Vulnerability Description On March 10, 2021, Beijing time, Microsoft released March 2021 Security Updates that fix 89 vulnerabilities, including high-risk ones like remote code execution and privilege escalation in various widely used products such as Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange Server, Internet Explorer, and Visual Studio. In these security...
Year: 2021
‘FreakOut’ Malware Analysis – FreakOut Samples
Produced by: NSFOCUS Security Labs FreakOut samples appearing in the campaign were a typical IRC bot Trojan program written in Python. The Trojan program would connect to IRC channels in hardcoded C&C and act as instructed by C&C to collect information, launch DDoS attacks, interact with shells, and conduct ARP...
‘FreakOut’ Malware Analysis – Groups Behind FreakOut
Produced by: NSFOCUS Security Labs In early January 2021, NSFOCUS Security Labs captured an unknown malicious program called "out.py" via its real-time data platform, which is usually spread with the domain name "gxbrowser.net". NSFOCUS Security Labs conducted an in-depth research on the samples and payloads of the malware and compared...
Numerous Bank Customers Getting Hooked on SMS Phishing
Event Overview Since February 2021, NSFOCUS's emergency response team has found that several provinces in China saw multiple SMS phishing events using fake bank domain names. As these events bear a striking resemblance in the phishing playbook, attack means, and phishing website pages, we can largely determine that these attacks...
Microsoft Exchange Server Multiple High-Risk Vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Description On March 2, NSFOCUS observed that Microsoft released emergency security updates to fix seven vulnerabilities in Exchange Server. Exchange server-side request forgery vulnerability (CVE-2021-26855): An unauthenticated attacker, via a crafted HTTP request, could exploit this vulnerability to scan the intranet and authenticate as Exchange Server. Exchange Server deserialization...
Apache Tomcat Session Deserialization Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2021-2532 9) Threat Alert
Vulnerability Description On March 1, 2021, NSFOCUS observed that Apache Software Foundation (ASF) released a security bulletin to announce the fix of a remote code execution vulnerability via session persistence. This vulnerability is due to the bypass of the patch against CVE-2020-9484. If Tomcat's session persistence function is used, its...
