FBI adds 5 Chinese APT41 hackers to its Cyber's Most Wanted List

The United States government today announced charges against 5 alleged members of a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group and 2 Malaysian hackers that are responsible for hacking more than 100 companies throughout the world. Named as APT41 and also known as 'Barium,' 'Winnti, 'Wicked Panda,' and...

IPTV encoder devices contain multiple vulnerabilities

Overview Multiple vulnerabilities exist in various Video Over IP Internet Protocol encoder devices, also known as IPTV/H.264/H.265 video encoders. These vulnerabilities allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and perform other unauthorized actions on a vulnerable system...

Man-in-the-Middle (MitM)

tuf is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attack. An attacker who is able to control the trust chain for future updates by serving multiple new versions of root metadata culminating in a version which has not been correctly signed. The vulnerability exists as the reference implementation incorrectly...

CVE-2020-15163

Python TUF The Update Framework reference implementation before version 0.12 it will incorrectly trust a previously downloaded root metadata file which failed verification at download time. This allows an attacker who is able to serve multiple new versions of root metadata i.e. by a...

PYSEC-2020-145

Python TUF The Update Framework reference implementation before version 0.12 it will incorrectly trust a previously downloaded root metadata file which failed verification at download time. This allows an attacker who is able to serve multiple new versions of root metadata i.e. by a...

CVE-2020-15163 Invalid root may become trusted root in The Update Framework (TUF)

Python TUF The Update Framework reference implementation before version 0.12 it will incorrectly trust a previously downloaded root metadata file which failed verification at download time. This allows an attacker who is able to serve multiple new versions of root metadata i.e. by a...

CVE-2020-15163

Python TUF The Update Framework reference implementation before version 0.12 it will incorrectly trust a previously downloaded root metadata file which failed verification at download time. This allows an attacker who is able to serve multiple new versions of root metadata i.e. by a...

Invalid root may become trusted root in The Update Framework (TUF)

Impact The Python TUF reference implementation tuf0.12 will incorrectly trust a previously downloaded root metadata file which failed verification at download time. This allows an attacker who is able to serve multiple new versions of root metadata i.e. by a man-in-the-middle attack culminating i...

Evilnum hackers targeting financial firms with a new Python-based RAT

An adversary known for targeting the fintech sector at least since 2018 has switched up its tactics to include a new Python-based remote access Trojan RAT that can steal passwords, documents, browser cookies, email credentials, and other sensitive information. In an analysis published by Cybereas...

Tackling Video Piracy Head-On

We are clearly in a "new" golden age of TV. Audiences around the world have never had so many viewing options available. This has led to a creative surge in new groundbreaking storytelling and entertainment as both broadcasters and digital giants try to maintain the loyalty of their viewers. This...

Killchain - A Unified Console To Perform The "Kill Chain" Stages Of Attacks

What is “Kill Chain”? From Wikipedia: The term kill chain was originally used as a military concept related to the structure of an attack; consisting of target identification, force dispatch to target, decision, order to attack the target, and finally the destruction of the target. Reconnaissance...

Microsoft Security: How to cultivate a diverse cybersecurity team

Boost creative problem solving with a diverse cybersecurity team In cybersecurity, whether we are talking about cryptocurrency mining, supply chain attacks, attacks against IoT, or COVID-19-related phishing lures, we know that gaining the advantage over our adversaries requires greater diversity ...

CVE-2020-15777

An issue was discovered in the Maven Extension plugin before 1.6 for Gradle Enterprise. The extension uses a socket connection to send serialized Java objects. Deserialization is not restricted to an allow-list, thus allowing an attacker to achieve code execution via a malicious deserialization...

Deserialization of untrusted data

An issue was discovered in the Maven Extension plugin before 1.6 for Gradle Enterprise. The extension uses a socket connection to send serialized Java objects. Deserialization is not restricted to an allow-list, thus allowing an attacker to achieve code execution via a malicious deserialization...

Exploit for Incorrect Calculation in Google Android

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Advanced Access Manager < 6.6.2 - Authenticated Information Disclosure

The plugin’s aam/v1/authenticate and aam/v2/authenticate REST endpoints were set to respond to a successful login with a json-encoded copy of all metadata about the user, potentially exposing users’ information to an attacker or low-privileged user. This included items like the user’s hashed...

ai.lum:odinson-rest-api_2.12 (>=0.3.1 <=0.5.0), be.objectify:deadbolt-java_2.12 (>=2.8.0 <=2.8.1) +202 more potentially affected by CVE-2020-12480 via com.typesafe.play:play_2.12 (>=2.8.0 <=2.8.19)

com.typesafe.play:play2.12 MAVEN version =2.8.0, =0.3.1, =2.8.0, =2.8.0, =1.6-P28, =1.6-P28-B3, =1.6.1, =14.0.0play2.8, =14.0.0play2.8, =18.0.4play2.8 - com.digitaltangible:play-guard2.12 =2.5.0 and more Source cves: CVE-2020-12480 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-CF8J-64H9-6Q58...

Black Hat Trip Report – Trend Micro

At Black Hat USA 2020, Trend Micro presented two important talks on vulnerabilities in Industrial IoT IIoT. The first discussed weaknesses in proprietary languages used by industrial robots, and the second talked about vulnerabilities in protocol gateways. Any organization using robots, and any...

Mac Users Targeted by Spyware Spreading via Xcode Projects

A campaign aimed at Mac users is spreading the XCSSET suite of malware, which has the capability to hijack the Safari web browser and inject various JavaScript payloads that can steal passwords, financial data and personal information, deploy ransomware and more. Infections are propagating via...

CactusPete APT Hones Toolset, Resurfaces with New Espionage Targets

The China-based APT known as CactusPete has returned with a new campaign aimed at military and financial targets in Eastern Europe, which is a new geography for the group’s victimology, according to researchers. The group also used a fresh variant of the Bisonal backdoor, which allows the attacke...