Beware: Tainted VPNs Being Used to Spread EyeSpy Surveillanceware

Tainted VPN installers are being used to deliver a piece of surveillanceware dubbed EyeSpy as part of a malware campaign that started in May 2022. It uses "components of SecondEye – a legitimate monitoring application – to spy on users of 20Speed VPN, an Iranian-based VPN service, via trojanized...

Beware: Tainted VPNs Being Used to Spread EyeSpy Surveillanceware

Tainted VPN installers are being used to deliver a piece of surveillanceware dubbed EyeSpy as part of a malware campaign that started in May 2022. It uses "components of SecondEye – a legitimate monitoring application – to spy on users of 20Speed VPN, an Iranian-based VPN service, via trojanized...

Rocky Linux 8 : wavpack (RLSA-2022:7558)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2022:7558 advisory. - An out of bounds read was found in Wavpack 5.4.0 in processing .WAV files. This issue triggered in function WavpackPackSamples of file src/packutils.c, tainted...

Nextcloud: Vulnerable moment-timezone version shipped

An information exposure vulnerability was found in the moment-timezone package used by Nextcloud server. Attackers could sniff network traffic during data transmission, making exploitation easier. The vulnerability was patched in version 0.5.35 by changing the FTP endpoint with an HTTPS endpoint...

PT-2022-28282 · Unknown · Moment-Timezone

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: moment-timezone versions prior to 0.5.35 Description: The issue arises when using grunt data or grunt release to prepare a custom build of moment-timezone with the latest tzdata from IANA's website. If an attacker intercepts the request to...

AZL-8977 CVE-2021-44269 affecting package wavpack for versions less than 5.6.0-1

An out of bounds read was found in Wavpack 5.4.0 in processing .WAV files. This issue triggered in function WavpackPackSamples of file src/packutils.c, tainted variable cnt is too large, that makes pointer sptr read beyond heap bound...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2017:0948-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Warning: Cross-Platform ElectroRAT Malware Targeting Cryptocurrency Users

Cybersecurity researchers today revealed a wide-ranging scam targeting cryptocurrency users that began as early as January last year to distribute trojanized applications to install a previously undetected remote access tool on target systems. Called ElectroRAT by Intezer, the RAT is written from...

Microsoft Warns CrowdStrike of Hackers Targeting Azure Cloud Customers

New evidence amidst the ongoing probe into the espionage campaign targeting SolarWinds has uncovered an unsuccessful attempt to compromise cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike and access the company's email. The hacking endeavor was reported to the company by Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center on...

New Evidence Suggests SolarWinds' Codebase Was Hacked to Inject Backdoor

The investigation into how the attackers managed to compromise SolarWinds' internal network and poison the company's software updates is still underway, but we may be one step closer to understanding what appears to be a very meticulously planned and highly-sophisticated supply chain attack. A ne...

Nearly 18,000 SolarWinds Customers Installed Backdoored Software

SolarWinds, the enterprise monitoring software provider which found itself at the epicenter of the most consequential supply chain attacks, said as many as 18,000 of its high-profile customers might have installed a tainted version of its Orion products. The acknowledgment comes as part of a new...

APT Hackers Exploit Autodesk 3ds Max Software for Industrial Espionage

It's one thing for APT groups to conduct cyber espionage to meet their own financial objectives. But it's an entirely different matter when they are used as "hackers for hire" by competing private companies to make away with confidential information. Bitdefender's Cyber Threat Intelligence Lab...

APT Hackers Exploit Autodesk 3ds Max Software for Industrial Espionage

It's one thing for APT groups to conduct cyber espionage to meet their own financial objectives. But it's an entirely different matter when they are used as "hackers for hire" by competing private companies to make away with confidential information. Bitdefender's Cyber Threat Intelligence Lab...

ruby: Tainted flags are not propagated in Array#pack and String#unpack with some directives

An issue was discovered in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. It does not taint strings that result from unpacking tainted strings with some formats...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby security update

An update for ruby is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for eac...

ruby: Tainted flags are not propagated in Array#pack and String#unpack with some directives

An issue was discovered in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. It does not taint strings that result from unpacking tainted strings with some formats...

Privilege Escalation

perl is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The vulnerability exists as it was found that certain Perl string manipulation functions such as uc and lc failed to preserve the taint bit. A remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass the Perl taint mode protection mechanism in scripts that use the...

Access Control Bypass

ruby is vulnerable to access control bypass. A flaw was found in the method for translating an exception message into a string in the Exception class. A remote attacker could use this flaw to bypass safe level 4 restrictions, allowing untrusted tainted code to modify arbitrary, trusted untainted...

Tainted Data Can Teach Algorithms the Wrong Lessons

Researchers show how AI programs can be sabotaged by even subtle tweaks to the data used to train them...

CentOS 7 : ruby (CESA-2019:2028)

An update for ruby is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the C...