Security News This Week: Telegram Says China Is Behind DDoS

Voting machine security gets a boost, Have I Been Pwned is for sale, and more of the week's top security news...

CVE-2019-0711

A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly validate input from a privileged user on a guest operating system. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker who already has a privileged account on a guest operating system, running as a virtual...

A Top Voting-Machine Firm Calls for Paper Ballots

The long-awaited shift from paperless ballots could make elections more secure...

Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Hyper-V on a host server fails to properly validate input from a privileged user on a guest operating system. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker who already has a privileged account on a guest operating system, running as a virtual...

Ubuntu 18.04 - lxd Privilege Escalation

Ubuntu 18.04 - lxd Privilege Escalation !/usr/bin/env bash ---------------------------------- Authors: Marcelo Vazquez S4vitar Victor Lasa vowkin ---------------------------------- Step 1: Download build-alpine = wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saghul/lxd-alpine-builder/master/build-alpine...

CVE-2019-6452

Kyocera Command Center RX TASKalfa4501i and TASKalfa5052ci allows remote attackers to abuse the Test button in the machine address book to obtain a cleartext FTP or SMB password...

Directory traversal

A Directory Traversal issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.7.6 and later through 3.0.2. Before making new directories or touching files which now include path-checking code for symlinks, it would delete the target destination. If that destination was hidden behind a symlink, a malicious gem could...

VMware WorkStation 12.5.3 - Virtual Machine Escape

VMware Escape Exploit VMware Escape Exploit before VMware WorkStation 12.5.3 Host Target: Win10 x64 Compiler: VS2013 Test on VMware 12.5.2 build-4638234 Known issues Failing to heap manipulation causes host process crash. About 50% successful rate Not quite elaborate because I'm not good at doing...

It's alive: Threat actors cobble together open-source pieces into monstrous Frankenstein campaign

This blog was authored by Danny Adamitis, David Maynor and Kendall McKay. Executive summary Cisco Talos recently identified a series of documents that we believe are part of a coordinated series of cyber attacks that we are calling the "Frankenstein" campaign. We assess that the attackers carried...

JDK: Read beyond the end of bytecode array causing JVM crash

In Eclipse OpenJ9 prior to the 0.14.0 release, the Java bytecode verifier incorrectly allows a method to execute past the end of bytecode array causing crashes. Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.14.0 correctly detects this case and rejects the attempted class load...

Windows 10 v2004, 20H2, 21H1, 21H2 & 22H2 – Citrix Known Issues

Microsoft releases software updates for Windows 10 twice a year through the Semi-Annual Channel. Microsoft released its Semi-Annual Channel 'May 2020 update' v2004 in May 2020,'October 2020 update'20H2 in October 2020, 'May 2021 update' 21H1 in May 2021, 'November 2021 update' 21H2 and '2022...

Learning to Rank Strings Output for Speedier Malware Analysis

Reverse engineers, forensic investigators, and incident responders have an arsenal of tools at their disposal to dissect malicious software binaries. When performing malware analysis, they successively apply these tools in order to gradually gather clues about a binary’s function, design detectio...

Q&A with Ashley Fidler, Chief Product Officer at eSentire: Women in Cybersecurity

In a few short weeks, Carbon Black will be hosting our annual user conference, CBConnect19, in sunny San Diego. This year, we’re bringing together a group of powerhouse women from across a variety of industries for our annual Women in Cybersecurity Panel to share their knowledge and experience fr...

EquityPandit 1.0 - Password Disclosure

Exploit title: EquityPandit v1.0 - Insecure Logging Date:27/05/2019 Exploit Author: ManhNho Software name: "EquityPandit" Software link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yieldnotion.equitypandit Version: 1.0 Category: Android apps Description: - Sometimes developers keeps sensiti...

German SG-41 Encryption Machine Up for Auction

A German auction house is selling an SG-41. It looks beautiful. Starting price is 75,000 euros. My guess is that it will sell for around 100K euros...

Visiting the NSA

Yesterday, I visited the NSA. It was Cyber Command's birthday, but that's not why I was there. I visited as part of the Berklett Cybersecurity Project, run out of the Berkman Klein Center and funded by the Hewlett Foundation. BERKman hewLETT -- get it? We have a web page, but it's badly out of...

Modern Database Security Buys Down More Risks for Enterprises

Pop quiz: how many data records are lost or stolen on an average day? 1 million? 3 million? 6 million? If you answered 6 million, you’re correct, according to the Breach Level Index. According to the Index, 14.7 billion records have been lost or stolen since 2013, or more than 2.2 billion per yea...

How Technology and Politics Are Changing Spycraft

Interesting article about how traditional nation-based spycraft is changing. Basically, the Internet makes it increasingly possible to generate a good cover story; cell phone and other electronic surveillance techniques make tracking people easier; and machine learning will make all of this...

Darktrace Enterpise Immune System 3.0.9 / 3.0.10 Cross Site Request Forgery

1 - Vulnerability Darktrace Enterpise Immune System 3.0.9 and 3.0.10 contains multiple cross site request forgery vulnerabilities. It is highly likely that older versions are affected as well, but this has not been confirmed. An attacker can whitelist domains and/or change core Darktrace...

Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner Now With Network Security Scans

User-friendly and competitively priced, Acunetix leads the market in automatic web security testing technology. Its industry-leading crawler fully supports HTML5, JavaScript, and AJAX-heavy websites, enabling the auditing of complex, authenticated applications. Acunetix provides the only technolo...