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MAY 8, 2019

Threat actors are exploiting a Jenkins vulnerability (CVE-2018-1000861) disclosed in 2018 to deliver a cryptocurrency miner using the Kerberods dropper. Security researchers publicly disclosed technical details of the vulnerability. Users with Overall/Read permission could create new user objects in memory. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

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MARCH 28, 2019

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-20250, was discovered by experts at Check Point in February, it could allow an attacker to gain control of the target system. The flaw is an “Absolute Path Traversal” issue in the library that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code by using a specially-crafted file archive.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

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AUGUST 3, 2018

A vulnerability in the Symfony HttpFoundation component tracked as CVE-2018-14773, could be exploited by attackers to take full control of the affected Drupal websites. Maintainers at Drupal addressed the security bypass vulnerability by releasing a new version of the popular content management system, the version 8.5.6.

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AUGUST 29, 2018

Qualys experts discovered that OpenSSH is still vulnerable to Oracle attack, it is affected by the CVE-2018-15919 flaw at least since September 2011. Security experts from Qualys discovered that OpenSSH is still vulnerable to Oracle attack, it is affected by the CVE-2018-15919 flaw at least since September 2011.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

The Libssh library is affected by a severe flaw that could be exploited by attackers to completely bypass authentication and take over a vulnerable server. released in 2014, The issue tracked as CVE-2018-10933 was discovered by Peter Winter-Smith from NCC Group, it ties a coding error in Libssh. ” reads the security advisory.

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JULY 16, 2018

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

SAP today just released the September 2018 set of Security Notes that address a total of 14 flaws in its products, including a critical flaw in SAP Business Client. The September 2018 Security Patch Day includes other 13 Security Notes, three were rated High severity, 9 Medium risk, and 1 Low severity.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

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AUGUST 16, 2018

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OCTOBER 17, 2020

All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer,” the npm security team said. Experts warn that systems running applications that imported one of these packages should be potentially compromised because the three JavaScript libraries opened web shells on the computers running them.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

The script loads various resources from Feedify’s infrastructure, including a library named “feedbackembad -min-1.0.js They've been affected by Magecart since Friday, August 17 2018 @ 16:51:01 GMT as we recorded it. They've been affected by Magecart since Friday, August 17 2018 @ 16:51:01 GMT as we recorded it.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

The security researcher Sam Thomas from Secarma, has discovered a new attack technique that leverages critical deserialization vulnerabilities in PHP programming language. A Phar application or library could be distributed in a single file. Thomas reported his findings to the WordPress security team on 28th February 2017l.

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AUGUST 15, 2018

Microsoft Patch Tuesday update for August 2018 addresses a total of 60 vulnerabilities, two of which are actively exploited in attacks in the wild. Let’s start with the vulnerabilities exploited in attacks in the wild: CVE-2018-8373 – IE Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability.

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OCTOBER 14, 2018

Experts from 0Patch revealed that the Microsoft Zero-Day Patch for JET Database Engine vulnerability ( CVE-2018-8423 ) is incomplete. Lucas Leong reported the flaw to Microsoft in early May 2018, he expected the flaw would have been fixed with the September 2018 Patch Tuesday set of security updates, but Microsoft did not fix it.

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JULY 13, 2019

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

US CISA added TIBCO Software’s JasperReports vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2018-5430 (CVSS score: 7.7) and CVE-2018-18809 (CVSS score: 9.9), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, TIBCO JasperReports is an open-source Java reporting tool for creating and managing reports and dashboards. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JANUARY 17, 2019

Drupal released security updates for Drupal 7, 8.5 that address two “critical” security vulnerabilities that could be exploited for arbitrary code execution. ” reads the security advisory. ” reads the security advisory. “Drupal core uses the third-party PEAR Archive_Tar library.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

The Commons FileUpload library is the default file upload mechanism in Struts 2, the CVE-2016-1000031 was discovered two years ago by experts at Tenable. The post Oracle critical patch advisory addresses 284 flaws, 33 critical appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads the d escription provided by. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 20, 2018

A security researcher discovered a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-9206 , that affects older versions of the jQuery File Upload plugin since 2010. In order to address these changes and correct the file upload vulnerability in CVE-2018-9206 in Blueimp, the developer only allows file uploads to be of a content-type image.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

“LD_PRELOAD forces binaries to load specific libraries before others, allowing the preloaded libraries to override any function from any library. One of the ways to use LD_PRELOAD is to add the crafted library to /etc/ld.so.preload.” ” continues the analysis. Pro-Ocean deploys an XMRig miner 5.11.1

