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Marcin “Icewall” Noga of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw.  Cisco Talos recently discovered an exploitable data deserialization vulnerability in the VMware vCenter server platform.   VMware is one of the most popular virtual machine solutions currently available, and its vCenter software allows users to manage an entire environment of VMs. The vulnerability Talos discovered is a post-authentication Java deserialization issue that could corrupt the software in a way that could allow an attacker to exploit arbitrary code on the target machine. TALOS-2022-1587 (CVE-2022-31680) is triggered if an adversary sends a specially crafted HTTP request to a targeted machine. The attacker would first have to log in with legitimate credentials to vCenter to be successful.  Cisco Talos worked with VMware to ensure that this issue is resolved and an update is available for affected customers, all in adherence to Cisco’s vulnerability disclosure policy.  Users are enc...

Threat actors associated with the notorious Emotet malware are continually shifting their tactics and command-and-control (C2) infrastructure to escape detection, according to new research from VMware. Emotet is the work of a threat actor tracked as Mummy Spider (aka TA542), emerging in June 2014 as a banking trojan before morphing into an all-purpose loader in 2016 that's capable of delivering

Categories: News Tags: romance scammer Tags: android vulnerabilities Tags: SQL servers Tags: Data Access Agreement Tags: bogus job offers Tags: Kim Kardashian Tags: TikTok Tags: smishing Tags: ransomware review Tags: BitBucket The most important and interesting computer security stories from the last week. (Read more...) The post A week in security (October 3 – 9) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

An issue was discovered in D-Bus before 1.12.24, 1.13.x and 1.14.x before 1.14.4, and 1.15.x before 1.15.2. An authenticated attacker can cause dbus-daemon and other programs that use libdbus to crash by sending a message with attached file descriptors in an unexpected format.

About 1 in 5 phishing email messages reach workers' inboxes, as attackers get better at dodging Microsoft's platform defenses and defenders run into processing limitations.

Plus: The US warns of a mysterious military contractor breach, a "poisoned" version of the Tor Browser is tracking Chinese users, and more.

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Sept. 30 and Oct. 7. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics, indicators of compromise, and discussing how our customers are automatically protected from these threats. As a reminder, the information provided for the following threats in this post is non-exhaustive and current as of the date of publication. Additionally, please keep in mind that IOC searching is only one part of threat hunting. Spotting a single IOC does not necessarily indicate maliciousness. Detection and coverage for the following threats is subject to updates, pending additional threat or vulnerability analysis. For the most current information, please refer to your Firepower Management Center, Snort.org, or ClamAV.net. For each threat described below, this blog post only lists 2...

Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Sept. 30 and Oct. 7.

A boom in artificial intelligence-powered detection and remediation tools pushes security spending to the top of the AI market, according to Forrester.

When U.S. consumers have their online bank accounts hijacked and plundered by hackers, U.S. financial institutions are legally obligated to reverse any unauthorized transactions as long as the victim reports the fraud in a timely manner. But new data released this week suggests that for some of the nation's largest banks, reimbursing account takeover victims has become more the exception than the rule.