2034, Part III: One Left to Tell the Tale

“When the planes didn't attack, a silence fell over the crew. Why didn't they finish the job?”...

CVE-2019-20918

An issue was discovered in InspIRCd 3 before 3.1.0. The silence module contains a use after free vulnerability. This vulnerability can be used for remote crashing of an InspIRCd server by any user able to fully connect to a server...

CVE-2019-20918

An issue was discovered in InspIRCd 3 before 3.1.0. The silence module contains a use after free vulnerability. This vulnerability can be used for remote crashing of an InspIRCd server by any user able to fully connect to a server...

CVE-2019-20918

An issue was discovered in InspIRCd 3 before 3.1.0. The silence module contains a use after free vulnerability. This vulnerability can be used for remote crashing of an InspIRCd server by any user able to fully connect to a server...

InspIRCd Memory Misreference Vulnerability (CNVD-2020-52890)

InspIRCd is a modular C++ Internet Relay Chat IRC server for UNIX-like and Windows systems. A security vulnerability exists in the silence module of InspIRCd. Users who can connect to the InspIRCd server can exploit the vulnerability to cause the server to crash...

CVE-2019-20918: Use After Free

An issue was discovered in InspIRCd 3 before 3.1.0. The silence module contains a use after free vulnerability. This vulnerability can be used for remote crashing of an InspIRCd server by any user able to fully connect to a server...

Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used to Buy Silence

Investigative report on how commercial bug-bounty programs like HackerOne, Bugcrowd, and SynAck are being used to silence researchers: Used properly, bug bounty platforms connect security researchers with organizations wanting extra scrutiny. In exchange for reporting a security flaw, the...

Defense Takeaways from Three Adversary Playbooks

In these days of advanced threats, the perimeter defense strategy – though still useful and necessary – is incomplete. IT security teams need as much information about existing threats as possible, so they know what to look for and how to position proactive countermeasures. Creating and using...

Russian Hacking Group Targeting Banks Worldwide With Evolving Tactics

Silence APT, a Russian-speaking cybercriminal group, known for targeting financial organizations primarily in former Soviet states and neighboring countries is now aggressively targeting banks in more than 30 countries across America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Active since at least September 2016...

Russian Hacking Group Targeting Banks Worldwide With Evolving Tactics

Silence APT , a Russian-speaking cybercriminal group, known for targeting financial organizations primarily in former Soviet states and neighboring countries is now aggressively targeting banks in more than 30 countries across America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Active since at least September 201...

Code injection

In GE Aestiva and Aespire versions 7100 and 7900, a vulnerability exists where serial devices are connected via an added unsecured terminal server to a TCP/IP network configuration, which could allow an attacker to remotely modify device configuration and silence alarms...

CVE-2019-10966

In GE Aestiva and Aespire versions 7100 and 7900, a vulnerability exists where serial devices are connected via an added unsecured terminal server to a TCP/IP network configuration, which could allow an attacker to remotely modify device configuration and silence alarms...

CVE-2019-10966

CVE-2019-10966 affects GE Aestiva and Aespire anesthesia devices (7100/7900) where serial ports extended to TCP/IP via an unsecured terminal server. Root cause is improper authentication, enabling remote modification of device configuration and silencing of alarms without user interaction. The IC...

CHM Help Files Deliver Brazilian Banking Trojan

Security researchers are warning of a new spam campaign targeting Brazilian institutions that contain Compiled HTML file attachments that are used to deliver a banking Trojan. Spam messages contain a malicious CHM attachment called “comprovante.chm”, wrote Rodel Mendrez, senior security researche...

New ‘Silence’ Banking Trojan copies Carbanak to Steal from Banks (Analysis with IOCs)

Dark Reading is reporting on a new banking trojan called 'Silence' that mimics techniques similar to the Carbanak hacker group targeting banks and financial institutions. The attack vector is similar – target individuals using spear-phish emails to trick them into running a malicious attachment...

Silence Gang Borrows From Carbanak To Steal From Banks

A cybercrime outfit stealing from as many as 10 banks in Russia, Armenia and Malaysia has borrowed heavily from one of the kingpins in this realm, Carbanak, which is alleged to have stolen possibly as much as $1 billion worldwide from financial organizations. The new group has been called Silence...

Silence – a new Trojan attacking financial organizations

More information about the Silence Trojan is available to customers of Kaspersky Intelligence Reporting Service. Contact: [email protected] In September 2017, we discovered a new targeted attack on financial institutions. Victims are mostly Russian banks but we also found infected...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 kernel was updated to 4.4.72 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-1000364: An issue was discovered in the size of the stack guard page on Linux, specifically a 4k stack guard page is not sufficiently large and can be...

SkypeHide to Send secret messages into silence of Skype Calls

Polish Researchers have discovered a clever way to send secret messages during a phone call on Skype. We know that, by default skype calls use 256-bit advanced encryption, but researchers find that is not enough. So they find out this new way to communicate messages more secretly by using silence...

SkypeHide to Send secret messages into silence of Skype Calls

Polish Researchers have discovered a clever way to send secret messages during a phone call on Skype. We know that, by default skype calls use 256-bit advanced encryption, but researchers find that is not enough. So they find out this new way to communicate messages more secretly by using silence...