Microsoft Patches Zero-Day Under Active Attack by APT

Microsoft has issued a patch for a zero-day bug being actively exploited in the wild, as part of its Patch Tuesday security bulletin. The vulnerability is an elevation-of-privilege flaw, rated important, affecting the Windows Win32k component. The zero-day CVE-2018-8453, found by Kaspersky Lab,...

Slideshow: Intel from Virus Bulletin 2018

This year’s Virus Bulletin 2018, held in Montreal Oct. 3-5, featured a keynote from Microsoft’s John Lambert and a range of threat intelligence research from BAE Systems, Check Point, Cisco Talos, Citizens Lab, Digita Security, ESET, GoSecure, Kaspersky Lab, Malwarebytes, Sophos Security and more...

Virus Bulletin 2018: Turla APT Changes Shape with New Code and Targets

MONTREAL – The Turla APT group’s extensive activities have diversified this year, representing a mix of old code, new code and fresh targets. Perhaps most interesting, this sophisticated group is branching into using scripts and open-source code in its malware development – a marked departure for...

NOKKI Malware Sports Mysterious Link to Reaper APT Group

The Reaper APT group, suspected of being affiliated with North Korea, turns out to have a link to the recently uncovered NOKKI malware family. Palo Alto’s Unit 42 recently observed NOKKI-laden attacks targeted Russian- and Cambodian-speaking individuals with political lures. NOKKI is a backdoor,...

Skype On Debian Microsoft Apt Repo Addition Vulnerability

Skype on Debian automatically installs apt configuration that adds Microsoft's apt repo to the system's package sources. That way, Microsoft or anybody holding their repo's private key can easily inject malicious packages via regular update and replace distro packages w/ their own manipulated one...

Debian DLA-1511-1 : reportbug update

Reportbug, a tool designed to make the reporting of bugs in Debian easier, was further enhanced to automatically detect bug reports for potential regressions caused by a security update. After user confirmation an additional email with a copy of the report will be sent to the debian-lts mailing...

Mirai Masterminds Helping FBI Snuff Out Cybercrime

The three masterminds behind Mirai – the infamous botnet known for taking down internet services in a 2016 DDoS attack – will work with the FBI in future cybercrime investigations as part of their sentencing for creating and operating the botnet. The three hackers, Paras Jha 22, of New Jersey,...

OilRig APT Continues Its Ongoing Malware Evolution

OilRig, an APT group believed to have ties to Iran, has been spotted in yet another campaign in the Middle East – this time targeting victims within an undisclosed government using an evolved variant of the BondUpdater trojan. The group, which is also called Cobalt Gypsy, Crambus, Helix Kitten or...

USN-3746-1: APT vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

Severity High Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 Description It was discovered that APT incorrectly handled the mirror method mirror://. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could potentially be used to install altered...

Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H1 2018

For many years, Kaspersky Lab experts have been uncovering and researching cyberthreats that target a variety of information systems – those of commercial and government organizations, banks, telecoms operators, industrial enterprises, and individual users. In this report, Kaspersky Lab Industria...

DNC: Highly Publicized ‘Phishing Attempt’ Was Only a Security Test

A day after the Democratic National Committee riled up security researchers and the press, it’s walking back an assertion that there was an attempt to compromise its voter database. Though it seemed like the event was the latest in a series of malicious efforts designed to harvest credentials...

Ryuk Ransomware Emerges in Highly Targeted, Highly Lucrative Campaign

A targeted new ransomware has burst on the scene, attacking well-chosen, targeted organizations worldwide with a highly sophisticated operation that may be linked to a well-known APT actor. Over the past two weeks, the Ryuk ransomware has encrypted hundreds of PCs, storage and data centers in eac...

CVE-2018-0501

The mirror:// method implementation in Advanced Package Tool APT 1.6.x before 1.6.4 and 1.7.x before 1.7.0alpha3 mishandles gpg signature verification for the InRelease file of a fallback mirror, aka mirrorfail...

Design/Logic Flaw

The mirror:// method implementation in Advanced Package Tool APT 1.6.x before 1.6.4 and 1.7.x before 1.7.0alpha3 mishandles gpg signature verification for the InRelease file of a fallback mirror, aka mirrorfail...

CVE-2018-0501

The mirror:// method implementation in Advanced Package Tool APT 1.6.x before 1.6.4 and 1.7.x before 1.7.0alpha3 mishandles gpg signature verification for the InRelease file of a fallback mirror, aka mirrorfail...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3746-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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 18.04 LTS : APT vulnerability (USN-3746-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3746-1 advisory. It was discovered that APT incorrectly handled the mirror method mirror://. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw...

CVE-2018-0501

The mirror:// method implementation in Advanced Package Tool APT 1.6.x before 1.6.4 and 1.7.x before 1.7.0alpha3 mishandles gpg signature verification for the InRelease file of a fallback mirror, aka mirrorfail...

CVE-2018-0501

The mirror:// method implementation in Advanced Package Tool APT 1.6.x before 1.6.4 and 1.7.x before 1.7.0alpha3 mishandles gpg signature verification for the InRelease file of a fallback mirror, aka mirrorfail...

CVE-2018-0501

The CVE-2018-0501 detail: APT’s mirror:// handling in 1.6.x (pre-1.6.4) and 1.7.x (pre-1.7.0~alpha3) mishandles GPG verification for the InRelease file of a fallback mirror (mirrorfail). Impact: remote MITM could install altered packages when using mirror:// entries. Remediation: upgrade to 1.6.4...