Microsoft’s Latest Patch Hoses Some Antivirus Software

Microsoft’s April 9 security update is bogging down systems running antivirus software packages made by McAfee, Avast, ArcaBit, Avira and Sophos. According to Microsoft, the company’s April Patch Tuesday security update is causing some systems to have slow startup times, sluggish performance or...

Scranos: New Rapidly Evolving Rootkit-Enabled Spyware Discovered

A new powerful rootkit-enabled spyware operation has been discovered wherein hackers are distributing multifunctional malware disguised as cracked software or trojanized app posing as legitimate software like video players, drivers and even anti-virus products. While the rootkit malware—dubbed...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : openldap2 (SUSE-SU-2019:0931-1)

This update for openldap2 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : CVE-2017-9287: A double free vulnerability in the mdb backend during search with page size 0 was fixed bsc1041764. CVE-2017-17740: Fixed a denial of service slapd crash via a member MODDN operation that could have been...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: CryptoMix Clop Ransomware Disables Startup Repair, Removes & Edits Shadow Volume Copies

Summary A wew variant of CryptoMix Clop ransomware has been distributed as a binary that is digitally signed and verified which makes it look like a legitimate executable. In addition, CryptoMix Clop ransomware will append ‘.clop’ or ‘.ciop’ as a file extension to the encrypted file and drop a...

Cybercriminals Have a Heyday with WinRAR Bug in Fresh Campaigns

A recently discovered vulnerability in the WinRAR file archival utility has been exploited in a slew of new campaigns, including one with a never-before-seen payload. The flurry of activity shows no sign of waning as cybercriminals continue to find success exploiting the bug. The campaigns take...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox / mozilla-nss (openSUSE-2019-442)

This update for MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed in Mozilla Firefox 60.0.2 ESR : - CVE-2018-6126: Heap buffer overflow rasterizing paths in SVG with Skia MFSA 2018-14, boo1096449 The following bugs were fixed : - In KDE Open with option in download...

Advanced Host Monitor 11.92 beta - Local Buffer Overflow Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits !/usr/bin/env python ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Exploit: Advanced Host Monitor 11.92 beta - Local Buffer Overflow EggHunter Date:...

Windows 10 Now Automatically Uninstalls Updates That Cause Problems

Do you always think twice before installing Windows updates worrying that it could crash your system or leave it non-working the day after Patch Tuesdays? Don't worry. Microsoft has addressed this issue by adding a safety measure that would from now onwards automatically uninstall buggy software...

Windows 10 Now Automatically Uninstalls Updates That Cause Problems

Do you always think twice before installing Windows updates worrying that it could crash your system or leave it non-working the day after Patch Tuesdays? Don't worry. Microsoft has addressed this issue by adding a safety measure that would from now onwards automatically uninstall buggy software...

A week in security (March 4 – 11)

Last week, Malwarebytes Labs released its in-depth, international data privacy survey of nearly 4,000 individuals, revealing that every generation, including Millennials, cares about online privacy. We also covered a novel case of zombie email that involved a very much alive account user, delved...

The not-so-definitive guide to cybersecurity and data privacy laws

US cybersecurity and data privacy laws are, to put it lightly, a mess. Years of piecemeal legislation, Supreme Court decisions, and government surveillance crises, along with repeated corporate failures to protect user data, have created a legal landscape that is, for the American public and...

Critical WinRAR Flaw Found Actively Being Exploited

A critical 19-year-old WinRAR vulnerability disclosed last week has now been spotted actively being exploited in a spam campaign spreading malware. The campaign, discovered by researchers with 360 Threat Intelligence Center, takes advantage of a path-traversal WinRAR vulnerability, which could...

Latest WinRAR Flaw Being Exploited in the Wild to Hack Windows Computers

It's not just the critical Drupal vulnerability that is being exploited by in the wild cybercriminals to attack vulnerable websites that have not yet applied patches already available by its developers, but hackers are also exploiting a critical WinRAR vulnerability that was also revealed last...

Exploit for Path Traversal in Rarlab Winrar

CVE-2018-20250-WinRAR-ACE Proof of concept code in C to explo...

Exploit for Path Traversal in Rarlab Winrar

CVE-2018-20250-WinRAR-ACE Proof of concept code in C to explo...

Warning: Critical WinRAR Flaw Affects All Versions Released In Last 19 Years

Beware Windows users... a new dangerous remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in the WinRAR software, affecting hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Cybersecurity researchers at Check Point have disclosed technical details of a critical vulnerability in WinRAR—a popular...

Wallarm Named to the Big50 2018–19 Report on the Top Startups in Tech

Wallarm has been named a “Hot Startup to Watch” in Startup50’s Big50 2018–19 Startup Report. The Big50 2018–19 Startup Report spotlights 50 high-upside startups that have gained a foothold in fast-growth tech sectors. Each year, Startup50 features startups that are poised to upend the status quo ...

Mozilla Firefox < 62.0.2 DoS

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More Alleged SIM Swappers Face Justice

Prosecutors in Northern California have charged two men with using unauthorized SIM swaps to steal and extort money from victims. One of the individuals charged allegedly used a hacker nickname belonging to a key figure in the underground who's built a solid reputation hijacking mobile phone...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18505

An earlier fix for an Inter-process Communication IPC vulnerability, CVE-2011-3079, added authentication to communication between IPC endpoints and server parents during IPC process creation. This authentication is insufficient for channels created after the IPC process is started, leading to the...