‘LuminosityLink RAT’ Author Pleads Guilty

A 21-year-old Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to authoring and distributing a popular hacking tool called "LuminosityLink," a malware strain that security experts say was used by thousands of customers to gain unauthorized access to tens of thousands of computers across 78 countries worldwide. Th...

DanaBot Trojan Targets Bank Customers In Phishing Scam

The recently-discovered DanaBot banking trojan is making the rounds in a phishing campaign that targets potential victims with fake invoices from software company MYOB. The emails purport to be invoices from MYOB, an Australian multinational corporation that provides tax, accounting and other...

Threat Roundup for July 6-13

Today, as we do every week, Talos is giving you a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed this week — covering the dates between July 6 and 13. 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 ...

The Aurora Power Grid Vulnerability and the BlackEnergy Trojan

At recent Industrial IoT security briefings, the Aurora vulnerability has come up repeatedly. Attendees ask, “Is our country’s power grid safe? How can we protect the grid? What is Aurora?” This post provides a look at Aurora, and the BlackEnergy attack that can exploit Aurora. In March 2007, the...

Apache Struts2 high-risk vulnerabilities cause the Enterprise Server is the invasion mounted KoiMiner mining Trojan-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

0×1 Overview Many business websites use the Apache open source project to build a http server, which is most of the use of the Apache sub-project of Struts in. But since the Apache Struts2 Product code there are more risks, beginning in 2007, Struts2 will frequently broke multiple high-risk...

Old Malware Gives Criminals Tricky New Choice: Ransomware or Mining

An old ransomware sample has been rejiggered with a sneaky new trick – allowing adversaries to either extort money from victims via ransomware, or hijack a computer’s CPU cycles via a stealthy cryptominer. The Rakhni Trojan Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Rakhni, first spotted in 2013, is now giving bad acto...

Threat Roundup for June 29 to July 6th

Today, as we do every week, Talos is giving you a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed this week — covering the dates between June 29 and July 6. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, it will summarize the threats we've observed by...

To crypt, or to mine – that is the question

Way back in 2013 our malware analysts spotted the first malicious samples related to the Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Rakhni family. That was the starting point for this long-lived Trojan family, which is still functioning to this day. During that time the malware writers have changed: the way their Troja...

Threat Roundup for June 22-29

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between June 22 and June 29. As with previous round-ups, 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 characteristic...

Polaris Office 2017 8.1 Remote Code Execution Exploit

Polaris Office 2017 version 8.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a trojan horse "puiframeworkproresenu.dll" file in the current working directory, due to a search order flaw vulnerability. + Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source:...

CVE-2018-12589

Polaris Office 2017 8.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse puiframeworkproresenu.dll file in the current working directory...

CVE-2018-12589

Polaris Office 2017 8.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse puiframeworkproresenu.dll file in the current working directory...

Directory traversal

Polaris Office 2017 8.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse puiframeworkproresenu.dll file in the current working directory...

CVE-2018-12589

Polaris Office 2017 8.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse puiframeworkproresenu.dll file in the current working directory...

New Malware Family Uses Custom UDP Protocol for C&C Communications

Security researchers have uncovered a new highly-targeted cyber espionage campaign, which is believed to be associated with a hacking group behind KHRAT backdoor Trojan and has been targeting organizations in South East Asia. According to researchers from Palo Alto, the hacking group, which they...

CVE-2018-0597

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer of Visual Studio Code allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

CVE-2018-0594

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Skype for Windows allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

CVE-2018-0596

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer of Visual Studio Community allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

CVE-2018-0598

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Self-extracting archive files created by IExpress bundled with Microsoft Windows allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...

CVE-2018-0597

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer of Visual Studio Code allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory...