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China-based threat actor used poisoned vSphere Installation Bundles to deliver multiple backdoors on systems, security vendor says.

By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  I’ve spent the past few months with my colleague Ashlee Benge looking at personal health apps’ privacy policies. We found several instances of apps that carry sensitive information stating they would share certain information with third-party advertisers and even law enforcement agencies, if necessary.  One of the most popular period-tracking apps on the Google Play store, Period Calendar Period Tracker, has a privacy policy that states it will "share information with law enforcement agencies, public authorities, or other organizations if We’re [sic] required by law to do so or if such use is reasonably necessary. We will carefully review all such requests to ensure that they have a legitimate basis and are limited to data that law enforcement is authorized to access for specific investigative purposes only."  A report from the Washington Post also released last week found that this app, as well...

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the libpthread linuxthreads functionality of uClibC 0.9.33.2 and uClibC-ng 1.0.40. Thread allocation can lead to memory corruption. An attacker can create threads to trigger this vulnerability.

The messenger protocol had gained popularity for its robust security, but vulnerabilities allowed attackers to decrypt messages and impersonate users.

A Brazilian threat actor known as Prilex has resurfaced after a year-long operational hiatus with an advanced and complex malware to steal money by means of fraudulent transactions. "The Prilex group has shown a high level of knowledge about credit and debit card transactions, and how software used for payment processing works," Kaspersky researchers said. "This enables the attackers to keep

A zip slip vulnerability in the file upload function of Chamilo v1.11 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Zip file.

For decades, security researchers warned about techniques for hijacking virtualization software. Now one group has put them into practice.

A new covert attack campaign singled out multiple military and weapons contractor companies with spear-phishing emails to trigger a multi-stage infection process designed to deploy an unknown payload on compromised machines. The highly-targeted intrusions, dubbed STEEP#MAVERICK by Securonix, also targeted a strategic supplier to the F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft. "The attack was carried out

An issue was discovered in Samsung TizenRT through 3.0_GBM (and 3.1_PRE). createDB in security/provisioning/src/provisioningdatabasemanager.c has a missing sqlite3_free after sqlite3_exec, leading to a denial of service.

Categories: News Tags: APT28 Tags: Fancy Bear Tags: PowerPoint Tags: PowerShell Tags: One Drive Tags: SyncAppvPublishingServer The Russian APT known as Fancy Bear was caught using an old mouseover technique that doesn't need macros (Read more...) The post APT28 attack uses old PowerPoint trick to download malware appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.