Next-Gen Ransomware Packs a 'Human' Punch, Microsoft Warns

Researchers are warning that “human operated” ransomware campaigns are growing more sophisticated, adopting new infection tactics and lateral movement techniques that traditional defense teams aren’t equipped to handle. Researchers said that “auto-spreading” ransomware – like WannaCry and NotPety...

Fedora 31 : libtiff (2020-2e9bd06377)

Security fix for CVE-2019-17546. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. C Tenable Network...

Fedora 31 : opensmtpd (2020-283dc7f094)

Release 6.6.4p1 2020-02-24 --- - An out of bounds read in smtpd allows an attacker to inject arbitrary commands into the envelope file which are then executed as root. Separately, missing privilege revocation in smtpctl allows arbitrary commands to be run with the smtpq group. Release 6.6.3p1...

Debian DLA-2133-1 : tomcat7 security update

Several security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Tomcat servlet and JSP engine. CVE-2019-17569 The refactoring in 7.0.98 introduced a regression. The result of the regression was that invalid Transfer-Encoding headers were incorrectly processed leading to a possibility of HTTP Request...

Debian DLA-2117-1 : zsh security update

A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in zsh, a shell with lots of features, whereby a user could regain a formerly elevated privelege level even when such an action should not be permitted. For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 5.0.7-5+deb8u1. We recommend...

Fedora 30 : libtiff (2020-6f1209bb45)

Security fix for CVE-2019-17546. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. C Tenable Network...

Fedora 30 : opensmtpd (2020-31216ab928)

Release 6.6.4p1 2020-02-24 --- - An out of bounds read in smtpd allows an attacker to inject arbitrary commands into the envelope file which are then executed as root. Separately, missing privilege revocation in smtpctl allows arbitrary commands to be run with the smtpq group. Release 6.6.3p1...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : compat-openssl098 (SUSE-SU-2020:0576-1)

This update for compat-openssl098 fixes the following issues : Add missing commits for fixes of the 'The 9 Lives of Bleichenbacher's CAT' attack bsc1117951 Fixed missing BNcopy bsc1160163 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : cloud-init (SUSE-SU-2020:0585-1)

This update for cloud-init fixes the following security issues : CVE-2020-8631: Replaced the theoretically predictable deterministic RNG with the system RNG bsc1162937. CVE-2020-8632: Increased the default random password length from 9 to 20 bsc1162936. Note that Tenable Network Security has...

Human-operated ransomware attacks: A preventable disaster

Human-operated ransomware campaigns pose a significant and growing threat to businesses and represent one of the most impactful trends in cyberattacks today. In these hands-on-keyboard attacks, which are different from auto-spreading ransomware like WannaCry or NotPetya, adversaries employ...

NCSC Releases Advisory on Securing Internet-Connected Cameras

The United Kingdom UK National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released an advisory on securing internet-connected cameras such as smart security cameras and baby monitors. An attacker could gain access to unsecured, or poorly secured, internet-connected cameras to obtain live feeds or images. The...

CVE-2020-3148 Cisco Prime Network Registrar Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the web-based interface of Cisco Prime Network Registrar CPNR could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site request forgery CSRF attack on an affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient CSRF protections in the web-based interface. An...

CVE-2020-5535

OpenBlocks IoT VX2 is affected by CVE-2020-5535 (OS command injection). The vulnerabilities affect the VX2 prior to Ver.4.0.0 (Ver.3 Series). An attacker connected on the same network segment can execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges, via unspecified vectors. Affected component is th...

Simplicity is the Key to Enterprise Cybersecurity

Editor’s Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the VMware Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. In today’s digital environment, companies are...

Microsoft identity acronyms—what do they mean and how do they relate to each other?

As a security advisor working with one to three Chief Information Security Officers CISOs each week, the topic of identity comes up often. These are smart people who have often been in industry for decades. They have their own vocabulary of acronyms that only security professionals know such as...

Debian DLA-2131-2 : rrdtool regression update

It was discovered that there was a regression in a previous fix, which resulted in the following error : ERROR: cannot compile regular expression: Error while compiling regular expression ^?:^%+|%%%+- 0?0-9.0-9+?leEfF%s?:^%+|%%$ at char 18: range out of order in character class ^?:^%+|%%%+-...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : permissions (SUSE-SU-2020:0547-1)

This update for permissions fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : CVE-2019-3687: Fixed a privilege escalation which could allow a local user to read network traffic if wireshark is installed bsc1148788 CVE-2020-8013: Fixed an issue where chkstat set unintended setuid/capabilities f...

Fedora 31 : rubygem-loofah (2020-03c0964b6a)

Fix XXS when a crafted SVG element is republished. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues....

Fedora 31 : PyYAML (2020-3162499159)

Security fix for CVE-2019-20477 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. C Tenable Network...

Photon OS 1.0: Unzip PHSA-2020-1.0-0281

An update of the unzip package has been released. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2020-1.0-0281. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid134208...