FBI-DHS Report Links Fancy Bear Gang to Election Hacks

In a report released Thursday the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Department of Homeland Security implicated Russian hacking group Fancy Bear in attacks against several election-related targets. According to the Joint Analysis Report, the hacking group Fancy Bear, believed to have ties...

Sofacy APT organization to develop new Flash exploit framework-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Sofacy cyber espionage Group, also known as Fancy Bear, and APT28, a Sednit, a Pawn Storm, and Strontium in. The organization has developed a new hack tool, and in the summer of this year the attacks have been put into use. Palo Alto Networks, the company said, the gang will be targeted in the...

Java exposure to high-risk 0day vulnerability has been Russian hackers use-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Today Java exposure to high-risk 0day vulnerability. Trend Micro has warned that the vulnerability has now been a Russian hacking group using, attack target primarily the United States Department of Defense, North Atlantic Treaty Organization member States. Attack The attacker will first to victi...

Win32k elevation of privilege vulnerability, CVE-2 0 1 5-1 7 0 1-exp-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Win32k elevation of privilege vulnerability – CVE-2 0 1 5-1 7 0 1 If Win32k.sys kernel-mode driver improperly handles objects in memory, then there is a privilege elevation vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability an attacker can run arbitrary code in kernel mode is. An attack...

Microsoft Windows - Local Privilege Escalation (MS15-051)

Microsoft Windows - Local Privilege Escalation MS15-051 Source: https://github.com/hfiref0x/CVE-2015-1701 Win32k LPE vulnerability used in APT attack Original info: https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2015/04/probableapt28useo.html Credits R136a1 / hfiref0x Compiled EXE: x86 +...

About 1 5 years 5 months to repair the two 0day-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Ticker 2 0 1 5 year 5 month 1 2 day, Microsoft pushed a 5-month patch day patch includes IE, Windows kernel, Windows kernel driver, Office and other components of the security updates. This month the repair of the two 0day vulnerabilities MS15-0 5 2 are fixed in the Windows kernel security featur...

Russian APT28 Group Linked to NATO, Political Attacks

A Russian APT group tied to ongoing attacks against military and political targets in Eastern Europe and against NATO could also have ties to the MiniDuke espionage campaign uncovered more than a year ago. Dubbed APT28 by FireEye in a report published last night, the Russian hackers have targeted...