Embedded Malicious Code

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code. This package contains malicious code associated with the Sha1-hulud supply chain attack, and its content was removed from the official package manager. The malware functions as a self-replicating worm capable of...

Embedded Malicious Code

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code. This package contains malicious code associated with the Sha1-hulud supply chain attack, and its content was removed from the official package manager. The malware functions as a self-replicating worm capable of...

Embedded Malicious Code

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code. This package contains malicious code associated with the Sha1-hulud supply chain attack, and its content was removed from the official package manager. The malware functions as a self-replicating worm capable of...

Embedded Malicious Code

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code. This package contains malicious code associated with the Sha1-hulud supply chain attack, and its content was removed from the official package manager. The malware functions as a self-replicating worm capable of...

Shai-Hulud npm Worm

Shai-Hulud is a self-replicating worm targeting the npm ecosystem. Once it compromises a developer machine or CI/CD runner, it harvests secrets and uses them to republish itself across multiple npm packages within hours. This advisory holds IoCs and further information...

Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages

At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and publishes those secrets on GitHub , experts warn. The malware, which briefly infected multiple code packages from the securit...

Cybercriminals Weaponizing Open-Source SSH-Snake Tool for Network Attacks

A recently open-sourced network mapping tool called SSH-Snake has been repurposed by threat actors to conduct malicious activities. "SSH-Snake is a self-modifying worm that leverages SSH credentials discovered on a compromised system to start spreading itself throughout the network," Sysdig...

P2PInfect: Self-Replicating Worm Hits Redis Instances

By Waqas Known as 'P2PInfect,' the worm exploits a critical vulnerability to infiltrate Redis instances and assimilates them into a larger P2P network, enabling it to spread rapidly. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: P2PInfect: Self-Replicating Worm Hits Redis Instances...

Fedora Update for python-mitogen FEDORA-2019-b25dd670a4

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of sdfjghlkfjdshlkjdhsfg contain malicious code. The package is essentially a worm that fetches all packages owned by the user, adds a script to self-replicate as a preinstall script and publishes a new version. Recommendation Remove the package from your environment and...

MS Office’ Default Function Can Be Used to Create Self-Replicating Malware

By Waqas Italian security researcher Lino Antonio Buono discovered a security flaw This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: MS Office’ Default Function Can Be Used to Create Self-Replicating Malware...

MS Office Built-In Feature Could be Exploited to Create Self-Replicating Malware

Earlier this month a cybersecurity researcher shared details of a security loophole with The Hacker News that affects all versions of Microsoft Office, allowing malicious actors to create and spread macro-based self-replicating malware. Macro-based self-replicating malware, which basically allows...

npm fails to restrict the actions of malicious npm packages

Overview npm allows packages to take actions that could result in a malicious npm package author to create a worm that spreads across the majority of the npm ecosystem. Description npm is the default package manager for Node.js, which is a runtime environment for developing server-side web...

Mac EFI is exposed a major security vulnerability by Thunderbolt devices to spread malicious programs-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Next week, Germany at the Chaos Communication Congress Security Conference, a researcher Trammell Hudson will present a new method, through the unique production of Thunderbolt devices in the Mac EFI boot firmware in the injection almost impossible to not remove the Bootkit virus. The exploits of...

Era Ends With Break Up of Trustworthy Computing Group at Microsoft

In a move that has surprised many in the security community, Microsoft has disbanded its Trustworthy Computing unit, the group that was responsible for the pioneering work that helped reverse the company’s security reputation and make Windows a much more secure and reliable computing platform. Th...

Agent.btz Malware May Have Served as Starting Point for Red October, Turla

Researchers looking into the recently uncovered Turla, or Snake, cyber espionage campaign have discovered some similarities connecting it to older pieces of malware such as Agent.btz, the worm that several years ago infected U.S. military networks and eventually caused the Department of Defense t...

Moon Worm Spreading on Linksys Home and SMB Routers

A self-replicating worm is spreading among a number of different Linksys home and small business routers. Researchers at the SANS Institute reported the outbreak yesterday and have not been able to determine whether there is a malicious payload or if the worm connects to a command and control...

Neverquest Banking Trojan Targets More Than 100 Banks

Banking malware with a particular liking for Fidelity Investments has infected several thousand victims worldwide, and has the capacity for much greater harm, in particular during the upcoming holidays, according to researchers at Kaspersky Lab. A report released today describes the threat posed ...

Elk Cloner

1982 The first example of Apple malware can be traced back thirty years ago to a high school classroom in Mount Lebanon, Penn. It was there that Richard Skrenta, a student at Mt. Lebanon High School coded Elk Cloner, a virus that was passed around via the now archaic Apple II platform. The virus ...

TDSS Rootkit Gets Its Own Self-Replicating Loader

The group behind the TDSS rootkit has developed a new method for getting the pernicious malware onto as many machines as possible: a worm-like, self-propagating loader. The new mechanism has the ability not only to install new copies of the rootkit on PCs, but also set up its own DHCP server on a...