Stampado Ransomware Sells on Dark Web for $39

Dirt cheap ransomware selling for as little as $39 on the dark web has security experts concerned the low price coupled with its potency could trigger a wave of new infections. The ransomware is called Stampado and besides its hallmark low price, the ransomware is also unique because it threatens...

Fedora 22 : botan (2016-fe0d8f126a)

From the upstream release notes : Botan 1.10.13 has been released backporting some side channel protections for ECDSA signatures CVE-2016-2849 and PKCS 1 RSA decryption CVE-2015-7827. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update...

Jigsaw Ransomware Decrypted, Again

The four-month-old Jigsaw ransomware has been defeated again. The ransomware, that packs an emotional punch with its creepy graphics and hallmark countdown clock, can be overcome simply by tricking the ransomware code into thinking you’ve already paid. Researchers at Check Point published a fix f...

CVE-2016-0252

IBM Control Center 6.x before 6.0.0.1 iFix06 and Sterling Control Center 5.4.x before 5.4.2.1 iFix09 allow local users to decrypt the master key via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2016-0252

IBM Control Center 6.x before 6.0.0.1 iFix06 and Sterling Control Center 5.4.x before 5.4.2.1 iFix09 allow local users to decrypt the master key via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2016-0252

IBM Control Center and Sterling Control Center are affected by CVE-2016-0252. Affected: IBM Control Center 5.4.0–5.4.2.1 iFix08 and 6.0.0.0–6.0.0.1 iFix05. Root cause: vulnerability allows a local attacker to decrypt the master key under certain conditions, potentially enabling decryption of appl...

CVE-2016-0252

IBM Control Center 6.x before 6.0.0.1 iFix06 and Sterling Control Center 5.4.x before 5.4.2.1 iFix09 allow local users to decrypt the master key via unspecified vectors...

The vulnerability of the JRockit software platform allows a malicious actor to simplify the process of decoding messages remotely.

A vulnerability in the JRockit software platform is related to a bug in the ssl3getkeyexchange function in the s3clnt.c file of the OpenSSL cryptographic library. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to simplify the decryption process by using an insufficiently secure RSA key...

The vulnerability of the Java Platform software platform allows a malicious actor to simplify the process of decoding messages remotely.

A vulnerability in the Java Platform software framework, related to a bug in the ssl3getkeyexchange function in the s3clnt.c file of the OpenSSL cryptographic library. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to simplify the decryption process by using an insufficiently secure RSA ke...

Weakness with cookie encryption

PMASA-2016-29 Announcement-ID: PMASA-2016-29 Date: 2016-07-07 Summary Weakness with cookie encryption Description A pair of vulnerabilities were found affecting the way cookies are stored. The decryption of the username/password is vulnerable to a padding oracle attack. The can allow an attacker...

The vulnerability of the Windows operating system, which allows a malicious individual to increase their privileges

A vulnerability that allows for increased privileges exists in Active Directory and is related to the distribution of passwords created based on group policy settings. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability enables an attacker who has been authenticated to decrypt passwords and use them to...

New CryptXXX Can Evade Detection, Outsmart Decryption Tools

Tweet Crooks behind the fast spreading CryptXXX ransomware updated the latest variant with better encryption technology and new methods to evade detection by researchers. This latest version of CryptXXX was spotted by researchers at SentinelOne that say the new updated sample has already earned...

Locky is Back Asking for Unpaid Debts

On June 21, 2016, FireEye’s Dynamic Threat Intelligence DTI identified an increase in JavaScript contained within spam emails. FireEye analysts determined the increase was the result of a new Locky ransomware spam campaign. As shown in Figure 1, Locky spam activity was uninterrupted until June 1,...

Locky is Back Asking for Unpaid Debts

On June 21, 2016, FireEye’s Dynamic Threat Intelligence DTI identified an increase in JavaScript contained within spam emails. FireEye analysts determined the increase was the result of a new Locky ransomware spam campaign. As shown in Figure 1, Locky spam activity was uninterrupted until June 1,...

Netgear D6000 and D3600 Hardcoded RSA Key Vulnerability

The Netgear D6000 and D3600 are wireless router products from American Netgear. The Netgear D6000 and D3600 device firmware uses hard-coded RSA keys, which allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack with the keys, gain administrator access, and...

IBM Storwize SSL/TLS RC4 Stream Cipher Key Invariance (Bar Mitzvah)

According to its self-reported version number, the IBM Storwize server running on the remote host is affected by a security feature bypass vulnerability, known as Bar Mitzvah, due to improper combination of state data with key data by the RC4 cipher algorithm during the initialization phase. A...

RITM - Ruby In The Middle (HTTP/HTTPS Interception Proxy)

Ruby in the middle RITM is an HTTP/HTTPS interception proxy with on-the-fly certificate generation and signing, which leaves the user with the full power of the Ruby language to intercept and even modify requests and responses as she pleases. Installation gem install ritm Basic usage 1. Write you...

FreeBSD : botan -- multiple vulnerabilities (ac0900df-31d0-11e6-8e82-002590263bf5)

Jack Lloyd reports : Botan 1.10.13 has been released backporting some side channel protections for ECDSA signatures CVE-2016-2849 and PKCS 1 RSA decryption CVE-2015-7827. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted fro...

Decryption Utilities Unlock Files Encrypted by All TeslaCrypt Versions

For close to a month, the master encryption key unlocking files ravaged by TeslaCrypt has been publicly available, putting an end to a profitable strain of ransomware. In the weeks since, various decryptors have been developed that can be used to unlock files. Kaspersky Lab, for one, updated its...

University Pays Hackers $20,000 to get back its Ransomware Infected Files

What's the worst that could happen when a Ransomware malware hits University? Last month, the IT department of the University from where I have done my graduation called me for helping them get rid of a Ransomware infection that locked down all its student's results just a day before the...