Cyber alerts

41 results

December 2018

CC-2859 Low

Published Thursday 27 December 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Ghost Ransomware

Ghost is a ransomware tool that uses AES encryption against specific folders on affected devices.

CC-2857 Medium

Published Thursday 27 December 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Sieren Botnet

Sieren is a botnet that can perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks by sending floods of HTTP, HTTPS and UDP packets to specified web servers.

CC-2858 Medium

Published Thursday 27 December 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Underminer Exploit Kit

First observed in July 2017, the Underminer exploit kit has received various sophisticated updates in recent weeks.

CC-2852 Medium

Published Thursday 20 December 2018 (12:00) (updated 11 January 2022)

Stolen Pencil Trojan

Stolen Pencil, also known as Stolepen, is a trojan that targets devices using Google Chrome on Microsoft Windows. It was first observed in May 2018.

CC-2853 Low

Published Thursday 20 December 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Rising Sun Trojan

First observed in 2018, Rising Sun is an information stealing trojan created by the Lazarus advanced persistent threat group for use in their global Operation Sharpshooter campaign targeting critical infrastructure.

CC-2856 Medium

Published Thursday 20 December 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

TripleM Ransomware

TripleM is a ransomware tool first seen in August 2017. The source code has been made available for sale since December 2018.

CC-2855 Low

Published Thursday 20 December 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Cisco Releases Security Updates

Cisco has released security updates to address a vulnerability in Adaptive Security Appliance. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system.

CC-2854 Low

Published Thursday 20 December 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Microsoft Releases Security Updates

Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 9, 10, and 11. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system.

CC-2848 Low

Published Tuesday 18 December 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Apache Releases Security Update for CouchDB

The Apache Software Foundation has released a security update to address a vulnerability in CouchDB. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain control of an affected system.

CC-2847 Low

Published Tuesday 18 December 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Medtronic Release Security Advisory

Medtronic has released a security advisory that addresses a vulnerability affecting their cardiac implantable programmers.