Security Analyst Summit 2017 Day One Recap

SINT MAARTEN—Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the first day of this year’s Security Analyst Summit, including Mark Dowd’s memory corruption bug keynote, Thomas Rid, Daniel Moore, Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, and Costin Raiu’s Moonlight Maze talk, ATM hacking, and the Lazarus APT. Download:...

Russian-Speaking Turla Joins APT Elite

SINT MAARTEN—In the waning moments of his 2016 talk at the Security Analyst Summit, Thomas Rid had a drop-the-mic moment when he disclosed there were likely links between the infamous Moonlight Maze cyberespionage operation of the mid- and late-1990s and the modern-day Turla APT. Today during thi...

PT-2018-5034

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ansible versions prior to 2.2.0 Description A flaw was found in the apt key module, which does not properly verify key fingerprints. This allows a remote adversary to create an OpenPGP key that matches the short key ID and inject this key...

Google’s lessons in security: bring together security engineering and incident response

Last week during Google Next conference, we have heard an interesting talk where a google security PM, Andy Chang, explained what Google has learned from preventing, detecting and responding to cyber attacks over the years. Not surprisingly, Google is paying a lot of attention to securing the...

Debian DLA-873-1 : apt-cacher security update

It was discovered that there was a HTTP response splitting vulnerability in apt-cacher, a proxy server for Debian/Ubuntu software repositories. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in apt-cacher version 1.7.6+deb7u1. We recommend that you upgrade your apt-cacher packages. NOTE: Tenabl...

[SECURITY] [DLA 873-1] apt-cacher security update

Package : apt-cacher Version : 1.7.6+deb7u1 Debian Bug : 858739 It was discovered that there was a HTTP response splitting vulnerability in apt-cacher, a proxy server for Debian/Ubuntu software repositories. For Debian 7 "Wheezy", this issue has been fixed in apt-cacher version 1.7.6+deb7u1. We...

DLA-873-1 apt-cacher - security update

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3817-1 (jbig2dec - security update)

Multiple security issues have been found in the JBIG2 decoder library, which may lead to lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed image file usually embedded in a PDF document is opened. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb3817.nasl 6607 2017-07-07 12:04:25Z...

Umbrella - A Phishing Dropper designed to Pentest

Umbrella is a file dropper dedicated to pentest, its download files on target system are execute them without a double execution of exe, only of embed. To compromise the same target again, you need delete this folder on target system : - C:\Users\Public\Libraries\Intel - because dropper checks th...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3805-1 (firefox-esr - security update)

Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser: Multiple memory safety errors, use-after-frees and other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, ASLR bypass, information disclosure or denial of service. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id:...

Destructive StoneDrill Wiper Malware On The Loose

There have been a handful of wiper malware attacks in the wild in the last decade with Shamoon’s destruction of more than 35,000 workstations at Saudi Aramco in 2012 and the Dark Seoul attacks on Sony Pictures Entertainment the most high profile. However, since last fall, Shamoon has resurfaced...

Simple OpenVPN Raspberry Pi Installer: piVPN

Simple OpenVPN Raspberry Pi Installer This is a set of shell scripts that serve to easily turn your Raspberry Pi TM into a VPN server using the free, open-source OpenVPN software. The master branch of this script installs and configures OpenVPN on Raspbian Jessie and has been tested on Ubuntu 14....

Nation States Distancing Themselves from APTs

SAN FRANCISCO – Security researchers say a new trend in privateering is gaining traction among nation states, which are increasingly contracting with private companies to carry out state-sponsored attacks. Typically APT attacks have been the work of internal government spy apparatuses, but...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3752-1 (pcsc-lite - security update)

Peter Wu discovered that a use-after-free in the pscd PC/SC daemon of PCSC-Lite might result in denial of service or potentially privilege escalation. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb3752.nasl 6607 2017-07-07 12:04:25Z cfischer $ Auto-generated from advisory DSA 3752-1 using nvtgen 1.0 Script...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3747-1 (exim4 - security update)

Bjoern Jacke discovered that Exim, Debian OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb3747.nasl 6608 2017-07-07 12:05:05Z cfischer $ Auto-generated from advisory DSA 3747-1 using nvtgen 1.0 Script version: 1.0 Author: Greenbone Networks Copyright: Copyright c 2016 Greenbone Networks GmbH...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3741-1 (tor - security update)

It was discovered that Tor, a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system, may read one byte past a buffer when parsing hidden service descriptors. This issue may enable a hostile hidden service to crash Tor clients depending on hardening options and malloc implementation. OpenVAS...

USN-3156-1: APT vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

USN-3156-1: APT vulnerability High Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Description Jann Horn discovered that APT incorrectly handled InRelease files. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could potentially be used to insta...

Ubuntu 16.10 : apt regression (USN-3156-2)

USN-3156-1 fixed vulnerabilities in APT. It also caused a bug in unattended-upgrades on that may require manual intervention to repair. Users on Ubuntu 16.10 should run the following commands at a terminal : sudo dpkg --configure --pending sudo apt-get -f install This update fixes the problem. We...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3738-1 (tomcat7 - security update)

Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine, as well as in its Debian-specific maintainer scripts. Those flaws allowed for privilege escalation, information disclosure, and remote code execution. As part of this update, several regressions stemming from...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3739-1 (tomcat8 - security update)

Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine, as well as in its Debian-specific maintainer scripts. Those flaws allowed for privilege escalation, information disclosure, and remote code execution. As part of this update, several regressions stemming from...