Chinese Hackers Used Facebook to Hack Uighur Muslims Living Abroad

Facebook may be banned in China, but the company on Wednesday said it has disrupted a network of bad actors using its platform to target the Uyghur community and lure them into downloading malicious software that would allow surveillance of their devices. "They targeted activists, journalists and...

A week in security (March 15 – 21)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, our podcast featured Adam Kujawa, who talked us through our 2021 State of Malware report. We cover our own research on: Royal mail parcel scam How your iPhone can tell you if you’re being stalked Careers in cybersecurity ProxyLogon PoC whack-a-mole Teen behind 2020...

Resident Evil 8 just the latest game plagued by fake demos and early access scams

There’s been a number of scams targeting fans of major upcoming video game releases over the last week or two. Why is this happening, and what can you do to ensure both you and your children avoid such fakeouts? Preview power: the 80s and 90s Back in the 80s, games reviews were only really found ...

$4,000 COVID-19 'Relief Checks' Cloak Dridex Malware

Cybercriminals have wasted no time in hopping on the American Rescue Plan – the COVID-19 relief legislation just signed into law – as a lure for email-based scams. According to researchers at Cofense, a campaign began circulating in March that capitalized on Americans’ interest in the forthcoming...

RubyGems: Bundler's RCE with response using Marshal

A vulnerability was found in Bundler's dependency API endpoint, which uses Marshal serialization. This could allow for remote code execution if a client receives a specially crafted response. The impact is increased risk from specifying an untrusted source or man-in-the-middle attack...

Foxit PhantomPDF < 4.1.3 PDF Spoofing (macOS)

The version of Foxit PhantomPDF for Mac installed on the remote macOS host is prior to 4.1.3. It is, therefore, affected by a PDF spoofing vulnerability. An Evil Annotation Attack may deliver incorrect validation results when validating certain certified PDF files whose visible content was...

Vulnerability fixed in vSphere Replication

VMWare has fixed a vulnerability in vSphere Replicator. A malicious person with management privileges in Replicator can exploit the vulnerability exploit it to execute arbitrary code with system privileges on the underlying system. Because such an attack fits into the so-called "evil admin"...

Solaris 10 (Intel) - 'dtprintinfo' Local Privilege Escalation (3)

Exploit Title: Solaris 10 1/13 Intel - 'dtprintinfo' Local Privilege Escalation 3 Date: 2021-02-01 Exploit Author: Marco Ivaldi Vendor Homepage: https://www.oracle.com/solaris/solaris10/ Version: Solaris 10 Tested on: Solaris 10 1/13 Intel / raptordtprintcheckdirintel2.c - Solaris/Intel FMT LPE...

Data Breach at 'Resident Evil' Gaming Company Widens

A ransomware attack launched against gaming company Capcom last November keeps getting worse. The company now says that the personal data of up to 400,000 of its customers was compromised in the attack — 40,000 more than the company originally thought. Capcom is a Japan-based publisher of...

Easy CD & DVD Cover Creator 4.13 - Denial of Service Exploit

Exploit Title: Easy CD & DVD Cover Creator 4.13 - Denial of Service PoC Software Link: http://www.tucows.com/download/windows/files/ezcdsetup.exe Exploit Author: Achilles Tested Version: 4.13 Tested on: Windows 7 x64 Sp1 1.- Run python code :Creator.py 2.- Open EVIL.txt and copy content to...

Easy CD And DVD Cover Creator 4.13 Denial Of Service

Exploit Title: Easy CD & DVD Cover Creator 4.13 - Denial of Service PoC Date: 22.12.2020 Software Link: http://www.tucows.com/download/windows/files/ezcdsetup.exe Exploit Author: Achilles Tested Version: 4.13 Tested on: Windows 7 x64 Sp1 1.- Run python code :Creator.py 2.- Open EVIL.txt and copy...

CVE-2020-35931

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader before 10.1.1 and before 4.1.1 on macOS and PhantomPDF before 9.7.5 and 10.x before 10.1.1 and before 4.1.1 on macOS. An attacker can spoof a certified PDF document via an Evil Annotation Attack because the products fail to consider a null value for a Subty...

CVE-2020-35931

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader before 10.1.1 and before 4.1.1 on macOS and PhantomPDF before 9.7.5 and 10.x before 10.1.1 and before 4.1.1 on macOS. An attacker can spoof a certified PDF document via an Evil Annotation Attack because the products fail to consider a null value for a Subty...

Code injection

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader before 10.1.1 and before 4.1.1 on macOS and PhantomPDF before 9.7.5 and 10.x before 10.1.1 and before 4.1.1 on macOS. An attacker can spoof a certified PDF document via an Evil Annotation Attack because the products fail to consider a null value for a Subty...

CVE-2020-35931

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader before 10.1.1 and before 4.1.1 on macOS and PhantomPDF before 9.7.5 and 10.x before 10.1.1 and before 4.1.1 on macOS. An attacker can spoof a certified PDF document via an Evil Annotation Attack because the products fail to consider a null value for a Subty...

CVE-2020-35931

Foxit PDF products are affected by CVE-2020-35931: Foxit Reader before 10.1.1 and PhantomPDF before 9.7.5, and 10.x before 10.1.1 (also macOS 4.1.x) are vulnerable to an Evil Annotation Attack that can spoof certified PDFs by not handling a null Subtype in the Annotation dictionary during increme...

h1-ctf: 12 Days of CTF Walkthroughs

h1-ctf: 12 Days of Hacky Holidays This is my writeup for 12 Days of Hacky Holidays. The report is written such that beginners to CTFs will be able to learn the tricks of the trade. The Mission: The Grinch has gone hi-tech this year with the intention of ruining the holidays 😱We need you to...

Ransomware in 2020: A Banner Year for Extortion

Remote learning platforms shut down. Hospital chemotherapy appointments cancelled. Ransomware attacks in 2020 dominated as a top threat vector this past year. Couple that with the COVID-19 pandemic, putting strains on the healthcare sector, and we witnessed ransomware exact a particularly cruel...

h1-ctf: Grinch Networks compromised!

Grinch Networks compromised! For fast triage/validation and inspired by @manoelt in other CTF, I made a bash script to find and print all the 12 flags of this CTF. The script uses curl, wget, google-chrome headless for flag 2, unzip, grep and sed. If any of these commands is missing, the script...

h1-ctf: h1 hacky holidays CTF solution

Simple script to print all the flags. Full solution to follow want to spend more time writing this, but am racing to be first 10 submissions: echo "Flag 1 -- robots.txt" curl https://hackyholidays.h1ctf.com/robots.txt 2/dev/null | grep flag echo "" echo "Flag 2 -- js descrambed --...