A week in security (June 14 – June 20)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: How to delete your Instagram account. Working from home? You’re probably being spied on. Another one bites the dust: Avaddon ransomware group shuts down operation. Patch now! Apple fixes in-the-wild iPhone vulnerabilities. Windows 10 to retire in four years or 52...

Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Googite.b Code Execution

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2021 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/4a8d6bc838c09c6701abfa8b283fd0de.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Googite.b Vulnerability: Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution Description:...

Polazert Trojan using poisoned Google Search results to spread

Trojan.Polazert aka SolarMarker has gone back and fine-tuned an old tactic known as SEO-poisoning to plant their Remote Access Trojan RAT on as many systems as possible. This RAT runs in memory and is used by attackers to install additional malware on affected systems. Trojan.Polazert...

File upload vulnerability in Speedcat ERP backend management system

Ltd. is an e-commerce management product specially developed for cross border e-commerce platforms such as Selling, Amazon and Ebay. There is a file upload vulnerability in the Quickcat ERP backend management system, which can be exploited by attackers to control the server by uploading Trojan...

CVE-2021-33393

lfs/backup in IPFire 2.25-core155 does not ensure that /var/ipfire/backup/bin/backup.pl is owned by the root account. It might be owned by an unprivileged account, which could potentially be used to install a Trojan horse backup.pl script that is later executed by root. Similar problems with the...

CVE-2021-33393

lfs/backup in IPFire 2.25-core155 does not ensure that /var/ipfire/backup/bin/backup.pl is owned by the root account. It might be owned by an unprivileged account, which could potentially be used to install a Trojan horse backup.pl script that is later executed by root. Similar problems with the...

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lfs/backup in IPFire 2.25-core155 does not ensure that /var/ipfire/backup/bin/backup.pl is owned by the root account. It might be owned by an unprivileged account, which could potentially be used to install a Trojan horse backup.pl script that is later executed by root. Similar problems with the...

CVE-2021-33393

lfs/backup in IPFire 2.25-core155 does not ensure that /var/ipfire/backup/bin/backup.pl is owned by the root account. It might be owned by an unprivileged account, which could potentially be used to install a Trojan horse backup.pl script that is later executed by root. Similar problems with the...

Feds Secretly Ran a Fake Encrypted Chat App and Busted Over 800 Criminals

In an unprecedented sting operation, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and Australian Federal Police AFP ran an encrypted chat service called ANoM for nearly three years to intercept 27 million messages exchanged between criminal gang members globally. Dubbed Operation Ironside AFP,...

800 arrests after police dupe crime groups into using backdoored phones

An international operation that monitored an encrypted device company under control of the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and the Australian Federal Police AFP has led to a massive, coordinated string by law enforcement in several countries. The setup Law enforcement agencies around the worl...

Latvian Woman Charged for Her Role in Creating Trickbot Banking Malware

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Friday charged a Latvian woman for her alleged role as a programmer in a cybercrime gang that helped develop TrickBot malware. The woman in question, Alla Witte, aka Max, 55, who resided in Paramaribo, Suriname, was arrested in Miami, Florida on February 6...

Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Googite.a Unauthenticated Open Proxy

Discovery / credits: Malvuln - malvuln.com c 2021 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/ff30fbee3724d80dcb9471c0b553c99a.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Googite.a Vulnerability: Unauthenticated Open Proxy Description: Googite malwar...

IT threat evolution Q1 2021. Mobile statistics

The statistics presented here draw on detection verdicts returned by Kaspersky products as provided by users who consented to share statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersky Security Network, in the first quarter: we detected 1,451,660 mobile installation packages, of which: 25,3...

Kubernetes: Broken link hijacing in https://kubernetes-csi.github.io/docs/drivers.html

Summary : When a web application has any pages, sources, links to external 3rd party services and are broken then the attacker can claim those endpoints to successfully conduct the attack and claim those endpoints on behalf of the target website and impersonate his identity. Steps To Reproduce 1...

A week in security (May 17 – May 23)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at a banking trojan full of nasty tricks, explained some tips and pointers for using VirusTotal, and dug into how an authentication vulnerability was patched by Pega Infinity. We also explored how a Royal Mail phish deploys evasion tricks to avoid analysi...

CVE-2021-20726

Untrusted search path vulnerability in The Installer of Overwolf 2.168.0.n and earlier allows an attacker to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code with the privilege of the user invoking the installer via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

CVE-2021-20722

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installers of ScanSnap Manager prior to versions V7.0L20 and the Software Download Installer prior to WinSSInst2JP.exe and WinSSInst2iX1500JP.exe allows an attacker to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code with the privilege of the user invoking the...

CVE-2021-20722

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installers of ScanSnap Manager prior to versions V7.0L20 and the Software Download Installer prior to WinSSInst2JP.exe and WinSSInst2iX1500JP.exe allows an attacker to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code with the privilege of the user invoking the...

CVE-2021-20722

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installers of ScanSnap Manager prior to versions V7.0L20 and the Software Download Installer prior to WinSSInst2JP.exe and WinSSInst2iX1500JP.exe allows an attacker to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code with the privilege of the user invoking the...

CVE-2021-20726

Untrusted search path vulnerability in The Installer of Overwolf 2.168.0.n and earlier allows an attacker to gain privileges and execute arbitrary code with the privilege of the user invoking the installer via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...