Threat Roundup for May 31 to June 7

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 31 and June 07. 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,...

World’s most dangerous laptop has been sold for $1.3 million

By Uzair Amir The laptop is a Samsung model now known as ‘Persistence of Chaos’ due to dangerous malware infection. A few days ago it was reported that a laptop 2008 Samsung 10.2-inch - NC10-14GB netbook infected with some of the more dangerous malware was up for sale and the highest bid received...

Threat Roundup for May 17 to May 24

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 17 and May 24. 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,...

World’s most dangerous laptop ‘Persistence of Chaos’ is up for auction

By Ryan De Souza The 'Persistence of Chaos' laptop is infected with some of the most dangerous malware including WannaCry. A Samsung’s 11-year old Notebook called the Persistence of Chaos is dubbed the most dangerous PC in the world because it is loaded with six of the most notorious and damaging...

CVE-2019-5627

The iOS mobile application BlueCats Reveal before 5.14 stores the username and password in the app cache as base64 encoded strings, i.e. clear text. These persist in the cache even if the user logs out. This can allow an attacker to compromise the affected BlueCats network implementation. The...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: JCry Ransomware Pretends to be Adobe Flash Player Update Installer

JCry is a new family of ransomware that has the unique characteristic of being written in the Go programming language and being delivered as multiple executables, each with their own purpose. It was pretending to be an Adobe flash player update installer on a compromised website to lure users to...

CVE-2019-11836

The Rediffmail aka com.rediff.mail.and application 2.2.6 for Android has cleartext mail content in file storage, persisting after a logout...

Threat Roundup for April 26 to May 3

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between April 26 and May 03. 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...

CVE-2019-3797

This affects Spring Data JPA in versions up to and including 2.1.5, 2.0.13 and 1.11.19. Derived queries using any of the predicates ‘startingWith’, ‘endingWith’ or ‘containing’ could return more results than anticipated when a maliciously crafted query parameter value is supplied. Also, LIKE...

openSUSE Security Update : chromium (openSUSE-2019-1325)

This update for chromium fixes the following issues : Chromium was updated to 74.0.3729.108 boo1133313 : - CVE-2019-5805: Use after free in PDFium - CVE-2019-5806: Integer overflow in Angle - CVE-2019-5807: Memory corruption in V8 - CVE-2019-5808: Use after free in Blink - CVE-2019-5809: Use afte...

Qakbot levels up with new obfuscation techniques

Ashlee Benge of Cisco Talos and Nick Randolph of the Threat Grid Research and Efficacy team authored this blog post. Executive summary Qakbot, also known as Qbot, is a well-documented banking trojan that has been around since 2008. Recent Qakbot campaigns, however, are utilizing an updated...

Yum Package Manager Persistence Exploit

This Metasploit module will run a payload when the package manager is used. No handler is run automatically so you must configure an appropriate exploit/multi/handler to connect. Module modifies a yum plugin to launch a binary of choice. grep -F 'enabled=1' /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/ will show what...

PT-2019-2050

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Umbrella Dashboard affected versions not specified Description A vulnerability in the session management functionality of the Cisco Umbrella Dashboard's web UI could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to access the Dashboard via an...

Yum Package Manager Persistence

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Yum Package Manager Persistence', 'Description' = %q This module will run a payload when the package manager is used. No handler is ran...

APT Package Manager Persistence Exploit

This Metasploit module creates a pre-invoke hook for APT in apt.conf.d. The hook name syntax is numeric followed by text. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'APT Package Manager...

APT Package Manager Persistence

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'APT Package Manager Persistence', 'Description' = %q This module will run a payload when the package manager is used. No handler is ran...

Threat Roundup for April 19 to April 26

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between April 19 and April 26. 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...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: Danabot Trojan Targets Financial Services Industry via Stolen Credentials

Summary Danabot is a banking trojan written in the Delphi programming language. Delivery methods are typically via phishing emails that contain malicious attachments, which further call out to download the main payload using PowerShell or VBScript. Danabot is modular in nature and has capabilitie...

Scranos: New Rapidly Evolving Rootkit-Enabled Spyware Discovered

A new powerful rootkit-enabled spyware operation has been discovered wherein hackers are distributing multifunctional malware disguised as cracked software or trojanized app posing as legitimate software like video players, drivers and even anti-virus products. While the rootkit malware—dubbed...

CHAOS Framework v3.0 - Generate Payloads And Control Remote Windows Systems

CHAOS is a PoC that allow generate payloads and control remote operating systems. Features Feature | Windows | Mac | Linux ---|---|---|--- Reverse Shell | X | X | X Download File | X | X | X Upload File | X | X | X Screenshot | X | X | X Keylogger | X | | Persistence | X | | Open URL | X | X | X...