ShadowHammer: ASUS software updates exploited to distribute malware

By Waqas The victims of ShadowHammer malware attack are Windows users. Kaspersky Lab researchers have made a startling new revelation that the world’s leading computer maker ASUS’s live software update system was compromised by cybercriminals to install a backdoor, which affected ASUS customers...

Threat Groups SandCat, FruityArmor Exploiting Microsoft Win32k Flaw

A newly-patched Microsoft Win32k vulnerability is being exploited in the wild by at least two threat actors, including a recently discovered advanced persistent threat APT group dubbed SandCat. The exploited vulnerability CVE-2019-0797, rated important, was patched on Tuesday as part of Microsoft...

The fourth horseman: CVE-2019-0797 vulnerability

In February 2019, our Automatic Exploit Prevention AEP systems detected an attempt to exploit a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system. Further analysis of this event led to us discovering a zero-day vulnerability in win32k.sys. We reported it to Microsoft on February 22, 2019. T...

Patch Tuesday, March 2019 Edition

Microsoft on Tuesday pushed out software updates to fix more than five dozen security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems, Internet Explorer, Edge, Office and Sharepoint. If you abuse Microsoft products, it's time once again to start thinking about getting your patches on. Malware or...

Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Photo Lab Processing of phl Images

Photo Lab is a foreign photo viewing tool. A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Photo Lab's handling of phl images. An attacker can cause the program to crash by constructing a malformed phl image, which if successfully exploited can lead to arbitrary code execution...

Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Photo Lab Processing of psd Images

Photo Lab is a foreign photo viewing tool. A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Photo Lab's handling of psd images. An attacker can cause the program to crash by constructing a malformed psd image, which if successfully exploited can lead to arbitrary code execution...

Intel Modular Server System 10.18 CSRF Change Admin Password Exploit

Summary The Intel Modular Server System is a blade system manufactured by Intel using their own motherboards and processors. The Intel Modular Server System consists of an Intel Modular Server Chassis, up to six diskless Compute Blades, an integrated storage area network SAN, and three to five...

Microsoft Patches Two Win32k Bugs Under Active Attack

Microsoft released patches for two Win32k bugs actively under attack, along with fixes for four additional bugs that are publicly known, as part of its March Patch Tuesday security bulletin. The Win32k bugs are both elevation of privilege vulnerabilities, rated important, and tied to the way...

Spam and phishing in 2018

Numbers of the year The share of spam in mail traffic was 52.48%, which is 4.15 p.p. less than in 2017. The biggest source of spam this year was China 11.69%. 74.15% of spam emails were less than 2 KB in size. Malicious spam was detected most commonly with the Win32.CVE-2017-11882 verdict. The...

Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Photo Lab's Processing of BMP Images

Photo Lab is a foreign photo viewing tool. Photo Lab suffers from a memory corruption vulnerability in the handling of BMP images, which can be exploited by an attacker to cause a program crash and execute arbitrary code by constructing a malformed BMP image...

Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Photo Lab's Processing of GIF Images

Photo Lab is a foreign photo viewing tool. Photo Lab suffers from a memory corruption vulnerability in the handling of GIF images, which can be exploited by an attacker to cause the program to crash and execute arbitrary code by constructing a malformed GIF image...

Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Photo Lab's Processing of png Images

Photo Lab is a foreign photo viewing tool. Photo Lab suffers from a memory corruption vulnerability in the handling of png images, which can be exploited by an attacker to cause the program to crash and execute arbitrary code by constructing a malformed png image...

A predatory tale: Who’s afraid of the thief?

In mid-February, Kaspersky Lab received a request for incident response from one of its clients. The individual who initially reported the issue to our client refused to disclose the origin of the indicator that they shared. What we do know is that it was a screenshot from one of the client's...

NREL BEopt 2.8.0 Insecure Library Loading Arbitrary Code Execution

Summary The BEopt™ Building Energy Optimization Tool software provides capabilities to evaluate residential building designs and identify cost-optimal efficiency packages at various levels of whole-house energy savings along the path to zero net energy. Description BEopt suffers from a DLL...

Mobile malware evolution 2018

The statistical data for this report came from all Kaspersky Lab mobile security solutions, not just Kaspersky Mobile Antivirus for Android. Consequently, the comparative data for 2017 may differ from the data for the same period published in the previous report. The analytical scope was expanded...

Former Russian Cybersecurity Chief Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison

A Russian court has handed down lengthy prison terms for two men convicted on treason charges for allegedly sharing information about Russian cybercriminals with U.S. law enforcement officials. The men -- a former Russian cyber intelligence official and an executive at Russian security firm...

[slackware-security] file

New file packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/file-5.36-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fix out-of-bounds read and denial-of-service security issues: For more information...

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2019 is Certified by AV-TEST with Top Scores for Protection, Performance, and Usability

Current and potential users of the latest edition of Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac v9.0, for 2019 will be pleased to know that it achieved MacOS Certification and top scores in all three categories in the recent AV-TEST Product Review and Certification Report – Dec/2018. Trend Micro Antivirus for...

New GandCrab Decryptor Unlocks Files of Updated Ransomware

Yet another free decryptor is available for GandCrab ransomware victims. The tool, released Tuesday, is the third decryptor update in the past year that thwarts the prolific and fast-evolving GandCrab ransomware. Europol police announced availability of the update, which now unlocks data encrypte...

Ispirithalaya Hospital Management System 0.1.2 Database Configuration Disclosure

Exploit Title : Ispirithalaya Hospital Management System 0.1.2 Database Config Disclosure Author Discovered By : KingSkrupellos Team : Cyberizm Digital Security Army Date : 14/02/2019 Vendor Homepage : freeehospital.com Software Download Link :...