Upgraded Q -> 2 from #530 [1705001094273]

Judge has assessed an item in Issue 530 as 2 risk. The relevant finding follows: QA-04 owner of AuctionHouse should not be allowed to change parameters for the ongoing auction --- The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: All reactions...

Upgraded Q -> 2 from #341 [1705001382135]

Judge has assessed an item in Issue 341 as 2 risk. The relevant finding follows: L03: Auction parameters can be changed during an auction --- The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: All reactions...

SEC X account hacked to hawk crypto-scams

We have seen several high-profile accounts that were taken over on X formerly Twitter only to be used for cryptocurrency related promotional activities, like expressing the approval of exchange-traded funds ETFs. The latest victim in this line-up is the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC. The...

NoaBot: Latest Mirai-Based Botnet Targeting SSH Servers for Crypto Mining

A new Mirai-based botnet called NoaBot is being used by threat actors as part of a crypto mining campaign since the beginning of 2023. "The capabilities of the new botnet, NoaBot, include a wormable self-spreader and an SSH key backdoor to download and execute additional binaries or spread itself...

Here’s Some Bitcoin: Oh, and You’ve Been Served!

A California man who lost $100,000 in a 2021 SIM-swapping attack is suing the unknown holder of a cryptocurrency wallet that harbors his stolen funds. The case is thought to be the first in which a federal court has recognized the use of information included in a bitcoin transaction -- such as a...

golang: crypto/tls: lack of a limit on buffered post-handshake

A flaw was found in Golang. QUIC connections do not set an upper bound on the amount of data buffered when reading post-handshake messages, allowing a malicious QUIC connection to cause unbounded memory growth. With the fix, connections now consistently reject messages larger than 65KiB in size...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: container-tools:4.0 security update

An update for the container-tools:4.0 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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 eac...

Beware! YouTube Videos Promoting Cracked Software Distribute Lumma Stealer

Threat actors are resorting to YouTube videos featuring content related to cracked software in order to entice users into downloading an information stealer malware called Lumma. "These YouTube videos typically feature content related to cracked applications, presenting users with similar...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6567-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 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...

USN-6567-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

Gaoning Pan and Xingwei Li discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the USB xHCI controller device. A privileged guest attacker could possibly use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. CVE-2020-14394 It w...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-6567-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6567-1 advisory. Gaoning Pan and Xingwei Li discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the USB xHCI controller device. A privileged guest attack...

alerter (>=0.3.0, <=0.3.1), maruc (0.1.0) +9 more potentially affected by CVE-2024-52813 via matrix-sdk-crypto (>=0.1.0, <=0.5.0)

matrix-sdk-crypto CARGO version =0.1.0, =0.3.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.2.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.10-alpha, =0.13.0, =0.13.1 Source cves: CVE-2024-52813 Source advisory: OSV:RUSTSEC-2024-0434...

Missing facility to signal rotation of a verified cryptographic identity

Versions of the matrix-sdk-crypto Rust crate before 0.8.0 lack a dedicated mechanism to notify that a user's cryptographic identity has changed from a verified to an unverified one, which could cause client applications relying on the SDK to overlook such changes. matrix-sdk-crypto 0.8.0 adds a n...

RUSTSEC-2024-0434 Missing facility to signal rotation of a verified cryptographic identity

Versions of the matrix-sdk-crypto Rust crate before 0.8.0 lack a dedicated mechanism to notify that a user's cryptographic identity has changed from a verified to an unverified one, which could cause client applications relying on the SDK to overlook such changes. matrix-sdk-crypto 0.8.0 adds a n...

PT-2024-35461 · Unknown · Matrix-Sdk-Crypto

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: matrix-sdk-crypto versions prior to 0.8.0 Description: The issue concerns a lack of a dedicated mechanism to notify when a user's cryptographic identity changes from verified to unverified, potentially causing client applications to overlook...

Upgraded Q -> 2 from #286 [1704653766013]

Judge has assessed an item in Issue 286 as 2 risk. The relevant finding follows: L-02 Quorum for existing piece cannot be changed L-03 Token inflation gives advantage to new pieces --- The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: All reactions...

Upgraded Q -> 2 from #643 [1704652543122]

Judge has assessed an item in Issue 643 as 2 risk. The relevant finding follows: L-2 Setting Auction::reservePrice equal to 0 can create a chain of 0 price bids --- The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: All reactions...

X Account of Google Cybersecurity Firm Mandiant Hacked in Crypto Scam

By Waqas The hackers changed Mandiant's Twitter handle from "@Mandiant" to "@phantomsolw." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: X Account of Google Cybersecurity Firm Mandiant Hacked in Crypto Scam...

Beware: 3 Malicious PyPI Packages Found Targeting Linux with Crypto Miners

Three new malicious packages have been discovered in the Python Package Index PyPI open-source repository with capabilities to deploy a cryptocurrency miner on affected Linux devices. The three harmful packages, named modularseven, driftme, and catme, attracted a total of 431 downloads over the...

Mandiant's Twitter Account Restored After Six-Hour Crypto Scam Hack

American cybersecurity firm and Google Cloud subsidiary Mandiant had its X formerly Twitter account compromised for more than six hours by an unknown attacker to propagate a cryptocurrency scam. As of writing, the account has been restored on the social media platform. It's currently not clear ho...