BadRabbit Ransomware Attacks Hitting Russia, Ukraine

A ransomware attack has put a halt to business inside a handful of Russian media outlets and a number of major organizations in the Ukraine, including Kiev’s public transportation system and the country’s Odessa airport. The attacks are known as Bad Rabbit and harken back to the ExPetr/NotPetya...

Bad Rabbit: New Ransomware Attack Rapidly Spreading Across Europe

A new widespread ransomware attack is spreading like wildfire around Europe and has already affected over 200 major organisations, primarily in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and Germany, in the past few hours. Dubbed "Bad Rabbit," is reportedly a new Petya-like targeted ransomware attack against...

Kaspersky Opens Antivirus Source Code for Independent Review to Rebuild Trust

Kaspersky Lab — We have nothing to hide! Russia-based Antivirus firm hits back with what it calls a "comprehensive transparency initiative," to allow independent third-party review of its source code and internal processes to win back the trust of customers and infosec community. Kaspersky launch...

ICSA-17-306-01 Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 4.9 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Siemens Equipment: SIMATIC PCS 7 Vulnerabilities: Improper Input Validation 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-17-306-01 Siemens SIMATIC...

ATM malware is being sold on Darknet market

Disclaimer and warning ATM systems appear to be very secure, but the money can be accessed fairly easily if you know what you are doing. Criminals are exploiting hardware and software vulnerabilities to interact with ATMs, meaning they need to be made more secure. This can be achieved with the he...

Dangerous Malware Allows Anyone to Empty ATMs—And It’s On Sale!

Hacking ATM is now easier than ever before. Usually, hackers exploit hardware and software vulnerabilities to hack ATMs and force them to spit out cash, but now anyone can simply buy a malware to steal millions in cash from ATMs. Hackers are selling ready-made ATM malware on an underground hackin...

The vulnerability of Kaspersky Internet Security for Android, related to the lack of encryption for certain log file files, allows a hacker to disclose confidential information.

The vulnerability of Kaspersky Internet Security for Android lies in the lack of encryption for certain files in the logging application. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to disclose confidential information remotely...

The vulnerability of the reportId parameter in the getReportStatus method of the Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Linux File Server antivirus protection tool allows a hacker to access and read arbitrary files.

The vulnerability of the reportId parameter in the getReportStatus method of the Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Linux File Server antivirus tool is related to the lack of protection for service data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor, operating remotely, to read arbitrary files wit...

The vulnerability of Kaspersky Internet Security for Android’s antivirus protection lies in its lack of access control mechanisms, allowing unauthorized users to gain unauthorized access to the product’s functions.

The vulnerability of Kaspersky Internet Security for Android relates to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to gain unauthorized access to the functions of this product through the Android inter-process communication...

Adobe Patches Flash Zero Day Exploited by Black Oasis APT

Adobe today released an out-of-band Flash Player update addressing a zero-day vulnerability being exploited by a little-known Middle Eastern APT group. The group known as Black Oasis was, as recently as this month, using exploits for the flaw to drop FinSpy as a payload. Sold by the controversial...

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,...

Kaspersky Internet Security KL1 Driver Signal Handler Denial of Service(CVE-2016-4307)

Summary A denial of service vulnerability exists in the IOCTL handling functionality of Kaspersky Internet Security KL1 driver. A specially crafted IOCTL signal can cause an access violation in KL1 kernel driver resulting in local system denial of service. An attacker can run a program from user...

Kaspersky Internet Security KLIF Driver NtUserCreateWindowEx_HANDLER Denial of Service(CVE-2016-4304)

Summary A denial of service vulnerability exists in the syscall filtering functionality of the Kaspersky Internet Security KLIF driver. A specially crafted native api call request can cause a access violation exception in KLIF kernel driver resulting in local denial of service. An attacker can ru...

Kaspersky Internet Security KLDISK Driver Multiple Kernel Memory Disclosure Vulnerabilities(CVE-2016-4306)

Summary Multiple information leaks exist in various IOCTL handlers of the Kaspersky Internet Security KLDISK driver. Specially crafted IOCTL requests can cause the driver to return out of bounds kernel memory, potentially leaking sensitive information such as privileged tokens or kernel memory...

Kaspersky Internet Security KLIF Driver NtAdjustTokenPrivileges_HANDLER Denial of Service(CVE-2016-4305)

Summary A denial of service vulnerability exists in the syscall filtering functionality of Kaspersky Internet Security KLIF driver. A specially crafted native api call can cause a access violation in KLIF kernel driver resulting in local denial of service. An attacker can run program from user mo...

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Unhandled Windows Messages Denial of Service Vulnerability(CVE-2016-4329)

Summary An local denial of service vulnerability exists in window broadcast message handling functionality of Kaspersky Anti-Virus software. Sending certain unhandled window messages, attacker can cause application termination and in the same way bypass KAV self-protection mechanism. Tested...

More on Kaspersky and the Stolen NSA Attack Tools

Both the New York Times and the Washington Post are reporting that Israel has penetrated Kaspersky's network and detected the Russian operation. From the New York Times: Israeli intelligence officers informed the NSA that, in the course of their Kaspersky hack, they uncovered evidence that Russia...

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...

Israel Hacked Kaspersky, Caught Russian Spies Hacking American Spies, But...

The cold cyber war has just turned hot. According to a story published today by the New York Times, Israeli government hackers hacked into Kaspersky’s network in 2015 and caught Russian government hackers red-handed hacking US government hackers with the help of Kaspersky. In other words — Russia...

Report Claims Russia Stole NSA Tools Using Kaspersky Software

By Uzair Amir The Wall Street Journal has reported that Russian government-sponsored hackers This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Report Claims Russia Stole NSA Tools Using Kaspersky Software...