Null Ptr Derefernce Author : condis Date : 10.04.2012 AD Website : http://cond.psychodela.pl ---- Download : http://php.net/downloads.php Tested on: PHP 5.3.8 + Windows XP SP3 Professional PL PHP...

Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT 4 RPC Service Denial of Service Vulnerability (2)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6005/info The Microsoft Windows RPC service contains a flaw that may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. By sending a specifically malformed packet to TCP port 135, the RPC service will be disabled. This...

Click-Fraud Sefnit Variant Shuns Tor for SSH

Sefnit was the first malware family to shed light on the problem of botnets and other malicious code using the Tor anonymity network as a communication protocol. While others before and since have done the same, Sefnit made the biggest splash at the end of last summer when the botnet caused a 600...

Cryptolocker Ransomware makes different Bitcoin wallet for each victim

When you're online, you expose your vulnerability to malicious virus that have been growing in virulence and ferocity over the last few years. Among home PC users, you may think that you protected from malicious software by Installing an effective, trusted antivirus solution, but most if the...

DirtJumper Variant Drive Now Includes Mitigation Bypass

Drive, a variant of the do-it-yourself DDoS toolkit DirtJumper, holds a unique position among malware that organizations targeted by these debilitating attacks need to be aware of. Researchers at Arbor Networks revealed today that a new version of Drive has been spotted with features that enable ...

Citadel Banking Malaware Variant Delivers Localized Content

With builders for the Citadel Trojan freely available on any number of underground criminal forums, it’s no surprise to see some legs left in the malware despite a takedown of more than 1,400 Citadel botnets less than a month ago by U.S. law enforcement and Microsoft. A new variant has popped up ...