Beers with Talos Ep. #57 - It’s a business decision, not rocket science

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. 57 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded July 8, 2019 — Matt skipped this episode podcast in favor of a meeting for real. The rest of the crew carried on to...

CVE-2019-5982

Improper download file verification vulnerability in VAIO Update 7.3.0.03150 and earlier allows remote attackers to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack via a malicous wireless LAN access point. A successful exploitation may result in a malicious file being downloaded/executed...

Fake jquery campaign leads to malvertising and ad fraud schemes

Recently we became aware of new domains used by an old malware campaign known as 'fake jquery', previously documented by web security firm Sucuri. Thousands of compromised websites are injected with a reference to an external JavaScript called jquery.js. However, there is something quite elusive...

Security Flaw in Pre-Installed Dell Support Software Affects Million of Computers

Dell's SupportAssist utility that comes pre-installed on millions of Dell laptops and PCs contains a security vulnerability that could allow malicious software or rogue logged-in users to escalate their privileges to administrator-level and access sensitive information. Discovered by security...

Security Flaw in Pre-Installed Dell Support Software Affects Million of Computers

Dell's SupportAssist utility that comes pre-installed on millions of Dell laptops and PCs contains a security vulnerability that could allow malicious software or rogue logged-in users to escalate their privileges to administrator-level and access sensitive information. Discovered by security...

USN-4027-1 postgresql-10, postgresql-11 vulnerability

Alexander Lakhin discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled authentication. An authenticated attacker or a rogue server could use this issue to cause PostgreSQL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. The default compiler options for affected releases...

CVE-2019-5307

Some Huawei 4G LTE devices, P30 versions before ELE-AL00 9.1.0.162C01E160R1P12/C01E160R2P1 and P30 Pro versions before VOG-AL00 9.1.0.162C01E160R1P12/C01E160R2P1, are exposed to a message replay vulnerability. For the sake of better compatibility, these devices implement a less strict check on th...

CVE-2019-5307

Some Huawei 4G LTE devices, P30 versions before ELE-AL00 9.1.0.162C01E160R1P12/C01E160R2P1 and P30 Pro versions before VOG-AL00 9.1.0.162C01E160R1P12/C01E160R2P1, are exposed to a message replay vulnerability. For the sake of better compatibility, these devices implement a less strict check on th...

A New Approach for Combating Insider Threats

LONDON, UK – As insider attacks continue to plague the enterprise the security community is doubling down on finding new solutions to mitigate against the age-old problem. An insider threat can encompass anything from a gullible employee falling for a spearphishing email, to unaware new hires...

Skimmer acts as payment service provider via rogue iframe

Criminals continue to target online stores to steal payment details from unaware customers at a rapid pace. There are many different ways to go about it, from hacking the shopping site itself, to compromising its supply-chain. A number of online merchants externalize the payment process to a...

D-Link Cloud Camera Flaw Gives Hackers Access to Video Stream

D-Link has only partially patched critical flaws affecting its consumer WiFi camera, which allow hackers to intercept and view recorded video. They also allow attackers to manipulate the device’s firmware, according to security researchers. The camera in question is D-Link’s DCS-2132L cloud camer...

Vulnerability fixed in Libxslt

There is a vulnerability in libxslt. Libxslt is a C library for implementing XSLT 1.0. It is a widely used library for transforming files from XML to any other arbitrary format. A remote malicious person could potentially exploit the vulnerability to obtain sensitive information. The vulnerabilit...

Fake Instagram Apps on Google Play Harvest User Logins

Three apps on Google Play claiming to help Instagram users amass followers have been found stealing usernames and passwords for the social photo service. The fake apps were uncovered by Malwarebytes, and are still available, according to Nathan Collier, a security researcher with the firm. “As th...

Hackers Abuse Google Cloud Platform to Attack D-Link Routers

Hackers have been abusing Google’s cloud computing service to redirect and intercept web and mail traffic on an array of vulnerable consumer routers. A researcher said that he has seen the Google Cloud Platform being abused to carry out three separate waves of DNS hijacking attacks over the past...

Security Updates for Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016 / Windows Server 2019 (March 2019) (Spectre) (Meltdown) (Foreshadow)

The remote Windows host is missing a security update. It is, therefore, missing microcode updates to address the following vulnerabilities: - Spectre Variant 3a CVE-2018-3640: Rogue System Register Read RSRE. - Spectre Variant 4 CVE-2018-3639: Speculative Store Bypass SSB - L1TF CVE-2018-3620,...

Linux: SGID files

When the SGID set group ID bit is set on an executable, it executes with the GID of the owner. This may be intended for some executables. Add files with SGID bit which should be allowed to have this bit set in the preference. This script checks if any other local files than the given have the SGI...

Linux: SUID files

When the SUID set user ID bit is set on an executable, it executes with the UID of the owner. This may be intended for some executables. Add files with SUID bit which should be allowed to have this bit set in the preference. This script checks if any other local files than the given have the SUID...

nw-with-arm downloads Resources over HTTP

Affected versions of nw-with-arm insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on the...

GHSA-3C87-R9F7-QFGQ Downloads Resources over HTTP in macaca-chromedriver-zxa

Affected versions of macaca-chromedriver-zxa insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code executi...

Downloads Resources over HTTP in fibjs

Affected versions of fibjs insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on the system...