Olympic Destroyer: A False Flag Confusion Bomb

CANCUN, Mexico – A postmortem of the Olympic Destroyer malware used in the PyeongChang Olympics attack reveals a deliberate attempt by adversaries to plant a false flags when it comes to attribution, according to researchers. Days after the crippling attack on the backend networks tied to the...

Who Wasn’t Responsible for Olympic Destroyer?

This blog post is authored by Paul Rascagneres and Martin Lee. Summary Absent contributions from traditional intelligence capacities, the available evidence linking the Olympic Destroyer malware to a specific threat actor group is contradictory, and does not allow for unambiguous attribution. The...

Boomerang spam bombs Malwarebytes forum—not a smart move

Tech support scammers are generally not the best and brightest. As such, they will occasionally post ads for their fake companies in the comment sections here or on the Malwarebytes forums. Last week, however, scammers struggled with configuring their spambots, resulting in spam bombs on the foru...

The vulnerability in the Splunk Web platform for operational analysis of Splunk Enterprise’s web interface allows a perpetrator to bypass existing access restrictions or perform arbitrary actions on behalf of legitimate users.

The vulnerability of the Splunk Web platform for operational analysis in Splunk Enterprise is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to circumvent existing access restrictions or perform arbitrary actions on behalf of legitimate syst...

New Chrome and Firefox extensions block their removal to hijack browsers

What you don't see won't hurt you, must have been the reasoning of the threat actors who created the latest batch of extensions that make these browser hijackers even more difficult to remove. The extensions redirect users away from pages where they can disable or delete them in order to drive...

The vulnerability of the PCRE library in the Mac OS X operating system allows a hacker to cause a service failure or exert other effects.

Vulnerability of the PCRE library in the Mac OS X operating system. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service failure application termination or have other adverse effects...

Denial of Service

Overview Affected versions of mqtt do not properly handle PUBLISH packets returning from the server, leading to a Denial of Service condition. The vulnerability is completely mitigated if the only connected servers are trusted, guaranteed not to be under the control of a malicious actor. Proof of...

WordPress Plugin WordPress Download Manager 2.9.60 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

WordPress Plugin WordPress Download Manager 2.9.60 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Exploit Title: WordPress Download Manager CSRF Discovery Date: 2017-12-12 Exploit Author: Panagiotis Vagenas Author Link: https://twitter.com/panVagenas Vendor Homepage: https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/ Software Lin...

CVE-2018-0014: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Juniper Networks ScreenOS devices do not pad Ethernet packets with zeros, and thus some packets can contain fragments of system memory or data from previous packets. This issue is often detected as CVE-2003-0001. The issue affects all versions of Juniper Networks ScreenOS prior to 6.3.0r25...

Microsoft Releases Patches for 16 Critical Flaws, Including a Zero-Day

If you think that only CPU updates that address this year's major security flaws—Meltdown and Spectre—are the only ones you are advised to grab immediately, there are a handful of major security flaws that you should pay attention to. Microsoft has issued its first Patch Tuesday for 2018 to addre...

Movie Guide 2.0 - SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Movie Guide 2.0 - SQL Injection Dork: N/A Date: 15.12.2017 Vendor Homepage: http://applebitemedia.com/ Software Link: http://applebitemedia.com/amwdl/AMMovieGuide.tar.gz Version: 2.0 Category: Webapps Tested on: WiN7x64/KaLiLinuXx64 CVE: N/A Exploit Author: Ihsan Sencan Author Web:...

Attackers Deploy New ICS Attack Framework “TRITON” and Cause Operational Disruption to Critical Infrastructure

Introduction Mandiant recently responded to an incident at a critical infrastructure organization where an attacker deployed malware designed to manipulate industrial safety systems. The targeted systems provided emergency shutdown capability for industrial processes. We assess with moderate...

CVE-2017-13149: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

An information disclosure vulnerability in the Android media framework n/a. Product: Android. Versions: 7.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 8.0. Android ID A-65719872...

Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Review of the Year 2017

Introduction The end of the year is a good time to take stock of the main cyberthreat incidents that took place over the preceding 12 months or so. To reflect on the impact these events had on organizations and individuals, and consider what they could mean for the overall evolution of the threat...

CVE-2017-11831: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Windows kernel in Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 and RT 8.1, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server, version 1709 allows an attacker to log on to an affected system, and run a specially crafted...

Magnitude EK actor goes for Bitcoin multiplier scam (updated)

It is well known that hot commodities tend to attract scammers and online criminals. The continuous rise of Bitcoin over the past year valued at over USD $7,188 at the time of writing is generating frenzy amongst fans of cryptocurrencies as well as those watching from the sidelines. While the...

GHSA-959J-5G9V-3FPQ Paratrooper-newrelic Exposes of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The paratrooper-newrelic gem 1.0.1 for Ruby allows local users to obtain the X-Api-Key value by listing the curl process...

Paratrooper-newrelic Exposes of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The paratrooper-newrelic gem 1.0.1 for Ruby allows local users to obtain the X-Api-Key value by listing the curl process...

Spoofed SEC Emails Distribute Evolved DNSMessenger

This post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Colin Grady, with contributions from Dave Maynor and @Simpo13.Executive SummaryCisco Talos previously published research into a targeted attack that leveraged an interesting infection process using DNS TXT records to create a bidirectional command and...

The vulnerability in the visual Git client SourceTree exists due to the lack of measures taken to neutralize special elements used in the operating system command. This allows a malicious user to execute arbitrary commands.

The vulnerability of the visual Git client SourceTree exists because measures to neutralize special elements used in the operating system command are not taken. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the URL address...