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Emotet coming in hot
Emotet is a ubiquitous and well-known banking trojan that has evolved over the years to become a very successful modular botnet capable of dropping a variety of other threats. Even after a global takedown campaign in early 2021 disrupted the botnet, it reemerged later that year, rebuilding its...
GO-2022-0956 Excessive resource consumption in gopkg.in/yaml.v2
Parsing malicious or large YAML documents can consume excessive amounts of CPU or memory...
Attackers using fake Cloudflare DDoS protection popups to distribute malware
By Waqas The malware dropped in this attack is the NetSupport RAT which was previously identified in malicious MS Word documents. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Attackers using fake Cloudflare DDoS protection popups to distribute malware...
Reddit: Unrestricted File Upload on reddit.secure.force.com
Summary: Reddit.secure.force.com is Reddit SalesForce instance. Attacker is able to send attachments of disallowed filetypes to this server. The attacker is able to send malicious documents such as CVE-2022-30190 Follina to the victim. Impact: Attacker can send malicious files to whoever handles...
Denial Of Service (DoS)
nokogiri is vulnerable to Denial Of Service DoS. SAX parser's inefficient entity handling for regular expressions causes excessive backtracking when a malicious documents are parsed which allows an attacker to cause an application crash...
Microsoft Teams Targeted With Takeover Trojans
Threat actors are targeting Microsoft Teams users by planting malicious documents in chat threads that execute Trojans that ultimately can take over end-user machines, researchers have found. In January, researchers at Avanan, a Check Point Company, began tracking the campaign, which drops...
Google Drive accounted for 50% of malicious Office document downloads
By Deeba Ahmed OneDrive was responsible for 19% while 15% of malicious Microsoft Office documents were downloaded through Sharepoint in 2021.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google Drive accounted for 50% of malicious Office document downloads...
The vulnerabilities of PDF viewing and editing programs such as Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud, Adobe Acrobat Reader Document Cloud, Adobe Acrobat 2017, Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017, and Adobe Acrobat 2020 are related to reading beyond the buffer in memory, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code.
The vulnerability of PDF viewing and editing programs such as Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud, Adobe Acrobat Reader Document Cloud, Adobe Acrobat 2017, Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017, Adobe Acrobat 2020, and Adobe Acrobat Reader 2020 is related to reading data beyond the buffer in memory. Exploiting this...
North Korea’s Lazarus APT leverages Windows Update client, GitHub in latest campaign
This blog was authored by Ankur Saini and Hossein Jazi Lazarus Group is one of the most sophisticated North Korean APTs that has been active since 2009. The group is responsible for many high profile attacks in the past and has gained worldwide attention. The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team...
Microsoft is now disabling Excel 4.0 macros by default
Back in October 2021, Microsoft announced in an email to customers that it planned to disable Excel 4.0 macros by default to protect customers from malicious documents. Last week—after three decades of macro viruses, and three decades of trying to convince every single Excel user individually to...
Microsoft is now disabling Excel 4.0 macros by default
Back in October 2021, Microsoft announced in an email sent to customers that it planned to disable Excel 4.0 macros by default to protect customers from malicious documents. Now, Microsoft says that change has happened. Good news Sometimes good news in the security world comes later than expected...
AbanteCart Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CNVD-2021-101665)
AbanteCart is a PHP-based e-commerce platform. AbanteCart is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting vulnerability prior to 1.3.2, which stems from a lack of data validation filtering of user-supplied data and output. An attacker with file upload privileges could exploit this vulnerability to upload...
PT-2021-5954 · Pdftron · Pdftron
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: PDFTron versions prior to 9.0.7 Description: A Memory Corruption issue may lead to code execution through maliciously crafted DLL files. The vulnerability is related to errors in the mechanism for checking the path to dynamically loaded...
Malicious campaign uses a barrage of commodity RATs to target Afghanistan and India
Cisco Talos recently discovered a threat actor using political and government-themed malicious domains to target entities in India and Afghanistan.These attacks use dcRAT and QuasarRAT for Windows delivered via malicious documents exploiting CVE-2017-11882 — a memory corruption vulnerability in...
Operation “Armor Piercer:” Targeted attacks in the Indian subcontinent using commercial RATs
By Asheer Malhotra, Vanja Svajcer and Justin Thattil. Cisco Talos is tracking a campaign targeting government personnel in India using themes and tactics similar to APT36 aka Mythic Leopard and Transparent Tribe.This campaign distributes malicious documents and archives to deliver the Netwire...
CVE-2021-34831
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Foxit Reader 10.1.4.37651. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the...
Input validation
xmldom is an open source pure JavaScript W3C standard-based XML DOM Level 2 Core DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. xmldom versions 0.6.0 and older do not correctly escape special characters when serializing elements removed from their ancestor. This may lead to unexpected syntactic changes duri...
Lazarus Targets Job-Seeking Engineers with Malicious Documents
The notorious Lazarus advanced persistent threat APT group has been identified as the cybergang behind a campaign spreading malicious documents to job-seeking engineers. The ploy involves impersonating defense contractors seeking job candidates. Researchers have been tracking Lazarus activity for...
CVE-2021-31447
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Foxit Reader 10.1.1.37576. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within...
