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Monthly Archives: November 2020

Silver Peak SD-WAN Bugs Allow for Network Takeover

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Nvidia Warns Windows Gamers of GeForce NOW Flaw
Ragnar Locker Ransomware Gang Takes Out Facebook Ads in Key New Tactic
Minecraft Apps on Google Play Fleece Players Out of Big Money
“Instant bank fraud” hoax is back – don’t spread fake news!
Try to avoid thinking of the internet as a flashy new battlefield, warns former NCSC chief
High-Severity Cisco DoS Flaw Can Immobilize ASR Routers
Now-patched Ubuntu desktop vulnerability allows privilege escalation
COVID-19 Data-Sharing App Leaked Healthcare Worker Info

Several security issues were fixed in Intel Microcode.

Windows users told to patch now after active zero-day attacks disclosed by Google

raptor2 could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

GNAP: OAuth the next generation
4 steps to DevSecOps in your software supply chain

An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that solves 18 vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes 18 vulnerabilities is now available.

Europe clamps down on cybersurveillance exports, pushes human rights focus
Microsoft emits 112 security hole fixes – including the cure for a Google-disclosed kernel vuln exploited in the wild
Microsoft Patch Tuesday Update Fixes 17 Critical Bugs

Reading Time: ~ 4 min. A few years back, cryptojacking and cryptomining emerged as relatively low-effort ways to profit by hijacking another’s computing resources. Today, cloudjacking and cloud mining capitalize on similar principles, only by targeting the near infinite resources of the cloud to generate revenue for attackers. Knowing this growing threat is key to […]

Colossal Intel Update Anchored by Critical Privilege-Escalation Bugs
Scalper-Bots Shake Down Desperate PS5, Xbox Series X Shoppers

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Radio Frequency fingerprinting of aircraft ADS-B transmitters? Boffins reckon they’ve cracked it
One more reason for Apple to dump Intel processors: Another SGX, kernel data-leak flaw unearthed by experts
Smishing attack tells you “mobile payment problem” – don’t fall for it!
Apple to Deliver ‘Privacy Labels’ for Apps, Revealing Data-Sharing Details
Data on millions of hotel guests exposed in cloud storage leak

The cache of data sitting wide open on a server included full names, national ID numbers and credit card data The post Data on millions of hotel guests exposed in cloud storage leak appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

EA Games’ Origin client contained privilege escalation vuln that anyone with user-grade access could exploit
Ghimob Android Banking Trojan Targets 153 Mobile Apps

The ppp de-capsulator in tcpdump 4.9.3 can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory. The buffer should be big enough to hold the captured data, but it

It was discovered that ZeroMQ, a lightweight messaging kernel library does not properly handle connecting peers before a handshake is completed. A remote, unauthenticated client connecting to an application using the libzmq library, running with a socket

Microsoft Teams Users Under Attack in ‘FakeUpdates’ Malware Campaign

Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

Fabian Vogt discovered a flaw in sddm before 0.19.0. A local attacker can take advantage of a race condition when creating the Xauthority file to escalate privileges (CVE-2020-28049). References:

Lout 3.40 has a buffer overflow in the StringQuotedWord() function in z39.c. (CVE-2019-19917) Lout 3.40 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the srcnext() function in z02.c. (CVE-2019-19918)

ACL restrictions bypass. (CVE-2020-25654) References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27472 – https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/10/27/1

Tim Berners-Lee asks everyone to do new biz a Solid and let him have another crack at fixing the Web’s privacy
Laptop mega-manufacturer Compal hit by DoppelPaymer ransomware – same one that hit German hospital
Millions of hotel guests worldwide have their private details exposed
Zoom strong-armed by US watchdog to beef up security after boasting of end-to-end encryption that didn’t exist
Trump Site Alleging AZ Election Fraud Exposes Voter Data

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Cyberattack on UVM Health Network Impedes Chemotherapy Appointments
Ultimate Member Plugin for WordPress Allows Site Takeover
RansomEXX trojan variant is being deployed against Linux systems, warns Kaspersky
Microsoft Exchange Attack Exposes New xHunt Backdoors
Somebody’s Russian to meddle with UK coronavirus vaccine efforts, but GCHQ won’t take it lying down
Millions of Hotel Guests Worldwide Caught Up in Mass Data Leak
Campari staggers to its feet following $15 million Ragnar Locker ransomware attack

An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

It was discovered that Docker could be made to expose sensitive information when processing URLs in container image manifests. A remote attacker could use this to trick the user and obtain the user’s registry credentials (CVE-2020-15157).

