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Let’s Encrypt updates certificate automation, adds splats
Dangerous malware stealing bitcoin hosted on Download.com for years

ESET researchers dicovered that Trojanized applications used to steal bitcoin were hosted inadvertently by the popular website download.cnet.com. The post Dangerous malware stealing bitcoin hosted on Download.com for years appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Russian anti-antivirus security tester pleads guilty to certifying attack code

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Hackers allegedly steal confidential reports from Police server
OK, deep breath, relax… Let’s have a sober look at these ‘ere annoying AMD chip security flaws
Microsoft Patches 15 Critical Bugs in March Patch Tuesday Update

LinuxSecurity.com: The package calibre before version 3.19.0-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary command execution.

LinuxSecurity.com: The package dovecot before version 2.3.0.1-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including information disclosure and denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Chromium and Google Chrome, the worst of which could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

It’s March 2018, and your Windows PC can be pwned by a web article (well, none of OURS)
AMD Investigating Reports of 13 Critical Vulnerabilities Found in Ryzen, EPYC Chips
Is the financial sector the most vulnerable to cyber attacks?

LinuxSecurity.com: mailman: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in web UI (CVE-2018-5950) SL6 x86_64 mailman-2.1.12-26.el6_9.3.x86_64.rpm mailman-debuginfo-2.1.12-26.el6_9.3.x86_64.rpm i386 mailman-2.1.12-26.el6_9.3.i686.rpm mailman-debuginfo-2.1.12-26.el6_9.3.i686.rpm – Scientific Linux Development Team

LinuxSecurity.com: mailman: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in web UI (CVE-2018-5950) SL7 x86_64 mailman-2.1.15-26.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm mailman-debuginfo-2.1.15-26.el7_4.1.x86_64.rpm – Scientific Linux Development Team

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for 389-ds-base is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for libreoffice is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from

APT15 Hackers Hit UK Govt Contractor to Steal Military Technology Secrets

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

Samba Patches Two Critical Vulnerabilities in Server Software
Calendar 2 app pulled from Mac App Store after cryptomining controversy
SecurEnvoy SecurMail, you say? Only after this patch is applied, though
China-Linked APT15 Used Myriad of New Tools To Hack UK Government Contractor
Hackers can steal data from Air-Gapped PCs with microphones & speakers
Mozilla wants to seduce BOFHs with button-down Firefox
Cryptocurrency exchange announces bounty on hackers

The attack itself unfolded within the span of two minutes on March 7. Hackers made a flurry of automated transactions that involved the digital currencies Viacoin (VIA) and Bitcoin (BTC). The post Cryptocurrency exchange announces bounty on hackers appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

How Creative DDOS Attacks Still Slip Past Defenses

LinuxSecurity.com: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:

OceanLotus ships new backdoor using old tricks

To smuggle the backdoor onto a targeted machine, the group uses a two-stage attack whereby a dropper package first gains a foothold on the system and sets the stage for the backdoor itself. This process involves some trickery commonly associated with targeted operations of this kind. The post OceanLotus ships new backdoor using old tricks […]

Know who hacked the Binance cryptocurrency exchange? Earn $250,000
CEO of smartmobe outfit Phantom Secure cuffed after cocaine sting, boast of murder-by-GPS

security update

Yahoo! Can’t! Toss! Hacking! Lawsuit!

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for bind is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise

Air gapping PCs won’t stop data sharing thanks to sneaky speakers

We live in the future. Not one with teleportation, time travel, or flying cars, but one where talking to inanimate objects is the “normal,” even “cool” thing to do. According to The Smart Audio Report from NPR and Edison Research, 39 million people now own an interactive, voice-activated smart speaker and, in just a few […]

LinuxSecurity.com: An update is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, and 3.3. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,

LinuxSecurity.com: dhcp: Buffer overflow in dhclient possibly allowing code execution triggered by malicious server (CVE-2018-5732) * dhcp: Reference count overflow in dhcpd allows denial of service (CVE-2018-5733) SL7 x86_64 dhclient-4.2.5-58.el7_4.3.x86_64.rpm dhcp-common-4.2.5-58.el7_4.3.x86_64.rpm dhcp-debuginfo-4.2.5-58.el7_4.3.i686.rpm dhcp-debuginfo-4.2.5-58.el7_4.3.x86_64.rpm dhcp [More…]

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for bind is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Telco Extended Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Extended Update Support.

