Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully...

Microsoft Browser Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft browsers access objects in memory. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in a way that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the...

Microsoft Edge Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Microsoft Edge improperly handles redirect requests. The vulnerability allows Microsoft Edge to bypass Cross-Origin Resource Sharing CORS redirect restrictions, and to follow redirect requests that should otherwise be ignored. An attacker who...

Complex Malvertising Scheme Impacts Multiple Levels of Web Economy

UPDATE A sprawling malvertising campaign that leverages the AdsTerra legitimate online advertising company has been uncovered, involving at least 10,000 compromised websites and driving legions of web visitors around the world to exploit kits. AdsTerra, one of the largest ad networks out there,...

No Evidence of GandCrab Leveraging SMB Exploit – Yet

A new version of the evolving ransomware threat GandCrab has been identified by researchers – but evidence of the new malware self-propagating via the Windows transport protocol Server Message Block SMB exploit still remains to be seen. Security researchers at Fortinet said that they have spotted...

Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft browsers. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploit...

Microsoft Edge Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Microsoft Edge improperly accesses objects in memory. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the...

Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the Chakra scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft Edge HTML-based. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who...

Microsoft Edge Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Microsoft Edge improperly accesses objects in memory. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the...

Microsoft Edge Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Microsoft Edge improperly accesses objects in memory. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the...

Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft browsers. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploit...

Internet Explorer Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Microsoft Internet Explorer improperly handles requests involving UNC resources. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could force the browser to load data that would otherwise be restricted. In a web-based attack scenario, an...

Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully...

Microsoft Edge based on Edge HTML Information Disclosure Vulnerability

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Edge based on Edge HTML improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system. To exploit the vulnerability, in a web-based attac...

Microsoft Edge Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Microsoft Edge improperly accesses objects in memory. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the...

Windows Code Integrity Module Denial of Service Vulnerability

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Code Integrity Module performs hashing. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could cause a system to stop responding. Note that the denial of service condition would not allow an attacker to execute code or t...

Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Internet Explorer improperly accesses objects in memory. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilit...

Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Internet Explorer improperly accesses objects in memory. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilit...

Malicious PHP Script Infects 2,400 Websites in the Past Week

A botnet dubbed Brain Food is giving webmasters indigestion with related attacks that push bogus diet pills and IQ-boosting pills via web pages hosted on legitimate sites. So far, spammers have been successful, thanks to an effective Hypertext Preprocessor PHP script also called Brain Food that h...

Gandcrab Ransomware Walks its Way onto Compromised Sites

This blog post authored by Nick Biasini with contributions from Nick Lister and Christopher Marczewski. Despite the recent decline in the prevalence of ransomware in the threat landscape, Cisco Talos has been monitoring the now widely distributed ransomware called Gandcrab. Gandcrab uses both...