Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The service analyzes third-party Javascript libraries for vulnerabilities using RetireJS and the Content Security Policy (CSP) of an extension to identify which domains an extension can communicate with. The post Duo Labs presents CRXcavator Service that analyzes Chrome Extensions appeared first on Security Affairs.

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CILIP

JANUARY 31, 2025

Invitation to tender: Future ready libraries CILIP is inviting researchers to undertake a gap analysis and consultation with sector experts to create a comprehensive review of training provision for leadership in the public library workforce in England.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

Red Hat warns of a backdoor in XZ Utils data compression tools and libraries in Fedora development and experimental versions. Red Hat urges users to immediately stop using systems running Fedora development and experimental versions because of a backdoor in the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries. rpm and xz-libs-5.6.0-2.fc40.x86_64.rpm

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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. This means that if a remote attacker sends the “SSH2_MSG_USERAUTH_SUCCESS” response to libssh, the library considers that the authentication has been successfully completed.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The company pointed out that crash dumps should not include the signing key, but a race condition allowed the key to be present in the crash dump (this issue has been fixed by the company). The investigation revealed that the system crash in April of 2021 resulted in a snapshot of the crashed process (“crash dump”).

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2024

In addition to this shared infrastructure, Macma and other malware in the Daggerfly’s arsenal, including Mgbot all contain code from a single, shared library or framework. Elements of this library have been used to build Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android threats. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The issue can be exploited by triggering a recently disclosed VM sandbox escape vulnerability (CVE-2022-36067 aka Sandbreak) in the vm2 third-party library. The researchers explained that the template engine utilizes the vm2 library to prevent the execution of untrusted code. ” reads the advisory published by Oxeye.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2019

This presents no issue for a Black Hat, but is quite limiting for a Red Team. This library tries to load the missing DLL “diagtrack_wininternal.dll” several times per day. Tracking high-privileges libraries calls with DLL-based loggers. dll” which is not always present when users plug in the projector’s USB dongle.

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The Texas Record

AUGUST 20, 2020

This event is organized by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) and co-sponsored with the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) to promote electronic records management in Texas government. TSLAC and DIR are looking for learner-focused presentations designed to engage virtual audiences.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

CVE-2024-7262 Kingsoft WPS Office Path Traversal Vulnerability: An improper path validation vulnerability in Kingsoft WPS Office (versions 12.2.0.13110 to 12.2.0.16412) allows attackers to load arbitrary Windows libraries via the promecefpluginhost.exe. According to the WPS website , WPS Office has over 500 million active users worldwide.

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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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CILIP

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

New Future Libraries project to support resilience and strategic growth in Public Libraries Future Libraries is a two-part initiative from CILIP to challenge and engage librarians and library leaders to reimagine libraries in a world of evolving living and working patterns in the context of a rapidly changing world.

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CILIP

JANUARY 15, 2025

CILIP joins sector stakeholders to present strategic briefing to Minister Chris Bryant The Strategic Briefing Paper proposes a series of actionable steps that the minister can undertake to align libraries with the Governments strategic priorities.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

Each pirated application included the following components: Malicious dylib , a library loaded by the application that acts as a dropper. “ Upon executing the FinalShell.dmg application, the dylib library loads the backdoor “bd.log” and the downloader “fl01.log” log” from a remote server.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2023

On Friday, OpenAI revealed that the recent exposure of users’ personal information and chat titles in its chatbot service was caused by a bug in the Redis open-source library. we had a significant issue in ChatGPT due to a bug in an open source library, for which a fix has now been released and we have just finished validating.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2024

Researchers from the firmware security firm Binarly released a free online scanner to detect the CVE-2024-3094 Backdoor Last week, Microsoft engineer Andres Freund discovered a backdoor issue in the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries. The vulnerability was tracked as CVE-2024-3094 and received a CVSS score of 10.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2022

Microsoft is warning of continuing attempts by nation-state actors and cybercriminals to exploit recently discovered vulnerabilities in the Apache Log4j library to deploy malware on vulnerable systems. “Exploitation attempts and testing have remained high during the last weeks of December. ” Microsoft concludes.

