China-Linked GopherWhisper Infects 12 Mongolian Government Systems with Go Backdoors

Mongolian governmental institutions have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat APT group tracked as GopherWhisper. "The group wields a wide array of tools mostly written in Go, using injectors and loaders to deploy and execute various backdoor...

Cybercriminals Use Unicode to Hide Mongolian Skimmer in E-Commerce Platforms

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new digital skimmer campaign that leverages Unicode obfuscation techniques to conceal a skimmer dubbed Mongolian Skimmer. "At first glance, the thing that stood out was the script's obfuscation, which seemed a bit bizarre because of all the accented...

Russian Hackers Exploit Safari and Chrome Flaws in High-Profile Cyberattack

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged multiple in-the-wild exploit campaigns that leveraged now-patched flaws in Apple Safari and Google Chrome browsers to infect mobile users with information-stealing malware. "These campaigns delivered n-day exploits for which patches were available, but would...

SAS 2021: Operation Software Concepts

During the Operation Software Concepts: A Beautiful Envelope for Wrapping Weapon talk on SAS-at-Home 2021, Rintaro Koike, Shogo Hayashi and Ryuichi Tanabe from NTT Security Japan will cover a new APT campaign named Operation Software Concepts. They will share details about this multi-stage attack...

Mongolian Certificate Authority Hacked to Distribute Backdoored CA Software

In yet another instance of software supply chain attack, unidentified hackers breached the website of MonPass, one of Mongolia's major certificate authorities, to backdoor its installer software with Cobalt Strike binaries. The trojanized client was available for download between February 8, 2021...

openSUSE Security Update : freetype2 (openSUSE-2020-704)

This update for freetype2 to version 2.10.1 fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : - CVE-2018-6942: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference within ttinerp.c bsc1079603. Non-security issues fixed : - Update to version 2.10.1 - The bytecode hinting of OpenType variation fonts was flawed, sinc...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for freetype2 (openSUSE-SU-2020:0704-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Security update for freetype2 (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for freetype2 Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0704-1 Rating: moderate References: 1079603 1091109 Cross-References: CVE-2018-6942 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : freetype2 (SUSE-SU-2020:1353-1)

This update for freetype2 to version 2.10.1 fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : CVE-2018-6942: Fixed a NULL pointer dereference within ttinerp.c bsc1079603. Non-security issues fixed : Update to version 2.10.1 - The bytecode hinting of OpenType variation fonts was flawed, since th...

Coronavirus-Themed APT Attack Spreads Malware

An advanced persistent threat APT group is leveraging the coronavirus pandemic to infect victims with a previously unknown malware, in a recently discovered campaign that researchers call “Vicious Panda.” Researchers identified two suspicious Rich Text Format files RTF — a text file format used b...

X (Formerly Twitter): Twitter Source Label allow 'mongolian vowel separator' U+180E (app name)

Summary: Twitter app-names which are shown in the Tweet source label are supposed to be unique and because of that they must not include invisible unicode characters. However, you can use the mongolian vowel separator in these app-name, which allows to fake a app-name. Description: Every tweet ha...

Spear Phishing Techniques Used in Attacks Targeting the Mongolian Government

Introduction FireEye recently observed a sophisticated campaign targeting individuals within the Mongolian government. Targeted individuals that enabled macros in a malicious Microsoft Word document may have been infected with Poison Ivy, a popular remote access tool RAT that has been used for...

Spear Phishing Techniques Used in Attacks Targeting the Mongolian Government

Introduction FireEye recently observed a sophisticated campaign targeting individuals within the Mongolian government. Targeted individuals that enabled macros in a malicious Microsoft Word document may have been infected with Poison Ivy, a popular remote access tool RAT that has been used for...