Golang Cryptomining Worm Offers 15% Speed Boost

A freshly discovered variant of the Golang crypto-worm was recently spotted dropping Monero-mining malware on victim machines; in a switch-up of tactics, the payload binaries are capable of speeding up the mining process by 15 percent, researchers said. According to research from Uptycs, the worm...

CVE-2021-37632

SuperMartijn642's Config Lib is a library used by a number of mods for the game Minecraft. The versions of SuperMartijn642's Config Lib between 1.0.4 and 1.0.8 are affected by a vulnerability and can be exploited on both servers and clients. Using SuperMartijn642's Config Lib, servers will send a...

vulhub111

This repository is an offensive tool for vulnerability research and exploitation. It contains a collection of vulnerable environments and exploits for various software and frameworks, including CouchDB, FFmpeg, Git, and more. The repository is maintained by Vulhub, a community-driven project for...

Critical flaws in Cisco’s Small Business RV Series VPN routers

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. Cisco has patched serious vulnerabilities that might be exploited by sending maliciously crafted HTTP requests to the web-based management interfaces of vulnerable Small Business RV Series Routers. However, the remote...

Microsoft Edge (Chromium) < 92.0.902.67 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of Microsoft Edge installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 92.0.902.67. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the August 5, 2021 advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's...

Vulnerable version of XStream used in Jira Server and Data Center - CVE-2021-29505

Affected versions of Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center used versions of XStream that were vulnerable to security exploits including CVE-2021-29505|http://x-stream.github.io/CVE-2021-29505.html. The affected versions of Jira Server and Data Center are before version 8.18.0. Affected versions:...

New APT Hacking Group Targets Microsoft IIS Servers with ASP.NET Exploits

A new highly capable and persistent threat actor has been targeting major high-profile public and private entities in the U.S. as part of a series of targeted cyber intrusion attacks by exploiting internet-facing Microsoft Internet Information Services IIS servers to infiltrate their networks...

Exploit for SQL Injection in Zabbix

This repository is an offensive tool for vulnerability research and exploitation. It contains various tools and exploits for testing and demonstrating vulnerabilities in different software and systems. The primary purpose of this repository is to provide a platform for researchers and security...

When coin miners evolve, Part 2: Hunting down LemonDuck and LemonCat attacks

Note: In this two-part blog series, we expose a modern malware infrastructure and provide guidance for protecting against the wide range of threats it enables. Part 1 covered the evolution of the threat, how it spreads, and how it impacts organizations. Part 2 provides a deep dive on the attacker...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : PEAR vulnerability (USN-5027-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5027-1 advisory. It was discovered that PEAR incorrectly handled symbolic links in archives. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code...

Reboot of PunkSpider Tool at DEF CON Stirs Debate

Researchers will release a reboot of a controversial tool that crawls the web to identify back-end vulnerabilities in websites in the hopes that companies will quickly fix them and reduce security risks. However, experts have mixed feelings about the tool called PunkSpider, created by the analyti...

Vulnerabilities fixed in IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook

Vulnerabilities have been fixed in the IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook. A malicious party could exploit the vulnerabilities to obtain system data and sensitive information. IBM has released updates to fix the vulnerabilities. For more information, see: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6474861...

Photon OS 3.0: Curl PHSA-2021-3.0-0273

An update of the curl package has been released. C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2021-3.0-0273. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if descriptio...

Photon OS 1.0: Linux PHSA-2021-1.0-0416

An update of the linux package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2021-1.0-0416. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc...

Photon OS 2.0: Systemd PHSA-2021-2.0-0370

An update of the systemd package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2021-2.0-0370. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc...

Industrial Networks Exposed Through Cloud OT

The benefits of using a cloud-based management platform to monitor and configure industrial control systems ICS devices are obvious — efficiency, cost-savings and better diagnostics just for starters. But new research found critical vulnerabilities in these platforms that could be used to paralyz...

vulhub

This repository is an offensive tool for vulnerability research and exploitation. It contains a collection of vulnerable environments and exploits for various software and frameworks, including CouchDB, FFmpeg, Git, and others. The repository is maintained by Vulhub, a community-driven project fo...

Photon OS 3.0: Systemd PHSA-2021-3.0-0270

An update of the systemd package has been released. C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2021-3.0-0270. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

Photon OS 3.0: Squid PHSA-2021-3.0-0269

An update of the squid package has been released. C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2021-3.0-0269. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if descripti...

Photon OS 3.0: Linux PHSA-2021-3.0-0270

An update of the linux package has been released. C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2021-3.0-0270. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if descripti...