Oct 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Wi-Fi Security A security flaw impacting the Wi-Fi Test Suite could enable unauthenticated local attackers to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) said the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-41992, said the susceptible code from the Wi-Fi Alliance has been found deployed on Arcadyan … [Read more...] about Researchers Discover Command Injection Flaw in Wi-Fi Alliance’s Test Suite
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New OpenSSH Vulnerability Exposes Linux Systems to Remote Command Injection
Jul 24, 2023THNLinux / Network Security Details have emerged about a now-patched flaw in OpenSSH that could be potentially exploited to run arbitrary commands remotely on compromised hosts under specific conditions. "This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to potentially execute arbitrary commands on vulnerable OpenSSH's forwarded ssh-agent," Saeed Abbasi, manager of … [Read more...] about New OpenSSH Vulnerability Exposes Linux Systems to Remote Command Injection
Crypto Miners Using Tox P2P Messenger as Command and Control Server
Threat actors have begun to use the Tox peer-to-peer instant messaging service as a command-and-control method, marking a shift from its earlier role as a contact method for ransomware negotiations. The findings from Uptycs, which analyzed an Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) artifact ("72client") that functions as a bot and can run scripts on the compromised host using the … [Read more...] about Crypto Miners Using Tox P2P Messenger as Command and Control Server
New Approach for Command Line Anomaly Detection
Suspicious command lines differ from common ones in how the executable path looks and the unusual arguments passed to them Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) embeddings can successfully be used for feature extraction for command lines Outlier detectors on top of BERT embeddings can detect anomalous command lines without the need for data labeling Our … [Read more...] about New Approach for Command Line Anomaly Detection