Overview Since their source code was publicly released on GitHub, Mirai and Qbot have wreaked havoc on the Internet of things (IoT). Before such public release, Mirai had been found to have adversarial behavior against Qbot in its infection process. Recently, the research team of NSFOCUS Threat Intelligence center (NTI)...
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Xbash Malware Combines Many Malicious Functions in Worm
Unit 42, a research team of Palo Alto Networks found a new malware family this month and named it Xbash. This new malware combines ransomware, coinming, botnet, and worm features and targets Linux and Windows mainly. Xbash is developed in Python and was then converted into self-contained Linux ELF executables...
Rockwell Automation Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Recently Rockwell Automation fixed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-14829) found in its RSLinx Classic, a software platform that allows Logix 5000 Programmable Automation Controllers to connect to a wide variety of Rockwell Software applications. A remote attacker could make the device being accessed stop responding and crash by sending a malicious...
Cisco IOS XE Software Static Credential Vulnerability
Yesterday, September 19th, Cisco announced an advisory for a critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-0150) that exists with their IOS XE Software. The vulnerability is due to an undocumented user account with privilege level 15 that has a default username and password. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using this account to...
Vulnerabilities Discovered in NUUO Network Video Recorder
Tenable Research released two vulnerabilities in NVRMini2, NUUO's Network Video Recorder software on September 17th. Risk information is as below: Reference link: https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2018-25 Attack demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EuFOZfRL4U Sketch of NVRMini2 structure： Vulnerability Description CVE-2018-1149: Unauthenticated Remote Stack Buffer Overflow The HTTP interface exposes the binary cgi_system through the http://<target>/cgi-bin/cgi_system endpoint. Much...
Response Guide of IBM WebSphere Code Execution Vulnerability
Recently IBM released a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2018-1567) in WebSphere application server. It could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java code through the SOAP connector with a serialized object from untrusted sources. CVSS: 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Affected versions: IBM WebSphere 9.0.0.0 – 9.0.0.9 IBM WebSphere 8.5.0.0 – 8.5.5.14 IBM...
