Ransomware operators are hiding malware deeper in installer packages

Note: Read our latest comprehensive report on ransomware: Ransomware 1H 2017 review: Global outbreaks reinforce the value of security hygiene. We are seeing a wave of new NSIS installers used in ransomware campaigns. These new installers pack significant updates, indicating a collective move by...

CVE-2017-6189

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Amazon Kindle for PC before 1.19 allows local users to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory of the Kindle Setup installer...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: ansible and ceph-ansible security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for ansible and ceph-ansible is now available for Red Hat Storage Console 2. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

BlackArch Linux 2017.03.01 - Penetration Testing Distribution

BlackArch Linux is an Arch Linux-based distribution for penetration testers and security researchers. The repository contains 1707 tools. You can install tools individually or in groups. BlackArch Linux is compatible with existing Arch installs. ChangeLog: add more than 50 new tools update...

Stitch - Python Remote Administration Tool (RAT)

This is a cross platform python framework which allows you to build custom payloads for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux as well. You are able to select whether the payload binds to a specific IP and port, listens for a connection on a port, option to send an email of system info when the system boots,...

Android Package Inspector: Inspeckage

Inspeckage is a tool developed to offer dynamic analysis of Android applications. By applying hooks to functions of the Android API, Inspeckage will help you understand what an Android application is doing at runtime. Inspeckage will let you interact with some elements of the app, such as...

Rapid7 Nexpose DLL Preloading Vulnerability

Rapid7 Nexpose is a suite of vulnerability management software from Rapid7 USA that can synthesize different scans to deeply probe a network. The software proactively scans configuration environments for errors, vulnerabilities, malware and provides guidance to reduce risk. A preload vulnerabilit...

Rapid7 AppSpider Pro DLL Preloading Vulnerability

Rapid7 Nexpose is a suite of vulnerability management software from Rapid7 USA that can synthesize different scans to deeply probe a network. The software proactively scans configuration environments for errors, vulnerabilities, malware and provides guidance to reduce risk. A DLL preloading...

CVE-2017-5233

Rapid7 AppSpider Pro installers prior to version 6.14.053 contain a DLL preloading vulnerability, wherein it is possible for the installer to load a malicious DLL located in the current working directory of the installer...

CVE-2017-5232

CVE-2017-5232 refers to a DLL preloading vulnerability in all Rapid7 Nexpose installers prior to version 6.4.24. The issue arises because the installer may load a malicious DLL from the current working directory rather than an explicit system path. Connected documents confirm the affected compone...

CVE-2017-5233

CVE-2017-5233 involves a DLL preloading vulnerability in Rapid7 AppSpider Pro installers. Installers prior to version 6.14.053 could load a malicious DLL located in the current working directory when the installer is executed, allowing code execution under the context of the installer. Connected ...

CVE-2017-5235

Rapid7 Metasploit Pro installers prior to 4.13.0-2017022101 are affected by a DLL preloading vulnerability: the installer can load a malicious DLL from the current working directory. The issue is tied to how the installer searches for system DLLs, allowing an attacker with a malicious DLL in the ...

CVE-2017-5234

Rapid7 Insight Collector installers prior to version 1.0.16 contain a DLL preloading vulnerability, wherein it is possible for the installer to load a malicious DLL located in the current working directory of the installer...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: ipa security and bug fix update

An update for ipa is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CV...

PrimeDrive Desktop Application Installer may insecurely load Dynamic Link Libraries

Overview PrimeDrive Desktop Application is the client application for PrimeDrive online storage service provided by SoftBank Corp. The installer of PrimeDrive Desktop Application is vulnerable to load specific Dynamic Link Libraries in the same directory CWE-427 . Eiji James Yoshida of Security...

Opera installer mistakenly marked as malicious

Security Opera installer mistakenly marked as malicious Share February 22nd, 2017 During the past few days some of our users have contacted us raising the concern that the Qihoo 360 Total Security anti-virus software has been labelling the Opera installer executable for Windows as some form of...

Simple OpenVPN Raspberry Pi Installer: piVPN

Simple OpenVPN Raspberry Pi Installer This is a set of shell scripts that serve to easily turn your Raspberry Pi TM into a VPN server using the free, open-source OpenVPN software. The master branch of this script installs and configures OpenVPN on Raspbian Jessie and has been tested on Ubuntu 14....

NVIDIA GPU and GeForce Experience Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

The NVIDIA GPU and GeForce Experience installer is a set of installation tools from NVIDIA that are used to automatically update the graphics card drivers in the GPU graphics processor. A security vulnerability exists in NVIDIA GPU and GeForce Experience installer, which arises from the program...

CVE-2017-0317

All versions of NVIDIA GPU and GeForce Experience installer contain a vulnerability where it fails to set proper permissions on the package extraction path thus allowing a non-privileged user to tamper with the extracted files, potentially leading to escalation of privileges via code execution...

CVE-2017-0317

All versions of NVIDIA GPU and GeForce Experience installer contain a vulnerability where it fails to set proper permissions on the package extraction path thus allowing a non-privileged user to tamper with the extracted files, potentially leading to escalation of privileges via code execution...