Stealth Falcon Targets Middle East with Windows BITS Feature

The notorious Stealth Falcon cyberespionage group has adopted a new backdoor using the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS in its ongoing spyware attacks against journalists, activists and dissidents in the Middle East. According to researchers at ESET, attackers are exploiting t...

Bitdefender Antivirus Free Code Issue Vulnerability

Bitdefender Antivirus Free is a free version of the Romanian company Bitdefender's suite of antivirus programs that provide mainly cyber threat detection and ransomware protection. Bitdefender Antivirus Free is vulnerable to a code issue. The vulnerability arises from an improperly designed or...

The vulnerability of the ServiceInstance.dll library in the Bitdefender Antivirus Free 2020 antivirus software allows a malicious actor to escalate their privileges.

The vulnerability of the ServiceInstance.dll library in the Bitdefender Antivirus Free 2020 antivirus tool is related to errors in checking the paths of dynamically loaded libraries. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to increase their privileges...

CVE-2019-15295

An Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in the ServiceInstance.dll library versions 1.0.15.119 and lower, as used in Bitdefender Antivirus Free 2020 versions prior to 1.0.15.138, allows an attacker to load an arbitrary DLL file from the search path...

CVE-2019-15295

An Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in the ServiceInstance.dll library versions 1.0.15.119 and lower, as used in Bitdefender Antivirus Free 2020 versions prior to 1.0.15.138, allows an attacker to load an arbitrary DLL file from the search path...

Design/Logic Flaw

An Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in the ServiceInstance.dll library versions 1.0.15.119 and lower, as used in Bitdefender Antivirus Free 2020 versions prior to 1.0.15.138, allows an attacker to load an arbitrary DLL file from the search path...

CVE-2019-15295

CVE-2019-15295 concerns an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in the Bitdefender Antivirus Free 2020 product. Affected component: ServiceInstance.dll (versions 1.0.15.119 and earlier) used by Bitdefender Antivirus Free 2020 prior to 1.0.15.138. Root cause: loading an arbitrary DLL from the searc...

CVE-2019-15295

An Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in the ServiceInstance.dll library versions 1.0.15.119 and lower, as used in Bitdefender Antivirus Free 2020 versions prior to 1.0.15.138, allows an attacker to load an arbitrary DLL file from the search path...

New SWAPGS Side-Channel Attack Bypasses Spectre and Meltdown Defenses

Millions of newer Intel microprocessors manufactured after 2012 are vulnerable to a new type of side-channel attack dubbed SWAPGS. SWAPGS is similar to existing side-channel attacks such as Spectre and Meltdown and similarly could allow a hacker to gain access to sensitive data such as passwords...

SWAPGS Attack — New Speculative Execution Flaw Affects All Modern Intel CPUs

A new variant of the Spectre Variant 1 side-channel vulnerability has been discovered that affects all modern Intel CPUs, and probably some AMD processors as well, which leverage speculative execution for high performance, Microsoft and Red Hat warned. Identified as CVE-2019-1125, the vulnerabili...

Code Injection Vulnerability in Multiple Bitdefender Products

Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tool and others are products of the Romanian company Bitdefender.Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tool is an endpoint security management tool.Bitdefender Antivirus Plus is a suite of antivirus programs that provide network threat detection and ransomware protection...

CVE-2019-14242

An issue was discovered in Bitdefender products for Windows Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tool versions prior to 6.6.8.115; and Bitdefender Antivirus Plus, Bitdefender Internet Security, and Bitdefender Total Security versions prior to 23.0.24.120 that can lead to local code injection. A local...

CVE-2019-14242

An issue was discovered in Bitdefender products for Windows Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tool versions prior to 6.6.8.115; and Bitdefender Antivirus Plus, Bitdefender Internet Security, and Bitdefender Total Security versions prior to 23.0.24.120 that can lead to local code injection. A local...

Code injection

An issue was discovered in Bitdefender products for Windows Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tool versions prior to 6.6.8.115; and Bitdefender Antivirus Plus, Bitdefender Internet Security, and Bitdefender Total Security versions prior to 23.0.24.120 that can lead to local code injection. A local...

CVE-2019-14242

An issue was discovered in Bitdefender products for Windows Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tool versions prior to 6.6.8.115; and Bitdefender Antivirus Plus, Bitdefender Internet Security, and Bitdefender Total Security versions prior to 23.0.24.120 that can lead to local code injection. A local...

CVE-2019-14242

CVE-2019-14242 affects Bitdefender products for Windows (Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tool < 6.6.8.115; Bitdefender Antivirus Plus/Internet Security/Total Security

'Legit Apps Turned into Spyware' Targeting Android Users in Middle East

Cybersecurity researchers are warning about an ongoing Android malware campaign that has been active since 2016 and was first publicly reported in August 2018. Dubbed "ViceLeaker" by researchers at Kaspersky, the campaign has recently been found targeting Israeli citizens and some other middle...

GandCrab Ransomware Decryption Tool [All Versions] — Recover Files for Free

Cybersecurity researchers have released an updated version of GandCrab ransomware decryption tool that could allow millions of affected users to unlock their encrypted files for free without paying a ransom to the cybercriminals. GandCrab is one of the most prolific families of ransomware to date...

GandCrab Ransomware Decryption Tool [All Versions] — Recover Files for Free

Cybersecurity researchers have released an updated version of GandCrab ransomware decryption tool that could allow millions of affected users to unlock their encrypted files for free without paying a ransom to the cybercriminals. GandCrab is one of the most prolific families of ransomware to date...

Bitdefender Safepay Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-16529)

Bitdefender SafePay is a secure browser. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Bitdefender SafePay versions prior to 23.0.11.44. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process or cause a denial of service...