AT&T Employees Took Bribes to Unlock Smartphones

This wasn't a small operation: A Pakistani man bribed AT call-center employees to install malware and unauthorized hardware as part of a scheme to fraudulently unlock cell phones, according to the US Department of Justice. Muhammad Fahd, 34, was extradited from Hong Kong to the US on Friday and i...

Brazilian Cell Phone Hack

I know there's a lot of politics associated with this story, but concentrate on the cybersecurity aspect for a moment. The cell phones of a thousand Brazilians, including senior government officials, were hacked -- seemingly by actors much less sophisticated than rival governments. Brazil's...

A week in security (July 8 – 14)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at ways to send your sensitive information in a secure fashion, examined some tactics in incident response land, and explored federal data privacy law. We also looked at how security tools can turn against you, and took a deep dive into the rather fiendis...

Cellular networks under fire from Soft Cell attacks

We place a lot of trust in our mobile experience, given they’re one of the most constant companions we have. Huge reams of data, tied to a device we always carry with us, with said device frequently offering additional built-in app functionality. An astonishing wealth of information, for anyone...

Cell Networks Hacked by (Probable) Nation-State Attackers

A sophisticated attacker has successfuly infiltrated cell providers to collect information on specific users: The hackers have systematically broken in to more than 10 cell networks around the world to date over the past seven years to obtain massive amounts of call records -- including times and...

Command Execution Vulnerability in zzzzphp

zzphp using PHP+mysql/access/sqlite free station building system, support for cell phone automatic synchronization. zzzphp there is a command execution vulnerability , attackers into the background management system , you can use the vulnerability to indirectly execute system commands...

ICSA-19-134-05 Siemens SINAMICS PERFECT HARMONY GH180 Drives NXG I and NXG II

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Siemens Equipment: SINAMICS PERFECT HARMONY GH180 Drives NXG I and NXG II Vulnerability: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could...

Buffer overflow

Lack of check of buffer length before copying can lead to buffer overflow in camera module in Small Cell SoC, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wear in FSM9055, FSM9955, IPQ4019, IPQ8064, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9640, MDM9650, MSM8909W, MSM8996AU, QCA9531, QCA9558, QCA9563, QCA9880, QCA9886, QCA9980, SD...

CVE-2017-18279

Lack of check of buffer length before copying can lead to buffer overflow in camera module in Small Cell SoC, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wear in FSM9055, FSM9955, IPQ4019, IPQ8064, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9640, MDM9650, MSM8909W, MSM8996AU, QCA9531, QCA9558, QCA9563, QCA9880, QCA9886, QCA9980, SD...

CVE-2017-18279

CVE-2017-18279 involves a buffer length check omission that can cause a buffer overflow in the camera module across a range of Qualcomm/Snapdragon platforms (Small Cell SoC, Snapdragon Mobile/Wear and related SoCs such as FSM9055/ FSM9955, IPQ4019/8064, MDM/multiple, QCA/SD series). The provided ...

CVE-2019-7359

An exploitable heap overflow vulnerability in the AcCellMargin handling code in Autodesk Advance Steel 2018, Autodesk AutoCAD 2018, Autodesk AutoCAD Architecture 2018, Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical 2018, Autodesk AutoCAD Map 3D 2018, Autodesk AutoCAD Mechanical 2018, Autodesk AutoCAD MEP 2018,...

MATIO stack buffer overread vulnerability (CNVD-2019-28418)

matio is a C library for reading and writing MATLAB MAT files. A stack buffer over-read vulnerability exists in the "Rank and Dimension" feature of the ReadNextCell function in mat5.c in libmatio.a in matio 1.5.13. No details of the vulnerability are available at this time...

MATIO out-of-bounds read and SEGV vulnerabilities

matio is a C library for reading and writing MATLAB MAT files. The ReadNextCell function in mat5.c in libmatio.a in matio 1.5.13 has an out-of-bounds read and SEGV vulnerability. No detailed vulnerability details are provided at this time...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9034

An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio aka MAT File I/O Library 1.5.13. There is a stack-based buffer over-read for a memcpy in the function ReadNextCell in mat5.c...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9027

An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio aka MAT File I/O Library 1.5.13. There is a heap-based buffer overflow problem in the function ReadNextCell in mat5.c...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-9026

An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio aka MAT File I/O Library 1.5.13. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function InflateVarName in inflate.c when called from ReadNextCell in mat5.c...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9038

An issue was discovered in libmatio.a in matio aka MAT File I/O Library 1.5.13. There is an out-of-bounds read problem with a SEGV in the function ReadNextCell in mat5.c...

Design/Logic Flaw

In Tor before 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.x before 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.x before 0.3.5.8, and 0.4.x before 0.4.0.2-alpha, remote denial of service against Tor clients and relays can occur via memory exhaustion in the KIST cell scheduler...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-8955

In Tor before 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.x before 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.x before 0.3.5.8, and 0.4.x before 0.4.0.2-alpha, remote denial of service against Tor clients and relays can occur via memory exhaustion in the KIST cell scheduler...

CVE-2019-8955

In Tor before 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.x before 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.x before 0.3.5.8, and 0.4.x before 0.4.0.2-alpha, remote denial of service against Tor clients and relays can occur via memory exhaustion in the KIST cell scheduler...