New Phorpiex Botnet Variant Steals Half a Million Dollars in Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency users in Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Guatemala, and the Philippines are being targeted by a new variant of the Phorpiex botnet called Twizt that has resulted in the theft of virtual coins amounting to $500,000 over the last one year. Israeli security firm Check Point Research, which...

openSUSE 15 Security Update : fetchmail (openSUSE-SU-2021:4018-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:4018-1 advisory. - reportvbuild in report.c in Fetchmail before 6.4.20 sometimes omits initialization of the vsnprintf valist argument, which might allow ma...

CVE-2021-42550

In logback version 1.2.7 and prior versions, an attacker with the required privileges to edit configurations files could craft a malicious configuration allowing to execute arbitrary code loaded from LDAP servers...

CVE-2021-42550

In logback version 1.2.7 and prior versions, an attacker with the required privileges to edit configurations files could craft a malicious configuration allowing to execute arbitrary code loaded from LDAP servers...

CVE-2021-42550

In logback version 1.2.7 and prior versions, an attacker with the required privileges to edit configurations files could craft a malicious configuration allowing to execute arbitrary code loaded from LDAP servers...

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

When ORT now via atstccfg generates ipallow.config files in Apache Traffic Control 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 and 4.0.0 to 4.1.0, those files include permissions that allow bad actors to push arbitrary content into and remove arbitrary content from CDN cache servers. Additionally, these permissions are...

CVE-2021-42550

In logback version 1.2.7 and prior versions, an attacker with the required privileges to edit configurations files could craft a malicious configuration allowing to execute arbitrary code loaded from LDAP servers...

PT-2021-6084

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions logback versions 1.2.7 and prior Description The issue is related to the deserialization mechanism in the logback library, which can be exploited by an attacker with the required privileges to edit configuration files. This could allow the...

USN-5195-2 mumble vulnerability

It was discovered that the Mumble client supported websites for public servers with arbitrary URL schemes. If a user were tricked into visiting a malicious website from the public server list, a remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code...

Hackers Using Malicious IIS Server Module to Steal Microsoft Exchange Credentials

Malicious actors are deploying a previously undiscovered binary, an Internet Information Services IIS webserver module dubbed "Owowa," on Microsoft Exchange Outlook Web Access servers with the goal of stealing credentials and enabling remote command execution. "Owowa is a C-developed .NET v4.0...

What the Log4Shell Bug Means for SMBs: Experts Weigh In

News of the Log4Shell vulnerability is everywhere, with security experts variously calling the Apache log4j logging library bug a recipe for an “internet meltdown,” as well as the “worst cybersecurity bug of the year.” Names like “Apple,” “Twitter” and “Cloudflare” are being bandied about as bein...

Cerber targeting organizations with publicly available exploits

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. Cerber, ransomware that mysteriously vanished in 2019, has reappeared with a new encryption. The new cerber includes fresh source code and makes use of the new library Crypto+++, whereas the previous form made use of Windows...

‘Seedworm’ Attackers Target Telcos in Asia, Middle East

Attackers targeting telcos across the Middle East and Asia for the past six months are linked to Iranian state-sponsored hackers, according to researchers. The cyberespionage campaigns leverage a potent cocktail of spear phishing, known malware and legitimate network utilities that are leveraged ...

Gryphon Tower Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Gryphon Tower is a wireless router from Gryphon, Inc. Gryphon Tower is vulnerable to an information disclosure vulnerability stemming from the presence of an unprotected ssh private key on the device, which could be exploited by an attacker to gain root access to servers belonging to Gryphon's...

CVE-2021-43797

Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. Netty prior to version 4.1.71.Final skips control chars when they are present at the beginning / end of the header name. It should instead fail fa...

Design/Logic Flaw

Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. Netty prior to version 4.1.71.Final skips control chars when they are present at the beginning / end of the header name. It should instead fail fa...

CVE-2021-43797

Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. Netty prior to version 4.1.71.Final skips control chars when they are present at the beginning / end of the header name. It should instead fail fa...

Security's Role in Internet Resilience

One aspect of resilience on the internet is that things — notably servers and resources — move around. Sometimes moves are legitimate, such as when a popular site evolves from hosting their own website to moving to a cloud provider to using a CDN to handle the ever-increasing traffic. Sometimes t...

Over a Dozen Malicious NPM Packages Caught Hijacking Discord Servers

At least 17 malware-laced packages have been discovered on the NPM package Registry, adding to a recent barrage of malicious software hosted and delivered through open-source software repositories such as PyPi and RubyGems. DevOps firm JFrog said the libraries, now taken down, were designed to gr...

WordPress WP Data Access plugin SQL injection vulnerability

WordPress is the Wordpress Foundation's set of blogging platforms developed using the PHP language. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL servers.The WordPress WP Data Access plugin has a SQL injection vulnerability in versions prior to 5.0.0, which stems from the...