SAS 2019 to Tackle APTs, Supply Chains and More

Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit kicks off in Singapore next week, where elite researchers, top cybersecurity firms and global law-enforcement agencies will discuss today’s biggest cybersecurity threats and how best to squash them. This year marks the first time the global security...

Google Warns of Growing Android Attack Vector: Backdoored SDKs and Pre-Installed Apps

Google is reporting an uptick in efforts by bad actors to plant potentially harmful applications PHAs on Android devices via pre-installed apps and by bundling them with system updates delivered over the air. The technique is especially troubling, Google said, because PHAs are often malicious and...

openSUSE Security Update : ovmf (openSUSE-2019-1083)

This update for ovmf fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-12180: Fixed a buffer overflow in BlockIo service, which could lead to memory read/write overrun bsc1127820. - CVE-2018-12178: Fixed an improper DNS check upon receiving a new DNS packet bsc1127821. -...

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1083-1 Security update for ovmf

This update for ovmf fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-12180: Fixed a buffer overflow in BlockIo service, which could lead to memory read/write overrun bsc1127820. - CVE-2018-12178: Fixed an improper DNS check upon receiving a new DNS packet bsc1127821. - CVE-2018-3630...

Here's the List of ~600 MAC Addresses Targeted in Recent ASUS Hack

EXCLUSIVE — While revealing details of a massive supply chain cyber attack against ASUS customers, Russian security firm Kaspersky last week didn't release the full list all MAC addresses that hackers hardcoded into their malware to surgically target a specific pool of users. Instead, Kaspersky...

Here's the List of ~600 MAC Addresses Targeted in Recent ASUS Hack

EXCLUSIVE — While revealing details of a massive supply chain cyber attack against ASUS customers, Russian security firm Kaspersky last week didn't release the full list all MAC addresses that hackers hardcoded into their malware to surgically target a specific pool of users. Instead, Kaspersky...

Malware Installed in Asus Computers through Hacked Update Process

Kaspersky Labs is reporting on a new supply chain attack they call "Shadowhammer." In January 2019, we discovered a sophisticated supply chain attack involving the ASUS Live Update Utility. The attack took place between June and November 2018 and according to our telemetry, it affected a large...

Elfin Hacking Group Targets Multiple U.S. and Saudi Arabian Firms

An Iran-linked cyber-espionage group that has been found targeting critical infrastructure, energy and military sectors in Saudi Arabia and the United States two years ago continues targeting organizations in the two nations, Symantec reported on Wednesday. Widely known asAPT33 , which Symantec...

CVE-2018-15815

FastStone Image Viewer 6.5 has an Exception Handler Chain Corrupted issue starting at image00400000+0x00000000003ef68a via a crafted image file...

Code injection

FastStone Image Viewer 6.5 has an Exception Handler Chain Corrupted issue starting at image00400000+0x00000000003ef68a via a crafted image file...

ASUS Patches Live Update Bug That Allowed APT to Infect Thousands of PCs

ASUS has expedited a patch for a major bug impacting thousands of PCs that allowed an advanced persistent threat group to launch a supply-chain attack dubbed “Operation ShadowHammer.” The vulnerability targeted a range of new ASUS PCs with a backdoor injection technique tied to the PC-maker’s...

DART: the Microsoft cybersecurity team we hope you never meet

If you spent 270 days away from home, not on vacation, you’d want it to be for a good reason. When boarding a plane, sometimes having been pulled out of bed to leave family for weeks on end, I know it’s because one of our customers is in need. It means there is a security compromise and they may ...

013-carrousel-multipe (=1.0.0), 0303-lb3-paket (=1.0.1) +18345 more potentially affected by CVE-2019-5413 via morgan (>=1.0.0 <=1.9.0)

morgan NPM version =1.0.0, =1.1.0, =1.0.2, =1.0.1, =1.0.2 and more Source cves: CVE-2019-5413 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-GWG9-RGVJ-4H5J...

Some ASUS Updates Drop Backdoors on PCs in 'Operation ShadowHammer'

A supply-chain attack dubbed “Operation ShadowHammer” has been uncovered, targeting users of the ASUS Live Update Utility with a backdoor injection. The China-backed BARIUM APT is suspected to be at the helm of the project. According to Kaspersky Lab, the campaign ran from June to at least Novemb...

Warning: ASUS Software Update Server Hacked to Distribute Malware

Remember the CCleaner hack? CCleaner hack was one of the largest supply chain attacks that infected more than 2.3 million users with a backdoored version of the software in September 2017. Security researchers today revealed another massive supply chain attack that compromised over 1 million...

Warning: ASUS Software Update Server Hacked to Distribute Malware

Remember the CCleaner hack? CCleaner hack was one of the largest supply chain attacks that infected more than 2.3 million users with a backdoored version of the software in September 2017. Security researchers today revealed another massive supply chain attack that compromised over 1 million...

Operation ShadowHammer

Earlier today, Motherboard published a story by Kim Zetter on Operation ShadowHammer, a newly discovered supply chain attack that leveraged ASUS Live Update software. While the investigation is still in progress and full results and technical paper will be published during SAS 2019 conference in...

New MageCart Attacks Target Bedding Retailers My Pillow and Amerisleep

Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed details of two newly identified Magecart attacks targeting online shoppers of bedding retailers MyPillow and Amerisleep. Magecart is an umbrella term researchers gave to at least 11 different hacking groups that are specialized in implanting malware code ...

Through the Server Info in a buffer overflow to achieve the Steam client RCE-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In Steam and other V social game such as CSGO, Half-Life, TF2, built-in a looking for a server browser server browser, and a game server. In order to obtain information about these server information, the server browser using a method called server query server queries a specific UDP communicatio...

ai.h2o:h2o-orc-parser (>=3.18.0.9 <=3.46.0.11), com.linkedin.tony:tony-cli (>=0.1.5 <=0.3.3) +36 more potentially affected by CVE-2016-3083 via org.apache.hive:hive-exec (>=0.8.0 <=1.2.1)

org.apache.hive:hive-exec MAVEN version =0.8.0, =3.18.0.9, =0.1.5, =0.1.5, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =6.5.0, =6.5.0, =6.5.0, =6.5.0, =6.8.3 and more Source cves: CVE-2016-3083 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-GF2V-9HP6-44QG...