Researchers Find Counterfeit Phones with Backdoor to Hack WhatsApp Accounts

Budget Android device models that are counterfeit versions associated with popular smartphone brands are harboring multiple trojans designed to target WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business messaging apps. The malware, which Doctor Web first came across in July 2022, were discovered in the system partiti...

Researchers Link Multi-Year Mass Credential Theft Campaign to Chinese Hackers

A Chinese state-sponsored threat activity group named RedAlpha has been attributed to a multi-year mass credential theft campaign aimed at global humanitarian, think tank, and government organizations. "In this activity, RedAlpha very likely sought to gain access to email accounts and other onlin...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Splunk

Splunk has fixed vulnerabilities in Splunk Enterprise and Universal Forwarder. A malicious party could potentially exploit them to cause a denial-of-service, bypassing security measures or to gain access to system data. The most serious vulnerability involves causing a Denial-of-Service. For this...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Google Chrome

Google has fixed vulnerabilities in Google Chrome. A malicious party could potentially exploit the vulnerabilities to cause a denial-of-service, bypass a security measure or execute arbitrary code in the context of the browser. The malicious party must entice the victim to open a rogue link or fi...

USN-5569-1 unbound vulnerabilities

Xiang Li discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled delegation caching. A remote attacker could use this issue to keep rogue domain names resolvable long after they have been revoked...

CVE-2022-30699

A flaw was found in Unbound, which is vulnerable to a novel type of "ghost domain names" attack. The vulnerability works by targeting an Unbound instance. Unbound is queried for a subdomain of a rogue domain name. The rogue nameserver returns delegation information for the subdomain that updates...

CVE-2022-30698

A flaw was found in Unbound, which is vulnerable to a novel type of "ghost domain names" attack. The vulnerability works by targeting an Unbound instance. Unbound is queried for a subdomain of a rogue domain name. The rogue nameserver returns delegation information for the subdomain that updates...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Microsoft Office

Microsoft has fixed vulnerabilities in Office, Excel, and Outlook. The vulnerabilities allow a malicious party to perform attacks that result in the following categories of damage: Denial-of-Service DoS Circumvention of security measure Remote code execution User rights Microsoft indicates that f...

Insecure Caching

unbound uses insecure cashing. The vulnerability exists when the unbound is queried for a rogue domain name when the cached delegation information is about to expire, delaying the rogue nameserver response and allowing an attacker to overwrite the expired entries...

FreeBSD : Unbound -- Multiple vulnerabilities (bc43a578-14ec-11ed-856e-d4c9ef517024)

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the bc43a578-14ec-11ed-856e-d4c9ef517024 advisory. - NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.16.1 is vulnerable to a novel type of the...

Vulnerability fixed in rsync

A vulnerability has been fixed in rsync. The vulnerability allows a malicious person to overwrite arbitrary files on the victim's system. To exploit this vulnerability exploitation, the victim must connect to a rogue rsync server. The developers of rsync have created a new version to fix the...

CVE-2022-30698

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.16.1 is vulnerable to a novel type of the "ghost domain names" attack. The vulnerability works by targeting an Unbound instance. Unbound is queried for a subdomain of a rogue domain name. The rogue nameserver returns delegation information for the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-30698

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.16.1 is vulnerable to a novel type of the "ghost domain names" attack. The vulnerability works by targeting an Unbound instance. Unbound is queried for a subdomain of a rogue domain name. The rogue nameserver returns delegation information for the...

AZL-10452 CVE-2022-30698 affecting package unbound for versions less than 1.16.2-1

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.16.1 is vulnerable to a novel type of the "ghost domain names" attack. The vulnerability works by targeting an Unbound instance. Unbound is queried for a subdomain of a rogue domain name. The rogue nameserver returns delegation information for the...

ALPINE-CVE-2022-30698

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.16.1 is vulnerable to a novel type of the "ghost domain names" attack. The vulnerability works by targeting an Unbound instance. Unbound is queried for a subdomain of a rogue domain name. The rogue nameserver returns delegation information for the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-30698

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.16.1 is vulnerable to a novel type of the "ghost domain names" attack. The vulnerability works by targeting an Unbound instance. Unbound is queried for a subdomain of a rogue domain name. The rogue nameserver returns delegation information for the...

Design/Logic Flaw

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.16.1, is vulnerable to a novel type of the "ghost domain names" attack. The vulnerability works by targeting an Unbound instance. Unbound is queried for a rogue domain name when the cached delegation information is about to expire. The rogue...

Design/Logic Flaw

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.16.1 is vulnerable to a novel type of the "ghost domain names" attack. The vulnerability works by targeting an Unbound instance. Unbound is queried for a subdomain of a rogue domain name. The rogue nameserver returns delegation information for the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-30699

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.16.1, is vulnerable to a novel type of the "ghost domain names" attack. The vulnerability works by targeting an Unbound instance. Unbound is queried for a rogue domain name when the cached delegation information is about to expire. The rogue...

CVE-2022-30699

NLnet Labs Unbound, up to and including version 1.16.1, is vulnerable to a novel type of the "ghost domain names" attack. The vulnerability works by targeting an Unbound instance. Unbound is queried for a rogue domain name when the cached delegation information is about to expire. The rogue...