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...

Patchwork Using Romance Scam Lures to Infect Android Devices with VajraSpy Malware

The threat actor known as Patchwork likely used romance scam lures to trap victims in Pakistan and India, and infect their Android devices with a remote access trojan called VajraSpy. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET said it uncovered 12 espionage apps, six of which were available for download from...

snakeyaml: Uncaught exception in org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.composeSequenceNode

A flaw was found in the snakeyaml package due to a stack-overflow in parsing YAML files. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities in Snake YAML affect IBM Sterling B2B Integrator

Summary IBM Sterling B2B Integrator uses Snake YAML. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-18640 DESCRIPTION: SnakeYAML is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an entity expansion in Alias feature during a load operation. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could...

Security Bulletin: IBM Sterling B2B Integrator affected by remote code execution due to Snake Yaml (CVE-2022-1471)

Summary IBM Sterling B2B Integrator uses Snake Yaml. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2022-1471 DESCRIPTION: SnakeYaml could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an unsafe deserialization in the Constructor class. By using a specially-crafted ya...

snakeyaml: Denial of Service due to missing nested depth limitation for collections

A flaw was found in the org.yaml.snakeyaml package. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service DoS due to missing nested depth limitation for collections...

CVE-2023-39106

An issue in Nacos Group Nacos Spring Project v.1.1.1 and before allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the SnakeYamls Constructor component...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 08 to 14 May 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, identified a total of nine attacks that were executed. Additionally, HiveForce Labs identified four different...

FBI Disables Russian Malware

Reuters is reporting that the FBI "had identified and disabled malware wielded by Russias FSB security service against an undisclosed number of American computers, a move they hoped would deal a death blow to one of Russias leading cyber spying programs." The headline says that the FBI "sabotaged...

snakeyaml: Uncaught exception in java.base/java.util.ArrayList.hashCode

A flaw was found in the snakeyaml package due to a stack-overflow in parsing YAML files. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could cause the application to crash...

U.S. Government Neutralizes Russia's Most Sophisticated Snake Cyber Espionage Tool

The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the court-authorized disruption of a global network compromised by an advanced malware strain known as Snake wielded by Russia's Federal Security Service FSB. Snake, dubbed the "most sophisticated cyber espionage tool," is the handiwork of a Russian...

U.S. Government Neutralizes Russia's Most Sophisticated Snake Cyber Espionage Tool

The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the court-authorized disruption of a global network compromised by an advanced malware strain known as Snake wielded by Russia's Federal Security Service FSB. Snake, dubbed the "most sophisticated cyber espionage tool," is the handiwork of a Russian...

Hunting Russian Intelligence “Snake” Malware

SUMMARY The Snake implant is considered the most sophisticated cyber espionage tool designed and used by Center 16 of Russia’s Federal Security Service FSB for long-term intelligence collection on sensitive targets. To conduct operations using this tool, the FSB created a covert peer-to-peer P2P...

CISA and Partners Disclose Snake Malware Threat From Russian Cyber Actors

Today, CISA and partners released a joint advisory for a sophisticated cyber espionage tool used by Russian cyber actors. Hunting Russian Intelligence “Snake” Malware provides technical descriptions of the malware’s host architecture and network communications, and mitigations to help detect and...

A New APT named APT-C-61 Targets South Asia

Threat Level Actor Report Follow Hive Pro for a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here from HiveForce Labs. Summary APT-C-61, also known as Tengyun Snake, is an advanced persistent threat APT group that has been active since at least January 2020 in South Asia. This group mainly...

snakeyaml: Uncaught exception in org.yaml.snakeyaml.composer.Composer.composeSequenceNode

A flaw was found in the snakeyaml package due to a stack-overflow in parsing YAML files. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

snakeyaml: Denial of Service due to missing nested depth limitation for collections

A flaw was found in the org.yaml.snakeyaml package. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service DoS due to missing nested depth limitation for collections...

SUSE CVE-2017-18640

The Alias feature in SnakeYAML before 1.26 allows entity expansion during a load operation, a related issue to CVE-2003-1564...

SUSE CVE-2022-25857

The package org.yaml:snakeyaml from 0 and before 1.31 are vulnerable to Denial of Service DoS due missing to nested depth limitation for collections...

snakeyaml: Denial of Service due to missing nested depth limitation for collections

A flaw was found in the org.yaml.snakeyaml package. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service DoS due to missing nested depth limitation for collections...