Botnet Abusing Bitcoin Blockchain To Evade Detection

By Deeba Ahmed Cybercriminals are abusing Bitcoin transactions to carry out illegal crypto mining operations while staying under the radar. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Botnet Abusing Bitcoin Blockchain To Evade Detection...

Nvidia's Anti-Cryptomining GPU Chip May Not Discourage Attacks

Nvidia, the chip company known for its gaming-friendly graphical processing units GPUs, said that its hotly anticipated GeForce RTX 3060 chipset, launching Thursday, has an added bonus of thwarting crypto-mining. Experts applaud the effort, but are skeptical the move will take the bullseye off th...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.0 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.7.0 is now available. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for python-crypto (EulerOS-SA-2021-1351)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : python-crypto (EulerOS-SA-2021-1351)

According to the version of the python-crypto package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - lib/Crypto/PublicKey/ElGamal.py in PyCrypto through 2.6.1 generates weak ElGamal key parameters, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerability issues affect IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.5.0

Summary This interim fix provides instructions on upgrading third parity libraries in IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.5.0 in order to address security vulnerabilities CVE-2015-9251, CVE-2019-11358, CVE-2020-11022, CVE-2020-11023, CVE-2019-17359, CVE-2019-8331, CVE-2018-1000632, CVE-2018-10237,...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability in Node.js xml-crypto module affects IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management.

Summary A security vulnerability in Node.js xml-crypto module affects IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management. Vulnerability Details Third Party Entry: 192357 DESCRIPTION: Node.js xml-crypto module security bypass CVSS Base score: 7.5 CVSS Temporal Score: See:...

Amazon Linux 2 : golang (ALAS-2021-1609)

The version of golang installed on the remote host is prior to 1.15.8-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1609 advisory. In Go before 1.14.14 and 1.15.x before 1.15.7, crypto/elliptic/p224.go can generate incorrect outputs, related to an...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

4.18.0-240.15.13.OL8 - Oracle Linux certificates Kevin Lyons - Disable signing for aarch64 Ilya Okomin - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was added to the kernel trusted keys list olkmodsigningkey.pem Orabug: 29539237 - Update x509.genkey Orabug: 24817676 - Conflict with shim-ia32 and shim-x6...

OSV-2021-397 Heap-buffer-overflow in Crypto::UnsignedBigInteger::UnsignedBigInteger

OSS-Fuzz report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=30920 Crash type: Heap-buffer-overflow READ 1 Crash state: Crypto::UnsignedBigInteger::UnsignedBigInteger Crypto::UnsignedBigInteger::importdata Crypto::derdecodeinteger...

OSV-2021-395 Heap-buffer-overflow in Crypto::der_decode_integer

OSS-Fuzz report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=30907 Crash type: Heap-buffer-overflow READ 1 Crash state: Crypto::derdecodeinteger Crypto::derdecodesequence Crypto::derdecodesequencemany::operator bool...

OSV-2021-394 Heap-buffer-overflow in Crypto::der_decode_sequence

OSS-Fuzz report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=30906 Crash type: Heap-buffer-overflow READ 1 Crash state: Crypto::derdecodesequence Crypto::PK::RSA::parsersakey FuzzRSAKeyParsing.cpp...

10 SIM Swappers Arrested for Stealing $100M in Crypto from Celebrities

Ten people belonging to a criminal network have been arrested in connection with a series of SIM-swapping attacks that resulted in the theft of more than $100 million by hijacking the mobile phone accounts of high-profile individuals in the U.S. The Europol-coordinated year-long investigation was...

Information disclosure

In verifyHostName of OkHostnameVerifier.java, there is a possible way to accept a certificate for the wrong domain due to improperly used crypto. This could lead to remote information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Produc...

CVE-2021-0341

CVE-2021-0341 affects the OkHostnameVerifier.verifyHostName path in Android (OkHostnameVerifier.java). It describes a possible acceptance of a certificate for the wrong domain due to improper crypto usage, leading to remote information disclosure without extra privileges. Affected Android version...

Security update for rclone (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for rclone Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0272-1 Rating: moderate References: 1179005 Cross-References: CVE-2020-28924 CVSS scores: CVE-2020-28924 NVD : 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 A...

Fedora 33 : golang (2021-e435a8bb88)

The remote Fedora 33 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2021-e435a8bb88 advisory. - In Go before 1.14.14 and 1.15.x before 1.15.7, crypto/elliptic/p224.go can generate incorrect outputs, related to an underflow of the lowest limb...

Malicious Package

jquerry is a malicious package. The index.js file downloads and executes a crypto mining script. However, the script is not executed upon installation...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of jquerry contain malicious code. The index.js file appears to download and execute a crypto mining script. The file is not run upon installation - the package needs to be required or the index.js run manually. Recommendation Any computer that has this package installed or...

Crypto Crook Hired Steven Seagal to Promote Scam, Now Faces Charges

Hundreds of investors in a fake cryptocurrency scam were bilked out of $11 million by John DeMarr, who advised them to invest in fake cryptocurrency “Bitcoiin,” took their money and spent it on a Porsche, jewelry and upgrades to his home, a criminal complaint from the Department of Justice allege...