Security News

Attackers Mining Cryptocurrency Using Exploits for Samba Vulnerability (Threatpost)
2017-06-12 13:34

Kaspersky Lab said it has seen some of the first exploits targeting a patched Samba vulnerability, and those are being used to mine Monero cryptocurrency.

Cisco, Netgear Readying Patches for Samba Vulnerability (Threatpost)
2017-05-31 17:51

Cisco is prepping fixes for two of its products affected by last week's Samba vulnerability. Netgear has also pushed out a fix for NAS devices that were affected.

Vendors Investigating Impact of Samba Vulnerability (Security Week)
2017-05-31 09:14

Companies that provide network-attached storage (NAS) appliances, routers and other types of networking devices have started investigating the impact of a recently disclosed Samba vulnerability on...

Samba Patches Wormable Bug Exploitable With One Line Of Code (Threatpost)
2017-05-25 16:20

The Samba Team has patched a severe bug that leaves computers vulnerable to wormable exploit.

Critical Samba code execution hole plugged, patch ASAP! (Help Net Security)
2017-05-25 14:19

The developers of Samba have plugged a critical remote code execution flaw that could allow a malicious client to upload a shared library to a writable share, and then cause the server to load and...

7-Year-Old Samba Flaw Lets Hackers Access Thousands of Linux PCs Remotely (The Hackers News)
2017-05-25 00:23

A 7-year-old critical remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in Samba networking software that could allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected Linux and Unix...