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The latest on a newly discovered phishing botnet and the latest headlines regarding how countries use spyware.

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. Both of these qualities make stolen or ill-gotten code-signing certificates attractive to cybercriminal groups, who prize their ability to add stealth and longevity to malicious software. This post is a deep dive on "Megatraffer," a veteran Russian hacker who has practically cornered the underground market for malware focused code-signing certificates since 2015.

Cybersecurity researchers have unmasked the identity of one of the individuals who is believed to be associated with the e-crime actor known as XE Group. According to Menlo Security, which pieced together the information from different online sources, "Nguyen Huu Tai, who also goes by the names Joe Nguyen and Thanh Nguyen, has the strongest likelihood of being involved with the XE Group." XE

Ubuntu Security Notice 6127-1 - Patryk Sondej and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that a race condition existed in the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel when processing batch requests, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Gwangun Jung discovered that the Quick Fair Queueing scheduler implementation in the Linux kernel contained an out-of-bounds write vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3397-01 - QATzip is a user space library which builds on top of the Intel QuickAssist Technology user space library, to provide extended accelerated compression and decompression services by offloading the actual compression and decompression request to the Intel Chipset Series. Issues addressed include a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3388-01 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Issues addressed include bypass and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

By Habiba Rashid According to Bitdefender, GravityZone Security for Mobile is a cutting-edge solution that leverages powerful antimalware technologies driven by real-time threat intelligence and machine learning. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bitdefender Introduces GravityZone Security for Android, iOS, and Chromebook

Ubuntu Security Notice 6124-1 - Patryk Sondej and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that a race condition existed in the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel when processing batch requests, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Reima Ishii discovered that the nested KVM implementation for Intel x86 processors in the Linux kernel did not properly validate control registers in certain situations. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6123-1 - Patryk Sondej and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that a race condition existed in the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel when processing batch requests, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Reima Ishii discovered that the nested KVM implementation for Intel x86 processors in the Linux kernel did not properly validate control registers in certain situations. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service.

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