Phorpiex Botnet Shifts Gears From Ransomware to Sextortion

A recent wide-scale campaign indicates that a decade-old botnet is shifting gears from distributing ransomware to delivering millions of sextortion threats to innocent recipients. Worse, researchers say that the botnet’s spam campaign can affect up to 27 million potential victims. The botnet,...

CheckPoint Endpoint Security Client/ZoneAlarm 15.4.062.17802 - Privilege Escalation

Exploit Title: CheckPoint Endpoint Security Client/ZoneAlarm 15.4.062.17802 - Privilege Escalation Date: 2019-01-30 Exploit Author: Jakub Palaczynski Vendor Homepage: https://www.checkpoint.com/ Version: Check Point Endpoint Security VPN = E80.87 Build 986009514 Version: Check Point ZoneAlarm =...

CheckPoint Endpoint Security ClientZoneAlarm 15.4.062.17802 - Privilege Escalation

CheckPoint Endpoint Security ClientZoneAlarm 15.4.062.17802 - Privilege Escalation Exploit Title: CheckPoint Endpoint Security Client/ZoneAlarm 15.4.062.17802 - Privilege Escalation Date: 2019-01-30 Exploit Author: Jakub Palaczynski Vendor Homepage: https://www.checkpoint.com/ Version: Check Poin...

CheckPoint Endpoint Security Client/ZoneAlarm 15.4.062.17802 - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Exploit Title: CheckPoint Endpoint Security Client/ZoneAlarm 15.4.062.17802 - Privilege Escalation Exploit Author: Jakub Palaczynski Vendor Homepage: https://www.checkpoint.com/ Version: Check Point Endpoint Security VPN = E80.87 Build 986009514 Version: Check Point ZoneAlarm = 15.4.062.17802 CVE...

CheckPoint Endpoint Security Client / ZoneAlarm Privilege Escalation

Exploit Title: CheckPoint Endpoint Security Client/ZoneAlarm 15.4.062.17802 - Privilege Escalation Date: 2019-01-30 Exploit Author: Jakub Palaczynski Vendor Homepage: https://www.checkpoint.com/ Version: Check Point Endpoint Security VPN = E80.87 Build 986009514 Version: Check Point ZoneAlarm =...

Virus Bulletin 2019: VoIP Espionage Campaign Hits U.S. Utilities Supplier

LONDON — A recent attack aimed at a U.S.-based oil, gas and chemical supplier leverages the company’s use of the enterprise-class Asterisk open-source PBX software, used for VoIP services. According to research from Check Point, presented here at Virus Bulletin 2019 on Friday, the attack was firs...

CVE-2019-8462

In a rare scenario, Check Point R80.30 Security Gateway before JHF Take 50 managed by Check Point R80.30 Management crashes with a unique configuration of enhanced logging...

CVE-2019-8462

In a rare scenario, Check Point R80.30 Security Gateway before JHF Take 50 managed by Check Point R80.30 Management crashes with a unique configuration of enhanced logging...

Code injection

In a rare scenario, Check Point R80.30 Security Gateway before JHF Take 50 managed by Check Point R80.30 Management crashes with a unique configuration of enhanced logging...

CVE-2019-8462

CVE-2019-8462 affects Check Point Security Gateway GAIA v80.30 (R80.30) when the Threat Prevention Forensics feature is enabled and enhanced-logging is configured. Multiple sources describe a DoS condition where an authenticated, local attacker can trigger a crash/stop responding behavior by send...

CVE-2019-8462

In a rare scenario, Check Point R80.30 Security Gateway before JHF Take 50 managed by Check Point R80.30 Management crashes with a unique configuration of enhanced logging...

A Look Into Continuous Efforts By Chinese Hackers to Target Foreign Governments

Phishing is still one of the widely used strategies by cybercriminals and espionage groups to gain an initial foothold on the targeted systems. Though hacking someone with phishing attacks was easy a decade ago, the evolution of threat detection technologies and cyber awareness among people has...

Windows‌ ‌Exploitation‌ ‌Tricks:‌ ‌Spoofing‌ ‌Named‌ ‌Pipe‌ ‌Client‌ ‌PID‌

Posted by James Forshaw, Project Zero While researching the Access Mode Mismatch in IO Manager bug class I came across an interesting feature in named pipes which allows a server to query the connected clients PID. This feature was introduced in Vista and is exposed to servers through the...

Russian APT Map Reveals 22,000 Connections Between 2000 Malware Samples

Though Russia still has an undiversified and stagnant economy, it was one of the early countries in the world to realize the value of remotely conducted cyber intrusions. In recent years, many Russia hacking groups have emerged as one of the most sophisticated nation-state actors in cyberspace,...

Check Point Response to CVE-2019-8461 - Endpoint Security Initial Client

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CVE-2019-8461

Check Point Endpoint Security Initial Client for Windows before version E81.30 tries to load a DLL placed in any PATH location on a clean image without Endpoint Client installed. An attacker can leverage this to gain LPE using a specially crafted DLL placed in any PATH location accessible with...

CVE-2019-8461

Check Point Endpoint Security Initial Client for Windows before version E81.30 tries to load a DLL placed in any PATH location on a clean image without Endpoint Client installed. An attacker can leverage this to gain LPE using a specially crafted DLL placed in any PATH location accessible with...

Path traversal

Check Point Endpoint Security Initial Client for Windows before version E81.30 tries to load a DLL placed in any PATH location on a clean image without Endpoint Client installed. An attacker can leverage this to gain LPE using a specially crafted DLL placed in any PATH location accessible with...

CVE-2019-8461

CVE-2019-8461 – Check Point Endpoint Security Initial Client for Windows is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting versions prior to E81.30. The issue arises when the client loads a DLL placed in any PATH location on a clean image without the Endpoint Client installed, allowing an a...

Check Point Endpoint Security Initial Client for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Check Point Endpoint Security Initial Client for Windows is a Windows-based client application for Check Point Endpoint Security endpoint security management software from Check Point Israel. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in versions of Check Point Endpoint Security Initial Clien...