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...

A Brisk Private Trade in Zero-Days Widens Their Use

There were more zero-days exploited in 2019 than any of the previous three years, according to telemetry from FireEye Mandiant. The firm said that’s likely due to more zero-days coming up for sale by cyber-weapons dealers like NSO Group; a growing commercial market has made such tools much more...

Government VPN Servers Targeted in Zero-Day Attack

As the Chinese government turns to virtual private networks VPNs to provide access to official resources for those working remotely amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the DarkHotel APT has seized the opportunity to target those VPNs in a zero-day attack, researchers said. According to security analysts...

Trickbot: A primer

By Chris Neal Executive Summary Trickbot remains one of the most sophisticated banking trojans in the landscape while constantly evolving.Highly modular, Trickbot can adapt to different environments with the help of its various modules.The group behind Trickbot has expanded their activities beyon...

Nation-State Attacks Drop in Latest Google Analysis

Google has registered a significant drop in government-backed cyberattacks against its properties and the people who use its products. Google sends out warnings if it detects that an account is a target of government-backed phishing or malware attempts. For 2019, the internet giant sent almost...

python-apt authorization issue vulnerability

Python is an open source, object-oriented programming language from the Python Software Foundation. The language is extensible, supports modules and packages, and supports multiple platforms. An authorization issue vulnerability exists in python-apt. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to...

Emerging APT Mounts Mass iPhone Surveillance Campaign

A recently discovered, mass-targeted watering-hole campaign has been aiming at Apple iPhone users in Hong Kong – infecting website visitors with a newly developed custom surveillance malware. The bad code – the work of a new APT called “TwoSail Junk” – is delivered via a multistage exploit chain...

iOS exploit chain deploys LightSpy feature-rich malware

A watering hole was discovered on January 10, 2020 utilizing a full remote iOS exploit chain to deploy a feature-rich implant named LightSpy. The site appears to have been designed to target users in Hong Kong based on the content of the landing page. Since the initial activity, we released two...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-15796

Python-apt doesn't check if hashes are signed in Version.fetchbinary and Version.fetchsource of apt/package.py or in fetcharchives of apt/cache.py in version 1.9.3ubuntu2 and earlier. This allows downloads from unsigned repositories which shouldn't be allowed and has been fixed in verisions 1.9.5...

CVE-2019-15796

Python-apt doesn't check if hashes are signed in Version.fetchbinary and Version.fetchsource of apt/package.py or in fetcharchives of apt/cache.py in version 1.9.3ubuntu2 and earlier. This allows downloads from unsigned repositories which shouldn't be allowed and has been fixed in verisions 1.9.5...

CVE-2019-15795

python-apt only checks the MD5 sums of downloaded files in Version.fetchbinary and Version.fetchsource of apt/package.py in version 1.9.0ubuntu1 and earlier. This allows a man-in-the-middle attack which could potentially be used to install altered packages and has been fixed in versions...

CVE-2019-15796

Python-apt doesn't check if hashes are signed in Version.fetchbinary and Version.fetchsource of apt/package.py or in fetcharchives of apt/cache.py in version 1.9.3ubuntu2 and earlier. This allows downloads from unsigned repositories which shouldn't be allowed and has been fixed in verisions 1.9.5...

CVE-2019-15795

python-apt only checks the MD5 sums of downloaded files in Version.fetchbinary and Version.fetchsource of apt/package.py in version 1.9.0ubuntu1 and earlier. This allows a man-in-the-middle attack which could potentially be used to install altered packages and has been fixed in versions...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-15795

python-apt only checks the MD5 sums of downloaded files in Version.fetchbinary and Version.fetchsource of apt/package.py in version 1.9.0ubuntu1 and earlier. This allows a man-in-the-middle attack which could potentially be used to install altered packages and has been fixed in versions...

Design/Logic Flaw

Python-apt doesn't check if hashes are signed in Version.fetchbinary and Version.fetchsource of apt/package.py or in fetcharchives of apt/cache.py in version 1.9.3ubuntu2 and earlier. This allows downloads from unsigned repositories which shouldn't be allowed and has been fixed in verisions 1.9.5...

Design/Logic Flaw

python-apt only checks the MD5 sums of downloaded files in Version.fetchbinary and Version.fetchsource of apt/package.py in version 1.9.0ubuntu1 and earlier. This allows a man-in-the-middle attack which could potentially be used to install altered packages and has been fixed in versions...

CVE-2019-15796 python-apt downloads from untrusted sources

Python-apt doesn't check if hashes are signed in Version.fetchbinary and Version.fetchsource of apt/package.py or in fetcharchives of apt/cache.py in version 1.9.3ubuntu2 and earlier. This allows downloads from unsigned repositories which shouldn't be allowed and has been fixed in verisions 1.9.5...

CVE-2019-15795

python-apt only checks the MD5 sums of downloaded files in Version.fetchbinary and Version.fetchsource of apt/package.py in version 1.9.0ubuntu1 and earlier. This allows a man-in-the-middle attack which could potentially be used to install altered packages and has been fixed in versions...

CVE-2019-15795 python-apt uses MD5 for validation

python-apt only checks the MD5 sums of downloaded files in Version.fetchbinary and Version.fetchsource of apt/package.py in version 1.9.0ubuntu1 and earlier. This allows a man-in-the-middle attack which could potentially be used to install altered packages and has been fixed in versions...

CVE-2019-15796

CVE-2019-15796 affects the Python-apt package where Version.fetch_binary(), Version.fetch_source(), and _fetch_archives() did not verify signed hashes in versions up to 1.9.3ubuntu2, enabling downloads from unsigned repositories. The issue has been fixed in versions 1.9.5, 1.9.0ubuntu1.2, 1.6.5ub...