LinuxSecurity.com: Update to latest version. Security-Fixes TROVE-2018-001, TROVE-2018-002,

LinuxSecurity.com: An update for dhcp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability

Life is cheap! Well it is on Dark Web where your entire identity is for sale

Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.

FireEye’s Marina Krotofil On Triton and ICS Threats
China ALTERED its public vuln database to conceal spy agency tinkering – research
CCleaner Attackers Intended To Deploy Keylogger In Third Stage
Keep Your Home Warm with this cryptomining heater
UK’s air accident cops are slurping data from pilots’ fondleslabs
Controversial age checks to access online porn delayed in UK
Join SC Media for their 12th annual cybersecurity conference, RiskSec, in New York!

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated Red Hat Enterprise Messaging, Realtime, and Grid (MRG) Realtime packages that fix multiple security issues and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security

LinuxSecurity.com: An update that solves 8 vulnerabilities and has 14 fixes is now available.

SparkyLinux 5.3 Rolling Linux OS Debuts Based on Debian GNU/Linux 10 “Buster”
Cavalry riding to the rescue of DDoS-deluged memcached users
Suspicious cert-sellers give badware a good name for just a few thousand bucks
$250k bounty for anyone exposing hackers behind Binance attempted attack

security update

LinuxSecurity.com: **PHP version 7.1.15** (01 Mar 2018) **Apache2Handler:** * Fixed bug php#75882 (a simple way for segfaults in threadsafe php just with configuration). (Anatol) **Date:** * Fixed bug php#75857 (Timezone gets truncated when formatted). (carusogabriel) * Fixed bug php#75928 (Argument 2 for `DateTimeZone::listIdentifiers()` should accept `null`). (Pedro Lacerda) * Fixed

Sauna security camera hacked; nude videos of Dutch Women’s Handball Team leaked

LinuxSecurity.com: Bjorn Bosselmann discovered that the umount bash completion from util-linux does not properly handle embedded shell commands in a mountpoint name. An attacker with rights to mount filesystems can take advantage of this flaw for privilege escalation if a user (in particular

State Spy Programs, espionage & Monero mining – fingers point at Sandvine
Robots can be hacked with ransomware & curse at customers

LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that there were multiple vulnerabilities in the “zsh” shell: * CVE-2014-10070: Fix a privilege-elevation issue if the

Israeli Rabbi arrested for hacking CCTV cameras at women’ bathing suit shop
Cyber Espionage Campaign ‘Slingshot’ Targets Victims Via Routers

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0378

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0377

Auto manufacturers are asleep at the wheel when it comes to security

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0414

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0418

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0406

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0395

LinuxSecurity.com: Upstream details at : https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0469

How Dutch Police Busted Hansa Dark Web Marketplace
Less than half of paying ransomware targets get their files back
Slingshot malware uses cunning plan to find a route to sysadmins
Citizen Lab says Sandvine network gear aids government spyware

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in ClamAV.

LinuxSecurity.com: Several security issues were fixed in Zsh.

Sofacy APT Adopts New Tactics and Far East Targets
New traces of Hacking Team in the wild

Since being founded in 2003, the Italian spyware vendor Hacking Team gained notoriety for selling surveillance tools to governments and their agencies across the world. The capabilities of its flagship product, the Remote Control System (RCS), include extracting files from a targeted device, intercepting emails and instant messaging, as well as remotely activating a device’s […]

Security Camera Found Riddled With Bugs
New FlawedAmmyy RAT steals data and intercepts audio chat
Unidentified hax0rs told not to blab shipping biz Clarksons’ stolen data
Vulnerability in Robots Can Lead To Costly Ransomware Attacks
How to Rename Multiple Files on Linux
DVLA denies driving licence processing site is a security ‘car crash’
FBI again calls for magical solution to break into encrypted phones
Homeland Security’s IT security continues to fall short