Ahead of Black Friday, Rash of Malware Families Takes Aim at Holiday Shoppers

No less than 14 malware families are targeting e-commerce brands to steal from unsuspecting consumers ahead of the official holiday shopping season. As the Black Friday post-Thanksgiving buying bonanza looms, in all of its door-busting and elbow-throwing glory, many are opting to stay at home and...

CVE-2018-0692

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Baidu Browser Version 43.23.1000.500 and earlier allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

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Untrusted search path vulnerability in Baidu Browser Version 43.23.1000.500 and earlier allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

CVE-2018-0692

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Baidu Browser Version 43.23.1000.500 and earlier allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

CVE-2018-0692

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Baidu Browser Version 43.23.1000.500 and earlier allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

TrickBot takes over as top business threat

Last quarter brought with it a maddening number of political ads, shocking and divisive news stories on climate change and gun laws, and mosquitoes. We hate mosquitoes. In related unpleasant news, it also apparently ushered in an era of banking Trojans that, as of this moment, shows no signs of...

Command Execution Vulnerability in In***.php File of CloudYou CMS Enterprise Website Management System

YUNUCMS enterprise website management system YUNUCMS is a set of professional marketing enterprise building system based on PHP + MYSQL as the core development. A command execution vulnerability exists in the In.php file of the YUNUCMS enterprise website management system. An attacker can exploit...

Emotet Campaign Ramps Up with Mass Email Harvesting Module

A large-scale spam campaign has launched, spreading the Emotet banking trojan. Worryingly, the offensive has launched about a week after a fresh module for mass email-harvesting was detected for the malware. Emotet is technically a banking trojan, but it’s most often used as a dropper for a varie...

Threat Roundup for November 2 to November 9

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Nov. 02 and Nov. 09. 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...

D-LINK Central WifiManager (CWM 100) 1.03 r0098 DLL Hijacking Exploit

D-Link Central WiFiManager CWM-100 version 1.03 r0098 devices will load a trojan horse "quserex.dll" and will create a new thread running with SYSTEM integrity. + Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source:...

D-LINK Central WifiManager (CWM 100) 1.03 r0098 DLL Hijacking

Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/DLINK-CENTRAL-WIFI-MANAGER-CWM-100-SYSTEM-PRIVILEGE-ESCALATION.txt + ISR: ApparitionSec Greetz: indoushka | Eduardo B. Vendor us.dlink.com Product D-LINK Central WifiManager...

Metamorfo Banking Trojan Keeps Its Sights on Brazil

This blog post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres, and Vitor Ventura. Executive Summary Financially motivated cybercriminals have used banking trojans for years to steal sensitive financial information from victims. They are often created to gather credit card...

PHP7CMS frontend has a file inclusion vulnerability

PHP7 content management system referred to as PHP7CMS by Chunjie studio using PHP7 technology newly developed content management program. PHP7CMS front-end file inclusion vulnerability. Attackers can use the vulnerability to include log files to write a sentence Trojan to obtain server privileges...

Facebook Blames Malicious Extensions in Breach of 81K Private Messages

Hackers have published what they claim are private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook accounts – and they say the trove contains a fraction of the details they have from a larger cadre of 120 million accounts. In an English-language Dark Web advertisement now taken down, the perpetrators...

This Week in Security News: Spam Campaigns and Vulnerable Infrastructures

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, see how cybercriminals have learned to become more creative with malware through spam campaigns. Also, understand why securing energy and...

Threat Roundup for Oct. 26 to Nov. 2

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Oct. 26 and Nov. 02. 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...

glibc: Incorrect handling of RPATH in elf/dl-load.c can be used to execute code loaded from arbitrary libraries

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 directory, related to the fillinrpath...

GPlayed's younger brother is a banker — and it's after Russian banks

This blog post is authored by Vitor Ventura. Introduction Cisco Talos published its findings on a new Android trojan known as "GPlayed" on Oct. 11. At the time, we wrote that the trojan seemed to be in the testing stages of development, based on the malware's code patterns, strings and telemetry...

CVE-2018-18654

Crossroads 2.81 does not properly handle the /tmp directory during a build of xr. A local attacker can first create a world-writable subdirectory in a certain location under the /tmp directory, wait until a user process copies xr there, and then replace the entire contents of this subdirectory to...

CVE-2018-18654

Crossroads 2.81 does not properly handle the /tmp directory during a build of xr. A local attacker can first create a world-writable subdirectory in a certain location under the /tmp directory, wait until a user process copies xr there, and then replace the entire contents of this subdirectory to...