Attackers Using Fake Google Analytics Code to Redirect Users to Black Hole Exploit Kit

Injecting malicious code into the HTML used on legitimate Web sites is a key part of the infection lifecycle for many attack crews, and they often disguise and obfuscate their code to make it more difficult to analyze or so it appears to be legitimate code. The latest instance of this technique h...

Blackhole Exploit Kit's Dominance On Infected Hosts Could Push Rivals To the Cloud

The Blackhole exploit kit has a near monopoly on infected Web pages, according to Web security firm M86’s latest Security Labs Report, issued today. PDF The bi-annual report, which covers the last half of 2011, July to December, describe Blackhole as the source of a whopping 95 percent of all the...

Massive Compromise of WordPress Sites Leads To Phoenix Exploit Kit

Researchers at the security firm M86 report that hackers have compromised hundreds of Web sites that use the WordPress content management system. The sites, mostly small Web pages and blogs, are being used to fool spam filters and redirect unwitting visitors to drive by download Websites that wil...

Freelancer Kit v2.35 - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities

Document Title: =============== Freelancer Kit v2.35 - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=402 Release Date: ============= 2012-01-28 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 402...

Freelancer Kit v2.35 - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities

Document Title: =============== Freelancer Kit v2.35 - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=402 Release Date: ============= 2012-01-28 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 402...

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...

JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u29 (Sound)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE JDK and JRE 6 Update 27 and earlier, 5.0 Update 31 and earlier, and 1.4.233 and earlier, and JRockit R28.1.4 and earlier, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknow...

Think Safer

Not even a techno-religion is immune from security snafus, as the folks at Apple are steadily discovering. After years of watching the bad guys use crimeware kits like Zeus against Microsoft, the iGang finally got a malware construction tool to call its own in May of this year. Modeled on the...

CVE-2011-4357

Format string vulnerability in the pcgierror function in python/neocgi.c in the Python CGI Kit neocgi module for Clearsilver 0.10.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers that are not properly handled...

DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4357

Format string vulnerability in the pcgierror function in python/neocgi.c in the Python CGI Kit neocgi module for Clearsilver 0.10.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers that are not properly handled...

Format string

Format string vulnerability in the pcgierror function in python/neocgi.c in the Python CGI Kit neocgi module for Clearsilver 0.10.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers that are not properly handled...

CVE-2011-4357

Format string vulnerability in the pcgierror function in python/neocgi.c in the Python CGI Kit neocgi module for Clearsilver 0.10.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers that are not properly handled...

CVE-2011-4357: Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

Format string vulnerability in the pcgierror function in python/neocgi.c in the Python CGI Kit neocgi module for Clearsilver 0.10.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers that are not properly handled...

Carberp and Black Hole Exploit Kit Wreaking Havoc

The Black Hole exploit kit and the Carberp Trojan have a lovely, symbiotic relationship and they’ve recently decided to take that relationship to the next level. In the last month, there has a been a major spike in the volume of Carberp infections related to attacks from sites hosting Black Hole,...

New Java Vulnerability Coming Bundled With Exploit Kits

A recently discovered Java vulnerability that’s been circulating throughout the hacking underground has begun to show up alongside the BlackHole exploit kit, according to a post on Brian Krebs’ KrebsonSecurity blog. The National Vulnerability Database claims the vulnerability is found in the Java...

JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u29 (Sound)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE JDK and JRE 6 Update 27 and earlier, 5.0 Update 31 and earlier, and 1.4.233 and earlier, and JRockit R28.1.4 and earlier, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknow...

Blackhole Exploit Kit attack on WampServer & Wordpress sites

Blackhole Exploit Kit attack on WampServer & Wordpress sites Kimberly from Stopmalvertising found Blackhole Exploit Kit on Website of most popular Webserver software site WAMPSERVER. Almost at the bottom of the webpage they notice a Javascript requesting a file from jquery.googlecode.com. The URL...

Blackhole Exploit Kit attack on WampServer & Wordpress sites

Blackhole Exploit Kit attack on WampServer & Wordpress sites Kimberly from Stopmalvertising found Blackhole Exploit Kit on Website of most popular Webserver software site WAMPSERVER. Almost at the bottom of the webpage they notice a Javascript requesting a file from jquery.googlecode.com. The URL...

Compromised WordPress Sites Redirecting to Black Hole Exploit Kit Servers

The Black Hole exploit kit is really becoming a serious pain in the neck for people trying to use the Internet. At some point, it may become easier to start a list of the URLs that aren’t hosting the exploit kit, rather than the ones that are. For the time being, the latest entry in the latter...

JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u29 (Deployment)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE JDK and JRE 7, 6 Update 27 and earlier, and JavaFX 2.0 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Deployment...