backdoored
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A backdoored Pseudorandom Generator (PRG) is a PRG which looks pseudorandom to the outside world, but a saboteur can break PRG security by planting a backdoor into a seemingly honest choice of public parameters, $pk$, for the system. Backdoored PRGs became increasingly important due to revelations about NIST’s backdoored Dual EC PRG, and later results…
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[Submitted on 7 May 2023 (v1), last revised 22 Oct 2023 (this version, v2)] Download a PDF of the paper titled Text-to-Image Diffusion Models can be Easily Backdoored through Multimodal Data Poisoning, by Shengfang Zhai and 4 other authors
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Severity High Analysis Summary Researchers have recently discovered a worldwide network of products called BADBOX that have firmware backdoors installed and are being shipped through an infected hardware supply chain. There are at least 74,000 Android phones, tablets, and TV boxes with the backdoored firmware being sold globally. Some of these products have been discovered…
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Android devices shipped with backdoored firmware as part of the BADBOX network
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Hackers backed by the Chinese government are planting malware into routers that provides long-lasting and undetectable backdoor access to the networks of multinational companies in the US and Japan, governments in both countries said Wednesday. The hacking group, tracked under names including BlackTech, Palmerworm, Temp.Overboard, Circuit…
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Free Download Manager backdoored to serve Linux malware for more than 3 years
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Kaspersky reveals Free Download Manager backdoored, three-year supply chain attack on Linux devices
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According to Kaspersky Lab, the Linux application, “Free Download Manager”, has clandestinely been embedded with a backdoor. The software’s download site, freedownloadmanager.org, redirects users to a malicious Debian package repository. This supply chain attack, which persisted for over three years, was unearthed by Kaspersky while probing suspicious domains.
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Privacy in the digital age Members Online
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Fox-IT (part of NCC Group) has uncovered a large-scale exploitation campaign of Citrix NetScalers in a joint effort with the Dutch Institute of Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD). An adversary appears to have exploited CVE-2023-3519 in an automated fashion, placing webshells on vulnerable NetScalers to gain persistent access. The adversary can execute arbitrary commands with this webshell,…