TrendLabs: Skidmap Linux Malware Uses Rootkit Capabilities to Hide Cryptocurrency-Mining Payload

Figure 1. Skidmap’s infection chain
REF: https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/skidmap-linux-malware-uses-rootkit-capabilities-to-hide-cryptocurrency-mining-payload/

Opensource: 7 rules for remote-work sanity

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Not all roles—those with many customer onsite meetings or those with a major service component—are suited to remote working, of course. But it's clear that an increasing number of organisations are considering having at least some of their workers doing so remotely.

REF: https://opensource.com/article/19/8/rules-remote-work-sanity

[LSN-0056-1] Linux kernel vulnerability

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Date: Sep 23, 2019 11:23PM

Peter Pi discovered a buffer overflow in the virtio network backend
(vhost_net) implementation in the Linux kernel. An attacker in a guest may
be able to use this to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or
possibly execute arbitrary code in the host OS. (CVE-2019-14835)

References:
  CVE-2019-14835

TrendLabs: From BinDiff to Zero-Day: A Proof of Concept Exploiting CVE-2019-1208 in Internet Explorer

Figure 1. Code flow of VbsJoin
REF: https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/from-bindiff-to-zero-day-a-proof-of-concept-exploiting-cve-2019-1208-in-internet-explorer/

[USN-4140-1] Firefox vulnerability

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From: Chris Coulson
Date: Sep 26, 2019 6:58AM

It was discovered that no user notification was given when pointer lock is
enabled. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website,
an attacker could potentially exploit this to hijack the mouse pointer and
confuse users.

References:
  https://usn.ubuntu.com/4140-1
  CVE-2019-11754

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