Infographic: Cyberattacks by the Numbers

As the calendar shifted from December 2016 to January 2017, the prospect of a large-scale cyberattack loomed. Questions over the possible hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election swirled and businesses faced a growing attack vector in ransomware. In 2016, ransomware was estimated to be an...

CVE-2017-17824

The Batch Manager component of Piwigo 2.9.2 is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the admin/batchmanagerunit.php elementids parameter in unit mode. An attacker can exploit this to gain access to the data in a connected MySQL database...

Sql injection

The Batch Manager component of Piwigo 2.9.2 is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the admin/batchmanagerunit.php elementids parameter in unit mode. An attacker can exploit this to gain access to the data in a connected MySQL database...

McAfee Labs Advanced Threat Research Aids Arrest of Suspected Cybercrime Gang Linked to Top Malware CTB Locker

ARCHIVED STORY McAfee Labs Advanced Threat Research Aids Arrest of Suspected Cybercrime Gang Linked to Top Malware CTB Locker By Trellix · December 20, 2017 In our recent research, we interviewed the actors behind ransomware campaigns. One of the interesting findings was cybercriminals seemed to...

Threat Analysis: Malicious Microsoft Word Documents Being Used in Targeted Attack Campaigns

A Microsoft Word document .doc believed to be malicious was recently submitted to Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU. The submitting organization did not feel that that document and subsequent payload was fully executing in their analysis environment, and questioned whether or not it was...

CVE-2017-17432

OpenAFS 1.x before 1.6.22 does not properly validate Rx ack packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service system crash or application crash via crafted fields, as demonstrated by an integer underflow and assertion failure for a small MTU value...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15119

The Network Block Device NBD server in Quick Emulator QEMU before 2.11 is vulnerable to a denial of service issue. It could occur if a client sent large option requests, making the server waste CPU time on reading up to 4GB per request. A client could use this flaw to keep the NBD server from...

CVE-2017-8156

The outdoor unit of Customer Premise Equipment CPE product B2338-168 V100R001C00 has a no authentication vulnerability on the serial port. An attacker can access the serial port on the circuit board of the outdoor unit and log in to the CPE without authentication. Successful exploit could allow t...

CVE-2017-8155

The outdoor unit of Customer Premise Equipment CPE product B2338-168 V100R001C00 has a no authentication vulnerability on a certain port. After accessing the network between the indoor and outdoor units of the CPE, an attacker can deliver commands to the specific port of the outdoor unit and...

CVE-2017-8155

The outdoor unit of Customer Premise Equipment CPE product B2338-168 V100R001C00 has a no authentication vulnerability on a certain port. After accessing the network between the indoor and outdoor units of the CPE, an attacker can deliver commands to the specific port of the outdoor unit and...

CVE-2017-8156

The outdoor unit of Customer Premise Equipment CPE product B2338-168 V100R001C00 has a no authentication vulnerability on the serial port. An attacker can access the serial port on the circuit board of the outdoor unit and log in to the CPE without authentication. Successful exploit could allow t...

Authentication flaw

The outdoor unit of Customer Premise Equipment CPE product B2338-168 V100R001C00 has a no authentication vulnerability on the serial port. An attacker can access the serial port on the circuit board of the outdoor unit and log in to the CPE without authentication. Successful exploit could allow t...

Authentication flaw

The outdoor unit of Customer Premise Equipment CPE product B2338-168 V100R001C00 has a no authentication vulnerability on a certain port. After accessing the network between the indoor and outdoor units of the CPE, an attacker can deliver commands to the specific port of the outdoor unit and...

CVE-2017-8155

The CVE-2017-8155 entry describes an unauthenticated access flaw in the outdoor unit of Huawei B2338-168 CPE. The issue arises from no authentication on a specific port (serial port access) between the indoor and outdoor units, enabling an attacker to deliver commands to the outdoor unit without ...

CVE-2017-8156

The outdoor unit of Customer Premise Equipment CPE product B2338-168 V100R001C00 has a no authentication vulnerability on the serial port. An attacker can access the serial port on the circuit board of the outdoor unit and log in to the CPE without authentication. Successful exploit could allow t...

CVE-2017-8155

The outdoor unit of Customer Premise Equipment CPE product B2338-168 V100R001C00 has a no authentication vulnerability on a certain port. After accessing the network between the indoor and outdoor units of the CPE, an attacker can deliver commands to the specific port of the outdoor unit and...

xml_file

This plugin writes the framework messages to an XML report file. One configurable parameter exists: outputfile Plugin type Output Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- outputfile | outputfile | report.xml | File name where this plugin will write to | No...

Ubuntu 17.10 : linux, linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-3487-1)

It was discovered that the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly keep track of nested levels in guest page tables. A local attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service host OS crash or possibly execute arbitrary code in the host OS. CVE-2017-12188 It was...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3469-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3469-2 advisory. USN-3469-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enableme...

USN-3469-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3469-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Anthony Perard discovered that the Xen virtual block driver did not properly initializ...