Cerber Ransomware Partners with the Dridex Spam Distributor

Cerber ransomware incorporates the unusual feature of “speaking” its ransom message after successfully infecting a user machine and encrypting files. Cerber was first seen in the wild at the end of February 2016 and was observed being delivered mostly via exploit kits EK, notably using Magnitude...

Cerber Ransomware Partners with the Dridex Spam Distributor

Cerber ransomware incorporates the unusual feature of “speaking” its ransom message after successfully infecting a user machine and encrypting files. Cerber was first seen in the wild at the end of February 2016 and was observed being delivered mostly via exploit kits EK, notably using Magnitude...

Cerber Ransomware Partners with the Dridex Spam Distributor

Cerber ransomware incorporates the unusual feature of “speaking” its ransom message after successfully infecting a user machine and encrypting files. Cerber was first seen in the wild at the end of February 2016 and was observed being delivered mostly via exploit kits EK, notably using Magnitude...

Adobe Emergency Update Patches Flash Zero Day

As promised earlier this week, Adobe today released an updated version of Flash Player that includes a patch for a zero-day vulnerability. Adobe said it is aware of the existence of a public exploit for CVE-2016-4117, but said the flaw has not been publicly attacked. The vulnerability affects Fla...

Latest Flash Zero Day Being Used to Push Ransomware

Exploits for a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player are being aggressively distributed in two exploit kits. The zero day, meanwhile, was patched by Adobe in an emergency update released Thursday night. Attackers are using the previously unpatched flaw in the maligned Flash Player to infec...

WordPress Cerber Limit Login Attempts Plugin <= 2.0.1.6 - XSS

This WordPress plugin is prone to a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability. It allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary script or HTML. Solution Update the plugin...

Cerber Limit Login Attempts <= 2.0.1.6 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS

If the option "I'm behind a proxy" is enabled, the visitor IP is read from X-Forwarded-For header, stored & printed in the admin panel without any sanitization / validation. Set the X-Forwarded-For header to alert1, and perform an incorrect login...

Cerber Limit Login Attempts <= 2.0.1.6 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS

If the option "I'm behind a proxy" is enabled, the visitor IP is read from X-Forwarded-For header, stored & printed in the admin panel without any sanitization / validation. PoC Set the X-Forwarded-For header to , and perform an incorrect login...

WordPress Cerber Limit Login Attempts Plugin <= 2.0.1.6 - XSS

This WordPress plugin is prone to a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability. It allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary script or HTML. Solution Update the plugin...