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🕴 Black Hat Europe: Dark Reading Video News Desk Coverage 🕴

Coming to you from virtual backgrounds and beautifully curated bookcases around the world, Dark Reading brings you video interviews with the leading researchers speaking at this week's Black Hat Europe.

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via "Dark Reading".
D-Link Routers at Risk for Remote Takeover from Zero-Day Flaws

Critical vulnerabilities discovered by Digital Defense can allow attackers to gain root access and take over devices running same firmware.

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via "Threat Post".
🦿 Security firm FireEye hit by state-sponsored cyberattack 🦿

The hackers stole the firm's Red Team tools, which are used to help organizations counter cyberattacks.

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via "Tech Republic".
CVE-2020-26950

In certain circumstances, the MCallGetProperty opcode can be emitted with unmet assumptions resulting in an exploitable use-after-free condition. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 82.0.3, Firefox ESR < 78.4.1, and Thunderbird < 78.4.2.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
CVE-2020-26956

In some cases, removing HTML elements during sanitization would keep existing SVG event handlers and therefore lead to XSS. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 83, Firefox ESR < 78.5, and Thunderbird < 78.5.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
CVE-2020-26955

When a user downloaded a file in Firefox for Android, if a cookie is set, it would have been re-sent during a subsequent file download operation on the same domain, regardless of whether the original and subsequent request were in private and non-private browsing modes. *Note: This issue only affected Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 83.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
CVE-2020-25627

The moodlenetprofile user profile field required extra sanitizing to prevent a stored XSS risk. This affects versions 3.9 to 3.9.1. Fixed in 3.9.2.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
CVE-2020-26962

Cross-origin iframes that contained a login form could have been recognized by the login autofill service, and populated. This could have been used in clickjacking attacks, as well as be read across partitions in dynamic first party isolation. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 83.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
CVE-2020-16128

The aptdaemon DBus interface disclosed file existence disclosure by setting Terminal/DebconfSocket properties, aka GHSL-2020-192 and GHSL-2020-196. This affected versions prior to 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu34.1, 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu32.3, 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu19.5, 1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu14.5.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
CVE-2020-26959

During browser shutdown, reference decrementing could have occured on a previously freed object, resulting in a use-after-free, memory corruption, and a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 83, Firefox ESR < 78.5, and Thunderbird < 78.5.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
CVE-2020-26958

Firefox did not block execution of scripts with incorrect MIME types when the response was intercepted and cached through a ServiceWorker. This could lead to a cross-site script inclusion vulnerability, or a Content Security Policy bypass. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 83, Firefox ESR < 78.5, and Thunderbird < 78.5.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
CVE-2020-26966

Searching for a single word from the address bar caused an mDNS request to be sent on the local network searching for a hostname consisting of that string; resulting in an information leak. *Note: This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 83, Firefox ESR < 78.5, and Thunderbird < 78.5.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
🦿 WatchGuard Q3 cybersecurity report finds spike in network attacks and malware delivered over TLS 🦿

Report finds that over half the malware attacks in Q3 could bypass signature-based malware protection.

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via "Tech Republic".
CVE-2020-29656

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in RT-AC88U Download Master before 3.1.0.108. A direct access to /downloadmaster/dm_apply.cgi?action_mode=initial&download_type=General&special_cgi=get_language makes it possible to reach "unknown functionality" in a "known to be easy" manner via an unspecified "public exploit."

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
CVE-2020-7337

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) prior to 8.8 Patch 16 allows local administrators to bypass local security protection through VSE not correctly integrating with Windows Defender Application Control via careful manipulation of the Code Integrity checks.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
CVE-2020-29655

An injection vulnerability exists in RT-AC88U Download Master before 3.1.0.108. Accessing Main_Login.asp?flag=1&productname=FOOBAR&url=/downloadmaster/task.asp will redirect to the login site, which will show the value of the parameter productname within the title. An attacker might be able to influence the appearance of the login page, aka text injection.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
CVE-2020-29657

In JerryScript 2.3.0, there is an out-of-bounds read in main_print_unhandled_exception in the main-utils.c file.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
CVE-2020-29651

A denial of service via regular expression in the py.path.svnwc component of py (aka python-py) through 1.9.0 could be used by attackers to cause a compute-time denial of service attack by supplying malicious input to the blame functionality.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
🕴 Global Cybercrime Losses Cross $1 Trillion Mark 🕴

A shift from attackers targeting individual systems to entire organizations is pushing up cost of cyberattacks sharply, McAfee says.

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via "Dark Reading".
🕴 Black Hat Europe: Dark Reading Video News Desk Coverage 🕴

Coming to you from virtual backgrounds and beautifully curated bookcases around the world, Dark Reading brings you video interviews with the leading researchers speaking at this week's Black Hat Europe.

📖 Read

via "Dark Reading".
D-Link Routers at Risk for Remote Takeover from Zero-Day Flaws

Critical vulnerabilities discovered by Digital Defense can allow attackers to gain root access and take over devices running same firmware.

📖 Read

via "Threat Post".