PT-2020-10744

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions LG PC Suite versions 5.3.27 and earlier Description An issue was discovered in LG PC Suite where DLL Hijacking can occur via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory. Recommendations For LG PC Suite versions 5.3.27 and earlier,...

CVE-2019-20769: Uncontrolled Search Path Element

An issue was discovered in LG PC Suite for LG G3 and earlier aka LG PC Suite v5.3.27 and earlier. DLL Hijacking can occur via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory. The LG ID is LVE-MOT-190001 November 2019...

Amid COVID-19, Global Orgs See a 148% Spike in Ransomware Attacks; Finance Industry Heavily Targeted

Cyber criminals often exploit fear and uncertainty during major world events by launching cyberattacks. These attacks are often performed with social engineering campaigns leveraging malicious emails that lure victims to install malware that steals financial data and other valuable personal...

Why CISOs Are Demanding Detection and Response Everywhere

Over the past three decades, we’ve had time at Trend Micro to observe the industry trends that have the biggest impact on our customers. And one of the big things we’ve seen is that threats move largely in tandem with changes to IT infrastructure. This matters today because most organizations are...

COVID-19: Cybersecurity Community Resources

Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 has thrust personal safety and security into the public’s consciousness in an unprecedented way. Families, employees and global businesses have been forced to upend their lives to make their respective communities healthier and more resilient. Our collective response to...

Secure Remote Working During COVID-19 — Checklist for CISOs

Coronavirus crisis introduces a heavy burden on the CISOs with the collective impact of a mass transition to working remotely coupled with a surge of cyberattacks that strive to monetize the general chaos. Security vendors, unintendedly, contribute to this burden by a relentless generation of noi...

Authenticating your call centre when everyone is remote

Some unique challenges present themselves as workforce's shift to remote working. One that is not likely top of the pile, but is an easy avenue for abuse is authentication. When I talk about authentication, I don’t mean how users logon or access their emails for example. What I mean is how you...

Unauthorized Removal Of Working Directory

lftp is vulnerable to Unauthorized Removal of Working Directory. A particular remote file names may lead to current working directory erased...

samba: smb client vulnerable to filenames containing path separators

A flaw was found in the samba client where a malicious server can supply a pathname to the client with separators. This could allow the client to access files and folders outside of the SMB network pathnames. An attacker could use this vulnerability to create files outside of the current working...

A week in security (March 16 – 22)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we concluded our series on child identity theft. We also looked into threat actors and campaigns that ride the COVID-19 train, namely the criminal group APT36 and threat actors purporting to be the World Health Organization WHO but instead spreading malware. Lastly...

News Wrap, Coronavirus Edition: WFH Security Woes, Pwn2Own

For the week ended March 20, Threatpost editors break down the top security stories, including: The various cybercriminal activities – malware, phishing and other scams – tapping into the coronavirus pandemic The security risks of businesses working from home due to the virus’ spread Privacy...

Coronavirus Poll Results: Cyberattacks Ramp Up, WFH Prep Uneven

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep the globe and Americans are told to isolate from others, many organizations are sending employees home to work. While most respondents in a Threatpost poll this week said they feel prepared from a security standpoint for this transition, a fifth of them...

Coronavirus Poll Results: Cyberattacks Ramp Up, WFH Prep Uneven

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep the globe and Americans are told to isolate from others, many organizations are sending employees home to work. While most respondents in a Threatpost poll this week said they feel prepared from a security standpoint for this transition, a fifth of them...

Technical Analysis: Hackers Leveraging COVID-19 Pandemic to Launch Phishing Attacks, Fake Apps/Maps, Trojans, Backdoors, Cryptominers, Botnets & Ransomware

The global COVID-19 pandemic is generating a substantial uptick in the production and delivery of Coronavirus themed malware. Due to a rapidly growing number of Indicators of Compromise IOC’s, this report covers the key behaviors by aligning to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework. MITRE ATT&CK launched in...

Threat Source newsletter (March 19, 2020)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. We hope everyone is staying home if possible and staying safe. Unfortunately, the bad guys aren’t going anywhere, so we’re still pluggin...

The Coronavirus is Already Taking Effect on Cyber Security– This is How CISOs Should Prepare

The Coronavirus is hitting hard on the world’s economy, creating a high volume of uncertainty within organizations. Cynet has revealed new data, showing that the Coronavirus now has a significant impact on information security and that the crisis is actively exploited by threat actors. In light o...

USN-4275-1: Qt vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Qt incorrectly handled certain PPM images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted PPM file, a remote attacker could cause Qt to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...

MGASA-2020-0080 Updated qtbase5 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated qtbase5 packages fix security vulnerabilities: QPluginLoader in Qt versions 5.0.0 through 5.13.2 would search for certain plugins first on the current working directory of the application, which allows an attacker that can place files in the file system and influence the working directory...

container-tools:rhel8 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update is available for containernetworking-plugins, python-podman-api, udica, cockpit-podman. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The...

PT-2021-6501

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Qt versions 5.14.0 Description The issue is related to the QPluginLoader component of the Qt framework, which allows the loading of plugins relative to the working directory. This can be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code via...