CVE-2021-30184

GNU Chess 6.2.7 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted PGN Portable Game Notation data. This is related to a buffer overflow in the use of a .tmp.epd temporary file in the cmdpgnload and cmdpgnreplay functions in frontend/cmd.cc...

A week in security (March 29 – April 4)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, our podcast featured Malwarebytes senior security researcher JP Taggart, who talked to us about why you need to trust your VPN. You’ve likely heard the benefits of using a VPN: You can watch TV shows restricted to certain countries, you can encrypt your web traffic...

Cops Take Down the ‘World’s Biggest' Video Game Cheat Ring

Plus: North Korean hackers, a rogue tweet, and more of the week's top security news...

Cheating the cheater: How adversaries are using backdoored video game cheat engines and modding tools

By Nick Lister and Holger Unterbrink, with contributions from Vanja Svajcer. News summary Cisco Talos recently discovered a new campaign targeting video game players and other PC modders.Talos detected a new cryptor used in several different malware campaigns hidden in seemingly legitimate files...

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 ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: tali-40~rc-1.fc34

Sort of poker with dice and less money. An ancient Roman game...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: lightsoff-40~rc-1.fc34

A puzzle played on an 5X5 grid with the aim to turn off all the lights. Each click on a tile toggles the state of the clicked tile and its non-diagonal neighbors...

FBI warns of increase in PYSA ransomware attacks targeting education

On March 16, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI issued a "Flash" alert on PYSA ransomware after an uptick on attacks this month against institutions in the education sector, particularly higher ed, K-12, and seminaries. According to the alert PDF, the United Kingdom and 12 states in the US...

USN-4816-1: game-music-emu vulnerability

It was discovered that game-music-emu mishandled certain crafted input. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to cause game-music-emu to crash...

USN-4816-1 game-music-emu vulnerability

It was discovered that game-music-emu mishandled certain crafted input. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to cause game-music-emu to crash...

February 24, 2021—KB4601382 (OS Builds 19041.844 and 19042.844) Preview

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The Woman Bulldozing Video Games’ Toughest DRM

For Empress, cracking titles like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Immortals Fenyx Rising is more than a pastime. It's a mission...

February 16, 2021—KB4601380 (OS Build 18363.1411) Preview

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Cyberpunk 2077 Publisher Hit with Hack, Ransomware

UPDATE CD Projekt Red, the videogame-development company behind Cyberpunk 2077 and the wildly popular Witcher series, has suffered a ransomware attack that could soon result in troves of company data being dumped online – including game source code. The Warsaw-based company tweeted out a notice o...

LuMaster Game Inventory in dll Hijacking Vulnerability

LuMaster Game Library is a game application library software officially launched by LuMaster. LU Master Game Library is vulnerable to dll hijacking. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute malicious code...

Games Drive Christmas Web Traffic

If you turned on a new game console and/or downloaded video games over the holidays, you certainly weren't alone. New data from Akamai shows that game-related traffic delivered across our network was more than double the Q4 average on December 25, and up nearly 50% on December 26. During the same...

January 12, 2021—KB4598245 (OS Build 17134.1967) - EXPIRED

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A week in security (January 4 – January 10)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we released survey results about VPN usage and found that 36 percent of our respondents use it. We also talked about Adobe Flash Player reaching its end of life—meaning, Adobe wont be supporting the updating and patching of its Flash Player software; covered the...

Mail.ru: Eval-based XSS in Game JS API (mailru.core.js) via cross-origin postMessage()

mailru.core.js as used by GMR/store.my.games application was vulnerable to XSS via PostMessage handler...

ctf_repo

This is a Python script for a CTF Capture The Flag challenge called "FunPwn" from the 2016 ASIS CTF game. The script is designed to automate the game by interacting with the game's console. Here's a breakdown of the script: 1. The script starts by importing the pwn module, which is a Python libra...