Cyber alerts

31 results

July 2018

CC-2553 Medium

Published Tuesday 31 July 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

PowerGhost Trojan and Cryptocurrency Miner

PowerGhost is a file-less multipurpose trojan written in PowerShell.

CC-2551 Low

Published Thursday 26 July 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Bluetooth Cryptographic Validation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the way some Bluetooth software implementations validate cryptographic key exchange parameters has been discovered by group of researchers.

CC-2552 Low

Published Thursday 26 July 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Death Botnet

A new botnet known as Death has been observed infecting Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices manufactured by AVTech.

CC-2550 Medium

Published Wednesday 25 July 2018 (12:00) (updated 11 January 2022)

Luoxk Malware Campaign

First observed in 2017, Luoxk is a malware campaign targeting web servers throughout Asia, Europe and North America.

CC-2547 Low

Published Wednesday 25 July 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Calisto macOS Backdoor

Calisto is a backdoor trojan targeting macOS. First observed in 2016, it has only recently begun to be detected by major anti-virus vendors.

CC-2549 Low

Published Wednesday 25 July 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Google Releases Security Update for Chrome

Google has released Chrome version 68.0.3440.75 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version addresses vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system.

CC-2548 Low

Published Tuesday 24 July 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Apache Releases Security Updates for Apache Tomcat

The Apache Software Foundation has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat. A remote attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to obtain sensitive information.

CC-2546 Medium

Published Monday 23 July 2018 (12:00) (updated 3 September 2021)

ZombieBoy Cryptocurrency RAT and Worm

ZombieBoy is a collection of remote access trojans (RAT) used to automatically identify and infect devices with cryptocurrency miners .

CC-2543 Medium

Published Thursday 19 July 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Upatre Downloader Trojan

Upatre is a downloader trojan used to deliver several other well-known malware families including Zeus , Locky and Dyre .

CC-2545 Low

Published Thursday 19 July 2018 (12:00) (updated 17 February 2020)

Cisco Releases Security Updates

Cisco has released updates to address vulnerabilities affecting Cisco products. A remote attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.