Suspicious Decimal IP Redirect

Many exploit kits, when connecting to HTTP servers for malware download, use a non-dotted decimal IP literal as the server name. Using such notation may be indicative of malware download...

CVE-2017-0143

The SMBv1 server in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2; Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1; Windows 7 SP1; Windows 8.1; Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2; Windows RT 8.1; and Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607; and Windows Server 2016 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted packets, aka...

Still Getting Served: A Look at Recent Malvertising Campaigns Involving Exploit Kits

Malvertising occurs when an online advertising network knowingly or unknowingly serves up malicious advertisements on a website. Malvertisements are a type of “drive-by” threat that tend to result in users being infected with malware for simply visiting a website. The victims of this threat are...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.7.0-ibm security update

An update for java-1.7.0-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

CVE-2016-7657

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.2 is affected. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. watchOS before 3.1.3 is affected. The issue involves the "IOKit" component. It allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted app...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2996

Adobe Flash Player versions 24.0.0.194 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in Primetime SDK. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution...

CryptoShield Infections from RIG EK Picking Up

The RIG Exploit Kit remains fairly active despite an overall decline in such activity, and of late, it’s been spreading a fairly new variant of ransomware called CryptoShield. The main culprit is an attack group known for using EITest to deliver malware; it has been infecting victims’ machines vi...

CVE-2016-9305

Improper handling in the Autodesk FBX-SDK before 2017.1 of type mismatches and previously deleted objects related to reading and converting malformed FBX format files can allow attackers to gain access to uninitialized pointers...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base (SUSE-SU-2017:0263-1)

gstreamer-010-plugins-base was updated to fix one issue. This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2016-9811: Out of bounds memory read in windowsicontypefind bsc1013669. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable...

Open Source File System Digital Forensics: The Sleuth Kit

Open Source File System Digital Forensics The Sleuth Kit is an open source forensic toolkit for analyzing Microsoft and UNIX file systems and disks. The Sleuth Kit enables investigators to identify and recover evidence from images acquired during incident response or from live systems. The Sleuth...

CentOS Update for java CESA-2017:0061 centos7

Check the version of java SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882632";...

RedHat Update for java-1.6.0-openjdk RHSA-2017:0061-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Two New Edge Exploits Integrated into Sundown Exploit Kit

Six months of relative quiet around exploit kits recently changed when a public proof-of-concept attack disclosed by a Texas startup was integrated into the Sundown Exploit Kit. The proof-of-concept exploit was developed by Theori, a research and development firm in Austin, which opened its doors...

Credit Card Data and Other Information Targeted in Netflix Phishing Campaign

Introduction Through FireEye’s Email Threat Prevention ETP solution, FireEye Labs discovered a phishing campaign in the wild targeting the credit card data and other personal information of Netflix users primarily based in the United States. This campaign is interesting because of the evasion...

Vermont Grid 'Hack' Latest Tumble Down Attribution Rabbit Hole

A Vermont utility was for a brief moment last week at the center of a geopolitical scandal in which the Russian government was implicated in an attack against a U.S. electric grid. As it turns out, a laptop at Burlington Electric Department was infected with the Neutrino Exploit Kit. There was no...

No slowdown in Cerber ransomware activity as 2016 draws to a close

Note: Read our latest comprehensive report on ransomware: Ransomware 1H 2017 review: Global outbreaks reinforce the value of security hygiene. As everybody else winds down for the holidays, the cybercriminals behind Cerber are busy ramping up their operations. Following our discovery of a spam...

DNSChanger Malware is Back! Hijacking Routers to Target Every Connected Device

Next time when you see an advertisement of your favorite pair of shoes on any website, even if it is legitimate, just DO NOT CLICK ON IT. …Because that advertising could infect you in such a way that not just your system, but every device connected to your network would get affected. A few days...

DNSChanger Exploit Kit Hijacks Routers, Not Browsers

Attackers are targeting more than 166 router models with an exploit kit called DNSChanger that is being distributed via malvertising. Researchers at Proofpoint said the exploit kit is unique because the malvertising component of the attack doesn’t target browsers, rather a victim’s router. Some o...

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-39

Adobe Flash Player versions 23.0.0.207 and earlier, 11.2.202.644 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the PSDK class related to ad policy functionality method. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution...

Intel Branded NUC Kits Privilege Acquisition Vulnerability

Intel Branded NUC Kits are a series of host kits for Mini computers from Intel Corporation USA. A privilege-acquisition vulnerability exists in the BIOS firmware in Intel Branded NUC Kits. A local attacker could use this vulnerability to gain access to System Management Mode and take full control...