Ransomware author releases decryption keys, says goodbye forever

Update 12th February: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that the decryption tool used to unlock files existed prior to the keys being released - this has now been corrected. If you’re unfortunate enough to be caught out by ransomware, the consequences can be devastating. You may ...

AlmaLinux 8 : gnutls and nettle (ALSA-2021:4451)

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2021:4451 advisory. - A flaw was found in the way nettle's RSA decryption functions handled specially crafted ciphertext. An attacker could use this flaw to provide a...

AlmaLinux 8 : python-cryptography (ALSA-2021:1608)

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2021:1608 advisory. - python-cryptography 3.2 is vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks in the RSA decryption API, via timed processing of valid PKCS1 v1.5 ciphertext...

MGASA-2022-0047 Updated cryptsetup packages fix security vulnerability

An attacker can modify on-disk metadata to simulate decryption in progress with crashed unfinished reencryption step and persistently decrypt part of the LUKS device CVE-2021-4122...

Updated cryptsetup packages fix security vulnerability

An attacker can modify on-disk metadata to simulate decryption in progress with crashed unfinished reencryption step and persistently decrypt part of the LUKS device CVE-2021-4122...

Catching the RAT called Agent Tesla

For the last few years, the Qualys Research Team has been observing an infamous "Malware-as-a-service" RAT Remote Access Trojan called Agent Tesla. It first appeared in 2014, and since then many variants have been deployed. This malware uses multiple techniques for evading detection as well as...

ALBA-2022:0349 clevis bug fix and enhancement update

Clevis is a pluggable framework for automated decryption. It can be used to provide automated decryption of data or even automated unlocking of LUKS volumes. The clevis packages provide the client side of the Network Bound Disk Encryption NBDE project. Bug Fixes and Enhancements: Server hangs in...

clevis bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for clevis. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list Clevis is a pluggable framework for automated decryption. It can be used to...

clevis bug fix and enhancement update

Clevis is a pluggable framework for automated decryption. It can be used to provide automated decryption of data or even automated unlocking of LUKS volumes. The clevis packages provide the client side of the Network Bound Disk Encryption NBDE project. Bug Fixes and Enhancements: Server hangs in...

PT-2022-1002

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Clevis affected versions not specified Description The issue concerns Clevis, a pluggable framework for automated decryption, which can be used for automated decryption of data or unlocking of LUKS volumes. It is part of the Network Bound Disk...

CVE-2021-22799

A CWE-331: Insufficient Entropy vulnerability exists that could cause unintended connection from an internal network to an external network when an attacker manages to decrypt the SESU proxy password from the registry. Affected Product: Schneider Electric Software Update, V2.3.0 through V2.5.1...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2018-0348)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2019-0027)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2021-0456)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2018-0321)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2021-0300)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Telenot CompasX security feature issues, vulnerabilities

Telenot CompasX is a parameter setting software from Telenot. Telenot CompasX suffers from a security signature issue vulnerability that arises from the use of weak seeding to generate random numbers, which results in a risk of decryption...

Code injection

Communication to the AMC2 uses a state-of-the-art cryptographic algorithm for symmetric encryption called Blowfish. An attacker could retrieve the key from the firmware to decrypt network traffic between the AMC2 and the host system. Thus, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability to decrypt and...

CVE-2021-23842 Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key

Communication to the AMC2 uses a state-of-the-art cryptographic algorithm for symmetric encryption called Blowfish. An attacker could retrieve the key from the firmware to decrypt network traffic between the AMC2 and the host system. Thus, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability to decrypt and...

PT-2022-9429

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions AMC2 affected versions not specified Description The issue concerns the use of the Blowfish symmetric encryption algorithm in communication between the AMC2 and the host system. An attacker with access to the local network, typically on the sa...