Crypto miners

The EGI CSIRT has recently had several reports of malicious activities, where parts of infrastructures have been infected with cryptomining software. Crypto miners are tools that generate cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin. As these can generate profit relatively easily, it...

EGI CSIRT meeting in Lyon

From 23rd to 24th of May 2022, IN2P3 computing centre in Lyon will host the next EGI CSIRT F2F meeting, where we will discuss our operational tasks, prepare the content for the upcoming trainings and verify our security procedures and policies. Other security topics...

Vulnerabilities concerning expat XML parser

Vulnerabilities have been found concerning the expat XML parser, including two which may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-25235, CVE-2022-25236). The expat XML parser is a library, written in C, which is a dependency for various other software. Details are...

Critical risk vulnerabilities in Java 15 and later

A vulnerability has been found in Java (CVE-2022-21449), involving Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data. The details can be...