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...

CVE-2018-0501: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

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...

USN-3746-1: APT vulnerability

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 could potentially be used to install altered packages in environments configured to use mirror:// entries...

Darkhotel Exploits Microsoft Zero-Day VBScript Flaw

Researchers have discovered that the Darkhotel APT is exploiting a recently-patched zero-day vulnerability impacting Microsoft VBScript. Researchers at Trend Micro recently disclosed the flaw in Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Engine VBScript, an active scripting language developed by Microsoft...

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...

Black Hat 2018: Google Bug Hunter Urges Apple to Change its iOS Security Culture

LAS VEGAS – Prolific Google bug hunter Ian Beer ripped into Apple on Wednesday, urging the iPhone maker to change its culture when it comes to iOS security. He said the company suffers from an all-too-common affliction of patching an iOS bug, but not fixing the systemic roots that contribute to t...

Copycat Kali, with mykali for Kali Linux

If you’re anything like me, you like to customise your environment quite a bit. I do most of my work from a Kali Linux VM which has had a plethora of changes made to it. I like to use i3 instead of gnome, I’ve a ton of git repositories cloned, packages installed, custom configuration files and...

IT threat evolution Q2 2018

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Operation Parliament In April, we reported the workings of Operation Parliament, a cyber-espionage campaign aimed at high-profile legislative, executive and judicial organizations around the world – with its main focus in the MENA Middle East and North Afric...

Hackers Infect Over 200,000 MikroTik Routers With Crypto Mining Malware

Security researchers have discovered at least three massive malware campaigns exploiting hundreds of thousands of unpatched MikroTik routers to secretly install cryptocurrency miners on computers connected to them. In all, the malware campaigns have compromised more than 210,000 routers from...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8614

A flaw was found in Ansible before version 2.2.0. The aptkey module does not properly verify key fingerprints, allowing remote adversary to create an OpenPGP key which matches the short key ID and inject this key instead of the correct key...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8614

A flaw was found in Ansible before version 2.2.0. The aptkey module does not properly verify key fingerprints, allowing remote adversary to create an OpenPGP key which matches the short key ID and inject this key instead of the correct key...

Sending FireEye HX data to Splunk

FireEye HX is an agent-based Endpoint Protection solution. Something like an antivirus, but focused on Advanced Persistent Threats APT. It has an appliance with GUI where you can manage the agents and see information about detected security incidents. As with any agent-based solution, it's...

Debian DLA-1424-1 : linux-latest-4.9 new package

Linux 4.9 has been packaged for Debian 8 as linux-4.9. This provides a supported upgrade path for systems that currently use kernel packages from the 'jessie-backports' suite. However, 'apt full-upgrade' will not automatically install the updated kernel packages. You should explicitly install one...

Chinese Espionage Group TEMP.Periscope Targets Cambodia Ahead of July 2018 Elections and Reveals Broad Operations Globally

Introduction FireEye has examined a range of TEMP.Periscope activity revealing extensive interest in Cambodia's politics, with active compromises of multiple Cambodian entities related to the country’s electoral system. This includes compromises of Cambodian government entities charged with...

Gaza Cybergang Returns With New Attacks On Palestinian Authority

Security researchers from Check Point Threat Intelligence Team have discovered the comeback of an APT advanced persistent threat surveillance group targeting institutions across the Middle East, specifically the Palestinian Authority. The attack, dubbed "Big Bang," begins with a phishing email se...

APT Trends Report Q2 2018

In the second quarter of 2017, Kaspersky Lab's Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT began publishing summaries of the quarter's private threat intelligence reports, in an effort to make the public aware of the research we have been conducting. This report serves as the latest installment,...