Threat Round-up for July 28 - August 4

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between July 28 and August 04. As with previous round-ups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavior characteristic...

Fedora 26 : wireshark (2017-5f15bf15cf)

Rebase to the newest upstream version. This release contains mostly bugfixes and no new features. ---- This update enables Lua support and also moves binaries into /usr/bin directory. The bug with scriptlets is resolved by removing the whole alternatives group prior to installing new packages. --...

Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.x < 10.6.3-266 Multiple Vulnerabilities (SYM17-004)

According to its self-reported version number, the Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG running on the remote host is 10.x prior to 10.6.3-266. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when handling email attachments involving malformed o...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9749

The regs macros in opcodes/bfin-dis.c in GNU Binutils 2.28 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted binary file, as demonstrated by mishandling of this file during "objdump -D" execution...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Beware! This Microsoft PowerPoint Hack Installs Malware Without Requiring Macros

"Disable macros and always be extra careful when you manually enable it while opening Microsoft Office Word documents." You might have heard of above-mentioned security warning multiple times on the Internet as hackers usually leverage this decade old macros-based hacking technique to hack...

FIN7 Evolution and the Phishing LNK

FIN7 is a financially-motivated threat group that has been associated with malicious operations dating back to late 2015. FIN7 is referred to by many vendors as “Carbanak Group”, although we do not equate all usage of the CARBANAK backdoor with FIN7. FireEye recently observed a FIN7 spear phishin...

DNSControl - Synchronize your DNS to multiple providers from a simple DSL

DNSControl is a system for maintaining DNS zones. It has two parts: a domain specific language DSL for describing DNS zones plus software that processes the DSL and pushes the resulting zones to DNS providers such as Route53, CloudFlare, and Gandi. It can talk to Microsoft ActiveDirectory and it...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28427: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on March 22, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 53121 First Published: 2017 March 22 16:37 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID28427 may contain the following files: Name | Si...

Synchronize Your DNS to Multiple Providers: DNSControl

Synchronize Your DNS to Multiple Providers DNSControl is a system for maintaining DNS zones. It has two parts: a domain specific language DSL for describing DNS zones plus software that processes the DSL and pushes the resulting zones to DNS providers such as Route53, CloudFlare, and Gandi. It ca...

Researchers Uncover New Leads Behind Shamoon2

In a fresh analysis of the Shamoon2 malware, researchers from Arbor Networks’ Security Engineering and Response Team ASERT say they have unearthed new leads on the tools and techniques used in the most recent wave of attacks. Shamoon2 surfaced in November, approximately four years after the...

Macro Malware Comes to macOS

Macro-based malware has crossed the divide between the Windows and Mac platforms. A cybercrime group whose command and control infrastructure resolves to an IP address geo-located in Russia is using a Word document laced with a malicious macro that executes solely on macOS. Following the same...

Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2017-0086)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-0086 advisory. - net sctp: validate chunk len before actually using it Hangbin Liu 1399458 1399459 CVE-2016-9555 - net sctp: rename WORDTRUNC/ROUND macros Hangbin Liu...

Office 2013 can now block macros to help prevent infection

In response to the growing trend of macro-based threats, a new feature in Office 2016 allows an enterprise administrator to block users from running macros in Office documents that originated from the Internet. This feature was documented back in March: New feature in Office 2016 can block macros...

Microsoft Office Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-07925)

Microsoft Office is a suite of office software products developed by Microsoft.Visual Basic macros is one of the programming languages dedicated to performing common automation OLE tasks in desktop applications. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Visual Basic macros in Microsoft...

CVE-2016-0141

The Visual Basic macros in Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, 2010 SP2, 2013 SP1, and 2016 export a certificate-store private key during a document-save operation, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, aka "Microsoft Information Disclosure Vulnerability."...

CVE-2016-0141

The Visual Basic macros in Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, 2010 SP2, 2013 SP1, and 2016 export a certificate-store private key during a document-save operation, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, aka "Microsoft Information Disclosure Vulnerability."...

CVE-2016-0141

CVE-2016-0141 is a Microsoft Office information-disclosure vulnerability. The issue arises in Visual Basic macros for Office 2007 SP3, 2010 SP2, 2013 SP1, and 2016, where saving a document exports a certificate-store private key. The underlying risk is exposure of the user’s private key to an att...

CVE-2016-0141

The Visual Basic macros in Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, 2010 SP2, 2013 SP1, and 2016 export a certificate-store private key during a document-save operation, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, aka "Microsoft Information Disclosure Vulnerability."...

MS16-107: Description of the security update for Office 2013: September 13, 2016

MS16-107: Description of the security update for Office 2013: September 13, 2016 Summary This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Microsoft Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, s...