Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: 11/15/2024

Palo Alto Expedition RCE module This week's release includes an exploit module for the Palo Alto Expedition exploit chain that's been making headlines recently. The first vulnerability, CVE-2024-5910, allows attackers to reset the password of the admin user. The second vulnerability, CVE-2024-946...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 10/25/2024

Hackers and Vampires Agree: Every Byte Counts Headlining the release today is a new exploit module by jheysel-r7 that chains two vulnerabilities to target Magento/Adobe Commerce systems: the first, CVE-2024-34102 is an arbitrary file read used to determine the version and layout of the glibc...

Grandoreiro, the global trojan with grandiose goals

Grandoreiro is a well-known Brazilian banking trojan — part of the Tetrade umbrella — that enables threat actors to perform fraudulent banking operations by using the victim's computer to bypass the security measures of banking institutions. It's been active since at least 2016 and is now one of...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 10/04/2024

New module content 3 cups-browsed Information Disclosure Authors: bcoles and evilsocket Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 19510 contributed by bcoles Path: scanner/misc/cupsbrowsedinfodisclosure Description: Adds scanner module to retrieve CUPS version and kernel version information from cups-browsed...

Vulnerability of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browser installers, allowing attackers to increase their privileges

The vulnerability of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers is related to insufficient verification of data authenticity. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to enhance their privileges through a specially created link...

Vulnerability of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browser installers, allowing attackers to increase their privileges

The vulnerability of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers is related to insufficient verification of data authenticity. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to enhance their privileges through a specially crafted link...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 09/13/2024

SPIP Modules This week brings more modules targeting the SPIP publishing platform. SPIP has gained some attention from Metasploit community contributors recently and has inspired some PHP payload and encoder improvements. New module content 2 SPIP BigUp Plugin Unauthenticated RCE Authors: Julien...

The vulnerability of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browser installers allows attackers to enhance their privileges.

The vulnerability of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers stems from insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to enhance their privileges by sending specially crafted files...

New UULoader Malware Distributes Gh0st RAT and Mimikatz in East Asia

A new type of malware called UULoader is being used by threat actors to deliver next-stage payloads like Gh0st RAT and Mimikatz. The Cyberint Research Team, which discovered the malware, said it's distributed in the form of malicious installers for legitimate applications targeting Korean and...

CVE-2024-25561

Insecure inherited permissions in some IntelR HID Event Filter software installers before version 2.2.2.1 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access...

CVE-2024-25561

Insecure inherited permissions in some IntelR HID Event Filter software installers before version 2.2.2.1 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access...

CVE-2024-22378

Incorrect default permissions in some Intel UniteR Client Extended Display Plugin software installers before version 1.1.352.157 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access...

CVE-2024-23460

The Zscaler Updater process does not validate the digital signature of the installer before execution, allowing arbitrary code to be locally executed. This affects Zscaler Client Connector on MacOS 4.2...

CVE-2024-39821

Race condition in the installer for Zoom Workplace App for Windows and Zoom Rooms App for Windows may allow an authenticated user to conduct a denial of service via local access...

Indian Software Firm's Products Hacked to Spread Data-Stealing Malware

Installers for three different software products developed by an Indian company named Conceptworld have been trojanized to distribute information-stealing malware. The installers correspond to Notezilla, RecentX, and Copywhiz, according to cybersecurity firm Rapid7, which discovered the supply...

Supply Chain Compromise Leads to Trojanized Installers for Notezilla, RecentX, Copywhiz

The following Rapid7 analysts contributed to this research: Leo Gutierrez, Tyler McGraw, Sarah Lee, and Thomas Elkins. Executive Summary On Tuesday, June 18th, 2024, Rapid7 initiated an investigation into suspicious activity in a customer environment. Our investigation identified that the...

Oyster Backdoor Spreading via Trojanized Popular Software Downloads

A malvertising campaign is leveraging trojanized installers for popular software such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Teams to drop a backdoor called Oyster aka Broomstick and CleanUpLoader. That's according to findings from Rapid7, which identified lookalike websites hosting the malicious payload...

New Threat Actor 'Void Arachne' Targets Chinese Users with Malicious VPN Installers

Chinese-speaking users are the target of a never-before-seen threat activity cluster codenamed Void Arachne that employs malicious Windows Installer MSI files for virtual private networks VPNs to deliver a command-and-control C&C framework called Winos 4.0. "The campaign also promotes compromised...

Malvertising Campaign Leads to Execution of Oyster Backdoor

The following analysts contributed to this blog: Thomas Elkins, Daniel Thiede, Josh Lockwood, Tyler McGraw, and Sasha Kovalev. Executive Summary Rapid7 has observed a recent malvertising campaign that lures users into downloading malicious installers for popular software such as Google Chrome and...

Malvertising Campaign Leads to Execution of Oyster Backdoor

The following analysts contributed to this blog: Thomas Elkins, Daniel Thiede, Josh Lockwood, Tyler McGraw, and Sasha Kovalev. Executive Summary Rapid7 has observed a recent malvertising campaign that lures users into downloading malicious installers for popular software such as Google Chrome and...