CVE-2018-4107

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13.4 is affected. The issue involves the "PDFKit" component. It allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions on visiting URLs within a PDF document...

SANNY Malware Delivery Method Updated in Recently Observed Attacks

Introduction In the third week of March 2018, through FireEye’s Dynamic Threat Intelligence, FireEye discovered malicious macro-based Microsoft Word documents distributing SANNY malware to multiple governments worldwide. Each malicious document lure was crafted in regard to relevant regional...

Iran-Linked Group ‘TEMP.Zagros’ Updates Tactics, Techniques In Latest Campaign

Researchers say a massive phishing campaign targeting Asia and Middle East regions is linked to an Iranian-based threat actor TEMP.Zagros, also known as MuddyWater. This latest attack illustrates an evolution by the threat actor, which has now adopted new tactics, techniques and procedures. “We...

Iranian Threat Group Updates Tactics, Techniques and Procedures in Spear Phishing Campaign

Introduction From January 2018 to March 2018, through FireEye’s Dynamic Threat Intelligence, we observed attackers leveraging the latest code execution and persistence techniques to distribute malicious macro-based documents to individuals in Asia and the Middle East. We attribute this activity t...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-8001

In PoDoFo 0.9.5, there exists a heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability in UnescapeName in PdfName.cpp. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service or possibly unspecified other impact via a crafted pdf file...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security update

An update for rh-dotnet20-dotnet, rh-dotnetcore10-dotnetcore, and rh-dotnetcore11-dotnetcore is now available for .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score,...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2014-7186

The redirection implementation in parse.y in GNU Bash through 4.3 bash43-026 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds array access and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted use of here documents, aka the "redirstack" issue...

Threat Analysis: ROKRAT Malware

ROKRAT also referred to as DOGcall is a family of malware that has been used by attackers originating from North Korea. The family continues to evolve and adopt techniques from other families also used by the same attack group. The ROKRAT core payload is typically deployed by a loader, which has...

MS Word Maybe Used for Cryptojacking Attacks

By David Balaban Cryptojacking JavaScript can be launched in Word documents - New This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: MS Word Maybe Used for Cryptojacking Attacks...

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC U3D Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Read Information Disclosure Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on vulnerable installations of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the...

A week in security (February 19 – February 25)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we gave readers a primer on encryption, took a stab at that Deepfakes tool Internet users seem to be interested in, and started a new series that talks about GDPR. We also looked at a drive-by download campaign that starts in booby-trapped Chinese websites that dro...

openSUSE Security Update : mpv (openSUSE-2018-173)

This update for mpv fixes the following issues : MPV was updated to version 0.27.2 Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-6360: Additional fix for where mpv allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted website, because it read HTML documents containing VIDEO elements, and accepts...

PDFium out-of-bounds read and integer overflow

An out-of-bounds and integer overflow vulnerabilities exists in PDFium. The vulnerabilities is due to an error in parsing a malformed PDF document. Successful exploitation could result in sensitive data exposure and memory corruption...

Internet Security Threats at the Olympics

There are a lot: The cybersecurity company McAfee recently uncovered a cyber operation, dubbed Operation GoldDragon, attacking South Korean organizations related to the Winter Olympics. McAfee believes the attack came from a nation state that speaks Korean, although it has no definitive proof tha...

FreeBSD : mpv -- arbitrary code execution via crafted website (3ee6e521-0d32-11e8-99b0-d017c2987f9a)

mpv developers report : mpv through 0.28.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted website, because it reads HTML documents containing VIDEO elements, and accepts arbitrary URLs in a src attribute without a protocol whitelist in player/lua/ytdlhook.lua. For example, an...

SUSE-SU-2018:0407-1 Security update for ghostscript

This update for ghostscript fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-9835: The gsallocrefarray function allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer overflow and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PostScri...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6871

LibreOffice before 5.4.5 and 6.x before 6.0.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via =WEBSERVICE calls in a document, which use the COM.MICROSOFT.WEBSERVICE function...

Null Pointer Reference Vulnerability in AnyPDF Reader 5.5

AnyPDF Reader is a simple and practical PDF reader developed by Beijing Ancetone Information Technology Co. AnyPDF Reader version 5.5 has a null pointer reference vulnerability when dealing with special PDF files. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service attack...

Targeted Attacks In The Middle East

This blog post is authored by Paul Rascagneres with assistance of Martin Lee. Executive Summary Talos has identified a targeted attacks affecting the Middle East. This campaign contains the following elements, which are described in detail in this article. The use of allegedly confidential decoy...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: libtasn1-4.13-1.fc26

A library that provides Abstract Syntax Notation One ASN.1, as specified by the X.680 ITU-T recommendation parsing and structures management, and Distinguished Encoding Rules DER, as per X.690 encoding and decoding func tions...