Suspected Ransomware Dropzone

A remote attacker could send spam e-mails including a downloader and manipulate users to manually enable them. This would allow the malicious code to run and infect the target system. This behavior has been used, among others, by ransomwares such as BadRabbit...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5630

PECL in the download utility class in the Installer in PEAR Base System v1.10.1 does not validate file types and filenames after a redirect, which allows remote HTTP servers to overwrite files via crafted responses, as demonstrated by a .htaccess overwrite...

Oracle VM VirtualBox < 5.0.32 / < 5.1.14 - Local Privilege Escalation

== Overview === System affected: VirtualBox Software-Version: prior to 5.0.32, prior to 5.1.14 User-Interaction: Required Impact: A Man-In-The-Middle could infiltrate an Extension-Pack-Update to gain a root-shell === Detailed description === In my research about update mechanism of open-source...

Spammers Revive Hancitor Downloader Campaigns

A recent lull in the distribution of spam spreading information-stealing malware via the Hancitor downloader has been snapped. Researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center are currently tracking an increase in spam purporting to be a forwarded parking ticket notification. The message prompts the...

ChiaSeNhac Downloader - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, Redefined SSL Common Names verifier vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application ChiaSeNhac Downloader published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

No slowdown in Cerber ransomware activity as 2016 draws to a close

Note: Read our latest comprehensive report on ransomware: Ransomware 1H 2017 review: Global outbreaks reinforce the value of security hygiene. As everybody else winds down for the holidays, the cybercriminals behind Cerber are busy ramping up their operations. Following our discovery of a spam...

SVG Javascript Nemucod Downloader

SVG file may contain a malicious JavaScript downloader. A successful implementation might result in the browser running arbitrary code on the infected system...

iWisoft Free Video Downloader 2.1 DLL Hijacking

i?Document Title: =============== iWisoft Free Video Downloader 2.1 - DLL Hijacking Vulnerability Release Date: ============= 2016-10-05 Vulnerability Disclosure Timeline: ================================== 2016-10-05 : Discovery of the Vulnerability 2016-10-05 : Contact the Vendor No Response...

Android Qualcomm GPS/GNSS Man-In-The-Middle

Original at: https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/2016/10/04/advisory-cve-2016-5348-2/ Summary Android devices can be crashed remotely forcing a halt and then a soft reboot by a MITM attacker manipulating assisted GPS/GNSS data provided by Qualcomm. This issue affects the open source code in...

Suspicious Microsoft Publisher Mail Attachment

Microsoft Office Publisher files might contain a malicious downloader. A remote attacker could send spam e-mails including those downloaders, and use social engineering in order to convince users to manually enable them. This would allow the malicious code to run and infect the target system...

Suspicious Webpage JavaScript Downloader

Certain malicious executable files can be hidden using js downloader file. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to entice unsuspecting users to execute arbitrary files...

Locky is Back Asking for Unpaid Debts

On June 21, 2016, FireEye’s Dynamic Threat Intelligence DTI identified an increase in JavaScript contained within spam emails. FireEye analysts determined the increase was the result of a new Locky ransomware spam campaign. As shown in Figure 1, Locky spam activity was uninterrupted until June 1,...

Locky is Back Asking for Unpaid Debts

On June 21, 2016, FireEye’s Dynamic Threat Intelligence DTI identified an increase in JavaScript contained within spam emails. FireEye analysts determined the increase was the result of a new Locky ransomware spam campaign. As shown in Figure 1, Locky spam activity was uninterrupted until June 1,...

Locky is Back Asking for Unpaid Debts

On June 21, 2016, FireEye’s Dynamic Threat Intelligence DTI identified an increase in JavaScript contained within spam emails. FireEye analysts determined the increase was the result of a new Locky ransomware spam campaign. As shown in Figure 1, Locky spam activity was uninterrupted until June 1,...

Microsoft Office Files Containing Malicious VBScript Downloader

Microsoft Office files might contain a malicious downloader. A remote attacker could send spam e-mails including those downloaders, and use social engineering in order to convince users to manually enable them. This would allow the malicious code to run and infect the target system...

Windows Zero-Day Vulnerability, CVE-2 0 1 6-0 1 6 7: the attack Payment Card data-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

2 0 1 6 years 3 month, there has been a batch of economic motivation to the retail, Foodservice and hospitality industry as the target of the attack, these attacks, the message contains a large number of with embedded macros of the Microsoft Word document, once downloaded it will execute a named...

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...

New Downloader for Locky

Through DTI Intelligence analysis, We have been observing Locky malware rise to fame recently. Locky is ransomware that is aggressively distributed via downloaders attached in spam emails, and it may have surpassed the Dridex banking trojan in popularity. In previous campaigns, the ransomware was...