CVE-2017-14852

The CVE-2017-14852 entry concerns Orpak SiteOmat management console. The root cause is insecure communication due to an invalid SSL certificate, enabling an eavesdropper to capture and decrypt sensitive data in transit. Reported impact includes exposure of credentials and related data. Affected s...

Wary of the use of the Office vulnerabilities to spread commercial spyware AgentTesla-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Background overview AgentTesla was originally a released in 2014 the simple key loggers, and in recent years its development team which constantly adds many new features, and sale. AgentTesla has now become a commercial spyware that can be controlled by the end of the generation to meet the...

SSL/TLS: Birthday attack against 64-bit block ciphers (SWEET32)

A flaw was found in the way the DES/3DES cipher was used as part of the TLS/SSL protocol. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to recover some plaintext data by capturing large amounts of encrypted traffic between TLS/SSL server and client if the communication used a DES/3DES based...

Information Disclosure

The GNU Privacy Guard GnuPG or GPG is a tool for encrypting data and creating digital signatures, compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard and the S/MIME standard. It was found that GnuPG was vulnerable to the Yarom/Falkner flush+reload cache side-channel attack on the RSA secret...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: HopLight Campaign (Linked to North Korea) is Reusing Substantial Amount of Code

On April 10, 2019 the US Department of Homeland Security DHS released a Malware Analysis Report MAR-10135536-8 which detailed the trojan HopLight. HopLight has been linked to different North Korean DPRK campaigns also known as the Lazarus Group. The CB Threat Analysis Unit TAU has continued to...

Financial Apps are Ripe for Exploit via Reverse Engineering

A white hat hacker reverse engineered 30 mobile financial applications and found sensitive data buried in the underlying code of nearly all apps examined. With this information a hacker could, for example, recover application programming interface API keys and use them to attack the vendor’s...

Threat Roundup for March 22 to March 29

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between March 22 and March 29. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral...

KB4465659 BitLocker Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

The remote Windows host is missing security update 4465659. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Windows improperly suspends BitLocker Device Encryption. An attacker with physical access to a powered off system could exploi...

Ransomware Behind Norsk Hydro Attack Takes On Wiper-Like Capabilities

LockerGoga, the malware that took down Norsk Hydro last week, has taken the industrial world by storm, as researchers race to uncover more about the mysterious ransomware that crippled several of the aluminum maker’s plants. Questions still remain about how the malware first infects the system it...

ThreatList: Remote Workers Threaten 1 in 3 Organizations

While IT leaders see the benefits of remote working and understand that millennial-friendly telecommuting is unlikely to go anywhere anytime soon, many still fear that the potential of employees to access corporate resources via public Wi-fi and the use of personal devices opens their organizatio...

MGASA-2019-0105 Updated python-gnupg packages fix security vulnerability

When symmetric encryption is used, data can be injected through the passphrase property of the gnupg.GPG.encrypt and gnupg.GPG.decrypt methods. The supplied passphrase is not validated for newlines, and the library passes --passphrase-fd=0 to the gpg executable, which expects the passphrase on th...

CVE-2019-0187

Unauthenticated RCE is possible when JMeter is used in distributed mode -r or -R command line options. Attacker can establish a RMI connection to a jmeter-server using RemoteJMeterEngine and proceed with an attack using untrusted data deserialization. This only affect tests running in Distributed...

Nextcloud: Predictable Random Number Generator

Description: The mobile application uses a predictable Random Number Generator RNG. Under certain conditions this weakness may jeopardize mobile application data encryption or other protection based on randomization. For example, if encryption tokens are generated inside of the application and an...

RSAC 2019: New Operation Sharpshooter Data Reveals Higher Complexity, Scope

SAN FRANCISCO – An insidious reconnaissance campaign discovered in 2018, dubbed Operation Sharpshooter, is much more widespread than previously thought, researchers said. Operation Sharpshooter was first disclosed in December 2018, using a never-before-seen implant framework to infiltrate global...

On the Security of Password Managers

There's new research on the security of password managers, specifically 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass, and Lastpass. This work specifically looks at password leakage on the host computer. That is, does the password manager accidentally leave plaintext copies of the password lying around memory? Al...

Payroll Provider Gives Extortionists a Payday

Payroll software provider Apex Human Capital Management suffered a ransomware attack this week that severed payroll management services for hundreds of the company's customers for nearly three days. Faced with the threat of an extended outage, Apex chose to pay the ransom demand and begin the...

Hacker destroys VFEmail service, wipes backups

An email service called VFEmail was essentially put out of business after a hack intended to delete everything in and out of sight. "Yes, @VFEmail is effectively gone. It will likely not return. I never thought anyone would care about my labor of love so much that they’d want to completely and...

Solving the TLS 1.0 problem

The use of Transport Layer Security TLS encryption for data in transit is a common way to help ensure the confidentiality and integrity of data transmitted between devices, such as a web server and a computer. However, in recent years older versions of the protocol have been shown to have...

The vulnerability in the web interface of the Cisco Secure ACS control system allows a perpetrator to execute stored scripts across sites.

The vulnerability in the Cisco Secure ACS access control system’s web interface management interface is related to improper verification and the absence of encryption for user data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to remotely execute stored scripts against the user’s web...

CVE-2018-1959

IBM Security Identity Manager 7.0.1 Virtual Appliance contains hard-coded credentials, such as a password or cryptographic key, which it uses for its own inbound authentication, outbound communication to external components, or encryption of internal data. IBM X-Force ID: 153633...