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Exploding USB Sticks
In case you dont have enough to worry about, people are hiding explosives--actual ones--in USB sticks: In the port city of Guayaquil, journalist Lenin Artieda of the Ecuavisa private TV station received an envelope containing a pen drive which exploded when he inserted it into a computer, his...
Chinese cyber espionage hackers target Southeast Asian firms
Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary UNC4191, a threat actor with a suspected China affiliation, has been linked to a series of espionage assaults primarily in Southeast Asia that use USB sticks as an initial infection vector. A variety of...
Skeletons in the Closet: Security 101 Takes a Backseat to 0-days
Rarely a month goes by without the infosec industry being plagued by a new zero-day apocalypse. Most recently in December 2021, the world was swept by a series of vulnerabilities in Log4J – a popular logging system used by thousands of systems around the world. While writing this article, the...
FIN7 Mails Malicious USB Sticks to Drop Ransomware
Ransomware gangs are mailing malicious USB drives, posing as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS and/or Amazon to target the transportation, insurance and defense industries for ransomware infection, the FBI warned on Friday. In a security alert sent to organizations, the FBI sai...
usb-sticks.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1041196
Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website operator about its existence...
7 Cybersecurity Threats That Can Sneak Up on You
From rogue USB sticks to Chrome extensions gone wild, here is a quick guide to some basic risks you should look out for...
Microsoft Windows NTFS File System Metadata Disclosures Exploit
The Microsoft Windows Kernel suffers from multiple stack and pool memory disclosures into NTFS file system metadata. Windows Kernel multiple stack and pool memory disclosures into NTFS file system metadata CVE-2017-11880 We have discovered that the NTFS.sys driver writes uninitialized kernel stac...
Beware — Someone is dropping Malware-infected USB Sticks into People's Letterbox
Hey! Wait! Wait! Wait! Don't plug in that USB stick into your laptop. It could infect your computer with malware and viruses. Australia's Victoria Police Force has issued a warning regarding unmarked USB flash drives containing harmful malware being dropped inside random people's letterboxes in t...
BadTunnel: the impact of Win95 to Win10“Super-vulnerability”with CVE-2 0 1 6-3 2 1 3-the vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net
! Yesterday, Microsoft released a high-risk vulnerability patch the vulnerability by Tencent basaltic laboratory Creator to Yang Chinese circle of safety person of the TK, the leader of the Find, and named it“BadTunnel”, is currently the Windows history of the most wide-reaching vulnerabilities,...
SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : util-linux (SUSE-SU-2015:0270-1)
util-linux was updated to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2014-9114: Using crafted block devices e.g. USB sticks it was possibly to inject code via libblkid. libblkid was fixed to care about unsafe chars and possible buffer overflow in cache bnc907434 The update...
IBM Distributes Malware on USB Sticks
For the second year in a row, attendees at the AusCERT conference in Australia got an ugly surprise from USB keys handed out at a vendor booth. The company wiping eggs from its face this year is IBM Australia. According to an e-mail sent to AusCERT attendees, USB sticks distributed at the IBM boo...
Flawed USB Sticks Can Be Used to Download Whatever Desired
UK security researchers MWR InfoSecurity have found a flaw in the driver software of USB sticks that could allow the technology to “interrogate” and download the complete content of any system. The company believes the use of such devices is only months away, and has shared its research with the...