Threat Roundup for Feb. 8 to Feb. 15

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Feb. 08 and Feb. 15. 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...

PuTTY (European Commission - DIGIT): Assertion `len == 1' failed, process aborted while streaming ouput from remote server

Summary: During the course of testing putty-0.70-2019-02-12.75dda5e on Fedora 29 compiled with clang version 7.0.1 Fedora 7.0.1-1.fc29, we discovered it was possible to abort a remote client by streaming data at it in such a way as to trigger an assertion failure. putty: unix/gtkwin.c:3801: void...

Beware!! New Windows .exe Malware Found Targeting macOS Computers

A malicious Windows EXE file can even infect your Mac computer as well. Yes, you heard me right — a .exe malware on macOS. Security researchers at antivirus firm Trend Micro have discovered a novel way hackers are using in the wild to bypass Apple's macOS security protection and infect Mac...

[ASA-201902-10] libcurl-gnutls: arbitrary code execution

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201902-10 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2019-02-12 CVE-ID : CVE-2018-16890 CVE-2019-3822 CVE-2019-3823 Package : libcurl-gnutls Type : arbitrary code execution Remote : Yes Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-877 Summary...

[ASA-201902-11] lib32-libcurl-gnutls: arbitrary code execution

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201902-11 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2019-02-12 CVE-ID : CVE-2018-16890 CVE-2019-3822 CVE-2019-3823 Package : lib32-libcurl-gnutls Type : arbitrary code execution Remote : Yes Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-876...

CVE-2018-16890

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way curl handled NTLMv2 type-2 headers. When connecting to a remote malicious server which uses NTLM authentication, the flaw could cause curl to crash. Mitigation Turn off NTLM authentication...

Several Popular Beauty Camera Apps Caught Stealing Users' Photos

Just because an app is available on Google Play Store doesn't mean that it is a legitimate app. Despite so many efforts by Google, some fake and malicious apps do sneak in and land millions of unaware users on the hunting ground of scammers and hackers. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro uncovered at...

Mac "CookieMiner" Malware Aims to Gobble Crypto Funds

A newly-discovered malware is targeting Mac users’ web cookies and credentials in hopes of withdrawing funds on their cryptocurrency exchange accounts. The malware, discovered this month and aptly named “CookieMiner,” collects cryptocurrency-related cookies – in addition to compromised credential...

CTF Writeup: Complex Drupal POP Chain

About the Challenge The Droops challenge consisted of a website which had a modified version of Drupal 7.63 installed. The creators of the challenge added a Cookie to the Drupal installation that contained a PHP serialized string, which would then be unserialized on the remote server, leading to ...

Malicious Package

stream-combine is a malicious package designed to steal user's data when installed. The code searches all form elements for passwords, credit card numbers and CVC codes, and uploads the information to a remote server using HTML links embedded in the page or form actions...

Malicious Package

Overview Version 2.0.2 of stream-combine has malicious code design to steal credentials and credit card information. The code searches all form elements for passwords, credit card numbers and CVC codes. It then uploads the information to a remote server using HTML links embedded in the page or fo...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : openssh (SUSE-SU-2019:0126-1)

This update for openssh fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : CVE-2018-20685: Fixed an issue where scp client allows remote SSH servers to bypass intended access restrictions bsc1121571 CVE-2019-6109: Fixed an issue where the scp client would allow malicious remote SSH servers to...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openssh (SUSE-SU-2019:0125-1)

This update for openssh fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : CVE-2018-20685: Fixed an issue where scp client allows remote SSH servers to bypass intended access restrictions bsc1121571 CVE-2019-6109: Fixed an issue where the scp client would allow malicious remote SSH servers to...

Adminer Editor Detection

The script sends a HTTP request to the remote server and tries to identify an Adminer Editor installation and it SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Mozilla Firefox 64 Information Disclosure Exploit

Mozilla Firefox versions 64 and below have an issue where an overly liberal same-origin policy for file URIs and a bug in the implementation of this policy make Firefox vulnerable to exposure of local files to a remote attacker. Product: Firefox Manufacturer: Mozilla Affected Versions: = 64 Teste...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of portionfatty12 are considered malicious. The package is malware designed to steal user's data. When installed it uploads the user's public SSH keys to a remote server. Recommendation This package is not available on the npm Registry anymore. If you happen to find this...

CVE-2018-4012

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the HTTP header-parsing function of the Webroot BrightCloud SDK. The function bchttpreadheader incorrectly handles overlong headers, leading to arbitrary code execution. An unauthenticated attacker could impersonate a remote BrightCloud serve...

Buffer overflow

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the HTTP header-parsing function of the Webroot BrightCloud SDK. The function bchttpreadheader incorrectly handles overlong headers, leading to arbitrary code execution. An unauthenticated attacker could impersonate a remote BrightCloud serve...

Veeam Backup for Office 365 No E-Mail Notification After Job Run

Challenge When the backup job completes the Job notification is never received. Cause 1. Error: Unable to connect to the remote server 2. Job completes with no Error, but you do not receive a notification email. This can be caused by: Email relay server blocking emails that exceed 512KB size The...

Netatalk 3.1.12 - Authentication Bypass

Exploit Title: Netatalk Authentication Bypass Date: 12/20/2018 Exploit Author: Jacob Baines Vendor Homepage: http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/ Software Link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/files/ Version: Before 3.1.12 Tested on: Seagate NAS OS x8664 CVE : CVE-2018-1160 Advisory:...