Turla APT Used WhiteBear Espionage Tools Against Defense Industry, Embassies

A toolset belonging to the Russian-speaking Turla APT has been publicly disclosed, and along with it details on its capabilities and indicators of compromise. The tools, called WhiteBear, were used to attack defense organizations as recently as June, and diplomatic targets in Europe, Asia and Sou...

Gazer: A New Backdoor Targets Ministries and Embassies Worldwide

Security researchers at ESET have discovered a new malware campaign targeting consulates, ministries and embassies worldwide to spy on governments and diplomats. Active since 2016, the malware campaign is leveraging a new backdoor, dubbed Gazer, and is believed to be carried out by Turla advanced...

Beware of Windows/MacOS/Linux Virus Spreading Through Facebook Messenger

If you came across any Facebook message with a video link sent by anyone, even your friend — just don’t click on it. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have spotted an ongoing cross-platform campaign on Facebook Messenger, where users receive a video link that redirects them to a fake website,...

August 23, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Boston Celtics” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! August 23, 2017 - Headlines No U.S.-Russia Cyber Unit Without Trump Notifying...

Automated Logic WebCTRL 6.5 Unrestricted File Upload Remote Code Execution

!/usr/bin/env python -- coding: utf8 -- Automated Logic WebCTRL 6.5 Unrestricted File Upload Remote Code Execution Vendor: Automated Logic Corporation Product web page: http://www.automatedlogic.com Affected version: ALC WebCTRL, i-Vu, SiteScan Web 6.5 and prior ALC WebCTRL, SiteScan Web 6.1 and...

Automated Logic WebCTRL 6.5 - Unrestricted File Upload / Remote Code Execution

!/usr/bin/env python -- coding: utf8 -- Automated Logic WebCTRL 6.5 Unrestricted File Upload Remote Code Execution Vendor: Automated Logic Corporation Product web page: http://www.automatedlogic.com Affected version: ALC WebCTRL, i-Vu, SiteScan Web 6.5 and prior ALC WebCTRL, SiteScan Web 6.1 and...

PotPlayer 1.7.x - Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== PotPlayer 1.7.x - Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability References: =========== https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=2090 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZNVyll5n-k Release Date: ============= 2017-08-19 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

RubyMine 2016.1 - CMD Manual Buffer Overflow Exploitation

Document Title: =============== RubyMine 2016.1 - CMD Manual Buffer Overflow Exploitation References: =========== https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=2089 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sk0rq1Z8Qk Release Date: ============= 2017-08-18 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

VLC Media Player v2.2.6 Umbrella - DoS Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== VLC Media Player v2.2.6 Umbrella - DoS Vulnerability References: =========== https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=2088 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVcTEGVB6s Release Date: ============= 2017-08-17 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

RubyMine 2016.1 - CMD Manual Buffer Overflow Exploitation

Document Title: =============== RubyMine 2016.1 - CMD Manual Buffer Overflow Exploitation References: =========== https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=2089 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sk0rq1Z8Qk Release Date: ============= 2017-08-17 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

VLC Media Player v2.2.6 Umbrella - DoS Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== VLC Media Player v2.2.6 Umbrella - DoS Vulnerability References: =========== https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=2088 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVcTEGVB6s Release Date: ============= 2017-08-16 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

Attackers Backdoor NetSarang Software Update Mechanism

Attackers infiltrated the update mechanism for a popular server management software package as recently as last month and modified it to include a backdoor. NetSarang, which has headquarters in South Korea and the United States, has removed the backdoored update, but not before it was activated o...

IT threat evolution Q2 2017. Statistics

Q2 figures According to KSN data, Kaspersky Lab solutions detected and repelled 342, 566, 061 malicious attacks from online resources located in 191 countries all over the world. 33, 006, 783 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by web antivirus components. Attempted infections by malware tha...

Mamba Ransomware Returns, APT Trends, And More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including the return of the Mamba ransomware, Kaspersky Lab’s Q2 APT report, Bugcrowd’s 250K mystery bounty, and a high schooler’s $10K bug bounty from Google. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapAugust112017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves Show notes...

DALIM SOFTWARE ES Core 5.0 build 7184.1 User Enumeration Weakness

Summary ES is the new Enterprise Solution from DALIM SOFTWARE built from the successful TWIST, DIALOGUE and MISTRAL product lines. The ES Core is the engine that can handle project tracking, JDF device workflow, dynamic user interface building, volume management. Each ES installation will have...

APT Trends report Q2 2017

Introduction Since 2014, Kaspersky Lab's Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT has been providing threat intelligence reports to a wide-range of customers worldwide, leading to the delivery of a full and dedicated private reporting service. Prior to the new service offering, GReAT published...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3926-1 (chromium-browser - security update)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2017-5087 Ned Williamson discovered a way to escape the sandbox. CVE-2017-5088 Xiling Gong discovered an out-of-bounds read issue in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2017-5089 Michal Bentkowski discovered a spoofing issue...

lab-epsylon.fr XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.lab-epsylon.fr/page.php?idrubrique=10 Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Verification in progress Latest check for patch:| 25.10.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 2922319 VIP website status:| No Check...

CowerSnail Backdoor Targeting Windows Devices

By Waqas Kaspersky Lab has identified the presence of a backdoor designed This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CowerSnail Backdoor Targeting Windows Devices...

[slackware-security] tcpdump

New tcpdump packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/tcpdump-4.9.1-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes an issue where tcpdump 4.9.0 allows remote...