Wapiti 3.0.0 - The Web-Application Vulnerability Scanner

Wapiti allows you to audit the security of your websites or web applications. It performs "black-box" scans it does not study the source code of the web application by crawling the webpages of the deployed webapp, looking for scripts and forms where it can inject data. Once it gets the list of...

Cloudflare: // (double slash) inside es6 template literals interpreted as an inline comment by the auto-minifier

The following is valid javascript: var a = //; So is this: var url = https://hackerone.com; However, Cloudflare's auto-minifier removes the parts of both lines including and after the //, meaning in production, they look like this: var a = var url = https: This can either straight up break or...

Microsoft Windows Kernel - 'NtQueryVirtualMemory(MemoryMappedFilenameInformation)' Double-Write Ring-0 Address Leak

/ Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1456 We have discovered that it is possible to disclose addresses of kernel-mode Paged Pool allocations via a race-condition in the implementation of the NtQueryVirtualMemory system call information class 2,...

U.S. Government Blames North Korea for WannaCry

The United States government is officially blaming North Korea for the WannaCry ransomware outbreak in May that infected nearly a quarter-million computers in 150 countries. Calling it a “careless and reckless” attack, White House Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert said Tuesday at a White Hous...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17533

DISPUTED default.tcl in Tkabber 1.1 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL. NOTE: a third party has indicated that the attack cannot occur...

zlib: Out-of-bound pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c

A vulnerability was discovered in the inftrees.c file of zlib. Pointer arithmetic operations violate the C standard by subtracting an offset from an array pointer before its allocated memory, leading to undefined behavior...

Receiver Warning: "A Potentially UNSAFE Connection to the Computer Has Been Initiated"

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. -Getting warning message:"A potentially UNSAFE connection to the computer has been initiated" when...

Detonating a bad rabbit: Windows Defender Antivirus and layered machine learning defenses

Windows Defender Antivirus uses a layered approach to protection: tiers of advanced automation and machine learning models evaluate files in order to reach a verdict on suspected malware. While Windows Defender AV detects a vast majority of new malware files at first sight, we always strive to...

New Android vulnerability allows attackers to modify apps without affecting their signatures(CVE-2017-13156)

A serious vulnerability CVE-2017-13156 in Android allows attackers to modify the code in applications without affecting their signatures. The root of the problem is that a file can be a valid APK file and a valid DEX file at the same time. We have named it the Janus vulnerability, after the Roman...

Windows Defender ATP machine learning and AMSI: Unearthing script-based attacks that ‘live off the land’

Scripts are becoming the weapon of choice of sophisticated activity groups responsible for targeted attacks as well as malware authors who indiscriminately deploy commodity threats. Scripting engines such as JavaScript, VBScript, and PowerShell offer tremendous benefits to attackers. They run...

What to expect for this year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Last year during holidays, US online sales surpassed $122 billion. This represented a 12 percent increase over the previous year. But beyond the overall growth, what's more interesting is that sales at physical stores dropped by 10 percent, the result of ongoing consumer comfort with and adoption...

Clarifying the behavior of mandatory ASLR

Last week, the CERT/CC published an advisory describing some unexpected behavior they observed when enabling system-wide mandatory Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR using Windows Defender Exploit Guard WDEG and EMET on Windows 8 and above. In this blog post, we will explain the configuratio...

Threat Round Up for Nov 10 - Nov 17

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between November 10 and November 17. As with previous round-ups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavior...

Failed to import Veeam Cloud Connect certificate after Veeam Availability Console server migration

Challenge After migrating your Veeam Availability Console VAC installation to a new server and adding an existing Veeam Cloud Connect VCC server, the following certificate error may be observed: Failed to import certificate from the Veeam Cloud Connect server. See debug logs for more information...

Phishing Biggest Threat to Google Account Security

Last year may have been mostly about ransomware, but it’s difficult to forget the billion or so passwords that were spilled in high-profile breaches and credential leaks. Google and researchers from the University of California Berkeley attempted to ease some of that pain, and teamed up to analyz...

The vulnerability of the inflateMark function in the zlib library, which allows a hacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the protected information.

The vulnerability of the inflateMark function in the zlib library is caused by an error in handling negative numbers. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause unpredictable behavior in the program, which may lead to violations of confidentiality, integrity, and...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : sssd (SUSE-SU-2017:2937-1)

This update for sssd provides the following fixes: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2017-12173: Fixed unsanitized input when searching in local cache database bsc1061832. Non security issues fixed : - Fixed a segfault issue in ldaprfc2307fallbacktolocalusers. bsc1055123 - Install /var/lib/sss/mc...

SUSE-SU-2017:2937-1 Security update for sssd

This update for sssd provides the following fixes: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2017-12173: Fixed unsanitized input when searching in local cache database bsc1061832. Non security issues fixed: - Fixed a segfault issue in ldaprfc2307fallbacktolocalusers. bsc1055123 - Install /var/lib/sss/mc...

Trape - People tracker on the Internet (The evolution of phishing attacks) OSINT

Trape is a recognition tool that allows you to track people , the information you can get is very detailed. We want to teach the world through this, as large Internet companies could monitor you, obtaining information beyond your IP. Some benefits One of its most enticing functions is the remote...

Modifiable Secondary Configuration Values

cordova-android has modifiable secondary configuration values. If an application is created without explicit values set in the config.xml file, attackers can set these variables by using Intent. Leveraging this, they can change the behavior of the application...