CVE-2021-20793

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer of Sony Audio USB Driver V1.10 and prior and the installer of HAP Music Transfer Ver.1.3.0 and prior allows an attacker to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

CVE-2021-20793

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer of Sony Audio USB Driver V1.10 and prior and the installer of HAP Music Transfer Ver.1.3.0 and prior allows an attacker to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

Design/Logic Flaw

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer of Sony Audio USB Driver V1.10 and prior and the installer of HAP Music Transfer Ver.1.3.0 and prior allows an attacker to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

Modified Version of WhatsApp for Android Spotted Installing Triada Trojan

A modified version of the WhatsApp messaging app for Android has been trojanized to intercept text messages, serve malicious payloads, display full-screen ads, and sign up device owners for unwanted premium subscriptions without their knowledge. "The Trojan Triada snuck into one of these modified...

Triada Trojan in WhatsApp mod

WhatsApp users sometimes feel the official app is lacking a useful feature of one sort or another, be it animated themes, self-destructing messages which automatically delete themselves, the option of hiding certain conversations from the main list, automatic translation of messages, or the optio...

Threat Source newsletter (Aug. 19, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw.Good afternoon, Talos readers. I'm writing this on Tuesday morning on account of vacation again, so apologies if we miss any major stories. You certainly don't want to miss our latest blog post on the Neurevt remote access trojan that's... This is only the...

NK Hackers Deploy Browser Exploits on South Korean Sites to Spread Malware

A North Korean threat actor has been discovered taking advantage of two exploits in Internet Explorer to infect victims with a custom implant as part of a strategic web compromise SWC targeting a South Korean online newspaper. Cybersecurity firm Volexity attributed the watering hole attacks to a...

Malicious Ads Target Cryptocurrency Users With Cinobi Banking Trojan

A new social engineering-based malvertising campaign targeting Japan has been found to deliver a malicious application that deploys a banking trojan on compromised Windows machines to steal credentials associated with cryptocurrency accounts. The application masquerades as an animated porn game, ...

Neurevt trojan takes aim at Mexican users

By Chetan Raghuprasad, with contributions from Vanja Svajcer. News summaryCisco Talos discovered a new version of the Neurevt trojan with spyware and backdoor capabilities in June 2021 using Cisco Secure Endpoint product telemetry.This version of Neurevt appears to target users of Mexican...

Rogue Marketplace AlphaBay Reboots

The illicit marketplace AlphaBay appears to have resurfaced, four years after a high-profile takedown by international law enforcement agencies. The reboot, according to researchers at Flashpoint, isn’t an exact a replica. Rather, the reconstituted version of the site is described as an homage to...

IT threat evolution in Q2 2021. Mobile statistics

These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Quarterly figures In Q2 2021, according to data from Kaspersky Security Network: 14,465,672 malware, adware and riskware attacks were prevented. The largest shar...

CVE-2021-36770

Encode.pm, as distributed in Perl through 5.34.0, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Encode::ConfigLocal library in the current working directory that preempts dynamic module loading. Exploitation requires an unusual configuration, and certain 2021 versions of Encode.pm 3.05...

CVE-2021-36770

Encode.pm, as distributed in Perl through 5.34.0, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Encode::ConfigLocal library in the current working directory that preempts dynamic module loading. Exploitation requires an unusual configuration, and certain 2021 versions of Encode.pm 3.05...

Design/Logic Flaw

Encode.pm, as distributed in Perl through 5.34.0, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Encode::ConfigLocal library in the current working directory that preempts dynamic module loading. Exploitation requires an unusual configuration, and certain 2021 versions of Encode.pm 3.05...

CVE-2021-36770

CVE-2021-36770 affects IBM Cognos Analytics. The IBM bulletin notes a local privilege-escalation via an untrusted search path in the Perl Encode module (Encode::ConfigLocal) loaded from the current working directory, preempting dynamic module loading. Exploitation requires an unusual configuratio...

CVE-2021-36770

Encode.pm, as distributed in Perl through 5.34.0, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Encode::ConfigLocal library in the current working directory that preempts dynamic module loading. Exploitation requires an unusual configuration, and certain 2021 versions of Encode.pm 3.05...

CVE-2021-36770

Encode.pm, as distributed in Perl through 5.34.0, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Encode::ConfigLocal library in the current working directory that preempts dynamic module loading. Exploitation requires an unusual configuration, and certain 2021 versions of Encode.pm 3.05...

Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Raznew.gen Unauthenticated Open Proxy

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2021 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/55ce4b6c2ec10838c54dca54d96801d6.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Raznew.gen Vulnerability: Unauthenticated Open Proxy Description: The malware...

Chaos Malware: Ransomware and Wiper

An under-construction malware called Chaos has been spotted, which is being advertised on an underground forum as being available for testing. While it calls itself ransomware, an analysis revealed that it’s actually more of a wiper. According to Trend Micro researcher Monte de Jesus, Chaos has...

Android Malware ‘FlyTrap’ Hijacks Facebook Accounts

Researchers have uncovered a new Android trojan, dubbed FlyTrap, that’s spread to more than 10,000 victims via rigged apps on third-party app stores, sideloaded apps and hijacked Facebook accounts. In a report posted on Monday, Zimperium’s zLabs mobile threat research teams wrote that FlyTrap has...