Zero-day vulnerability found in Telegram

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Research conducted by Kaspersky showed that the zero-day flaw was based on the <a href="https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/202e/index.htm" target="_blank">RLO </a>(right-to-left override) Unicode method, which is generally used for coding languages written from right to left, such as Arabic and Hebrew. However, it can also be used by hackers to dupe unknowing recipients into downloading malware, for example disguised as images.<br />
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Kaspersky analysts identified “several scenarios of <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Zero-Day" target="_blank">zero-day</a> exploitation in the wild by threat actors.” The threats identified were two-fold. First, the exploit was used to deliver mining software, allowing hackers to use the victim’s machine to mine <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/CryptoCurrency" target="_blank">cryptocurrency </a>including “Monero, Zcash, Fantomcoin and others.”<br />
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Second, a backdoor was installed allowing <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Cyber%20Crime" target="_blank">cybercriminals </a>to gain remote access to the victim’s computer after which it started to “operate in a silent mode,” allowing “the threat actor to remain unnoticed in the network and execute different commands, including the further installation of spyware tools.”<br />
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Kaspersky says its analysis suggests the cybercriminals are of <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Russian%20Hackers" target="_blank">Russian </a>origin, and the company has offered some tips to protect your PC against attack.  These include not downloading and opening unknown files from untrusted sources, avoiding sharing sensitive personal information in messenger apps and making sure to have reliable antivirus software installed on your machine.<br />
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It appears that only Russian cybercriminals were aware of this <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Vulnerability" target="_blank">vulnerability</a>, with all the exploitation cases that we detected occurring in Russia. Also, while conducting a detailed research of these attacks we discovered a lot of artifacts that pointed to involvement by Russian cybercriminals.</div>

Research conducted by Kaspersky showed that the zero-day flaw was based on the RLO (right-to-left override) Unicode method, which is generally used for coding languages written from right to left, such as Arabic and Heb…

New AndroRAT found, exploiting Rooting Vulnerability

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Trend Micro detected a new variant of Android Remote Access Tool (AndroRAT) (identified as ANDROIDOS_ANDRORAT.HRXC) that has the ability to inject root exploits to perform malicious tasks such as silent installation, shell command execution, WiFi password collection, and screen capture. This AndroRAT targets <a href="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1805">CVE-2015-1805</a>, a publicly disclosed vulnerability in 2016 that allows attackers to penetrate a number of older Android devices to perform its privilege escalation.</div>
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RATs have long been a common Windows threat, so <b>it shouldn't be a surprise that it has come to Android</b>. A RAT has to gain root access — usually by exploiting a <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Vulnerability">vulnerability </a>— in order to have control over a system.<b> Discovered in 2012, </b>the original authors intended AndroRAT — <a href="https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/androrat-remote-administration-tool-t2734932">initially a university project </a>— as an open-source client/server application that can provide remote control of an <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Android">Android </a>system, which naturally attracted cybercriminals.</div>
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This new variant of AndroRAT disguises itself as a malicious utility app called TrashCleaner, which is presumably downloaded from a malicious URL. The first time TrashCleaner runs, it prompts the Android device to install a Chinese-labeled calculator app that resembles a pre-installed system calculator. Simultaneously, the TrashCleaner icon will disappear from the device’s UI and the RAT is activated in the background.</div>
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The configurable RAT service is controlled by a remote server, which could mean that commands may be issued to trigger different actions. The variant activates the embedded root exploit when executing privileged actions. It performs the following malicious actions found in the original AndroRAT:</div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Take photos using the device camera</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of system information such as phone model, number, IMEI, etc.</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of WiFi names connected to the device</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of call logs including incoming and outgoing calls</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of mobile network cell location</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of GPS location</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of contacts list</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of files on the device</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of list of running apps</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of SMS from device inbox</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Monitor incoming and outgoing SMS</li>
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Apart from the original features of the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/AndroRAT">AndroRAT</a>, it also performs new privileged actions:</div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of list of installed applications</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of web browsing history from pre-installed browsers</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of calendar events</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Record calls</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Upload files to victim device</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Use front camera to capture high resolution photos</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Delete and send forged SMS</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Screen capture</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shell command execution</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Theft of WiFi passwords</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Enabling accessibility services for a key logger silently</li>
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Google already <a href="https://source.android.com/security/advisory/2016-03-18">patched </a>CVE-2015-1805 in March 2016,<b> but devices that no longer receive patches or those with a long rollout period are at risk of being compromised by this new AndroRAT variant. </b> Older versions of Android, which are still being used by a significant number of mobile users, may still be vulnerable.</div>
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New AndroRAT found, exploiting Rooting Vulnerability Trend Micro detected a new variant of Android Remote Access Tool (AndroRAT) (identified as ANDROIDOS_ANDRORAT.HRXC) that has the ability to inject root exploits to pe…

