Mysterious Macintosh Malware

This is weird: Once an hour, infected Macs check a control server to see if there are any new commands the malware should run or binaries to execute. So far, however, researchers have yet to observe delivery of any payload on any of the infected 30,000 machines, leaving the malwares ultimate goal...

The mystery of the Silver Sparrow Mac malware

Cyber security company Red Canary published findings last week about a new piece of Mac malware called Silver Sparrow. This malware is notable in being one of the first to include native code for Apples new M1 chips, but what is unknown about this malware is actually more interesting than what is...

A week in security (February 15 – February 21)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, the spotlight fell on the State of Malware 2021 report, wherein we have seen cyberthreats evolve. We also touched on ransomware, such as Egregor and a tactic known as Remote Desktop Protocol RDP brute forcing that has long been part of the ransomware operators...

New 'Silver Sparrow' Malware Infected Nearly 30,000 Apple Macs

Days after the first malware targeting Apple M1 chips was discovered in the wild, researchers have disclosed yet another previously undetected piece of malicious software that was found in about 30,000 Macs running Intel x8664 and the iPhone maker's M1 processors. However, the ultimate goal of th...

Mysterious Silver Sparrow Malware Found Nesting on 30K Macs

Hard on the heels of a macOS adware being recompiled to target Apple’s new in-house processor, researchers have discovered a brand-new family of malware targeting the platform. Curiously, in the samples seen so far by analysts at Red Canary, the malware dubbed Silver Sparrow has been executing on...

Apple Outlines 2021 Security, Privacy Roadmap

Click to Register Apple released its 2021 Platform Security guide, Thursday, outlining its current and year-ahead agenda for its device hardware, software and silicon security. This year’s 192-page report is beefed-up, compared to past reports, with a wealth of new insights into how Apple is...

Hackers Targeting Apple’s M1 Chip with Mac Malware

By Waqas Ex-NSA researcher has discovered malware that is equipped with anti-analysis capabilities and designed to specifically target Apple's new chip. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Targeting Apples M1 Chip with Mac Malware...

Mac Malware Targets Apple’s New M1 Processor

Three months after Apple launched its new M1 system-on-a-chip SoC, cybercriminals have developed what may be the first malicious macOS application targeting the mobile giant’s first in-house silicon. Click to Register The recently uncovered malicious application, called GoSearch22, natively runs ...

First Malware Designed for Apple M1 Chip Discovered in the Wild

One of the first malware samples tailored to run natively on Apple's M1 chips has been discovered, suggesting a new development that indicates that bad actors have begun adapting malicious software to target the company's latest generation of Macs powered by its own processors. While the transiti...

Malware Is Now Targeting Apple’s New M1 Processor

Two distinct strains of malware have already adjusted to the new silicon just months after its debut...

Google uncovers new iOS security feature Apple quietly added after zero-day attacks

Google Project Zero on Thursday disclosed details of a new security mechanism that Apple quietly added to iOS 14 as a countermeasure to prevent attacks that were recently found to leverage zero-days in its messaging app. Dubbed "BlastDoor," the improved sandbox system for iMessage data was...

All Bachmann M1 System Processor Modules

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.2 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Bachmann Electronic, GmbH Equipment: All M-Base Controllers Vulnerability : Use of Password Hash with Insufficient Computational Effort 2. REPOSTED INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to...

Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat8 (ALAS-2020-1473) (deprecated)

The version of tested product installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2020-1473 advisory. - While investigating bug 64830 it was discovered that Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M9, 9.0.0-M1 to 9.0.39 and...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : tomcat Vulnerability (NS-SA-2020-0085)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05, has tomcat packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability: - When using the Apache JServ Protocol AJP, care must be taken when trusting incoming connections to Apache Tomcat. Tomcat treats AJP connections as having...

Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 < 9.0.40 Information Disclosure

The version of Apache Tomcat installed on the remote host is 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M9, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.39, 8.5.0 to 8.5.59 or 7.0.0 to 7.0.106. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability. Apache Tomcat could re-use an HTTP request header value from the previous stream received on an HTTP/2...

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 87 to the Stable channel 87.0.4280.66 for Windows and Linux, 87.0.4280.67 for Mac. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks. Chrome 87.0.4280.66/67 contains native support for Apple M1 devices and a number of fixes and...

CVE-2020-13943

If an HTTP/2 client connecting to Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M7, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.37 or 8.5.0 to 8.5.57 exceeded the agreed maximum number of concurrent streams for a connection in violation of the HTTP/2 protocol, it was possible that a subsequent request made on that connection could...

CVE-2020-13943

If an HTTP/2 client connecting to Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M7, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.37 or 8.5.0 to 8.5.57 exceeded the agreed maximum number of concurrent streams for a connection in violation of the HTTP/2 protocol, it was possible that a subsequent request made on that connection could...

PT-2022-2604

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apache Tomcat versions 8.5.0 through 8.5.75 Apache Tomcat versions 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.20 Description The issue is related to errors when a web application sends a WebSocket message concurrently with the WebSocket connection closing. This cou...

Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 < 9.0.37 Denial of Service

The version of Apache Tomcat installed on the remote host is 10.0.0-M1 to 10.0.0-M6, 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.36, 8.5.0 to 8.5.56 or 7.0.0 to 7.0.104. It is, therefore, affected by two denial of service vulnerabilities via WebSocket frame and HTTP/2 requests. Note that the scanner has not attempted to...