EUVD-2002-1665

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Gamaredon Group Launches Cyberattacks Against Ukraine Using Telegram

The Russian state-sponsored cyber espionage group known as Gamaredon has continued its digital onslaught against Ukraine, with recent attacks leveraging the popular messaging app Telegram to strike military and law enforcement sectors in the country. "The Gamaredon group's network infrastructure...

Gamaredon APT targets Ukrainian government agencies in new campaign

By Asheer Malhotra and Guilherme Venere. Cisco Talos recently identified a new, ongoing campaign attributed to the Russia-linked Gamaredon APT that infects Ukrainian users with information-stealing malware. The adversary is using phishing documents containing lures related to the Russian invasion...

Threat Roundup for July 29 to August 5

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between July 29 and Aug. 5. 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,...

Cybercriminals Swarm Windows Utility Regsvr32 to Spread Malware

A Windows living-off-the-land binary LOLBin known as Regsvr32 is seeing a big uptick in abuse of late, researchers are warning, mainly spreading trojans like Lokibot and Qbot. LOLBins are legitimate, native utilities used daily in various computing environments, that cybercriminals use to evade...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2014-0447)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SquirrelWaffle Loader Malspams, Packs Qakbot, Cobalt Strike

SquirrelWaffle, a new malware loader, is mal-spamming malicious Microsoft Office documents to deliver Qakbot malware and the penetration-testing tool Cobalt Strike – two of the most common threats regularly observed targeting organizations around the world. Cisco Talos researchers said on Tuesday...

Defense Takeaways from Three Adversary Playbooks

In these days of advanced threats, the perimeter defense strategy – though still useful and necessary – is incomplete. IT security teams need as much information about existing threats as possible, so they know what to look for and how to position proactive countermeasures. Creating and using...

Adwind Dodges AV via DDE

This blog post is authored by Paul Rascagneres, Vitor Ventura and with the contribution of Tomislav Pericin and Robert Perica from ReversingLabs. Introduction Cisco Talos, along with fellow cybersecurity firm ReversingLabs, recently discovered a new spam campaign that is spreading the Adwind 3.0...

Adobe Patches Zero-Day Flash Flaw

Adobe has released an emergency update to address a critical security hole in its Flash Player browser plugin that is being actively exploited to deploy malicious software. If you've got Flash installed -- and if you're using Google Chrome or a recent version of Microsoft Windows you do -- it's...

A Cyber Revolution: Advanced Attacks Increasing in EMEA Reflect Political Tension

Financial, geopolitical and economical changes made 2015 a very busy year for the Europe, Middle East and Africa EMEA region, particularly in the cyber realm. FireEye has been monitoring these shifting cyber trends and has identified considerable evolutions to the EMEA threat landscape when...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : clamav (SAT Patch Number 4155)

Specially crafted VBA data in Microsoft Office documents could crash clamav or potentially even cause execution of arbitrary code. clamav was updated to version 0.97 to fix the issue. CVE-2011-1003 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in thi...

UK foreign secretary : "We are under Cyber attack" !

Yesterday, the UK adopted secretary, William Hague, explained to a aegis appointment in Munich how cyber abyss were aggravating to access the UK government and aegis contractors. According to a BBC report, Mr. Hague explained that attackers had adulterated government computers with the Zeus troja...

Computer Associates antivirus library buffer overflow

Heap overflow on OLE streams VBA projects analysis Microsoft Office documents...

CVE-2002-1684

Directory traversal vulnerability in 1 Deerfield D2Gfx 1.0.2 or 2 BadBlue Enterprise Edition 1.5.x and BadBlue Personal Edition 1.5.6 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ../ dot dot slash in the script used to read Microsoft Office documents...

Microsoft MSN Messenger Chat Control contains a buffer overflow in "ResDLL" parameter

Overview Microsoft's MSN Chat is an ActiveX control for Microsoft Messenger, an instant messaging client. A buffer overflow exists in the ActiveX control that may permit a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system with the privileges of the current user. Description A buffer overflo...