The vulnerability of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader PDF viewer/editor programs, related to writing beyond the buffer in memory, allows a perpetrator to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader PDF viewer/editor programs lies in the writing of data beyond the buffer limit in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code using a specially created PDF file...

sLoad Banking Trojan Downloader Displays Sophisticated Recon and Targeting

A new PowerShell downloader dubbed sLoad is making the rounds, sporting impressive reconnaissance tactics and a penchant for geofencing, which indicate increasing sophistication when it comes to targeting efforts. First spotted in May 2018, sLoad typically delivers the Ramnit banking trojan but h...

Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) in akka-actor

Lightbend Akka 2.5.x before 2.5.16 allows message disclosure and modification because of an RNG error. A random number generator is used in Akka Remoting for TLS both classic and Artery Remoting. Akka allows configuration of custom random number generators. For historical reasons, Akka included t...

Tracking Tick Through Recent Campaigns Targeting East Asia

This blog post is authored by Ashlee Benge and Jungsoo An, with contributions from Dazhuo Li. Summary Since 2016, an advanced threat group that Cisco Talos is tracking has carried out cyberattacks against South Korea and Japan. This group is known by several different names: Tick, Redbaldknight a...

Threats in the Netherlands

Introduction On October 4, 2018, the MIVD held a press conference about an intercepted cyberattack on the OPWC in the Netherlands, allegedly by the advanced threat actor Sofacy also known as APT28 or Fancy Bear, among others. According to the MIVD, four suspects were caught red handed trying to...

CVE-2018-8848

Philips e-Alert Unit non-medical device, Version R2.1 and prior. The software, upon installation, sets incorrect permissions for an object that exposes it to an unintended actor...

CVE-2018-8848

Philips e-Alert Unit non-medical device, Version R2.1 and prior. The software, upon installation, sets incorrect permissions for an object that exposes it to an unintended actor...

CVE-2018-8848: Incorrect Default Permissions

Philips e-Alert Unit non-medical device, Version R2.1 and prior. The software, upon installation, sets incorrect permissions for an object that exposes it to an unintended actor...

Lucy Gang Debuts with Unusual Android MaaS Package

There’s a fresh bloom in the malware-as-a-service garden: Researchers have uncovered a new Russian-speaking threat actor hawking a proprietary cyber-weapon dubbed “Black Rose Lucy.” The offering is a malware-as-a-service MaaS bundle with two parts, consisting of a controlling web interface which...

CVE-2018-14829

Rockwell Automation RSLinx Classic Versions 4.00.01 and prior. This vulnerability may allow a remote threat actor to intentionally send a malformed CIP packet to Port 44818, causing the software application to stop responding and crash. This vulnerability also has the potential to exploit a buffe...

CVE-2018-14829

Rockwell Automation RSLinx Classic is affected in versions 4.00.01 and earlier. The CVE-2018-14829 vulnerability arises from handling malformed CIP packets sent to TCP port 44818, which can cause the application to stop responding and crash; there is also potential for a buffer overflow that coul...

CVE-2018-14829

Rockwell Automation RSLinx Classic Versions 4.00.01 and prior. This vulnerability may allow a remote threat actor to intentionally send a malformed CIP packet to Port 44818, causing the software application to stop responding and crash. This vulnerability also has the potential to exploit a buffe...

CVE-2018-14821

Rockwell Automation RSLinx Classic Versions 4.00.01 and prior. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated threat actor to intentionally send a malformed CIP packet to Port 44818, causing the RSLinx Classic application to terminate. The user will need to manually restart the software t...

Directory Traversal in augustine

Affected versions of augustine resolve relative file paths, resulting in a directory traversal vulnerability. A malicious actor can use this vulnerability to access files outside of the intended directory root, which may result in the disclosure of private files on the vulnerable system. Proof of...

Code injection

When parsing a malformed JSON payload, libprocess in Apache Mesos versions 1.4.0 to 1.5.0 might crash due to an uncaught exception. Parsing chunked HTTP requests with trailers can lead to a libprocess crash too because of the mistakenly planted assertion. A malicious actor can therefore cause a...

CVE-2017-1679: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

IBM OpenPages GRC Platform 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 8.0 could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from error log files. IBM X-Force ID: 134001...

New Threat Actor ‘Rocke’: A Rising Monero Cryptomining Menace

Researchers are warning of a Chinese-language threat actor leveraging a wide array of Git repositories to infect vulnerable systems with Monero-based cryptomining malware. Researchers at Cisco Talos, who discovered the threat actor they call “Rocke”, said they have been tracking the adversary sin...

Rocke: The Champion of Monero Miners

This post was authored by David Liebenberg. Summary Cryptocurrency miners are becoming an increasingly significant part of the threat landscape. These malicious miners steal CPU cycles from compromised devices to mine cryptocurrencies and bring in income for the threat actor. In this post, we loo...

Dark Tequila Banking Malware Uncovered After 5 Years of Activity

Security researchers at Kaspersky Labs have uncovered a new, complex malware campaign that has been targeting customers of several Mexican banking institutions since at least 2013. Dubbed Dark Tequila, the campaign delivers an advanced keylogger malware that managed to stay under the radar for fi...

New Actor DarkHydrus Targets Middle East with Open-Source Phishing

Government entities and educational institutions in the Middle East are under attack in an ongoing credential-harvesting campaign, mounted by a newly-named threat group known as DarkHydrus. In a twist on the norm, the group is leveraging the open-source Phishery tool to carry out its dark work. T...