Malware on the Google Play store leads to harmful phishing sites

A family of malicious apps from developer Mobile apps Group are listed on Google Play and infected with Android/Trojan.HiddenAds.BTGTHB. In total, four apps are listed, and together they have amassed at least one million downloads. Older versions of these apps have been detected in the past as...

Threat Roundup for October 21 to October 28

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between Oct. 21 and Oct. 28. 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,...

Unknown Actors are Deploying RomCom RAT to Target Ukrainian Military

The threat actor behind a remote access trojan called RomCom RAT has been observed targeting Ukrainian military institutions as part of a new spear-phishing campaign that commenced on October 21, 2022. The development marks a shift in the attacker's modus operandi, which has been previously...

CVE-2022-41796

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer of Content Transfer for Windows Ver.1.3 and prior allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

CVE-2022-41796

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer of Content Transfer for Windows Ver.1.3 and prior allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

Design/Logic Flaw

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer of Content Transfer for Windows Ver.1.3 and prior allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

CVE-2022-41796

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer of Content Transfer for Windows Ver.1.3 and prior allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

CVE-2022-41796

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer of Content Transfer for Windows Ver.1.3 and prior allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

Threat Roundup for October 14 to October 21

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Oct. 14 and Oct. 21. 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...

New Ursnif Variant Likely Shifting Focus to Ransomware and Data Theft

The Ursnif malware has become the latest malware to shed its roots as a banking trojan to revamp itself into a generic backdoor capable of delivering next-stage payloads, joining the likes of Emotet, Qakbot, and TrickBot. "This is a significant shift from the malware's original purpose to enable...

Warning: "FaceStealer" iOS and Android apps steal your Facebook login

Earlier this month, security researchers from Meta found 400 malicious Android and iOS apps designed to steal user Facebook login credentials. Such mobile malware, which Malwarebytes detects typically as Android/Trojan.Spy.Facestealer, usually arrives as an app disguised as a useful or entertaini...

Threat Roundup for October 7 to October 14

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Oct. 7 and Oct. 14. 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,...

SONY Content Transfer Code Issue Vulnerability

SONY Content Transfer is a file transfer software from Sony Japan. It is suitable for customers who manage music, video, photo, and podcast content using iTunes, etc. SONY Content Transfer suffers from a code issue vulnerability that stems from the installer containing a DLL search path issue tha...

Malicious WhatsApp mod distributed through legitimate apps

Last year, we wrote about the Triada Trojan inside FMWhatsApp, a modified WhatsApp build. At that time, we discovered that a dropper was found inside the distribution, along with an advertising SDK. This year, the situation has repeated, but with a different modified build, YoWhatsApp version...

PT-2022-5833 · Unknown · Content Transfer

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Content Transfer for Windows versions 1.3 and prior Description: The issue is related to an untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer. This could allow an attacker to elevate privileges by using a specially crafted DLL. The...

Sony Content Transfer 代码问题漏洞

SONY Content Transfer is a file transfer software from Sony Japan. It is suitable for customers who manage music, video, photo, and podcast content using iTunes, etc. SONY Content Transfer suffers from a code issue vulnerability that stems from the installer containing a DLL search path issue tha...

EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : perl-Encode (EulerOS-SA-2022-2420)

According to the versions of the perl-Encode package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Encode.pm, as distributed in Perl through 5.34.0, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Encode::ConfigLocal library in th...

CVE-2022-39959

Panini Everest Engine 2.0.4 allows unprivileged users to create a file named Everest.exe in the %PROGRAMDATA%\Panini folder. This leads to privilege escalation because a service, running as SYSTEM, uses the unquoted path of %PROGRAMDATA%\Panini\Everest Engine\EverestEngine.exe and therefore a...

CVE-2022-39959

Panini Everest Engine 2.0.4 allows unprivileged users to create a file named Everest.exe in the %PROGRAMDATA%\Panini folder. This leads to privilege escalation because a service, running as SYSTEM, uses the unquoted path of %PROGRAMDATA%\Panini\Everest Engine\EverestEngine.exe and therefore a...

Path traversal

Panini Everest Engine 2.0.4 allows unprivileged users to create a file named Everest.exe in the %PROGRAMDATA%\Panini folder. This leads to privilege escalation because a service, running as SYSTEM, uses the unquoted path of %PROGRAMDATA%\Panini\Everest Engine\EverestEngine.exe and therefore a...