Ransomware making big money through "big game hunting"

Ransomware generates big money for the groups behind it, with new research confirming some of the scale of the problem. Chainalysis, a blockchain research firm, looked at data from monitored cryptocurrency wallets, concluding that around $449 million has been taken from victims in the last six...

Belgian Tax Hack

Heres a fascinating tax hack from Belgium listen to the details here, episode 484 of "No Such Thing as a Fish," at 28:00. Basically, its about a music festival on the border between Belgium and Holland. The stage was in Holland, but the crowd was in Belgium. When the copyright collector came...

Evasive Meduza Stealer Targets 19 Password Managers and 76 Crypto Wallets

In yet another sign of a lucrative crimeware-as-a-service CaaS ecosystem, cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Windows-based information stealer called Meduza Stealer that's actively being developed by its author to evade detection by software solutions. "The Meduza Stealer has a...

Online safety tips for LGBTQIA+ communities

The internet is great for bringing people together, helping you feel part of a community, and staying in touch with your nearest and dearest. But it can also be a nasty place - from malware to scammers, to people just being plain awful to others. It's probably not surprising to read that recent...

Credible Handwriting Machine

In case you dont have enough to worry about, someone has built a credible handwriting machine: This is still a work in progress, but the project seeks to solve one of the biggest problems with other homework machines, such as this one that I covered a few months ago after it blew up on social...

kernel: PCI: Avoid pci_dev_lock() AB/BA deadlock with sriov_numvfs_store()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: Avoid pcidevlock AB/BA deadlock with sriovnumvfsstore The sysfs sriovnumvfsstore path acquires the device lock before the config space access lock: sriovnumvfsstore devicelock A 1 acquire device lock sriovconfigure...

New Version of Prometei Botnet Infects Over 10,000 Systems Worldwide

An updated version of a botnet malware called Prometei has infected more than 10,000 systems worldwide since November 2022. The infections are both geographically indiscriminate and opportunistic, with a majority of the victims reported in Brazil, Indonesia, and Turkey. Prometei, first observed i...

SUSE CVE-2022-36109

Moby is an open-source project created by Docker to enable software containerization. A bug was found in Moby Docker Engine where supplementary groups are not set up properly. If an attacker has direct access to a container and manipulates their supplementary group access, they may be able to use...

GSD-2023-1002293 f2fs: let's avoid panic if extent_tree is not created

f2fs: let's avoid panic if extenttree is not created This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v4.14.304 by commit...

GSD-2023-1002270 f2fs: let's avoid panic if extent_tree is not created

f2fs: let's avoid panic if extenttree is not created This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v4.19.271 by commit...

GSD-2023-1002179 f2fs: let's avoid panic if extent_tree is not created

f2fs: let's avoid panic if extenttree is not created This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.10.165 by commit...

Hacking the Tax Code

The tax code isn’t software. It doesn’t run on a computer. But it’s still code. It’s a series of algorithms that takes an input--financial information for the year--and produces an output: the amount of tax owed. It’s incredibly complex code; there are a bazillion details and exceptions and speci...

GSD-2023-1001811 f2fs: let's avoid panic if extent_tree is not created

f2fs: let's avoid panic if extenttree is not created This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.4.230 by commit...

GSD-2023-1001784 f2fs: let's avoid panic if extent_tree is not created

f2fs: let's avoid panic if extenttree is not created This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.10.165 by commit...

Malicious Package

Overview ban-notifier is a malicious package. The package's name is based on existing repositories, namespaces, or components used by popular companies in an effort to trick employees into downloading it, also known as 'dependency confusion'. Therefore, you're only vulnerable if this package was...

FreeBSD : phpmyfaq -- multiple vulnerabilities (005dfb48-990d-11ed-b9d3-589cfc0f81b0)

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the 005dfb48-990d-11ed-b9d3-589cfc0f81b0 advisory. - phpmyfaq developers report: phpMyFAQ does not implement sufficient checks to avoid a stored XSS in Ad...

CVE-2022-47547

GossipSub 1.1, as used for Ethereum 2.0, allows a peer to maintain a positive score and thus not be pruned from the network even though it continuously misbehaves by never forwarding topic messages...

Navigating the road ahead for CISOs following the Uber verdict

Hear from industry experts to understand the challenges ahead and best practices CISOs can follow to avoid issues in the future...

GSD-2022-1007666 ext4: avoid crash when inline data creation follows DIO write

ext4: avoid crash when inline data creation follows DIO write This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v4.9.331 by commit...

GSD-2022-1007531 ext4: avoid crash when inline data creation follows DIO write

ext4: avoid crash when inline data creation follows DIO write This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v4.19.262 by commit...