Watering Hole Attack Hits US Department of Labor Website

The United States Department of Labor website is the latest high-profile government site to fall victim to a watering hole attack. Researchers at a number of security companies reported today that the site was hosting malware and redirecting visitors to a site hosting the Poison Ivy remote access...

AMI Firmware Source Code, Private Key Leaked

Source code and a private signing key for firmware manufactured by a popular PC hardware maker American Megatrends Inc. AMI have been found on an open FTP server hosted in Taiwan. Researcher Brandan Wilson found the company’s data hosted on an unnamed vendor’s FTP server. Among the vendor’s...

IE Zero-Day Watering Hole Attack Expands to Handful of Political Sites

The scope of watering hole attacks utilizing a previously unreported vulnerability in Internet Explorer has widened to as many as four new sites, all of them with politically charged leanings. The attacks further demonstrate the effectiveness of watering hole attacks compared to phishing attacks...

New Internet Explorer zero-day, Can trigger malware automatically

The new zero day exploit has been discovered and being exploited in the wild. This can be used to load malicious application on victim machines running fully patched Windows XP SP3 along with the latest editions of the IE 7 and IE 8 browser and Adobe's Flash software. Eric Romang was examining on...

Latest IE Zero-Day Flaw Tied to Nitro Hackers and Recent Java Zero-Day Exploits

Security experts are warning enterprise and consumer users to stay away from Internet Explorer until Microsoft issues a patch for a new zero-day vulnerability in the browser. Active exploits have been discovered in the wild and are being linked to Nitro, the same group of hackers from China who...

Plugx RAT targeting government organizations in Japan using spear phishing

Roland Dela Paz Threat Researcher at TrendMirco reported that last year a Malware Campaign to target specific users in Japan, China, and Taiwan once again on rise using new breed of Remote Access Tool RAT called Plugx also known as Korplug. This new custom made version comes for less recognition...

Oracle Releases Fix For Java CVE-2012-4681 Flaw

Oracle on Thursday released a new version of Java that included a fix for the CVE-2012-4681 vulnerability that has been used in limited targeted attacks in the last couple of weeks. The release of Java 7 update 7 comes about four days after the Java flaw was publicly disclosed, but several months...

Use of Java Zero-Day Flaws Tied to Nitro Attack Crew

Researchers say that one of the attack groups using the two new Java zero-day vulnerabilities is the same group that was behind an earlier targeted attack campaign from 2011. That group was traced back to China and was essentially running a spear-phishing campaign, but now the crew, known as Nitr...

Detecting and Removing Vulnerable Java Versions

As attacks on the new Java zero-day vulnerability continue and researchers look for ways to mitigate the flaw, they are encouraging users to disable Java in their browsers. There is now a site that users can visit that will detect whether their browser is running a vulnerable version of Java...

Details of New Java Exploit Emerge

More details about the new Java zero day vulnerability are emerging, and as the seriousness of the problem has become clear, researchers have recommended that users disable Java altogether for the time being if they don’t have a specific need for it. The vulnerability in Java first emerged late...

New Java Zero Day Being Used in Targeted Attacks

There is a newly discovered zero day vulnerability in Java 7 that is being used in some targeted attacks right now. The vulnerability works against Internet Explorer and Firefox and researchers say that attackers are exploiting in the wild and installing a version of the Poison Ivy RAT on...

Poison Ivy 2.3.2 C&C Server Buffer Overflow

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/ require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 "Poison Ivy 2.3.2 C&C Server Buffer...

Poison Ivy 2.3.2 C&C Server Buffer Overflow

Exploit for windows platform in category remote exploits This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/ require 'msf/core'...

Poison Ivy 2.3.2 (C2 Server) - Remote Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/ require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 "Poison Ivy 2.3.2 C&C Server Buffer...

Poison Ivy Server Buffer Overflow

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in the Poison Ivy 2.2.0 to 2.3.2 C&C server. The exploit does not need to know the password chosen for the bot/server communication. Module Options msf use exploit/windows/misc/poisonivy/bof msf undefinedbof show actions ...actions... msf undefinedbof...

New Trojan For Mac Used In Attacks On Tibetan NGOs

The security firm Alienvault reports that its own research on phishing attacks against non governmental organizations supporting the Tibetan Government in Exile is now being used as bait in a new round of phishing attacks on those same NGOs. The firm warned the public on Monday about a round of...

Poison Ivy Variant Changes Benign Code to Malicious After Download

Trojan downloaders are the cannon fodder of the malware world: expendable, commoditized foot soldiers with a single function. Once their job is complete–downloading the executable or other malicious component–the downloaders are no longer useful. However, researchers have found that there are now...

Poison Ivy RAT Still Giving Users a Rash

The Poison Ivy malware kit is old. It was first seen in 2005, which makes it about 762 years old in Internet years. But that doesn’t mean it’s no longer useful, as evinced by the data collected by Microsoft in a new report on the tool, which shows that it is still in active use and is turning up ...

Symantec Traces Attacks on Chemical Industry To 20 Year Old Chinese Hacker-For-Hire

A report from Symantec Corp. details a roving campaign of intellectual property theft controlled by a 20 year-old hacker for hire that relied on phishing e-mail, some old malware and command and control operations based in China. The company on Tuesday unveiled research on the targeted attacks,...

Researchers Discover File Used to Hack RSA

Researchers at anti-malware company F-Secure say they have found the actual infected Excel file that was used in the attack on RSA earlier this year, eventually forcing the company to replace millions of its SecurID tokens. The Outlook email message containing the malicious file apparently was...