Osama Bin Laden-Themed Phishing

Summary The intent of this advisory is to provide general guidance to public and private sector organizations and individuals on potential targeted phishing attacks often referred to as “spear phishing” with respect to the Osama Bin Laden related media reporting, and to offer some suggested metho...

Fedora Update for clamav FEDORA-2013-4818

Check for the Version of clamav OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for clamav FEDORA-2013-4818 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the term...

Fedora Update for clamav FEDORA-2013-4816

Check for the Version of clamav OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for clamav FEDORA-2013-4816 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the term...

Malware that turns computers into Bitcoin miners

Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new spam message campaign being transmitted via Skype contains malware capable of using an infected computer to mine for Bitcoins. The malware, identified as Trojan.Win32.Jorik.IRCbot.xkt. Bitcoin is a non-governmental, fully-digital currency based...

Shylock Trojan Going Global with New Features, Resilient Infrastructure

The prolific, credential-stealing Shylock banking Trojan is growing increasingly sophisticated as its creators continue adding new modules and functionalities to the man-in-the-browser malware, according to a Symantec report. To this point, Shylock has made its money via man-in-the-browser attack...

USN-1773-1: ClamAV vulnerabilities

Felix Groebert, Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered multiple security issues with ClamAV. An attacker could use these issues to cause ClamAV to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code...

Sophos Anti-Virus CAB Files Invalid typeCompress Parsing Heap Buffer Overflow - Improved Performance

A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in Sophos Anti-Virus. The vulnerability is due to an error in the way the application handles invalid values. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by causing the affected application to process a specially crafted CAB file. Successfu...

Massive cyber attack on South Korean banks and TV broadcasters

Computer networks at major South Korean banks and top TV broadcasters crashed simultaneously Wednesday, during a Massive cyber attack. South Korean police investigating reports from several major broadcasters and banks. least three broadcasters KBS, MBC and YTN and the Shinhan and Nonghyu banks...

Massive cyber attack on South Korean banks and TV broadcasters

Computer networks at major South Korean banks and top TV broadcasters crashed simultaneously Wednesday, during a Massive cyber attack. South Korean police investigating reports from several major broadcasters and banks. least three broadcasters KBS, MBC and YTN and the Shinhan and Nonghyu banks...

Reserve Bank of Australia Hacked by Chinese malware

If hackers want to get into your computer network, they will find a way. You can make it harder but you can't stop them. According to Australian Financial Review report on Monday, the Reserve Bank of Australia RBA was hacked by hackers who infiltrated its networks and allegedly stole information...

Oil Producer Saudi Aramco twitter account hacked

Twitter continues to implement new security features. But really, who thinks social media will ever be unhackable? The official twitter account of Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer hacked by hacker with name 'Mister Rero'. The background on Saudi Aramco’s official Twitter page and th...

Sophos Anti-Virus RAR VMSF_DELTA Filter Signedness Error

A signedness error vulnerability exists in Sophos Anti-Virus. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of one of the parameters of the VMSFDELTA filter while parsing RAR files. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by causing Sophos Anti-Virus to process a specially crafte...

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Windows)

This host is installed with McAfee VirusScan Enterprise and is prone to privilege escalation vulnerability. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbmcafeevseprivescvulnwin.nasl 6104 2017-05-11 09:03:48Z teissa $ McAfee VirusScan Enterprise Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Windows Authors: Arun Kallav...

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise Privilege Escalation Vulnerability - Windows

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

WordPress plugins wp-catpro arbitrary file upload-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Wordpress plugins - wp-catpro Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Author = Zikou-1 6 Mailbox = [email protected] Test System : Windows 7 , Backtrack 5r3...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Photo Attachment Email Messages on February 24, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 28366 First Published: 2013 February 26 00:17 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam e-mail messages that claim to contain a photo attachment for the recipient. The text in the e-mail message attempts to convince the recipient to...

Europol Takes Down Ransomware Gang in Spain, UAE

A ransomware ring was taken down Wednesday in the United Arab Emirates and Spain by Europol and Spanish law enforcement, smashing an operation that netted more than €1 million annually. The eleven individuals arrested included six Russians, two Ukrainians and two Georgians; the 27-year-old...

Cross Platform Trojan builder distributed on underground forums

A Cross platform back door 'Frutas' remote access tool RAT is available for download on many forums from January 2013. This Trojan builder is completely written in Java. Recently, Symantec experts analyse that Frutas RAT allows attackers to create a connect-back client JAR file to run on a...

Cross Platform Trojan builder distributed on underground forums

A Cross platform back door 'Frutas' remote access tool RAT is available for download on many forums from January 2013. This Trojan builder is completely written in Java. Recently, Symantec experts analyse that Frutas RAT allows attackers to create a connect-back client JAR file to run on a...

Chinese Hackers hit New York Times and Wall Street Journal

The New York Times says Chinese hackers probably working for the military or Chinese government have carried out sustained attacks on its computer systems, breaking in and stealing the passwords of high-profile reporters and other staff members. For the last four months, Chinese hackers have...