This Week in Security News: ZDI Bug Hunters Rake in $1.5M in 2019 and Metamorfo Trojan Malware Campaign Targets Online Banking Users

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read about Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative’s $1.5 million in awards and other noteworthy milestones in 2019. Also, learn about a crafty...

CamuBot Banking Trojan Returns In Targeted Attacks

The CamuBot malware, known for targeting Brazilian bank customers, has returned in a slew of recent offensives. The latest wave of attacks are highly personalized and, unlike previous campaigns, target victims’ mobile banking apps as an extra step to evade detection when making fraudulent...

TrickBot Switches to a New Windows 10 UAC Bypass to Evade Detection

The TrickBot trojan has evolved again to bolster its ability to elude detection, this time adding a feature that can bypass Windows 10 User Account Control UAC to deliver malware across multiple workstations and endpoints on a network, researchers have discovered. Researchers at Morphisec Labs te...

Evil Corp Returns With New Malware Infection Tactic

Cybercrime group Evil Corp a.k.a. Dudear is back in action after a short hiatus, with a technique in its arsenal not previously used by the group to distribute malware. Microsoft on Thursday said that it observed emails from the cybercriminal gang utilizing HTML redirectors. Microsoft is unclear...

Threat Roundup for January 24 to January 31

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Jan. 24 and Jan. 31. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics...

CVE-2019-7656

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0 and earlier allows any unprivileged Linux user to escalate privileges to root. The installer sets too relaxed permissions on /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/bin/ core program files. By injecting a payload into one of those files...

Privilege escalation

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0 and earlier allows any unprivileged Linux user to escalate privileges to root. The installer sets too relaxed permissions on /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/bin/ core program files. By injecting a payload into one of those files...

CVE-2019-7656

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0 and earlier allows any unprivileged Linux user to escalate privileges to root. The installer sets too relaxed permissions on /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/bin/ core program files. By injecting a payload into one of those files...

The Sneaky Simple Malware That Hits Millions of Macs

How the Shlayer Trojan topped the macOS malware charts—despite its “rather ordinary” methods...

U.S. Gov Agency Targeted With Malware-Laced Emails

A U.S. government agency was targeted with spear phishing emails harboring several malware strains – including a never-before-seen malware downloader that researchers call “Carrotball.” The campaign, which researchers observed occurring from July to October and code-named “Fractured Statue,”...

Shlayer, No. 1 Threat for Mac, Targets YouTube, Wikipedia

The malvertising-focused trojan known as Shlayer has burbled to the top of the malware heap when it comes to targeting Mac users. It made up 29 percent of all attacks on macOS devices in Kaspersky’s telemetry for 2019, making it the No. 1 Mac malware threat for the year. To spread, it has been...

Shlayer Trojan attacks one in ten macOS users

For close to two years now, the Shlayer Trojan has been the most common threat on the macOS platform: in 2019, one in ten of our Mac security solutions encountered this malware at least once, and it accounts for almost 30% of all detections for this OS. The first specimens of this family fell int...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for glibc (EulerOS-SA-2019-1371)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

sLoad Malware Revamped as Powerful 'StarsLord' Loader

The sLoad malware downloader, a PowerShell-based trojan first spotted in May 2018, has a new, polished version that comes with “more powerful features, posing even higher risk,” Microsoft researchers are warning. After discovering it being used in several campaigns over the holidays, researchers...

sLoad launches version 2.0, Starslord

sLoad, the PowerShell-based Trojan downloader notable for its almost exclusive use of the Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS for malicious activities, has launched version 2.0. The new version comes on the heels of a comprehensive blog we published detailing the malware’s multi-stage...

CVE-2019-20384

Gentoo Portage through 2.3.84 allows local users to place a Trojan horse plugin in the /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins directory by leveraging access to the nagios user account, because this directory is writable in between a call to emake and a call to fowners...

Design/Logic Flaw

Gentoo Portage through 2.3.84 allows local users to place a Trojan horse plugin in the /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins directory by leveraging access to the nagios user account, because this directory is writable in between a call to emake and a call to fowners...

CVE-2019-20384

Gentoo Portage through 2.3.84 allows local users to place a Trojan horse plugin in the /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins directory by leveraging access to the nagios user account, because this directory is writable in between a call to emake and a call to fowners...

CVE-2019-20384

CVE-2019-20384 affects Gentoo Portage up to version 2.3.84. The issue arises from a writable /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins directory between emake and fowners calls, allowing a local attacker with Nagios access to place a Trojan plugin. Impact is a local privilege/impersonation risk (I/H) with a low ...

New JhoneRAT Malware Targets Middle East

Researchers are warning of a new remote access trojan RAT, dubbed JhoneRAT, which is being distributed as part of an active campaign, ongoing since November 2019, that targets victims in the Middle East. Once downloaded, the RAT gathers information on the victims’ computers and is also able to...