Monero: Remote memory exhaustion in Epee RPC stack under zero Receive Window

The Epee RPC stack in Monero was vulnerable to memory exhaustion attacks. Delayed ACK or zero Receive Window advertisements could cause the server to keep responses in the send queue until memory was exhausted. This could lead to remote crashes of Monero nodes that exposed their RPC interfaces...

Monero: low-level p2p ping + tcp flooding leads to a remote crash in monerod

The vulnerability allowed remote crashes of the P2P daemon through low-level ping and TCP flooding...

Monero: A peer can remotely fill the pending block queue to an extremely high size, with blocks that will never leave the queue.

The pending block queue in the Monero cryptocurrency protocol could be remotely filled to an extremely high size, up to approximately 54 GB, with blocks that would never leave the queue. This was possible due to lax rules in the synchronization code that allowed the queue size limit to be bypasse...

Monero: Spamming highly nested JSON RPC requests cause node to disconnect from p2p network

The vulnerability allowed an attacker to remotely lock monerod from syncing with the rest of the p2p network by forging a highly nested JSON payload and spamming it through a restricted RPC interface. The Epee JSON parser was found to allow duplicated fields and set a recursion limit that was too...

Malicious code in Monero (NuGet)

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MAL-2024-4553 Malicious code in Monero (NuGet)

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Malicious code in Monеro.Clieոt (NuGet)

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OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11055-1 monero-devel-0.17.2.0-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the monero-devel-0.17.2.0-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed...

IntelBroker Leaks Alleged National Security Data Tied to US Contractor Acuity Inc.

By Waqas The leaked data was previously being sold by the IntelBroker hacker for just $3,000 in Monero XMR cryptocurrency. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: IntelBroker Leaks Alleged National Security Data Tied to US Contractor Acuity Inc...

forum.getmonero.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3883498

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Monero: [Monero wallet RPC] File precreation to file ownership and credentials leak

The Monero wallet RPC was found to have a vulnerability in the file creation process that could lead to potential credential leakage. The issue was located in the walletrpcserver::init method, where a file was created without using the OEXCL flag, allowing an attacker to pre-create the file and...

Hacker Claims Breaching US Federal Contractor Acuity, Selling ICE, USCIS Data

By Waqas The teasure trove of highly sentisive data is being sold for just $3,000 in Monero XMR cryptocurrency on Breach Forums. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker Claims Breaching US Federal Contractor Acuity, Selling ICE, USCIS Data...

China’s Hackers Keep Targeting US Water and Electricity Supplies

Plus: Russia was likely behind widespread GPS outages, Vault 7 leaker was sentenced, police claim to trace Monero cryptocurrency, and more...

Monero: RPC service DOS

The RPC service running on port 18081 or 28081, 38081 was vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack due to a loop iterating until the maximum range of a 64-bit unsigned integer. The vulnerability was present in all versions after the commit b030f207517f59a5122409398549a02ac23829ae, up to and...

New Attacks Target Misconfigured Apache Applications with Monero Miner

Summary: A recently identified attack exploits misconfigurations in Apache Hadoop and Flink to deploy cryptocurrency miners within targeted environments. This attack stands out due to the attackers utilization of packers and rootkits to conceal the malware, adding an extra layer of complexity and...

29-Year-Old Ukrainian Cryptojacking Kingpin Arrested for Exploiting Cloud Services

A 29-year-old Ukrainian national has been arrested in connection with running a "sophisticated cryptojacking scheme," netting them over $2 million €1.8 million in illicit profits. The person, described as the "mastermind" behind the operation, was apprehended in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on January 9 by...

Cryptominers Targeting Misconfigured Apache Hadoop and Flink with Rootkit in New Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a new attack that exploits misconfigurations in Apache Hadoop and Flink to deploy cryptocurrency miners within targeted environments. "This attack is particularly intriguing due to the attacker's use of packers and rootkits to conceal the malware," Aqua...

German Authorities Dismantle Dark Web Hub 'Kingdom Market' in Global Operation

German law enforcement has announced the disruption of a dark web platform called Kingdom Market that specialized in the sales of narcotics and malware to "tens of thousands of users." The exercise, which involved collaboration from authorities from the U.S., Switzerland, Moldova, and Ukraine,...

`monero-api` was removed from crates.io for malicious code

This crate was part of a typosquatting malware cluster published by the user Kraded to run an arbitrary malware payload on Windows hosts. This advisory is to retrospectively document this attempted attack. The version information and download records of the malicious crate are no longer available...

RUSTSEC-2023-0112 `monero-rpc-rs` was removed from crates.io for malicious code

This crate was part of a typosquatting malware cluster published by the user Kraded to run an arbitrary malware payload on Windows hosts. This advisory is to retrospectively document this attempted attack. The version information and download records of the malicious crate are no longer available...