Command Injection in tree-kill

Versions of tree-kill prior to 1.2.2 are vulnerable to Command Injection. The package fails to sanitize values passed to the kill function. If this value is user-controlled it may allow attackers to run arbitrary commands in the server. The issue only affects Windows systems. Recommendation Upgra...

GHSA-884P-74JH-XRG2 Command Injection in tree-kill

Versions of tree-kill prior to 1.2.2 are vulnerable to Command Injection. The package fails to sanitize values passed to the kill function. If this value is user-controlled it may allow attackers to run arbitrary commands in the server. The issue only affects Windows systems. Recommendation Upgra...

Killchain - A Unified Console To Perform The "Kill Chain" Stages Of Attacks

What is “Kill Chain”? From Wikipedia: The term kill chain was originally used as a military concept related to the structure of an attack; consisting of target identification, force dispatch to target, decision, order to attack the target, and finally the destruction of the target. Reconnaissance...

Researchers Exploited A Bug in Emotet to Stop the Spread of Malware

Emotet, a notorious email-based malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks, contained a flaw that allowed cybersecurity researchers to activate a kill-switch and prevent the malware from infecting systems for six months. "Most of the vulnerabilities and exploits th...

Researchers Exploited A Bug in Emotet to Stop the Spread of Malware

Emotet, a notorious email-based malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks, contained a flaw that allowed cybersecurity researchers to activate a kill-switch and prevent the malware from infecting systems for six months. "Most of the vulnerabilities and exploits th...

Black Hat 2020: Influence Campaigns Are a Cybersecurity Problem

Social media used as a cudgel for nation-states to sway opinion is a cybersecurity threat CISOs can’t ignore — and need to understand better and mitigate against. That’s the message from Renée DiResta, research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, who said she is seeing a steady growth a...

Financially Motivated Actors Are Expanding Access Into OT: Analysis of Kill Lists That Include OT Processes Used With Seven Malware Families

Mandiant Threat Intelligence has researched and written extensively on the increasing financially motivated threat activity directly impacting operational technology OT networks. Some of this research is available in our previous blog posts on industrial post-compromise ransomware and FireEye's...

cri-o: infra container reparented to systemd following OOM Killer killing it's conmon

A flaw was found in cri-o, as a result of all pod-related processes being placed in the same memory cgroup. This can result in container management conmon processes being killed if a workload process triggers an out-of-memory OOM condition for the cgroup. An attacker could abuse this flaw to get...

CVE-2020-14974

The driver in IOBit Unlocker 1.1.2 allows a low-privileged user to unlock a file and kill processes even ones running as SYSTEM that hold a handle, via IOCTL code 0x222124...

Code injection

The driver in IOBit Unlocker 1.1.2 allows a low-privileged user to unlock a file and kill processes even ones running as SYSTEM that hold a handle, via IOCTL code 0x222124...

CVE-2020-14974

The driver in IOBit Unlocker 1.1.2 allows a low-privileged user to unlock a file and kill processes even ones running as SYSTEM that hold a handle, via IOCTL code 0x222124...

CVE-2020-14974

CVE-2020-14974 affects IOBit Unlocker 1.1.2 (driver). A low-privilege user can obtain a handle-leak unlock and terminate processes (even SYSTEM) holding a handle via IOCTL code 0x222124. Root cause is tied to the driver interface exposed by IOCTL 0x222124, enabling unlocking of files and terminat...

K8tools

It is an offensive tool for web application exploitation. The repository, K8tools, contains a collection of tools for various purposes, including internal penetration, privilege escalation, remote overflow, vulnerability exploitation, scanning, password cracking, and anti-kill tools. The primary...

MITRE ATT&CK APT 29 evaluation proves Microsoft Threat Protection provides deeper end to end view of advanced threats

As attackers use more advanced techniques, it’s even more important that defenders have visibility not just into each of the domains in their environment, but also across them to piece together coordinated, targeted, and advanced attacks. This level of visibility will allow us to get ahead of...

The vulnerability of the operating system utility package for SUSE Linux Supportutils lies in insufficient validation of input data, allowing a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the operating system support utility package for SUSE Linux Supportutils is related to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to trigger a service failure using the kill command...

Apple Safari Flaws Enable One-Click Webcam Access

A security researcher has disclosed vulnerabilities in Apple’s Safari browser that can be used to snoop on iPhones, iPads and Mac computers using their microphones and cameras. To exploit the flaws in a real-world attack, all an attacker would need to do is convince a victim to click one maliciou...

UPDATE: Octopus v1.0

Octopus v1.0 is now available. A brief mention about this tool can be found in my previous post titled List of Open Source C2 Post-Exploitation Frameworks. This is the first stable version of Octopus C2 which now supports Cobalt Strike deployment, auto kill functionality, command logging, bug fix...

Threat Analysis: CVE-2020-0796 – EternalDarkness (ghostSMB)

On March 10, 2020 analysis of a SMB vulnerability was inadvertently shared, under the assumption that Microsoft was releasing a patch for that vulnerability CVE-2020-0796. As of March 12, Microsoft has since released a patch for CVE-2020-0796, which is a vulnerability specifically affecting SMB3...

CVE-2019-17549

ESET Cyber Security before 6.8.1.0 is vulnerable to a denial-of-service allowing any user to stop kill ESET processes. An attacker can abuse this bug to stop the protection from ESET and launch his attack...

CVE-2019-15609

The kill-port-process package version 2.2.0 is vulnerable to a Command Injection vulnerability...