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Researchers discovered that devices from Dell, HP, and Lenovo are still using outdated versions of the OpenSSL cryptographic library. Binarly researchers discovered that devices from Dell, HP, and Lenovo are still using outdated versions of the OpenSSL cryptographic library. The most recent OpenSSL version was released in 2018.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Security experts at Symantec have discovered eight potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) into the Microsoft Store that were dropping cryptojacking Coinhive miners. The malicious Monero (XMR) Coinhive cryptomining scripts were delivered leveraging the Google’s legitimate Google Tag Manager (GTM) library. Pierluigi Paganini.

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MARCH 7, 2019

UPnP-enabled devices running outdated software are exposed to a wide range of attacks exploiting known flaws in UPnP libraries. ” In April 2018, Akamai reported that threat actors compromised 65,000 home routers by exploiting vulnerabilities in Universal Plug’N’Play (UPnP) , experts tracked the botnet as UPnProxy.

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JULY 27, 2022

Researchers from WithSecure (formerly F-Secure Business) have discovered an ongoing operation, named DUCKTAIL, that targets individuals and organizations that operate on Facebook’s Business and Ads platform. Experts attribute the campaign to a Vietnamese financially motivated threat actor which is suspected to be active since 2018.

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APRIL 3, 2019

Security researchers at Cylance discovered that the OceanLotus APT (also known as APT32 or Cobalt Kitty , group is using a loader leveraging steganography to deliver a version of Denes backdoor and an updated version of Remy backdoor. ” reads the report published by the experts. Steganography Loader #2 – Features.

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MARCH 2, 2019

Cyber Defense Magazine October 2018 Edition has arrived. Sponsored by: Aristotle Insight HelpSystems Inky Regent University White Hat Security. Visit our online library by clicking here. appeared first on Security Affairs. MARCH 2019 EDITION (RSA CONFERENCE PRINT EDITION & E-MAG COMING NEXT WEEK). Pierluigi Paganini.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

The electronics firm Omron released a security update to address flaws in its CX-Supervisor product that can be exploited DoS attacks and remote code execution. by the security expert Esteban Ruiz of Source Incite. One of the vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2018-19027 received a “high” severity rating. of CX-Supervisor. .

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MAY 23, 2024

A previously unknown China-linked threat actor dubbed ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ has been targeting military and government entities since 2018. Bitdefender researchers discovered a previously unknown China-linked threat actor dubbed ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ that has been targeting military and government entities since 2018.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Security experts at Cybaze – Yoroi ZLab have analyzed a new sample of the AdvisorsBot malware, a downloader that was first spotted in August 2018. It’s interesting to notice it calls some “non-library” functions; functions loaded from the previously referenced dll file. Last DNS activity was in December 2018.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Security researcher Nguyen The Duc published on GitHub the proof-of-concept exploit code for a Ghostscript zero-day vulnerability. The library is widely used by many servers that leverage it for image conversion and is used as part of the file upload processing application, such as ImageMagick. Airbnb, Dropbox, and Yandex).

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

Threat actors infected the iPhone of New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware between June 2018 to June 2021. “Notably, these infections occurred after Hubbard complained to NSO Group that he was targeted by the Saudi-linked KINGDOM Pegasus operator in June 2018.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

The key is stored in plain text to a local file called %AppData%Signalconfig.json on Windows PCs and on a Mac at ~/Library/Application Support/Signal/config.json. Security Affairs – Signal, hacking ). Security Affairs – Signal, hacking ). Source Bleeping Computer. Pierluigi Paganini. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The exploit code for the CVE-2018-14847 vulnerabilities is becoming a commodity in the hacking underground, just after its disclosure crooks started using it to compromise MikroTik routers. Even if the vendor released a security fix that addresses the flaw in April, the number of not updated routers is still very high.

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MARCH 15, 2019

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-20250, was discovered by experts at Check Point in February, it could allow an attacker to gain the control of the target system. The flaw is an “Absolute Path Traversal” issue in the library that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code by using a specially-crafted file archive.

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MARCH 28, 2022

Muhstik is a botnet that is known to use web application exploits to compromise IoT devices, it has been around for at least 2018. The bot includes exploits for Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerabilities CVE-2019-2725 and CVE-2017-10271 , and the Drupal RCE flaw tracked as CVE-2018-7600. It saves it as “/tmp/russ” and executes it.

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