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CILIP

JUNE 17, 2024

Libraries and the fight against truth decay Truth decay is the diminishing role of facts and analysis in public life, it is a phenomenon that erodes civil discourse, causes political paralysis, and leads to general uncertainty around what is and is not. A healthy democracy is helped by an open exchange of views,” said Stijn.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The following schema is an effort to present in a single high-level diagram the workflow of the most popular Latin American trojans. Next, an email template used by Javali to lure victims is presented. dll: Windows legitimate DLL for runtime dependencies – MICROSOFT® C RUNTIME LIBRARY. MSI file – The Javali Dropper.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In the above solutions, privileged processes were attempting to load libraries that are not present at the expected location, allowing the attackers to place their own libraries and get them executed. In all the cases, the privileged processes were not implementing any signature verification against the loaded DLL.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The experts identified two pieces of code in these clicker apps, one is “com.click.cas” library which is usedto automate clicking functionality, the second one is “com.liveposting” library that’s acts as an agent and runs hidden adware services. ” concludes the report Malicious behavior is cleverly hidden from detection.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2020

The “ AutoUpdate.dll” library then gains persistence by setting the following registry key “ HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunOnceWindowsDefender ”. This task can be executed using the Tool Help Library Windows API family using CreateToolhelp32Snapshot() , Process32First() , and Process32Next() API.

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The Texas Record

JULY 12, 2021

This event is organized by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) and co-sponsored with the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) to promote electronic records management in Texas government. TSLAC and DIR are looking for learner-focused presentations designed to engage virtual audiences.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2022

On the other hand, it is possible that files present in the computers of La Poste Mobile employees have been affected. Recent incidents attributed to the group include attacks on a Foxconn factory, a Canadian fighter jet training company, and a popular German library service. “Our IT teams are currently diagnosing the situation.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2021

The experts discovered that Amazon did not verify the authenticity of the email sender, this means that attackers can spoof an email address that is present in the list of approved addresses. Users can share the book with their device by sending it as an attachment to this email address from a predefined list of approved emails.

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CILIP

AUGUST 6, 2024

Approaching AI at the National Library of Scotland Image of the National Library of Scotland by Magnus Hagdorn, from Flickr Robert Cawston, Director of Digital and Service Transformation, introduces a new AI Statement for the National Library of Scotland.

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The Texas Record

JUNE 21, 2019

This event is organized by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) and co-sponsored with the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) to promote electronic records management in Texas government. Presentations should deliver takeaways that are immediately useful to attendees’ work.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2024

Researchers explained that DMPs are present in many Apple CPUs, the researchers demonstrated how to extract keys from OpenSSL Diffie-Hellman, Go RSA, as well as CRYSTALS Kyber and Dilithium. Developers of cryptographic libraries can either set the DOIT bit and DIT bit bits, which disable the DMP on some CPUs.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The stated intent was to recruit “intelligent individuals” by presenting a series of puzzles to be solved; no new puzzles were published on January 4, 2015. These parameters, managed via the clap::args library, include options like: sleep : Delays execution of the ransomware by a specified number of seconds.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

” The researcher presented his findings in a speech at the OPCDE virtual cybersecurity summit. The malicious code leverages two custom resources, ‘godown.dll’and ‘filesystem.dll’ treated as type libraries and registered as OLE controls, to enumerate attached drives, traverse folder structures, and handle some C&C functionality.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

“Unique files are presented to your attention! Recently, the Rhysida ransomware gang added the British Library and China Energy Engineering Corporation to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. Data from the Royal Family! A large amount of patient and employee data. Sale in one lot!!”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2019

. “To confound detection, its operators recently started using PowerShell scripts that provide direct, in- memory loading and execution of malware executables and libraries. The PowerShell scripts used by Turla in recent attacks allow direct, in-memory loading and execution of malicious executables and libraries avoiding detection.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2022

The malware uses cmd.exe to read and execute a file stored on the infected external drive, it leverages msiexec.exe for external network communication to a rogue domain used as C2 to download and install a DLL library file. Then msiexec.exe launches a legitimate Windows utility, fodhelper.exe, which in turn run rundll32.exe

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2023

Security Joes researchers Thiago Peixoto, Felipe Duarte, and Ido Naor demonstrated that misusing trusted Windows libraries that already contain sections with default protections set as RWX (Read-Write-Execute) it is possible to inject code into various processes without executing several Windows APIs. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

Cyber Security Specialist Zoziel Pinto Freire shows an example of malicious file analysis presented during his lecture on BSides-Vitória 2022. My objective with this series of articles is to show examples of malicious file analysis that I presented during my lecture on BSides-Vitória 2022. Example: peframe file_name. Pdf-parser.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

Upon visiting the website, the victim will notice that it is presented as an online forum directly answering his query. This is a trojanized JavaScript library containing an obfuscated JScript file, which will ultimately execute GOOTLOADER.POWERSHELL. This forum hosted a ZIP archive that contains the malicious.js file inside.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2022

ESET experts presented their findings at this year’s Virus Bulletin conference highlighting the use of vulnerable drivers in the attack chain, defining the technique as Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD). The library modify kernel variables and remove kernel callbacks in the attempt to disable the features.

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