New Group of Hackers Targeting Businesses with Financially Motivated Cyber Attacks

Security researchers have tracked down activities of a new group of financially-motivated hackers that are targeting several businesses and organizations in Germany, Italy, and the United States in an attempt to infect them with backdoor, banking Trojan, or ransomware malware. Though the new...

Patch Tuesday, November 2019 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to plug security holes in its software, including patches to fix at least 74 weaknesses in various flavors of Windows and programs that run on top of it. The November updates include patches for a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer that is currently being exploite...

CVE-2019-9854

LibreOffice has a feature where documents can specify that pre-installed macros can be executed on various script events such as mouse-over, document-open etc. Access is intended to be restricted to scripts under the share/Scripts/python, user/Scripts/python sub-directories of the LibreOffice...

Office for Mac Users Warned of Malicious SYLK Files

Microsoft Office for Mac users are being warned that malicious SYLK files are sneaking past endpoint defenses even when the “disable all macros without notification” is turned on. This leaves systems vulnerable to a remote, unauthenticated attackers who can execute arbitrary code. The warning com...

Microsoft Office for Mac cannot properly disable XLM macros

Overview The Microsoft Office for Mac option "Disable all macros without notification" enables XLM macros without prompting, which can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description XLM macros Up to and including Microsoft Excel 4.0, a macro...

Threat Roundup for October 4 to October 11

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Oct. 4 and Oct. 11. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Debian DLA-1947-1 : libreoffice security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in LibreOffice, the office productivity suite. CVE-2019-9848 Nils Emmerich discovered that malicious documents could execute arbitrary Python code via LibreLogo. CVE-2019-9849 Matei Badanoiu discovered that the stealth mode did not apply to bullet graphics...

IDA, I Think It’s Time You And I Had a Talk: Controlling IDA Pro With Voice Control Software

Introduction This blog post is the next episode in the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team Script Series. Today, we are sharing something quite unusual. It is not a tool or a virtual machine distribution, nor is it a plugin or script for a popular reverse engineering tool or...

LibreOffice Security Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

LibreOffice is an open source office software suite from The Document Foundation TDF. The product includes applications such as Writer text documents, Calc spreadsheets and Impress presentations. A security vulnerability exists in LibreOffice. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to bypass...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-9853

LibreOffice documents can contain macros. The execution of those macros is controlled by the document security settings, typically execution of macros are blocked by default. A URL decoding flaw existed in how the urls to the macros within the document were processed and categorized, resulting in...

CVE-2019-9853

LibreOffice documents can contain macros. The execution of those macros is controlled by the document security settings, typically execution of macros are blocked by default. A URL decoding flaw existed in how the urls to the macros within the document were processed and categorized, resulting in...

More U.S. Utility Firms Targeted in Evolving LookBack Spearphishing Campaign

A spearphishing campaign, first spotted in July targeting three U.S. utility companies with a new malware variant, has evolved its tactics and extended its targeting to include nearly 20 companies. The campaign was first discovered in phishing emails, sent between July 19 and 25, which targeted...

North Korean Spear-Phishing Attack Targets U.S. Firms

Researchers have uncovered an ongoing, sophisticated malware campaign aiming at U.S.-based targets with an interest in nuclear deterrence, North Korea’s nuclear submarine program and North Korean economic sanctions. The campaign, which researchers from Prevailion call “Autumn Aperture” and link...

python27:2.7 bug fix update

An update is available for python2-rpm-macros, python-docutils, pytest, python-psycopg2, python-PyMySQL, python-lxml, PyYAML, python-pytest-mock, python-attrs, python-jinja2, python-mock, python-ipaddress, python-funcsigs, python-py, python-chardet, python-markupsafe, python-pluggy,...

CVE-2019-9854

LibreOffice has a feature where documents can specify that pre-installed macros can be executed on various script events such as mouse-over, document-open etc. Access is intended to be restricted to scripts under the share/Scripts/python, user/Scripts/python sub-directories of the LibreOffice...

CVE-2019-9852

LibreOffice has a feature where documents can specify that pre-installed macros can be executed on various script events such as mouse-over, document-open etc. Access is intended to be restricted to scripts under the share/Scripts/python, user/Scripts/python sub-directories of the LibreOffice...

CVE-2019-15233

The Live:Text Box macro in the Old Street Live Input Macros app before 2.11 for Confluence has XSS, leading to theft of the Administrator Session Cookie...

CVE-2019-15233

CVE-2019-15233 affects the Live:Text Box macro in Old Street Live Input Macros for Confluence, with XSS in versions before 2.11 that can steal an Administrator session cookie. The issue arises from injected JavaScript in a Confluence element, enabling session hijacking when a page containing the ...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-9852

LibreOffice has a feature where documents can specify that pre-installed macros can be executed on various script events such as mouse-over, document-open etc. Access is intended to be restricted to scripts under the share/Scripts/python, user/Scripts/python sub-directories of the LibreOffice...

CVE-2019-9852

LibreOffice has a feature where documents can specify that pre-installed macros can be executed on various script events such as mouse-over, document-open etc. Access is intended to be restricted to scripts under the share/Scripts/python, user/Scripts/python sub-directories of the LibreOffice...