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An AI illustration of the malvertising campaign using PuTTy and WinSCP
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Fraudulent Google ads for the WinSCP and PuTTy utilities have been leveraged to attempt ransomware distribution as part of a malvertising campaign against Windows system administrators, reports BleepingComputer.
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Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 has uncovered a widespread malvertising campaign that is actively targeting individuals searching for popular utilities like WinSCP and PuTTY. This sophisticated attack uses malicious ads on common search engines like Bing, luring unsuspecting users to download trojanized installers.
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Attackers launched a campaign distributing trojanized installers for WinSCP and PuTTY in early March 2024, as clicking malicious ads after searching for the software leads to downloads containing a renamed pythonw.exe that loads a malicious DLL.
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Security researchers have published a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploit for a critical vulnerability in the widely used PuTTY SSH and Telnet client.
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Citrix has released a security bulletin detailing a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-31497) affecting certain versions of their Citrix Hypervisor virtualization platform.
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CVE-2019-17069 PuTTY allowed remote SSH-1 servers to cause a denialof service by accessing freed memory locations via anSSH1_MSG_DISCONNECT message.
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The recent discovery of a critical vulnerability in the PuTTY SSH and Telnet client, identified as CVE-2024-31497, has raised significant concerns among IT professionals and developers. Read on to get the details.
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Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos:
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Share this… CVE-2024-31497 has emerged as a critical security flaw affecting PuTTY, a widely used SSH and Telnet client, from versions 0.68 through 0.80, all of which are now confirmed to have a serious vulnerability that compromises cryptographic key security. This vulnerability revolves around the generation of biased ECDSA nonces, which could potentially allow an…
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MalBot April 16, 2024, 7:15pm 1 Many versions of the PuTTY client have a subtle vulnerability that can allow an attacker to compromise some private keys and then forge signatures and log into any remote servers on which those keys are used.
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Serial number: AV24-208Date: April 16, 2024 On April 15, 2024, PuTTY published an update to address a vulnerability in the following product:
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CVE-2024-31497 is a vulnerability in PuTTY, a popular Windows SSH client, relating to a flaw in its P-521 ECDSA implementation. This vulnerability is known to affect versions 0.68 through 0.80, which span the last 7 years. This potentially affects anyone who has used a P-521 ECDSA SSH key with an affected version, regardless of whether…
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A severe security flaw (CVE-2024-31497) has been discovered in the popular SSH client PuTTY (versions 0.68 to 0.80), impacting a wide range of software including FileZilla, WinSCP, TortoiseGit, and TortoiseSVN. This defect drastically weakens private keys used in the ECDSA algorithm with the NIST P-521 curve, leaving them easily recoverable by attackers. This flaw was…
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An ongoing malvertising campaign is targeting IT administrators looking to download system utilities such as PuTTY (a free SSH and Telnet client) and FileZilla (a free cross-platform FTP application).
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A sophisticated cyberattack campaign is underway, cleverly impersonating the popular PuTTY software to target unsuspecting system administrators. Malwarebytes has uncovered a scheme where threat actors exploit malvertising and a custom malware loader built in Go to deliver the notorious Rhadamanthys information stealer.