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A Linux variant of a backdoor known as SideWalk was used to target a Hong Kong university in February 2021, underscoring the cross-platform abilities of the implant.  Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, which detected the malware in the university's network, attributed the backdoor to a nation-state actor dubbed SparklingGoblin. The unnamed university is said to have been already targeted by the

LIEF commit 5d1d643 was discovered to contain a heap-buffer overflow in the component /core/CorePrPsInfo.tcc.

LIEF commit 365a16a was discovered to contain a segmentation violation via the component CoreFile.tcc:69.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-6449-01 - Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language. Issues addressed include HTTP request smuggling and denial of service vulnerabilities.

An issue in the Leptonica linked library (v1.79.0) in Tesseract v5.0.0 allows attackers to cause an arithmetic exception leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted JPEG file.

cfg_tilde_expand in confuse.c in libConfuse 3.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read.

The prolific North Korean nation-state actor known as the Lazarus Group has been linked to a new remote access trojan called MagicRAT. The previously unknown piece of malware is said to have been deployed in victim networks that had been initially breached via successful exploitation of internet-facing VMware Horizon servers, Cisco Talos said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "While being

By Jung soo An, Asheer Malhotra and Vitor Ventura. Cisco Talos has discovered a new remote access trojan (RAT) we're calling "MagicRAT," developed and operated by the Lazarus APT group, which the U.S. government believes is a North Korean state-sponsored actor. Lazarus deployed MagicRAT after the successful exploitation of vulnerabilities in VMWare Horizon platforms. We've also found links between MagicRAT and another RAT known as "TigerRAT," disclosed and attributed to Lazarus by the Korean Internet & Security Agency (KISA) recently. TigerRAT has evolved over the past year to include new functionalities that we illustrate in this blog. Executive Summary Cisco Talos has discovered a new remote access trojan (RAT), which we are calling "MagicRAT," that we are attributing with moderate to high confidence to the Lazarus threat actor, a state-sponsored APT attributed to North Korea by the U.S. Cyber Security & Infrastructure Agency (CISA). This new RAT was found on victims ...

tinyexr commit 0647fb3 was discovered to contain a heap-buffer overflow via the component rleUncompress.

The threat actor — whose techniques and procedures do not match known groups — has created custom attack tools, including a program that hides scripts in .PNG images.