Microsoft Windows Control Flow Guard Security Bypass Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows 10 is a next-generation cross-platform operating system released by Microsoft for PCs and laptops, tablets, and cell phones.Control Flow Guard is one of the Control Flow Protection components. A security bypass vulnerability exists in Control Flow Guard in Microsoft Windows 10...

Windows Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Windows Control Flow Guard mishandles objects in memory. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could run a specially crafted application to bypass Control Flow Guard. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows...

EnCase Forensic Imager 7.10 Buffer Overflow

A blog post with additional information is available here: http://blog.sec-consult.com/2017/05/chainsaw-of-custody-manipulating.html We have also released a video showing arbitrary code execution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EngNIXSNQw SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory...

New COOP Attack Method Highlights Weaknesses In Microsoft's CFG Defenses

Researchers at Endgame have been evaluating an exploitation technique called Counterfeit Object-Oriented Programming COOP to bypass Control Flow Integrity CFI implementations such as that used by Microsoft to harden the defenses of Windows 10. Microsoft added its mitigation, called Control Flow...

Twin zero-day attacks: PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM target individuals in Europe

Targeted attacks are typically carried out against individuals to obtain intellectual property and other valuable data from target organizations. These individuals are either directly in possession of the targeted information or are able to connect to networks where the information resides...

Microsoft Tears off the Band-Aid with EMET

Microsoft last week extended the end-of-life expiration date to July 2018 on its exploit mitigation add-on, the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET. But for some time, the once-useful tool has been well on its way out to pasture. While EMET was never meant to be anything more than stopgap...

Control Flow Guard Mitigation Bypass

Introduced in Windows 8.1 Update 3 and Windows 10, Control Flow Guard was Microsoft’s latest antidote to memory-corruption attacks. The technology was meant to stand up to attacks that had long ago figured out how to bypass previous-generation protections such as Address Space Layout Randomizatio...

EMET 5.2 is available (update)

Today, we’re releasing the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET 5.2, which includes increased security protections to improve your security posture. You can download EMET 5.2 from microsoft.com/emet or directly from here. Following is the list of the main changes and improvements: Control...