The vulnerability of the Smart Tunnel component of the microprogramming software for Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance allows a attacker to load a malicious executable file.

The vulnerability of the Smart Tunnel component of the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance microprogramming firewall software is related to the lack of checks for the integrity of system files. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a attacker to load a malicious executable file...

Music Center for PC Incorrectly Validates Software Update Files Vulnerability

Music Center for PC is an application for organizing and transferring music on audio devices made by Sony. Music Center for PC is vulnerable to incorrectly validating software update files, which, under a man-in-the-middle attack, could allow the download and execution of specially crafted...

Design/Logic Flaw

A vulnerability in certain attachment detection mechanisms of Cisco Email Security Appliances ESA could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass the filtering functionality of an affected system. The vulnerability is due to the improper detection of content within executable EXE files...

CVE-2018-0419

A vulnerability in certain attachment detection mechanisms of Cisco Email Security Appliances ESA could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass the filtering functionality of an affected system. The vulnerability is due to the improper detection of content within executable EXE files...

Bevy of Android Apps Harbor Hidden Malicious Windows Executables

Researchers have found up to 145 Android apps on the Google Play store infected by malicious Microsoft Windows executable files capable of planting key-loggers on Windows systems. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 said Monday that they suspect that the Android app developers involved wer...

Smoking Guns - Smoke Loader learned new tricks

This post is authored by Ben Baker and Holger Unterbrink Overview Cisco Talos has been tracking a new version of Smoke Loader — a malicious application that can be used to load other malware — for the past several months following an alert from Cisco Advanced Malware Protection’s AMP Exploit...

Design/Logic Flaw

Without quotation marks, any whitespace in the file path for Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Activation version 4.00.02 remains ambiguous, which may allow an attacker to link to or run a malicious executable. This may allow an authorized, but not privileged local user to execute arbitrary code wi...

Threat Round-up for June 30 - July 07

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 30 and July 07. 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 characteristics,...

Veil Evasion Payloads

Veil-Evasion is an open source tool that generates malicious executables. A remote attacker could send executable files to an unprotected system, and trigger their execution on that system...

HackerOne: RTL override symbol not stripped from file names

Any U+202E RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE and similar symbols in file names of uploaded files are not stripped from the file name, causing potentially malicious executables to look like harmless images, for example. This might trick HackerOne panel members into accidentally opening evil h4x0r filez. I’ve...

[REMnux] A Linux Distribution for Malware Analysis

REMnux incorporates a number of tools for analyzing malicious executables that run on Microsoft Windows, as well as browser-based malware, such as Flash programs and obfuscated JavaScript. This popular toolkit includes programs for analyzing malicious documents, such PDF files, and utilities for...

Researchers Uncover Polymorphic AutoRun Worm

W32/Autorun.worm.aaeb-h is an evolved, virtual machine-aware AutoRun worm that makes use of obfuscation and polymorphic techniques in order to evade detection and infect removable media and mounted network shares, according to McAfee. Researchers have seen an increase in samples for the year-old...

Security Firms Warn Users of Fake Java Updates

It’s really starting to feel like we’re piling on the perennially vulnerable, industry punching bag that is Java. That said, GFI Labs and other security firms are warning their users to be wary of malicious fake Java updaters taking advantage of all the patches Oracle had to ship last week. Trend...

Backdoor.LV Samples On the Rise

A strain of malware called Backdoor.LV that uses a custom protocol over port 80 to communicate with its command and control server has been consistently increasing its reach since May, according to a report from FireEye. The security firm observed Backdoor.LV determining its host’s NetBIOS name,...

Stolen Certificates Found in Malware Possibly Targeting Tibetan Groups

The recent trend of attackers using stolen digital certificates to make their malicious executables look legitimate is continuing unabated, with researchers now having come across a series of variants of the Etchfro Trojan that are using certificates taken from several companies and issued by...

Google to Add Warnings About Malicious Executables to Chrome

Google is testing a new feature in its Chrome browser that will warn users when they attempt to download a potentially malicious executable file. The feature is an extension of the existing Web-based security mechanisms the company has integrated into Chrome and the Safe Browsing API and will be...