Covert Timing Channel

Overview openssl is a package that wraps the OpenSSL library. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Covert Timing Channel through the decryption process. An attacker can decrypt messages or forge signatures by exchanging a large number of messages with the vulnerable service Marvin...

BellaCPP: Discovering a new BellaCiao variant written in C++

Introduction BellaCiao is a .NET-based malware family that adds a unique twist to an intrusion, combining the stealthy persistence of a webshell with the power to establish covert tunnels. It surfaced for the first time in late April 2023 and has since been publicly attributed to the APT actor...

Chinese Nation-State Hackers APT41 Hit Gambling Sector for Financial Gain

The prolific Chinese nation-state actor known as APT41 aka Brass Typhoon, Earth Baku, Wicked Panda, or Winnti has been attributed to a sophisticated cyber attack targeting the gambling and gaming industry. "Over a period of at least six months, the attackers stealthily gathered valuable informati...

State Injection Into Hardware Prefetchers

Bulletin ID: AMD-SB-7023 Potential Impact: Data leakage via Side Channels Severity: N/A Summary A research paper titled ‘ ShadowLoad: Injecting State into Hardware Prefetchers ’ was provided to AMD in February 2024. The paper discusses the possibility for prefetchers to be used to inject cache...

OpenAI Blocks 20 Global Malicious Campaigns Using AI for Cybercrime and Disinformation

OpenAI on Wednesday said it has disrupted more than 20 operations and deceptive networks across the world that attempted to use its platform for malicious purposes since the start of the year. This activity encompassed debugging malware, writing articles for websites, generating biographies for...

New PIXHELL Attack Exploits LCD Screen Noise to Exfiltrate Data from Air-Gapped Computers

A new side-channel attack dubbed PIXHELL could be abused to target air-gapped computers by breaching the "audio gap" and exfiltrating sensitive information by taking advantage of the noise generated by pixels on an LCD screen. "Malware in the air-gap and audio-gap computers generates crafted pixe...

New Cyberattack Targets Chinese-Speaking Businesses with Cobalt Strike Payloads

Chinese-speaking users are the target of a "highly organized and sophisticated attack" campaign that is likely leveraging phishing emails to infect Windows systems with Cobalt Strike payloads. "The attackers managed to move laterally, establish persistence and remain undetected within the systems...

OpenAI Blocks Iranian Influence Operation Using ChatGPT for U.S. Election Propaganda

OpenAI on Friday said it banned a set of accounts linked to what it said was an Iranian covert influence operation that leveraged ChatGPT to generate content that, among other things, focused on the upcoming U.S. presidential election. "This week we identified and took down a cluster of ChatGPT...

UNC3886 Covert Operations Leveraging Rootkits and Backdoored Applications

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China-Linked Hackers Infiltrate East Asian Firm for 3 Years Using F5 Devices

A suspected China-nexus cyber espionage actor has been attributed as behind a prolonged attack against an unnamed organization located in East Asia for a period of about three years, with the adversary establishing persistence using legacy F5 BIG-IP appliances and using it as an internal...

US Leaders Dodge Questions About Israel’s Influence Campaign

Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has joined US intelligence officials in ignoring repeated inquiries about Israel’s “malign” efforts to covertly influence US voters...

OpenAI, Meta, and TikTok Crack Down on Covert Influence Campaigns, Some AI-Powered

OpenAI on Thursday disclosed that it took steps to cut off five covert influence operations IO originating from China, Iran, Israel, and Russia that sought to abuse its artificial intelligence AI tools to manipulate public discourse or political outcomes online while obscuring their true identity...

RHEL 8 : nodejs (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - nodejs: Unitialized buffer due to incorrect encoding CVE-2017-15897 - nodejs: integrity checks according ...

State-Sponsored Hackers Exploit Two Cisco Zero-Day Vulnerabilities for Espionage

A new malware campaign leveraged two zero-day flaws in Cisco networking gear to deliver custom malware and facilitate covert data collection on target environments. Cisco Talos, which dubbed the activity ArcaneDoor, attributed it as the handiwork of a previously undocumented sophisticated...

Evil Ant The Python-Powered Ransomware

Summary: Evil Ant Ransomware, a sophisticated Python-based malware compiled with PyInstaller, operates covertly by hiding its console window and executing tasks discreetly. It aims to gain access to critical system functions and encrypt secured files. Threat Level - Amber | Attack Report For a...

Rocky Linux 8 : nodejs:18 (RLSA-2024:1510)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2024:1510 advisory. - On Linux, Node.js ignores certain environment variables if those may have been set by an unprivileged user while the process is running with elevated...

Oracle Linux 8 : nodejs:18 (ELSA-2024-1510)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2024-1510 advisory. - Fixes: CVE-2024-21892 CVE-2024-22019 high Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory. Not...

RHEL 8 : nodejs:18 (RHSA-2024:1510)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1510 advisory. Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language...

CVE-2024-25964

Dell PowerScale OneFS 9.5.0.x through 9.7.0.x contain a covert timing channel vulnerability. A remote unauthenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to denial of service...

CVE-2024-25964

CVE-2024-25964 affects Dell PowerScale OneFS 9.5.0.x through 9.7.0.x. The issue is described as a covert timing channel vulnerability that could enable a remote, unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial of service. The available connected sources consistently identify the affected software (P...