Adobe Reader Security Updates (APSB17-36) - Mac OS X

Adobe Reader is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:adobe:acrobatreader";...

Disdain exploit kit and a side of social engineering deliver Neutrino Bot

Today we picked up new activity from an exploit kit that was first discovered back in August of this year. The Disdain exploit kit, simply identified by a string of the same name found in its source code, is being distributed again after a short interruption via malvertising chains. Disdain EK...

Fedora 26 : 2:qemu (2017-9149114fba)

Fix usb3 drive issues with windows guests bz 1493196 - CVE-2017-15038: 9p: information disclosure when reading extended attributes bz 1499111 - CVE-2017-15268: potential memory exhaustion via websock connection to VNC bz 1496882 - CVE-2017-14167: multiboot OOB access while loading kernel image bz...

A look into the global drive-by cryptocurrency mining phenomenon

An important milestone in the history of cryptomining happened around mid-September when a company called Coinhive launched a service that could mine for a digital currency known as Monero directly within a web browser. JavaScript-based mining is cross-platform compatible and works on all modern...

CVE-2017-13681

Symantec Endpoint Protection prior to SEP 12.1 RU6 MP9 could be susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue that allows a user to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected at lower access levels. In the circumstances of this issue, the...

Bad Rabbit Linked to ExPetr/Not Petya Attacks

A link has been confirmed between the Bad Rabbit ransomware outbreak detected yesterday in major organizations in Russia and Ukraine and this summer’s ExPetr/Not Petya attacks. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab said there are “clear ties” between the two attacks though one major piece of the puzzle is...

WEM Drive Restriction policy will not apply to End User session on WEM Agent

WEM Drive Restriction policy will not apply to End User session on WEM Agent machines...

Bad Rabbit ransomware

UPDATE 27.10.2017. Decryption opportunity assessment. File recovery possibility. Verdicts What happened? On October 24th we observed notifications of mass attacks with ransomware called Bad Rabbit. It has been targeting organizations and consumers, mostly in Russia but there have also been report...

Digital forensics: How to recover deleted files

Where I personally have a problem remembering names and birthdays, computers have a hard time “forgetting” things. Even when we tell them to do so. If you ever unintentionally deleted a file, you may have been able to retrieve it from the Recycle Bin. Or, if it was past that stage and the file wa...

BadRabbit Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine

A ransomware attack has put a halt to business inside a handful of Russian media outlets and a number of major organizations in the Ukraine, including Kiev’s public transportation system and the country’s Odessa airport. The attacks are known as Bad Rabbit and harken back to the ExPetr/NotPetya...

Threat Spotlight: Follow the Bad Rabbit

Note: This blog post discusses active research by Talos into a new threat. This information should be considered preliminary and will be updated as research continues.Update 2017-10-26 16:10 EDT: added additional information regarding the links between Nyetya and BadRabbitUpdate 2017-10-26 09:20...

October 17, 2017—KB4035176 Improvements and Fixes to Universal C Runtime in Windows

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Cloud Client Side File Encryption: Cryptomator

Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud. Cryptomator provides transparent, client-side encryption for your cloud. Protect your documents from unauthorized access. Cryptomator is free and open source software, so you can rest assured there are no backdoors...

How A Drive-by Download Attack Locked Down Entire City for 4 Days

We don't really know the pain and cost of a downtime event unless we are directly touched. Be it a flood, electrical failure, ransomware attack or other broad geographic events; we don't know what it is really like to have to restore IT infrastructure unless we have had to do it ourselves. We loo...

Symantec Endpoint Encryption < 11.1.3 HF3 (SYM17-010)

The version of the Symantec Endpoint Encryption SEE Drive Encryption Client installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 11.1.3 HF23. It is, therefore, affected by an unspecified denial of service and kernel memory leak vulnerability. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if...

Product update: Virtuozzo Automator 7.0 Update 2 Hotfix 3 (VA MN: 7.0.2-510, VA Agent: 7.0.2-258)

This hotfix for Virtuozzo Automator 7.0.2 provides new features as well as stability and usability bug fixes. Vulnerability id: PVA-34527 Alert reason would not be shown on clicking the alert icon on the virtual environment or hardware node summary page if the corresponding event had already been...

CVE-2015-7358

The IsDriveLetterAvailable method in Driver/Ntdriver.c in TrueCrypt 7.0, VeraCrypt before 1.15, and CipherShed, when running on Windows, does not properly validate drive letter symbolic links, which allows local users to mount an encrypted volume over an existing drive letter and gain privileges...

Directory traversal

The IsDriveLetterAvailable method in Driver/Ntdriver.c in TrueCrypt 7.0, VeraCrypt before 1.15, and CipherShed, when running on Windows, does not properly validate drive letter symbolic links, which allows local users to mount an encrypted volume over an existing drive letter and gain privileges...

CVE-2015-7358

CVE-2015-7358 affects TrueCrypt 7.0, VeraCrypt (before 1.15), and CipherShed; the IsDriveLetterAvailable check in the Windows driver (Driver/Ntdriver.c) fails to validate drive-letter symbolic links, enabling a local attacker to remap a system drive and gain full privileges via the GLOBAL?? entry...

CVE-2015-7358

The IsDriveLetterAvailable method in Driver/Ntdriver.c in TrueCrypt 7.0, VeraCrypt before 1.15, and CipherShed, when running on Windows, does not properly validate drive letter symbolic links, which allows local users to mount an encrypted volume over an existing drive letter and gain privileges...