An update that solves 18 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

An update that solves one vulnerability and has 35 fixes is now available.

Chinese hacking competition cracks Chrome, ESXi, Windows 10, iOS 14, Galaxy 20, Qemu, and more
Hackers work 24 hours a day – when will you schedule your security training?

SFD_GetFontMetaData() insufficient CVE-2020-5395 backport. (CVE-2020-25690) References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27563 – https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4844

The latest release of mariadb fixes some undisclosed easily exploitable vulnerabilities. (CVE-2020-14765, CVE-2020-14776, CVE-2020-14789 and CVE-2020-14812). Additionally some bugs are fixed:

It was discovered that junit contained a local information disclosure vulnerability. On Unix like systems, the system’s temporary directory is shared between all users on that system. Because of this, when files and directories are written into this directory they are, by default, readable by other users on that same system. This vulnerability does not […]

Vaisha Bernard discovered that blueman did not properly sanitize input on the D-Bus interface to blueman-mechanism. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges and run arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (CVE-2020-15238).

The suricata package has been updated to version 4.1.9, which fixes security issues and other bugs. See the upstream announcements for details. References: – https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27475

An XSS Vulnerability exists in Webmin 1.941 and earlier affecting the Cluster Shell Commands Endpoint. A user may enter any XSS Payload into the Command field and execute it. Then, after revisiting the Cluster Shell Commands Menu, the XSS Payload will be rendered and executed. (CVE-2020-8820)

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In libexif/exif-entry.c, through libexif 0.6.21-2+deb9u4, compiler optimization could remove a buffer overflow check, making a buffer overflow possible with some EXIF tags.

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has 7 fixes is now available.

It was discovered that raptor2, an RDF parser library, is prone to heap-based buffer overflow flaws, which could result in denial of service, or potentially the execution of arbitrary code, if a specially crafted file is processed.

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Let’s Encrypt warns about a third of Android devices will from next year stumble over sites that use its certs
WordPress Sites Open to Code Injection Attacks via Welcart e-Commerce Bug
Feds Seize $1B in Bitcoin from Silk Road
Campari Site Suffers Ransomware Hangover
Gitpaste-12 Worm Targets Linux Servers, IoT Devices
Ransomware crims read our bank balance and demanded the lot, reveals Scotland’s Dundee and Angus College
Gaming company Capcom hit by cyberattack

The developer of popular video game franchises took swift action to prevent the attack from spreading further across its systems The post Gaming company Capcom hit by cyberattack appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Business VOIP phone systems are being hacked for profit worldwide. Is yours secure?
Black Friday – stay safe before, during and after peak retail season
Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware gang pwns British housing biz via suspected phishing attack

Reading Time: ~ 2 min. Maze Ransomware Group Ends Operations A press release issued this week announced the end of the Maze ransomware group’s data theft operations. In the release, the Maze authors revealed their motives behind one of the most successful ransomware campaigns to date, and why they chose to finally shut down their […]

Apple Patches Bugs Tied to Previously Identified Zero-Days
Snap-crappy: 183 Brit local authorities operate 80,000 CCTV cams between them, says surveillance watchdog

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in WordPress, a web blogging tool. They allowed remote attackers to run insecure deserialization, embed spam, perform various Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) or Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks, escalate privileges, run arbitrary

netqmail could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.

Ransomware attack shutters Brazilian courts. But did attackers breach the virtual machine divide?
Tech support scammer dialed random number and Australian Police’s cybercrime squad answered
Apple emits iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS patches to fix three hijack-my-device flaws exploited in the wild
Gaming Giant Capcom Hit By Ragnar Locker Ransomware: Report
Zoom Snooping: How Body Language Can Spill Your Password

Update to CVE release 3001.3-1 for Python3 Includes fixes for CVE-2020-16846, CVE-2020-17490, CVE-2020-25592

Fix executable hardening (PIC/PIE)

Update to v2.1.4. Contains security fix for CVE-2020-15238.

Update to Chromium 86. A few big things here: 1. Upstream has made hardware accelerated video support (VAAPI) for Linux possible without patches. One key difference is that the patchset used previously in Fedora enabled it by default and upstream’s approach disables it by default. To enable Hardware accelerated video in chromium, open this link […]

Following Ubisoft cyber attack, hackers claim to leak Watch Dogs: Legion code online