TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of October 23, 2017

Just like Bugs Bunny wears disguises to avert his enemies, there’s another “wascally” rabbit causing trouble in the form of ransomware. Bad Rabbit is the latest ransomware campaign hitting Eastern European countries with what looks like a variant of the Petya/NotPetya ransomware. Bad Rabbit sprea...

October 26, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Continental Congress” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 26, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Protecting elections fro...

Hackers Prepping IOTroop Botnet with Exploits

Hackers moved one step closer to launching full-scale DDoS attacks using millions of IoT devices herded into the botnet known as Reaper or IOTroop. Researchers at NewSky Security warn that hackers are swapping scripts on forums that can scan the internet for vulnerable IoT devices and dump defaul...

Brilliant Gallery - Highly critical - Multiple Vulnerabilities - SA-CONTRIB-2017-079

This module enables you to display any number of galleries based on images located in the files folder. The module doesn't sufficiently sanitize various database queries which may allow attackers to craft requests resulting in an SQL injection vulnerability. This vulnerability could be exploited...

The best Burp plugin I’ve ever seen

Wanted to share with you what IMHO is the most promising Burp Suite plugin that just might transform it to the best penetration tool ever. It’s the Vulners plugin, available for free at github . If you are lazy like me, a build is available here: Installation It’s easy if you know how to deal wit...

Making Microsoft Edge the most secure browser with Windows Defender Application Guard

Innovation in the attack space is constant as adversaries increase in both determination and sophistication. In response to increased investments in defense, attackers are adapting and improving tactics at breakneck speed. The good news is that defenders are also innovating and disrupting long...

CVE-2017-14143

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2017-10-23 00:00:00+00:00| exploited| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43028 2018-01-24 00:00:00+00:00| exploited| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43876 2018-05-29 15:50:33+00:00| seen|...

Oracle Critical Patch Update - October 2017

A Critical Patch Update CPU is a collection of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities. Critical Patch Update patches are usually cumulative, but each advisory describes only the security fixes added since the previous Critical Patch Update advisory. Thus, prior Critical Patch Update...

Hackers Use New Flash Zero-Day Exploit to Distribute FinFisher Spyware

FinSpy—the infamous surveillance malware is back and infecting high-profile targets using a new Adobe Flash zero-day exploit delivered through Microsoft Office documents. Security researchers from Kaspersky Labs have discovered a new zero-day remote code execution vulnerability in Adobe Flash,...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:2723-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to fix the following issues : - Stack corruption could have lead to local privilege escalation bsc1059525, CVE-2017-1000253. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisor...

Cyberespionage Group Steps Up Campaigns Against Japanese Firms

Researchers are learning more about the cyberespionage group Bronze Butler. While the gang has been targeting Japanese heavy industry since 2012, not much is known about the group’s current modus operandi. In a report released Thursday by the Counter Threat Unit at SecureWorks, a subsidiary of De...

PT-2017-11411 · Juniper Networks · Contrail

The ifmap service that comes bundled with Juniper Networks Contrail releases uses hard coded credentials. Affected releases are Contrail releases 2.2 prior to 2.21.4; 3.0 prior to 3.0.3.4; 3.1 prior to 3.1.4.0; 3.2 prior to 3.2.5.0. CVE-2017-10616 and CVE-2017-10617 can be chained together and ha...

NXP Semiconductors MQX RTOS

CVSS v3 8.1 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: NXP Semiconductors Equipment: MQX RTOS Vulnerabilities: Classic Buffer Overflow, Out-of-Bounds Read AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following versions of MQX Real-Time Operating System RTOS are used in NXP’s ColdFire...

Israel hacked Kaspersky to inform US about Russia stealing NSA exploits

By Waqas Israeli Spies Hacked Kaspersky and Found Russian Hackers Exploiting the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Israel hacked Kaspersky to inform US about Russia stealing NSA exploits...

Microsoft Office CVE-2017-11826 Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Office is prone to a memory-corruption vulnerability. An attacker can leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in denial of service conditions. Technologies Affected Microsoft...

Microsoft Windows SMB Server CVE-2017-11780 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. Successful exploits will allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system. Failed attacks will cause denial of service conditions. Technologies Affected Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit...

Cisco IOS Software Internet Key Exchange Denial of Service Vulnerability

According to its self-reported version, the IOS is affected by one or more vulnerabilities. Please see the included Cisco BIDs and the Cisco Security Advisory for more information. TRUSTED...

Microsoft Windows 10 RS2 (x64) - 'win32kfull!bFill' Pool Overflow

Sources: https://siberas.de/blog/2017/10/05/exploitationcasestudywildpooloverflowCVE-2016-3309reloaded.html https://github.com/siberas/CVE-2016-3309Reloaded Exploits for the recently-patched win32kfull!bFill vulnerability. Executing the Palette or Bitmap exploit will give you SYSTEM privileges on...

Ironsquirrel - Encrypted Exploit Delivery for the Masses

This project aims at delivering browser exploits to the victim browser in an encrypted fashion. Ellyptic-curve Diffie-Hellman secp256k1 is used for key agreement and AES is used for encryption. By delivering the exploit code and shellcode to the victim in an encrypted way, the attack can not be...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2017:2795)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:2795 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel...