FreakOut Botnet Turns DVRs Into Monero Cryptominers

Threat group FreakOut’s Necro botnet has developed a new trick: infecting Visual Tools DVRs with a Monero miner. Juniper Threat Labs researchers have issued a report detailing new activities from FreakOut, also known as Necro Python and Python.IRCBot. In late September, the team noticed that the...

CVE-2020-25494

CVE-2020-25494 affects Xinuos OpenServer v5/v6. The vulnerability is in the CGI component cgi-bin/printbook (parameters outputform and toclevels), enabling shell metacharacter input and arbitrary command execution. Exploitation details in public sources confirm OS command injection with remote, u...