Cybercriminals Target Kodi Media Player for Malware Distribution

The Kodi media player has emerged as a malware distribution platform for cybercriminals, recently becoming the target for a cryptomining campaign that compromised about 5,000 machines before being thwarted. Those victims are still at risk, researchers warned. Kodi is free and open-source, and can...

Someone Hijacked MEGA Chrome Extension to Steal Users' Passwords

Warning! If you are using Chrome browser extension from the MEGA file storage service, uninstall it right now. The official Chrome extension for the MEGA.nz cloud storage service had been compromised and replaced with a malicious version that can steal users' credentials for popular websites like...

Arq 5.10 - Local Privilege Escalation (2)

Arq 5.10 - Local Privilege Escalation 2 !/bin/bash Arq payload.sh EOF !/bin/bash rm -rf $HOME/.arq510privescexp while : do pid=\ps auxwww |grep '$app/Contents/MacOS/Arq' |grep -v grep |xargs \ |cut -d ' ' -f2\ if "$pid" != "" ; then kill -9 $pid...

Fixing the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities

Two days ago, Graz University of Technology published a paper describing a pair of attacks on common microprocessors. The underlying vulnerability affects Intel, AMD, and ARM processors. All contemporary microprocessors pre-execute instructions. In other words, the vulnerability bypasses address...

Signature Auto Update Feature of Application Firewall

The Signature Auto Update functionality in Application Firewall allows the user to get the latest signatures to protect against the new vulnerabilities, thereby providing better protection without the need for ongoing manual intervention to get the latest updates. The signatures are auto updated ...

BSA-2017-398

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2017-398 Component : Java Revision : 2.0: Interim Vulnerability in the Java SE component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: Deployment. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u141 and 8u131. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows physical access to compromis...

Citrix Receiver Updates Troubleshooting Guide

This article is intended for Citrix administrators and technical teams only. Non-admin users must contact their company’s Help Desk/IT support team and can refer to CTX297149 for more information. Where to download ? Certain legacy Citrix tools are now available on request only. Please submit the...

CVE-2017-10125

Vulnerability in the Java SE component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: Deployment. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u141 and 8u131. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows physical access to compromise Java SE. While the vulnerability is in Java SE, attacks may significantly...

CVE-2017-10125

CVE-2017-10125 is described in the initial document as a vulnerability in the Oracle Java SE Deployment component affecting Java SE 7u141 and 8u131. The impact is stated as potentially allowing takeover of Java SE, with CVSS 3.0/3.1 metrics indicating a physical access prerequisite (HPC: PHYSICAL...

CVE-2017-10125

Vulnerability in the Java SE component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: Deployment. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u141 and 8u131. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows physical access to compromise Java SE. While the vulnerability is in Java SE, attacks may significantly...

WordPress Companion Auto Update plugin <=2.9.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities

WordPress Companion Auto Update plugin Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF and Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability. The CSRF occurs when you try to change the plugin’s settings. There's no nonce to validate the request. The XSS vulnerability appears for "Email address" input field, the output is n...

Dell Customer Connect 1.3.28.0 Privilege Escalation

Exploit Dell Customer Connect 1.3.28.0 Privilege Escalation Date: 25.04.2017 Software Link: http://www.dell.com/ Exploit Author: Kacper Szurek Contact: https://twitter.com/KacperSzurek Website: https://security.szurek.pl/ Category: local 1. Description DCCService.exe is running on autostart as...

Dell Customer Connect 1.3.28.0 - Local Privilege Escalation

Dell Customer Connect 1.3.28.0 - Local Privilege Escalation Exploit Dell Customer Connect 1.3.28.0 Privilege Escalation Date: 25.04.2017 Software Link: http://www.dell.com/ Exploit Author: Kacper Szurek Contact: https://twitter.com/KacperSzurek Website: https://security.szurek.pl/ Category: local...

Dell Customer Connect 1.3.28.0 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits Exploit Dell Customer Connect 1.3.28.0 Privilege Escalation Date: 25.04.2017 Software Link: http://www.dell.com/ Exploit Author: Kacper Szurek Contact: https://twitter.com/KacperSzurek Website: https://security.szurek.pl/ Category: local 1...

Dell Customer Connect 1.3.28.0 - Local Privilege Escalation

Exploit Dell Customer Connect 1.3.28.0 Privilege Escalation Date: 25.04.2017 Software Link: http://www.dell.com/ Exploit Author: Kacper Szurek Contact: https://twitter.com/KacperSzurek Website: https://security.szurek.pl/ Category: local 1. Description DCCService.exe is running on autostart as...

PloitKit - The Hacker's ToolBox

PloitKit is a Python based GUI tool designed as one-stop for all other softwares. I was facing these kinds of problem, when I need to switch to different system, or I lost my pen-drive. I have to go to google, and search every tool and download every tool and so on. So I decided to create a tool,...

OpenElec 6.0.3 / 7.0.1 Code Execution Vulnerability

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits During my research about update mechanisms of open-source software I discovered vulnerabilities in OpenElec. == OVERVIEW == System affected: OpenElec CVE: CVE-2017-6445 Vulnerable component: auto-update feature Software-Version: 6.0.3, 7.0.1...

OpenElec 6.0.3 / 7.0.1 Code Execution

During my research about update mechanisms of open-source software I discovered vulnerabilities in OpenElec. == OVERVIEW == System affected: OpenElec CVE: CVE-2017-6445 Vulnerable component: auto-update feature Software-Version: 6.0.3, 7.0.1 User-Interaction: Reboot required Impact: Remote Code...

CVE-2017-6445

The auto-update feature of Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center OpenELEC 6.0.3, 7.0.1, and 8.0.4 uses neither encrypted connections nor signed updates. A man-in-the-middle attacker could manipulate the update packages to gain root access remotely...

CVE-2017-6445

The auto-update feature of Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center OpenELEC 6.0.3, 7.0.1, and 8.0.4 uses neither encrypted connections nor signed updates. A man-in-the-middle attacker could manipulate the update packages to gain root access remotely...