[ASA-202101-34] gptfdisk: arbitrary code execution

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202101-34 ========================================== Severity: Medium Date : 2021-01-20 CVE-ID : CVE-2021-0308 Package : gptfdisk Type : arbitrary code execution Remote : No Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1435 Summary ======= The package gptfdisk before...

Chinese Researchers Disrupt Malware Attack That Infected Thousands of PCs

Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 Netlab said it partnered with tech giant Baidu to disrupt a malware botnet infecting over hundreds of thousands of systems. The botnet was traced back to a group it calls ShuangQiang also called Double Gun, which has been behind several attacks since 2017 aimed at...

Wiper Malware Called "Coronavirus" Spreads Among Windows Victims

A new Windows malware has emerged that makes disks unusable by overwriting the master boot record MBR. It takes its cue from the COVID-19 pandemic, calling itself simply “Coronavirus.” Overwriting the MBR is the same trick that the infamous NotPetya wiper malware used in 2017 in a campaign that...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: CoronaVirus Ransomware

"CoronaVirus" Ransomware has been found distributed via a phishing website. The malicious website will distribute a trojan downloader which then leads to downloading additional malicious payloads: the Kpot InfoStealer and Coronavirus Ransomware. "CoronaVirus" Ransomware will perform the deletion ...

OATmeal on the Universal Cereal Bus: Exploiting Android phones over USB

Posted by Jann Horn, Google Project Zero Recently, there has been some attention around the topic of physical attacks on smartphones, where an attacker with the ability to connect USB devices to a locked phone attempts to gain access to the data stored on the device. This blogpost describes how...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: fedora-arm-installer-2.1-1.fc26

Allows one to first select a source image local or remote. The image must be a binary file containing: MBR + Partitions + File Systems + Data. A destination block device should then be selected for final installation...

mbrrecruitment.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-447397 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| mbrrecruitment.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Cb Defense Q3 2017 Release Future-Proofs Your Ransomware Defenses

We’re excited to announce the Cb Defense Q3 2017 release is here! Cb Defense has always been focused on bringing you the best possible prevention, built upon our unique streaming prevention platform, combined with our market-leading endpoint detection and response EDR capabilities. The Q3 2017...

The return of Mamba ransomware

At the end of 2016, there was a major attack against San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency. The attack was done using Mamba ransomware. This ransomware uses a legitimate utility called DiskCryptor for full disk encryption. This month, we noted that the group behind this ransomware has...

No Free Pass for ExPetr

Recently, there have been discussions around the topic that if our product is installed, ExPetr malware won't write the special malicious code which encrypts the MFT to MBR. Some have even speculated that some kind of conspiracy might be ongoing. Others have pointed out it's plain and simple...

Original Author of Petya Ransomware is Back & He Wants to Help NotPetya Victims

The author of original Petya ransomware is back. After 6 months of silence, the author of the now infamous Petya ransomware appeared today on Twitter to help victims unlock their files encrypted by a new version of Petya, also known as NotPetya. "We're back having a look in NotPetya," tweeted...

Turns Out New Petya is Not a Ransomware, It’s a Destructive Wiper Malware

What if I say the Tuesday's devastating global malware outbreak was not due to any ransomware infection? Yes, the Petya ransomware attacks that began infecting computers in several countries, including Russia, Ukraine, France, India and the United States on Tuesday and demands $300 ransom was not...

Protect Your Organization from Petya / NotPetya Ransomware with Carbon Black

Organizations from Russia to Britain were hit by a ransomware attack on Tuesday in a hack with similarities to the recent WannaCry attacks. Initial analysis showed that the malware seen is a recent variant of the Petya ransomware family based upon how it encrypts files and displays its ransom not...

Petya Ransomware Spreading Rapidly Worldwide, Just Like WannaCry

Watch out, readers! It is ransomware, another WannaCry, another wide-spread attack. The WannaCry ransomware is not dead yet and another large scale ransomware attack is making chaos worldwide, shutting down computers at corporates, power supplies, and banks across Russia, Ukraine, Spain, France,...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : util-linux (SUSE-SU-2016:2954-1)

This update for util-linux fixes the following issues : - Consider redundant slashes when comparing paths bsc982331, util-linux-libmount-ignore-redundant-slashes.patch, affects backport of util-linux-libmount-cifs-ismounted.patch. - Use upstream compatibility patches for --show-pt-geometry with...

MBRFilter — Open Source Tool to Protect Against 'Master Boot Record' Malware

Ransomware threat has risen exponentially so much that ransomware authors have started abusing the MBR in their attacks to lock down your entire computer instead of just encrypting your important files on hard drive. Talos team at Cisco Systems has released a free, open-source tool that protects...

Unable to Back Up Disk X: Due to Invalid Partition Table

Challenge The backup job fails with the following error: Unable to back up disk X: due to invalid partition table Cause The error is caused by a volume type with no partition table and is not supported by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows. In Windows Disk Management, the volume looks like a commo...

Petya in the end is what the Ghost-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Late last month, German veteran security vendors Goethe Tower released a security report, the report pointed out the emergence of a named Petya in the new extortion Trojan. Then this new extortion Trojan the hell is going on? 0x01 Trojan overview The Trojan itself is actually technically is not...

Petya Ransomware Master File Table Encryption

First ransomware locked your desktop. Then it encrypted your files. Not long after, webservers, shared drives and backups were targeted. Now? Introducing Petya, ransomware that targets the Master Boot Record. Spotted in email campaigns sent to human resources offices in German companies, the...

Persistent Financial Malware 'Nemesis' Targets Boot Record

A group of attackers are behind a strain of payment card malware that has bootkit functionality, something that makes it very difficult to detect, much less remove. “FIN1,” the group behind the malware, appears to be based in Russia, according to researchers at both FireEye and Mandiant who...