CVE-2020-15709: Improper Input Validation

Versions of add-apt-repository before 0.98.9.2, 0.96.24.32.14, 0.96.20.10, and 0.92.37.8ubuntu0.1esm1, printed a PPA personal package archive description to the terminal as-is, which allowed PPA owners to provide ANSI terminal escapes to modify terminal contents in unexpected ways...

IT threat evolution Q2 2020

IT threat evolution Q2 2020. PC statistics IT threat evolution Q2 2020. Mobile statistics Targeted attacks PhantomLance: hiding in plain sight In April, we reported the results of our investigation into a mobile spyware campaign that we call PhantomLance. The campaign involved a backdoor Trojan...

China-based APT Debuts Sepulcher Malware in Spear-Phishing Attacks

A China-based APT has been sending organizations spear-phishing emails that distribute a never-before-seen intelligence-collecting RAT dubbed Sepulcher. Researchers discovered the new malware being distributed over the past six months through two separate campaigns. The first, in March, targeted...

The vulnerability of the ar/tar component of the package installation, update, and removal process for software packages in the apt system lies in the lack of a mechanism to verify input data. This allows attackers to trigger service failures.

The vulnerability of the ar/tar component in the package installation, update, and removal process of the apt package manager is related to the lack of a mechanism for checking input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker who operates remotely to cause service failures...

Pioneer Kitten APT Sells Corporate Network Access

An APT group known as Pioneer Kitten, linked to Iran, has been spotted selling corporate-network credentials on hacker forums. The credentials would let other cybercriminal groups and APTs perform cyberespionage and other nefarious cyber-activity. Pioneer Kitten is a hacker group that specializes...

Hackers Exploit Autodesk Flaw in Recent Cyberespionage Attack

Threat actors exploited a vulnerability in the popular 3D computer graphics Autodesk software in order to launch a recent cyber-espionage attack against an international architectural and video production company. Researchers said that further analysis of the attack points to a sophisticated,...

Transparent Tribe: Evolution analysis, part 2

Background + Key findings Transparent Tribe, also known as PROJECTM or MYTHIC LEOPARD, is a highly prolific group whose activities can be traced as far back as 2013. In the last four years, this APT group has never taken time off. They continue to hit their targets, which typically are Indian...

APT Hackers Exploit Autodesk 3ds Max Software for Industrial Espionage

It's one thing for APT groups to conduct cyber espionage to meet their own financial objectives. But it's an entirely different matter when they are used as "hackers for hire" by competing private companies to make away with confidential information. Bitdefender's Cyber Threat Intelligence Lab...

Lazarus Group Targets Cryptocurrency Firms Via LinkedIn Messages

The nation-state threat operator Lazarus Group is being tied to a recent phishing campaign that targeted admins at a cryptocurrency firm via LinkedIn messages. Researchers say that the recently identified a series of incident that were part of a broader campaign targeting businesses worldwide...

Iran-Linked 'Newbie' Hackers Spread Dharma Ransomware Via RDP Ports

A group of ‘script kiddies’ tied to Iran are targeting companies worldwide with internet-facing Remote Desktop Protocol RDP ports and weak credentials in order to infect them with Dharma ransomware. The Dharma malware also known as Crysis has been distributed as a ransomware-as-a-service RaaS mod...

Debian DLA-2339-1 : software-properties security update

Jason A. Donenfeld found an ansi escape sequence injection into software-properties, a manager for apt repository sources. An attacker could manipulate the screen of a user prompted to install an additional repository PPA. For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version...

CactusPete APT Hones Toolset, Resurfaces with New Espionage Targets

The China-based APT known as CactusPete has returned with a new campaign aimed at military and financial targets in Eastern Europe, which is a new geography for the group’s victimology, according to researchers. The group also used a fresh variant of the Bisonal backdoor, which allows the attacke...

CactusPete APT group’s updated Bisonal backdoor

CactusPete also known as Karma Panda or Tonto Team is an APT group that has been publicly known since at least 2013. Some of the groups activities have been previously described in public by multiple sources. We have been investigating and privately reporting on this groups activity for years as...

Joint NSA and FBI Cybersecurity Advisory Discloses Russian Malware Drovorub

The National Security Agency NSA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released a cybersecurity advisory introducing previously undisclosed Russian malware. NSA and the FBI attributed the malware, dubbed Drovorub, to Russian advanced persistent threat APT actors. The Cybersecurity and...

Arcane - A Simple Script Designed To Backdoor iOS Packages (Iphone-Arm) And Create The Necessary Resources For APT Repositories

Arcane is a simple script designed to backdoor iOS packages iphone-arm and create the necessar y resources for APT repositories. It was created for this publication to help illustrate why Cydia repositories can be dangerous and what post-exploitation attacks are possible from a compromised iOS...

Black Hat 2020: Influence Campaigns Are a Cybersecurity Problem

Social media used as a cudgel for nation-states to sway opinion is a cybersecurity threat CISOs can’t ignore — and need to understand better and mitigate against. That’s the message from Renée DiResta, research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, who said she is seeing a steady growth a...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15709

Versions of add-apt-repository before 0.98.9.2, 0.96.24.32.14, 0.96.20.10, and 0.92.37.8ubuntu0.1esm1, printed a PPA personal package archive description to the terminal as-is, which allowed PPA owners to provide ANSI terminal escapes to modify terminal contents in unexpected ways...

CVE-2020-15709

Versions of add-apt-repository before 0.98.9.2, 0.96.24.32.14, 0.96.20.10, and 0.92.37.8ubuntu0.1esm1, printed a PPA personal package archive description to the terminal as-is, which allowed PPA owners to provide ANSI terminal escapes to modify terminal contents in unexpected ways...

PT-2020-5441

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions add-apt-repository versions prior to 0.98.9.2 add-apt-repository versions prior to 0.96.24.32.14 add-apt-repository versions prior to 0.96.20.10 add-apt-repository versions prior to 0.92.37.8ubuntu0.1esm1 Description The issue arises due to...

Obscured by Clouds: Insights into Office 365 Attacks and How Mandiant Managed Defense Investigates

With Business Email Compromises BECs showing no signs of slowing down, it is becoming increasingly important for security analysts to understand Office 365 O365 breaches and how to properly investigate them. This blog post is for those who have yet to dip their toes into the waters of an O365 BEC...