A week in security (November 18 – 24)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at stalkerware’s legal enforcement problem, announced our cooperation with other security vendors and advocacy groups to launch Coalition Against Stalkerware, published our fall 2019 review of exploit kits, looked at how Deepfake on LinkedIn makes for...

IoT bills and guidelines: a global response

You may not have noticed, but Internet of Things IoT rules and regulations are coming whether manufacturers want them or not. From experience, drafting up laws which are hopefully sensible and have some relevance to problems raised by current technology is a time-consuming, frustrating process...

There is a Skills Shortage, But it isn’t Your Real Problem

During my undergraduate days, I recall hearing that the Bell System was slow to deploy automated dialing. While smaller local phone companies allowed callers to dial a number directly from their phone, the Bell system continues to rely on switchboard operators into the 1930s. In fact, early phone...

CVE-2019-1440

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the win32k component improperly provides kernel information, aka 'Win32k Information Disclosure Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-1436...

Detecting Account Takeover Botnets

A botnet is a network of compromised computers - known as bots - usually controlled by a command and control computer, that work together in coordination for a malicious purpose. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to detect botnets used for account takeover ATO, an attack used to obtain the val...

DarkUniverse APT Emerges to Deliver Sophisticated, Targeted Spy Attacks

A sophisticated espionage APT that was active for at least eight years before receding into the shadows has been uncovered — and researchers said that it may still be active. In April 2017, ShadowBrokers published one of their many leaks of cyberweapons used by the National Security Agency NSA an...

CVE-2019-18800

Viber through 11.7.0.5 allows a remote attacker who can capture a victim's internet traffic to steal their Viber account, because not all Viber protocol traffic is encrypted. TCP data packet 9 on port 4244 from the victim's device contains cleartext information such as the device model and OS...

imagesource.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Security Researcher MrAbhishek740 Helped patch 16 vulnerabilities Received 1 Coordinated Disclosure badges , a holder of 1 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting imagesource.com website and its users. Following coordinated and responsible...

Tracking CVE-2019-11043 PHP Vulnerability – An Uncommon Chain of Events

On October 22, security researcher Omar Ganiev published a tweet regarding remote code execution vulnerability in PHP-FPM the FastCGI Process Manager running on the Nginx server. The tweet includes a link to a GitHub repository with an explanation of the vulnerability and a PoC proof-of-concept f...

How to protect yourself from doxing

“Abandon hope all ye who enter.” This ominous inscription affixed atop the gates to Hell in Dante’s Divine Comedy applies peculiarly well to describe the state of the Internet today. It’s hard to draw a parallel to the utility that the Internet has offered to modern civilization—perhaps no other...

CVE-2019-0564

A denial of service vulnerability exists when ASP.NET Core improperly handles web requests, aka "ASP.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability." This affects ASP.NET Core 2.1. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-0548...

CVE-2019-1357

A spoofing vulnerability exists when Microsoft Browsers improperly handle browser cookies, aka 'Microsoft Browser Spoofing Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-0608...

CVE-2019-1320

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles authentication requests, aka 'Microsoft Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-1322, CVE-2019-1340...

CVE-2019-1307

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the Chakra scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft Edge, aka 'Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-1308, CVE-2019-1335, CVE-2019-1366...

Privilege escalation

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Microsoft Windows Update Client when it does not properly handle privileges, aka 'Microsoft Windows Update Client Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-1336...

CVE-2019-1362

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows when the Windows kernel-mode driver fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-1364...

CVE-2019-1339

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Windows Error Reporting manager improperly handles hard links, aka 'Windows Error Reporting Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-1315, CVE-2019-1342...

CVE-2019-0608

A spoofing vulnerability exists when Microsoft Browsers does not properly parse HTTP content, aka 'Microsoft Browser Spoofing Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-1357...

COMpfun successor Reductor infects files on the fly to compromise TLS traffic

In April 2019, we discovered new malware that compromises encrypted web communications in an impressive way. Analysis of the malware allowed us to confirm that the operators have some control over the target's network channel and could replace legitimate installers with infected ones on the fly...

SUSE-SU-2019:2365-2 Security update for python-Werkzeug

This update for python-Werkzeug fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2019-14806: Fixed the development server in Docker, the debugger security pin is now unique per container bsc1145383...