Hackers Favorite CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service Shutting Down

Coinhive, a notorious in-browser cryptocurrency mining service popular among cybercriminals, has announced that it will discontinue its services on March 8, 2019. Regular readers of The Hacker News already know how Coinhive's service helped cyber criminals earn hundreds of thousands of dollars by...

Opera Privacy Statement Update 2019

Privacy Opera Privacy Statement Update 2019 Share February 7th, 2019 This is an outdated article. Please read Opera Privacy Statement Update 2022 instead. We have recently updated our end-user license agreements and our terms of service have been updated as well. We are also about to update our...

CVE-2019-6221

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2019-01-28 15:10:00+00:00| seen| MISP/5c4f1a2e-1300-4391-87cf-19c50a021402...

OpenSC Memory Leak Vulnerability

OpenSC is an open source smart card tool and middleware. A security vulnerability exists in the 'sccontextcreate' function in the ctx.c file of libopensc in OpenSC version 0.19.0. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service memory leak...

CVE-2019-0578

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2019-01-09 14:53:48+00:00| seen| MISP/5c360a14-9018-4d13-b6c9-714c0a021402...

Linux kernel denial of service vulnerability (CNVD-2019-00366)

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the cancangwrcv in the net/can/gw.c file in Linux kernel versions 4.19.13 and earlier, which can be exploited by an attacke...

CVE-2018-4443

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2019-01-02 00:00:00+00:00| exploited| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46071...

CVE-2018-16596

A stack-based buffer overflow in the LAN UPnP service running on UDP port 1900 of Swisscom Internet-Box 2, Standard, and Plus prior to v09.04.00 and Internet-Box light prior to v08.05.02 allows remote code execution. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. Sending a simple UD...

Linux kernel userfaultfd tmpfs file permission bypass vulnerability

Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the open source operating system released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the implementation of userfaultfd in versions of Linux kernel prior to 4.19.7, which stems from a program's failure to properly hand...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18397

The userfaultfd implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.19.7 mishandles access control for certain UFFDIO ioctl calls, as demonstrated by allowing local users to write data into holes in a tmpfs file if the user has read-only access to that file, and that file contains holes, related to...

CVE-2018-8638

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when DirectX improperly handles objects in memory, aka "DirectX Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Windows 10, Windows Server 2019...

Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-00819)

Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 FAAD2 is a free advanced audio encoder. A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'excludedchannels' function of the libfaad/syntax.c file in FAAD2 version 2.8.1, which can be exploited by an attacker to cause a denial of service or code execution...

CVE-2018-8554

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when DirectX improperly handles objects in memory, aka "DirectX Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Windows 10 Servers, Windows 10, Windows Server 2019. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8485, CVE-2018-8561...

Apache Tika Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-20684)

Apache Tika is the United States Apache Apache Software Foundation, an integrated POI using Java programs to provide read and write Microsoft Office format documents open-source library, Pdfbox read and create PDF documents pure Java class library and for text extraction work provides a unified...

CVE-2018-8506

An Information Disclosure vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Windows Codecs Library handles objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Windows Codecs Library Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Windows 10 Servers, Windows 10, Windows Server 2019...

Microsoft ChakraCore and Edge Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-26972)

Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 are both products of the American company Microsoft. The former is a set of operating systems for personal computers, and the latter is a set of server operating systems.Edge is the default browser that comes with one of these systems.ChakraCore is the...

19-Year-Old Hacker Arrested Over Making Hoax School and Flight Bomb Threats

British police have arrested a 19-year-old teen who is an alleged member of Apophis Squad cybercriminal group responsible for making hoax bomb threats to thousands of schools and airlines; and DDoSing ProtonMail and Tutanota secure email services. George Duke-Cohan was arrested in his bedroom at...

Microsoft Releases Patches for 60 Flaws—Two Under Active Attack

Get your update caps on. Just a few minutes ago Microsoft released its latest monthly Patch Tuesday update for August 2018, patching a total of 60 vulnerabilities, of which 19 are rated as critical. The updates patch flaws in Microsoft Windows, Edge Browser, Internet Explorer, Office, ChakraCore,...

CVE-2018-2937

Vulnerability in the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Kit AK component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite subcomponent: User Interface. The supported version that is affected is Prior to 8.7.19. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise...

CVE-2018-2920

Vulnerability in the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Kit AK component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite subcomponent: API frameworks. The supported version that is affected is Prior to 8.7.19. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols ...