APT28 Hackers Caught Hijacking Legitimate LoJack Software
In Summary : Security researchers have found tainted versions of the legitimate LoJack software that appeared to have been sneakily modifi...
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In Summary :
Security researchers have found tainted versions of the legitimate LoJack software that appeared to have been sneakily modified to allow hackers inside companies that use it. [...]
The 8-year-old privilege escalation vulnerability allows a local user with access to the vulnerable privileged driver can escalate the privileges to read from and write to sensitive kernel memory. It is actually an eight-year-old vulnerability and can be used in latest kernel version (4.16-rc3) for escalating privileges. According to checkpoint researchers, the vulnerability(CVE-2018-8781) resides in [...]
kindly refer the following link as follow up :
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/apt28-hackers-caught-hijacking-legitimate-lojack-software/
https://gbhackers.com/8-year-old-privilege-escalation-vulnerability/
Security researchers have found tainted versions of the legitimate LoJack software that appeared to have been sneakily modified to allow hackers inside companies that use it. [...]
The 8-year-old privilege escalation vulnerability allows a local user with access to the vulnerable privileged driver can escalate the privileges to read from and write to sensitive kernel memory. It is actually an eight-year-old vulnerability and can be used in latest kernel version (4.16-rc3) for escalating privileges. According to checkpoint researchers, the vulnerability(CVE-2018-8781) resides in [...]
kindly refer the following link as follow up :
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/apt28-hackers-caught-hijacking-legitimate-lojack-software/
https://gbhackers.com/8-year-old-privilege-escalation-vulnerability/
