Operation Lotus Blossom APT - Elise Malware

Advanced Persistent Threat APT type attacks continue to emerge on a global scale. What makes these attacks deviate from the norm is often the resources required to develop and implement them: time, money, and the knowledge required to create custom pieces of malware to carry out specific, targete...

New Campaign Targeting Japanese with Hacking Team Zero Day

Yet another group of attackers has quickly cashed in on one of the Adobe Flash zero days uncovered in the HackingTeam leak and is leveraging it to target Japanese organizations. Last week researchers determined that attackers were able to compromise two Japanese websites, the country’s...

Office, Java Patches Erase Latest APT 28 Zero Days

An APT group thought to be tied to Russia is flying against conventional wisdom, having as recently as the last three weeks dropped its sixth zero-day in the past four months. Given the underground value of unpatched and unreported vulnerabilities, this is highly unusual behavior, even for a...

Java Zero-day vulnerability exploited in the Wild

Really a bad weekend for Internet users. Three previously unknown critical zero-day vulnerabilities were revealed in Adobe’s Flash Player over the weekend, thanks to Hacking team data Breach in which 400GB of internal data were leaked over the Internet. Now, a new zero-day vulnerability has been...

Wekby APT 18 Exploiting Hacking Team Flash Zero Day

The Wekby APT group, implicated in a number of targeted attacks against health care organizations such as Community Health Systems and major pharmaceutical companies, is reportedly making use of the Adobe Flash Player zero-day found in the Hacking Team data dump. According to Virginia-based...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3297-1 (unattended-upgrades - security update)

It was discovered that unattended-upgrades, a script for automatic installation of security upgrades, did not properly authenticate downloaded packages when the force-confold or force-confnew dpkg options were enabled via the DPkg::Options:: apt configuration. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id:...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3297-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

On the Cisco Default SSH Keys, OPM Hack, the Adobe Zero Day, and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the Cisco default SSH keys, more details of the OPM data breach, the Adobe 0-day and why we never hear about bad APT groups, only the really good ones. Download: digitalunderground208.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

POS Malware Nitlove Seen Dropped in Spam Campaign

Toss another strain of point-of-sale POS malware onto the growing heap discovered this year. The latest variant, a variant dubbed NitlovePOS, was spotted being dropped on victims who were compromised by a spam operation. Researchers with the firm FireEye were in the middle of tracking a campaign ...

APT Group Embeds C&C Data on TechNet Pages

The so-called Deputy Dog APT group has surfaced again with a means of keeping its command and control servers under wraps that involves Microsoft’s TechNet online resources. New research published last week by Microsoft and FireEye revealed targeted attacks against organizations have been...

Microsoft Windows - Local Privilege Escalation (MS15-051)

Source: https://github.com/hfiref0x/CVE-2015-1701 Win32k LPE vulnerability used in APT attack Original info: https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2015/04/probableapt28useo.html Credits R136a1 / hfiref0x Compiled EXE: x86 +...

Microsoft Windows - Local Privilege Escalation (MS15-051)

Microsoft Windows - Local Privilege Escalation MS15-051 Source: https://github.com/hfiref0x/CVE-2015-1701 Win32k LPE vulnerability used in APT attack Original info: https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2015/04/probableapt28useo.html Credits R136a1 / hfiref0x Compiled EXE: x86 +...

ICU Project ICU4C Library Vulnerabilities Patched

Multitudes of software packages that make use of the ICU Project C/C++ and Java libraries may need to update after a pair of memory-based vulnerabilities were discovered and subsequently patched. Version 55.1 of the ICU Project ICU4C library, released yesterday, addresses separate heap-based buff...

Attackers Peddling Malware Through CareerBuilder

Attackers have recently taken to the job-search website CareerBuilder to spread Microsoft Word documents that appear to be job hopefuls’ resumes, but in reality, are laden with malware. Researchers at the firm Proofpoint discovered the campaign and discussed their findings in a blog post. In the...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3243-1 (libxml-libxml-perl - security update)

Tilmann Haak from xing.com discovered that XML::LibXML, a Perl interface to the libxml2 library, did not respect the expandentities parameter to disable processing of external entities in some circumstances. This may allow attackers to gain read access to otherwise protected resources, depending ...

Vulnerabilities in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The multiple vulnerabilities in the apt-utils package of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system may lead to breaches of the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

Vulnerabilities in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The multiple vulnerabilities in the apt-transport-https package of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system may lead to breaches of the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

Vulnerabilities in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The multiple vulnerabilities in the apt-cacher package of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system may lead to breaches of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

White House, State Department Counted Among CozyDuke APT Victims

A data-mining advanced persistent threat hit a handful of high profile targets last year, including the White House’s computer network. Dubbed CozyDuke, the APT’s toolset shares several similarities with fellow APTs MiniDuke, CosmicDuke and OnionDuke. Kurt Baumgartner and Costin Raiu, researchers...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3214-1 (mailman - security update)

A path traversal vulnerability was discovered in Mailman, the mailing list manager. Installations using a transport script such as postfix-to-mailman.py to interface with their MTA instead of static aliases were vulnerable to a path traversal attack. To successfully exploit this, an attacker need...