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...

Threat Roundup for January 10 to January 17

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Jan. 10 and Jan. 17. 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...

Smartphone shopaholic

Have you ever noticed strange reviews of Google Play apps that look totally out of place? Their creators might give it five stars, while dozens of users rate it with just one, and in some cases the reviews seem to be talking about some other program entirely. If so, you may be unknowingly...

CVE-2019-6019

Untrusted search path vulnerability in STAMP Workbench installer all versions allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

CVE-2019-6008

An unquoted search path vulnerability in Multiple Yokogawa products for Windows Exaopc R1.01.00 ? R3.77.00, Exaplog R1.10.00 ? R3.40.00, Exaquantum R1.10.00 ? R3.02.00 and R3.15.00, Exaquantum/Batch R1.01.00 ? R2.50.40, Exasmoc all revisions, Exarqe all revisions, GA10 R1.01.01 ? R3.05.01, and...

CVE-2019-6008

An unquoted search path vulnerability in Multiple Yokogawa products for Windows Exaopc R1.01.00 ? R3.77.00, Exaplog R1.10.00 ? R3.40.00, Exaquantum R1.10.00 ? R3.02.00 and R3.15.00, Exaquantum/Batch R1.01.00 ? R2.50.40, Exasmoc all revisions, Exarqe all revisions, GA10 R1.01.01 ? R3.05.01, and...

Design/Logic Flaw

An unquoted search path vulnerability in Multiple Yokogawa products for Windows Exaopc R1.01.00 ? R3.77.00, Exaplog R1.10.00 ? R3.40.00, Exaquantum R1.10.00 ? R3.02.00 and R3.15.00, Exaquantum/Batch R1.01.00 ? R2.50.40, Exasmoc all revisions, Exarqe all revisions, GA10 R1.01.01 ? R3.05.01, and...

Design/Logic Flaw

Untrusted search path vulnerability in STAMP Workbench installer all versions allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

CVE-2019-6019

Untrusted search path vulnerability in STAMP Workbench installer all versions allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

CVE-2019-6019

STAMP Workbench installer is affected by an insecure DLL search path (CWE-427) in the Windows installer, enabling arbitrary code execution with the user’s privileges via a Trojan horse DLL loaded from an unspecified directory. The issue is specific to the installer component, not the STAMP Workbe...

CVE-2019-6008

An unquoted search path vulnerability in Multiple Yokogawa products for Windows Exaopc R1.01.00 ? R3.77.00, Exaplog R1.10.00 ? R3.40.00, Exaquantum R1.10.00 ? R3.02.00 and R3.15.00, Exaquantum/Batch R1.01.00 ? R2.50.40, Exasmoc all revisions, Exarqe all revisions, GA10 R1.01.01 ? R3.05.01, and...