Winter Olympics website Hacked

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The outage left users unable to print tickets or view information about the games. Some networks around the games venues also went down.</div>
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Speculation quickly suggested the outages were not accidental and at a Sunday evening news conference, Pyeongchang 2018 spokesperson Sung Baik-you confirmed they were caused by an attack.</div>
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<b>"We know the cause of that problem, but that kind of issues occur very frequently during the Olympic Games," he said. "We have decided with the IOC that we are not going to reveal the source."</b></div>
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International Olympics Committee (IOC) head of communications Mark Adams suggested the problem could be ongoing. He told the briefing "We wouldn't start giving you the details of an investigation before it has come to an end, particularly because it involves security which at these games is incredibly important. I am sure you appreciate we need to maintain the security of our systems."</div>
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"At the moment we are making sure our systems are secure, which they are, so discussing details of it is not helpful."</div>
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"This is normal practice," Adams insisted. "You will understand that maintaining secure operations is our focus. That's the focus of any organisation that has been hit by such a thing. An in line with best practice, which is industry practice, we are not going to comment on the issue because it is an issue we are dealing with."</div>
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Adams later added that the IOC has not identified the attacker and would not name them at a press conference, but promised a "full report" into the incident. He would not commit to making it public.</div>
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As North Korea has made peaceful overtures towards the South ahead of the games, <b>it's thought to be unlikely it's behind whatever attack hit the Games' website</b>.</div>
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The North has, however, assaulted the world with a 200-plus troupe of cheerleaders that performs choreographed song and dance routines in the stands at the games. The troupe is going a bit viral, a demonstration of the North's ability to distribute propaganda about its capabilities.</div>
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Millions of Netgear Routers Vulnerable

2/11/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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<strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">Security firm Trustwave has disclosed the details of several vulnerabilities affecting Netgear routers, including devices that are top-selling products on Amazon and Best Buy.</span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">The flaws were discovered by researchers in March 2017 and they were patched by Netgear in August, September and October.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">One of the high severity vulnerabilities has been described as a password recovery and file access issue affecting 17 Netgear routers and modem routers, including best-sellers such as R6400, R7000 (Nighthawk), R8000 (Nighthawk X6), and R7300DST (Nighthawk DST).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">According to Trustwave, the web server shipped with these and other Netgear routers has a resource that can be abused to access files in the device’s root directory and other locations if the path is known. The exposed files can store administrator usernames and passwords, which can be leveraged to gain complete control of the device.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">An unauthenticated attacker can exploit the flaw remotely if the remote management feature is enabled on the targeted device. Improperly implemented cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protections may also allow remote attacks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";"><b>Another high severity flaw affecting 17 Netgear routers, including the aforementioned best-sellers, can be exploited by an attacker to bypass authentication using a specially crafted reques</b>t. Trustwave said the vulnerability can be easily exploited.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">A flaw that can be exploited to execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges without authentication has also been classified as high severity. Trustwave said command injection is possible through a chained attack that involves a CSRF token recovery vulnerability and other weaknesses.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">Two other command injection vulnerabilities have been found by Trustwave researchers, but they have been rated medium severity and they only affect six Netgear router models.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">One of the flaws requires authentication, but experts pointed out that an attacker can execute arbitrary commands after bypassing authentication using the aforementioned authentication bypass vulnerability.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">The other medium severity command injection is related to the Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS). When a user presses the WPS button on a Netgear router, a bug causes WPS clients to be allowed to execute arbitrary code on the device with root privileges during the setup process.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">“In other words, <b>if an attacker can press the WPS button on the router, the router is completely compromised</b>,” Trustwave said in an advisory.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "geneva";">Netgear has put a lot of effort into securing its products, especially since the launch of its bug bounty program one year ago. In 2017, the company published more than 180 security advisories describing vulnerabilities in its routers, gateways, extenders, access points, managed switches, and network-attached storage (NAS) products.</span></span></div>
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Is IBM Cloud Blumix insecure ?

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An e-mail has gone out from IBM about its Bluemix cloud: after next Tuesday, the SoftLayer APIs will no longer accept connections encrypted with the ancient TLS 1.0.</div>
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It's not <i>quite</i> a surprise that the 1990s-era protocol was still accepted: a great many services are still midway through their deprecation plans.</div>
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To give just one example, Salesforce <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=TLS-1-0-Disablement-Critical-Update-Console-CRUC-Setting&type=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">began</a> its phase-out of TLS 1.0 in production instances on July 22, 2017.</div>
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And the PCI Council, which had originally wanted TLS 1.0 gone last year, had to extend its deprecation date to 30 June 2018 (and it's still <a href="https://blog.pcisecuritystandards.org/are-you-ready-for-30-june-2018-sayin-goodbye-to-ssl-early-tls" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blogging </a>early warnings for members, in case they're still failing to catch up).</div>
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In the Bluemix e-mail, IBM notes: “There should be no impact to customers using a modern web client. This notification is intended to be informative only.</div>
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The two services affected by the depreciation are api.softlayer.com and api.service.softlayer.com – so there's another community that's got to pay attention, namely developers who wrote to the APIs and used TLS 1.0 to secure their API access.</div>
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TLS 1.0 has long been known as insecure, as far back as 2011 when it was bitten by the BEAST exploit. ®</div>
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