New Reductor Nation-State Malware Compromises TLS

Kaspersky has a detailed blog post about a new piece of sophisticated malware that it's calling Reductor. The malware is able to compromise TLS traffic by infecting the computer with hacked TLS engine substituted on the fly, "marking" infected TLS handshakes by compromising the underlining...

Joomla! configuration.php file RCE vulnerability

Joomla! is an open source, cross-platform content management system CMS developed using PHP and MySQL. An RCE vulnerability exists in the Joomla! configuration.php file. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to write a one-sentence Trojan horse and gain server privileges...

CVE-2019-16913

PC Protect Antivirus v4.14.31 installs by default to %PROGRAMFILESX86%\PCProtect with very weak folder permissions, granting any user full permission "Everyone: F" to the contents of the directory and its subfolders. In addition, the program installs a service called SecurityService that runs as...

CVE-2019-16913

PC Protect Antivirus v4.14.31 installs by default to %PROGRAMFILESX86%\PCProtect with very weak folder permissions, granting any user full permission "Everyone: F" to the contents of the directory and its subfolders. In addition, the program installs a service called SecurityService that runs as...

CVE-2008-5843

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in pdfjam allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program in 1 the current working directory or 2 /var/tmp, related to the a pdf90, b pdfjoin, and c pdfnup scripts...

New malware mimics Windows scanner to infect PCs with ransomware

By Sudais This trojan horse was discovered which pretends to be a Windows scanner by Microsoft but in reality, it is everything evil but so. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New malware mimics Windows scanner to infect PCs with ransomware...

Threat Roundup for September 27 to October 4

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Sept. 27 and Oct. 4. 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...

Virus Bulletin 2019: Geost Android Botnet Goes After Millions of Euros

LONDON — A powerful Android botnet dubbed Geost has been spotted targeting Russian citizens, with the end goal of distributing a banking trojan to victims. The botnet has infected more than 800,000 Android devices, controlling several million Euros held in five banks, according to researchers fro...

HQWar: the higher it flies, the harder it drops

Mobile dropper Trojans are one of today's most rapidly growing classes of malware. In Q1 2019, droppers are in the 2nd or 3rd position in terms of share of total detected threats, while holding nearly half of all Top 20 places in 2018. Since the droppers' main task is to deliver payload while...

The State of Stalkerware in 2019

Introduction and methodology Six months ago, we created a special alert that notifies users about commercial spyware stalkerware products installed on their phones. This report examines the use of stalkerware and the number of users affected by this software in the first eight months of 2019...

Mariposa Botnet Author, Darkcode Crime Forum Admin Arrested in Germany

A Slovenian man convicted of authoring the destructive and once-prolific Mariposa botnet and running the infamous Darkode cybercrime forum has been arrested in Germany on request from prosecutors in the United States, who've recently re-indicted him on related charges. NiceHash CTO Matjaž "Iserdo...

Threat Roundup for September 20 to September 27

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Sept. 20 and Sept. 27. 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...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: Qbot/Qakbot Attempts to Evade Detection By Overwriting Itself

Qbot, or Qakbot, is a banking trojan that has been seen in the wild for at least 10 years. Recent campaigns have been often delivered by exploit kits and weaponized documents delivered via context-aware phishing campaigns. Qbot has also been suspected of delivering MegaCortex ransomware. Many...

Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in Guojiz

Guojiz is a light community system based on layui front-end framework and thinkphp. Guojiz has an arbitrary file upload vulnerability, which can be exploited by an attacker to upload any type of image, such as a php Trojan horse, when editing a forum post or adding a comment via the upload image...

Dtrack RAT is Behind Virulent ATM-Espionage Campaign

An espionage malware called Dtrack – and a related variant, ATMDtrack – has been traced back to the notorious North Korea-linked Lazarus Group APT. Both have been identified this month targeting victims in India. According to researcher Konstantin Zykov of Kaspersky, researchers first uncovered...

EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : perl (EulerOS-SA-2019-2035)

According to the versions of the perl packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The 1 Sreghop3, 2 Sreghop4, and 3 Sreghopmaybe3 functions in regexec.c in Perl before 5.24.0 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial o...

Threat Roundup for September 13 to September 20

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Sept. 13 and Sept. 20. 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...

Emotet Returns from Summer Vacation, Ramps Up Stolen Email Tactic

Emotet, the banking trojan that has evolved into so much more, is back after a summer hiatus, dropping other banking trojans, information stealers, email harvesters, self-propagation mechanisms and ransomware. According to researchers at Cisco Talos, Emotet took a breather at the beginning of Jun...

Smominru Botnet Indiscriminately Hacked Over 90,000 Computers Just Last Month

Insecure Internet-connected devices have aided different types of cybercrime for years, most common being DDoS and spam campaigns. But cybercriminals have now shifted toward a profitable scheme where botnets do not just launch DDoS or spam—they mine cryptocurrencies as well. Smominru, an infamous...

Emotet is back: botnet springs back to life with new spam campaign

After a fairly long hiatus that lasted nearly four months, Emotet is back with an active spam distribution campaign. For a few weeks, there were signs that the botnet was setting its gears in motion again, as we observed command and control C2 server activity. But this morning, the Trojan started...