Hackers Using Trojanized macOS Apps to Deploy Evasive Cryptocurrency Mining Malware

Trojanized versions of legitimate applications are being used to deploy evasive cryptocurrency mining malware on macOS systems. Jamf Threat Labs, which made the discovery, said the XMRig coin miner was executed by means of an unauthorized modification in Final Cut Pro, a video editing software fr...

K43546166: glibc vulnerability CVE-2017-16997

Security Advisory Description elf/dl-load.c in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.19 through 2.26 mishandles RPATH and RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN for a privileged setuid or ATSECURE program, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library in the current working director...

K1952: Trojan Horse OpenSSH Distribution - CA-2002-24

Security Advisory Description Note : Versions that are not listed in this article have not been evaluated for vulnerability to this security advisory. For information about the F5 security policy regarding evaluating older and unsupported versions of F5 products, refer to K4602: Overview of the F...

K74013101: Binutils vulnerability CVE-2021-42574

Security Advisory Description An issue was discovered in the Bidirectional Algorithm in the Unicode Specification through 14.0. It permits the visual reordering of characters via control sequences, which can be used to craft source code that renders different logic than the logical ordering of...

K22494544: SNMP Incorrect Access Control vulnerability CVE-2017-5135

Security Advisory Description Certain Technicolor devices have an SNMP access-control bypass, possibly involving an ISP customization in some cases. The Technicolor formerly Cisco DPC3928SL with firmware D3928SL-P15-13-A386-c3420r55105-160127a could be reached by any SNMP community string from th...

K39909763: Perl vulnerability CVE-2016-1238

Security Advisory Description 1 cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar, 2 cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff, 3 cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep, 4 cpan/CPAN/scripts/cpan, 5 cpan/Digest-SHA/shasum, 6 cpan/Encode/bin/enc2xs, 7 cpan/Encode/bin/encguess, 8 cpan/Encode/bin/piconv, 9 cpan/Encode/bin/ucmlint, 10...

Threat Round up for February 10 to February 17

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between Feb. 10 and Feb. 17. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Researchers Link SideWinder Group to Dozens of Targeted Attacks in Multiple Countries

The prolific SideWinder group has been attributed as the nation-state actor behind attempted attacks against 61 entities in Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal, and Sri Lanka between June and November 2021. Targets included government, military, law enforcement, banks, and other organizations,...

Hackers Using Google Ads to Spread FatalRAT Malware Disguised as Popular Apps

Chinese-speaking individuals in Southeast and East Asia are the targets of a new rogue Google Ads campaign that delivers remote access trojans such as FatalRAT to compromised machines. The attacks involve purchasing ad slots to appear in Google search results and direct users looking for popular...

Fake Hogwarts Legacy cracks lead to adware, scams

Hogwarts Legacy, the much-anticipated Harry Potter video game, has finally landed on major gaming platforms. But, as with all games like this, it comes with a steep price tag, so it's no surprise to suddenly see websites peddling "cracked" versions of the game for free. These sites are easily...

SUSE CVE-2008-3277

Untrusted search path vulnerability in a certain Red Hat build script for the ibmssh executable in ibutils packages before ibutils-1.5.7-2.el6 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 6 and ibutils-1.2-11.2.el5 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan Horse...

SUSE CVE-2008-3440

Sun Java 1.6.003 and earlier versions, and possibly later versions, does not properly verify the authenticity of updates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update, as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning...

SUSE CVE-2008-3437

OpenOffice.org OOo before 2.1.0 does not properly verify the authenticity of updates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse update, as demonstrated by evilgrade and DNS cache poisoning...

SUSE CVE-2008-3949

emacs/lisp/progmodes/python.el in Emacs 22.1 and 22.2 imports Python script from the current working directory during editing of a Python file, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file...

SUSE CVE-2008-4815

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.2 and earlier on Unix and Linux allows attackers to gain privileges via a Trojan Horse program in an unspecified directory that is associated with an insecure RPATH...

SUSE CVE-2008-4865

Untrusted search path vulnerability in valgrind before 3.4.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary programs via a Trojan horse .valgrindrc file in the current working directory, as demonstrated using a malicious --db-command options. NOTE: the severity of this issue has been disputed, but CVE i...

SUSE CVE-2008-4863

Untrusted search path vulnerability in BPYinterface in Blender 2.46 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory, related to an erroneous setting of sys.path by the PySysSetArgv function...

SUSE 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...

SUSE CVE-2008-5983

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the PySysSetArgv API function in Python 2.6 and earlier, and possibly later versions, prepends an empty string to sys.path when the argv0 argument does not contain a path separator, which might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse...

SUSE CVE-2008-5984

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python plugin in Dia 0.96.1, and possibly other versions, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working directory, related to a vulnerability in the PySysSetArgv function CVE-2008-5983...