'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Pirated Downloads Contain Crypto-Mining Malware

Peter Parker might not be a mastermind cryptocurrency criminal, but the name Spiderman is quickly becoming more associated with the mining landscape. ReasonLabs, a leading provider of cybersecurity prevention and detection software, recently discovered a new form of malware hacking into customer...

CVE-2016-9554

CVE-2016-9554 affects Sophos Web Appliance (Secure Web Gateway) before version 4.3.1. The vulnerability exists in the web admin interface via MgrDiagnosticTools.php, where diagnostic tests invoke wget and pass user-controlled input in the url parameter to executeCommand, which calls exec() withou...

Sophos Web Protection Appliance clear_keys.pl Local Privilege Escalation

This Metasploit module abuses a command injection on the clearkeys.pl perl script, installed with the Sophos Web Protection Appliance, to escalate privileges from the "spiderman" user to "root". This Metasploit module is useful for post exploitation of vulnerabilities on the Sophos Web Protection...