Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4359-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : APT vulnerability (USN-4359-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4359-1 advisory. It was discovered that APT incorrectly handled certain filenames during package installation. If an attacker could provide a specially...

Debian DSA-4685-1 : apt - security update

Shuaibing Lu discovered that missing input validation in the ar/tar implementations of APT, the high level package manager, could result in denial of service when processing specially crafted deb files. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

DSA-4685-1 apt - security update

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CVE-2020-3810

Missing input validation in the ar/tar implementations of APT before version 2.1.2 could result in denial of service when processing specially crafted deb files...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-3810

Missing input validation in the ar/tar implementations of APT before version 2.1.2 could result in denial of service when processing specially crafted deb files...

PT-2020-3733

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: APT versions prior to 2.1.2 Description: The issue is related to missing input validation in the ar/tar implementations, which could result in denial of service when processing specially crafted deb files. This could allow a remote attacker t...

Naikon’s Aria

Our colleagues at Checkpoint put together a fine research writeup on some Naikon resources and activity related to "aria-body" that we detected in 2017 and similarly reported in 2018. To supplement their research findings, we are summarizing and publishing portions of the findings reported in our...

Naikon APT Hid Five-Year Espionage Attack Under Radar

After five years under the radar, the Naikon APT group has been unmasked in a long-term espionage campaign against several governments in the Asia-Pacific region. The Chinese APT group was first uncovered by Kaspersky researchers in 2015, in attacks against top-level government agencies around th...

This Asia-Pacific Cyber Espionage Campaign Went Undetected for 5 Years

An advanced group of Chinese hackers has recently been spotted to be behind a sustained cyber espionage campaign targeting government entities in Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Brunei—which went undetected for at least five years and is still an ongoing threat...

The vulnerabilities of the functions Version.fetch_binary() and Version.fetch_source() in the python-apt package installation module allow a attacker to compromise data integrity.

The vulnerability of the Version.fetchbinary and Version.fetchsource functions in the python-apt package installation module is related to an error in downloading files from repositories that do not have a signature. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to compromise data...

News Wrap: Microsoft Sway Phish, Malicious GIF and Spyware Attacks

Threatpost editors Tom Spring, Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch talk about the biggest news stories of the week ended May 1, including: A “PhantomLance” espionage campaign discovered targeting specific Android victims, mainly in Southeast Asia — which could be the work of the OceanLotus APT...

APT trends report Q1 2020

For more than two years, the Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat APT activity. The summaries are based on our threat intelligence research and provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and...

Advanced Persistent Threat 2020 - Golden_hands (DE|EU)

Document Title: =============== Advanced Persistent Threat 2020 - Goldenhands DE|EU References: =========== https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=2256 Document: https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/documents/2256.rar Magazine Article:...

U.S. Universities Hit With 'Adult Dating' Spear-Phishing Attack

Several U.S. universities have been targeted in a widespread spear-phishing attack that uses adult dating as a lure. In reality, the emails spread the Hupigon remote access trojan RAT, known to be leveraged by state-sponsored threat actors. Researchers from Proofpoint warned that the ongoing...

A Dozen Nation-Backed APTs Tap COVID-19 to Cover Spy Attacks

Cybercriminals have seized on the novel coronavirus as a theme in their attacks, and it turns out that the most sophisticated players on that scene are no exception. According to Google’s Threat Analysis Group TAG, more than a dozen nation-state-backed APTs are using the COVID-19 pandemic as a...

SAS, sweet SAS

As you may already know from our social network posts, we have rescheduled the SAS 2020 conference for November 18-21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and to ensure your safety. Though we still think that Barcelona is a great place to meet and it will not be a "real" SAS if we cannot hug, shake hands...

MITRE ATT&CK APT 29 evaluation proves Microsoft Threat Protection provides deeper end to end view of advanced threats

As attackers use more advanced techniques, it’s even more important that defenders have visibility not just into each of the domains in their environment, but also across them to piece together coordinated, targeted, and advanced attacks. This level of visibility will allow us to get ahead of...

COVID-19 Exploited by Malicious Cyber Actors

Summary This is a joint alert from the United States Department of Homeland Security DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC. This alert provides information on exploitation by cybercriminal and advanced persistent...

Serious Exchange Flaw Still Plagues 350K Servers

Over 80 percent of exposed Exchange servers are still vulnerable to a severe vulnerability – nearly two months after the flaw was patched, and after researchers warned that multiple threat groups were exploiting it. The vulnerability in question CVE-2020-0688 exists in the control panel of...