Hackers Now Hiding ObliqueRAT Payload in Images to Evade Detection

Cybercriminals are now deploying remote access Trojans RATs under the guise of seemingly innocuous images hosted on infected websites, once again highlighting how threat actors quickly change tactics when their attack methods are discovered and exposed publicly. New research released by Cisco Tal...

ObliqueRAT returns with new campaign using hijacked websites

By Asheer Malhotra. Cisco Talos has observed another malware campaign that utilizes malicious Microsoft Office documents maldocs to spread the remote access trojan RAT ObliqueRAT. This campaign targets organizations in South Asia.ObliqueRAT has been linked to the Transparent Tribe APT group in th...

Vulristics: Beyond Microsoft Patch Tuesdays, Analyzing Arbitrary CVEs

Hello everyone! In this episode I would like to share an update for my Vulristics project. For those who dont know, in this project I am working on an alternative vulnerability scoring based on publicly available data to highlight vulnerabilities that need to be fixed as soon as possible. Roughly...

Protect

When traffic other than HTTP/S eg: SSH traffic, etc... traverses the FortiOS on port 80/443, it is not redirected to the transparent proxy policy for processing, as it doesn't have a valid HTTP header...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability has been identified in Apache HttpClient shipped with IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering (CVE-2020-13956)

Summary Apache HttpClient is a component shipped with IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering. Information about security vulnerabilities affecting Apache HttpClient has been published. CVE-2020-13956 Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2020-13956 DESCRIPTION: Apache HttpClient could allow a...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in the IBM Java Runtime affect IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering (CVE-2020-14577, CVE-2020-14578, CVE-2020-14579)

Summary There are vulnerabilities in the IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version 8, which is used by BM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering . These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Quarterly CPU - Jul 2020 - Includes Oracle Jul 2020 CPU plus one additional...

openSUSE Security Update : nsd (openSUSE-2020-2222)

This update for nsd fixes the following issues : nsd was updated to the new upstream release 4.3.4 FEATURES : - Merge PR 141: ZONEMD RR type. BUG FIXES : - Fix that symlink does not interfere with chown of pidfile boo1179191, CVE-2020-28935 - Fix 128: Fix that the invalid port number is logged fo...

Security update for nsd (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for nsd Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:2222-1 Rating: moderate References: 1157331 1179191 Cross-References: CVE-2019-13207 CVE-2020-28935 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 openSUSE Leap 15.1 openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 openSUSE Backports...

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-29368

An issue was discovered in splithugepmd in mm/hugememory.c in the Linux kernel before 5.7.5. The copy-on-write implementation can grant unintended write access because of a race condition in a THP mapcount check, aka CID-c444eb564fb1...

Information Disclosure

firefox is vulnerable to information disclosure. When drawing a transparent image on top of an unknown cross-origin image, the Skia library drawImage function takes a variable amount of time depending on the content of the underlying image. This can result in potential cross-origin information...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Commons Codec affects IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering (177835)

Summary Apache Commons Codec could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the improper validation of input. This vulnerability affects IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering. Vulnerability Details Third Party Entry: 177835 DESCRIPTION: Apache Commons Codec...

Security Bulletin: IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering is affected by a Java vulnerability (CVE-2020-2654)

Summary There is a vulnerability in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version 8 used by IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering. The IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering have addressed the applicable CVE. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2020-2654 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerabili...

Transparent Tribe: Evolution analysis, part 2

Background + Key findings Transparent Tribe, also known as PROJECTM or MYTHIC LEOPARD, is a highly prolific group whose activities can be traced as far back as 2013. In the last four years, this APT group has never taken time off. They continue to hit their targets, which typically are Indian...

Transparent Tribe Mounts Ongoing Spy Campaign on Military, Government

The APT group Transparent Tribe is mounting an ongoing cyberespionage campaign, researchers said, which is aimed at military and diplomatic targets around the world. The effort features a worm that can propagate from machine to machine while stealing files from USB removable drives. Transparent...

Transparent Tribe: Evolution analysis,part 1

Background and key findings Transparent Tribe, also known as PROJECTM and MYTHIC LEOPARD, is a highly prolific group whose activities can be traced as far back as 2013. Proofpoint published a very good article about them in 2016, and since that day, we have kept an eye on the group. We have...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: znc-1.8.1-1.fc32

ZNC is an IRC bouncer with many advanced features like detaching, multiple users, per channel playback buffer, SSL, IPv6, transparent DCC bouncing, Perl and C++ module support to name a few...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in netty affects IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering(CVE-2020-7238)

Summary Netty is used by IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering. IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering has addressed the applicable CVE. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2020-7238 DESCRIPTION: Netty is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by a flaw when handling...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in netty affects IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering(CVE-2020-7238)

Summary Netty is used by IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering. IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering has addressed the applicable CVE. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2020-11612 DESCRIPTION: Netty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by unbounded memory allocation while...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in netty affect IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering (CVE-2019-20445, CVE-2019-20444)

Summary Netty is used by IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering. IBM Spectrum Scale Transparent Cloud Tiering has addressed the applicable CVEs. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-20445 DESCRIPTION: Netty could provide weaker than expected security, caused by non-proper handling of...

Wifipumpkin3 - Powerful Framework For Rogue Access Point Attack

wifipumpkin3 is powerful framework for rogue access point attack, written in Python, that allow and offer to security researchers, red teamers and reverse engineers to mount a wireless network to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack. Main Features Rogue access point attack Man-in-the-middle attack...