UPDATED: Mass Attacks Exploiting 0-Day in Microsoft Video DLL

There is a widespread attack underway against an unpatched vulnerability in the Msvidctl DLL, with attackers using thousands of newly compromised Web sites to exploit victims’ PCs via drive-by downloads. The attacks are using Internet Explorer as the attack vector and are pushing a Trojan...

Fake Google domains top exploit site list

Misspelled versions of two popular Google services are among the Top 10 sites hosting exploits for use in drive-by malware download attacks. On the heels of two massive drive-by attacks — ten of thousands of hijacked sites launching attacks via the browser — Google released a list showing that...

Threatpost News Wrap #2: Drive-by malware, Twitter attacks

Threatpost editors Ryan Naraine and Dennis Fisher look at the latest security news headlines and dig deeper into the latest wave of drive-by download infections and scareware attacks on Twitter. Download SHOW NOTES Cybercriminals hijack Twitter trending topics to serve malware Subscribe to the Ne...

Microsoft sneaks Firefox add-on without user knowledge

A routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installed on tens of millions of computers has quietly installed an extra add-on for an untold number of users surfing the Web with Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser, according to a report washingtonpost.com by Brian Krebs The Firefox add-on...

Pwn2Own trifecta: Hacker exploits IE8, Firefox, Safari

All three major Web browsers — Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox and Apple’s Safari — failed to survive the hacker onslaught at this year’s CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest. A security researcher named “Nils” he declined to provide his full name performed a clean drive-by download attack...

Trac quickjump Search Script q Parameter Arbitrary Site Redirect

The remote host is running Trac, an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. The version of Trac installed on the remote host fails to sanitize user input to the 'q' parameter of the 'search' script before using it in an unfiltered and unmanaged fashion in a...