4.3 XMRig: Cryptomining For Fun and Profit Cryptomining by botnets has gained popularity in the past two years. Unlike other common malicious activities like DDoS, ransomware attacks, and confidential information theft, cryptomining has some unique characteristics: 1. Predictable earnings. Cryptominers are good at hiding their presence by controlling their CPU usage within 30%–40%. Based on […]
Overview On August 13, local time, a researcher from a vulnerability laboratory (vxrl team) disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-14422) in TortoiseSVN. The URI handler of TortoiseSVN (Tsvncmd:) allows a customized diff operation on Excel workbooks. This vulnerability could be used to open remote workbooks without protection from macro security settings to execute arbitrary […]
Vulnerability Description On August 28, 2019, Artifex submitted “Bug 701446: Avoid divide by zero in shading” on the master branch of Ghostscript and announced remediation of four -dSAFER sandbox bypass vulnerabilities. -dSAFER is a security sandbox used by Ghostscript for prevention of insecure PostScript operations.
Overview Recently, Ghostscript announced the discovery of the -dSAFER sandbox bypass vulnerability (CVE-2019-10216). The .buildfont1 procedure in Ghostscript does not properly restrict privileged calls, which allows attackers to escalate privileges and access files beyond the restricted domain.
4.2.2 Analysis During the first quarter of 2018 when BillGates was extremely active, the family was found to attack 3962 targets, most of which were in two Central American countries. The following map shows the distribution of BillGates targets in China that NSFOCUS was able to directly monitor. BillGates ignored common ports, such as 22, […]
This document addresses the overall strategy and process for DDoS incident response and provides detailed analysis of and countermeasures against some typical attacks, in a bid to help organizations respond to DDoS attacks more effectively and efficiently. Therefore, we will not dwell upon specific methods of and configurations of specific mitigations against each type of […]
Overview On August 13, 2019, local time, Adobe officially released August’s security updates to fix multiple vulnerabilities in its various products, including Adobe Photoshop CC , Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Acrobat and Reader, Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application, Adobe Prelude CC, Adobe Premiere Pro CC, Adobe Character Animator CC, and Adobe After Effects CC.
With the advancement of IT-based transformation and the rapid development of IT, various network technologies have seen more extensive and profound applications, along with which come a multitude of cyber security issues. Come to find out what information security issues you should beware of in the workplace.
1 Sample Introduction Banjori is a banking trojan that has been active since it was first spotted in 2013. It identifies personal online banking users in France, Germany, and the USA as major targets. After infecting a user, the trojan injects a malicious payload into the user’s active processes and collect the user’s information. Banking […]
