How Just Opening an MS Word Doc Can Hijack Every File On Your System

If you receive a mail masquerading as a company's invoice and containing a Microsoft Word file, think twice before clicking on it. Doing so could cripple your system and could lead to a catastrophic destruction. Hackers are believed to be carrying out social engineering hoaxes by adopting...

Attackers Dropping Kasidet Bot via Office Macros

It’s well documented that attackers have reignited their love affair with the Office macro, using it as a vector for spreading banking malware and even the BlackEnergy Trojan as of late. According to researchers at the San Jose security company zScaler, the bot Kasidet, also known as Neutrino, ha...

Hackers Cause World's First Power Outage with Malware

SCADA system has always been an interesting target for cyber crooks, given the success of Stuxnet malware that was developed by the US and Israeli together to sabotage the Iranian nuclear facilities a few years ago, and "Havex" that previously targeted organizations in the energy sector. Now once...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID19889: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on December 3, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 42493 First Published: 2015 December 3 20:34 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID19889 may contain the following files: Name |...

autofs security, bug fix and enhancement update

5.0.7-54.0.1 - add autofs-5.0.5-lookup-mounts.patch Orabug:12658280 Bert Barbe 1:5.0.7-54 - bz1263508 - Heavy program map usage can lead to a hang - fix out of order call in program map lookup. - Resolves: rhbz1263508 1:5.0.7-53 - bz1238573 - RFE: autofs MAPHASHTABLESIZE description - update...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2011-0433)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Dyreza Dyre Trojan Phishing IT Supply Chain Credentials

The Dyreza Trojan long ago ceased its exclusive focus on stealing banking credentials, and has been blamed for its part in attacks against Salesforce.com customers, webhosts and registrars, online retailers and many more. Researchers at Proofpoint today published new information that indicates th...

Zaption: CSV Excel Macro Injection in Export Response

Scenario: An attacker creates a response like =AND21 in a tour that allows open response or discussion. Then when a user who created this tour clicks analytic and clicks to export responses as csv, he will see TRUE instead of =AND12 Meaning that cell is now active, and an attacker could make a...

Zendesk: CSV Excel Macro Injection Vulnerability in export chat logs

Scenario: An attacker creates a name as =AND21 with a fake email and with random text in the message body. This is similar to a vulnerability recently found in zendesk.com as well. When a team member clicks export as csv and opens it instead of seeing =AND21 they see TRUE. Meaning that cell is no...

Zendesk: CSV Excel Macro Injection Vulnerability in export customer tickets

Scenario: An attacker creates a name as =AND21 and creates a ticket. When a team member clicks export as csv and opens it instead of seeing =AND21 they see TRUE. This means that the cell is active. An attacker could basically attack makes a ticket, use -2+3+cmd|' /C calc'!E1 and could execute...

Fedora 23 : nrpe-2.15-7.fc23 (2015-15398)

Use %configure macro as it deals with config.sub/guess and various flags properly ---- nrpe-2.15-6.el7 - Fix spec file for missing /usr/share/libtool/config/config.guess nrpe-2.15-6.el6 - Fix spec file for missing /usr/share/libtool/config/config.guess nrpe-2.15-6.fc23 - Fix spec file for missing...

Security Advisory - No Authentication Vulnerability on the Serial Port of the UAP2105

The UAP2105 serves as a radio access device in the uBro solutions. As one of the AP series products developed on the basis of 3GPP R99/R4/R5/R6 FDD, the UAP2105 complies with the R8 HNB standard and provides Small Office and Home Office SOHO and home users with improved indoor coverage. With the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : autofs on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150722)

It was found that program-based automounter maps that used interpreted languages such as Python would use standard environment variables to locate and load modules of those languages. A local attacker could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. CVE-2014-8169 Note:...

Bartalex Variants Spotted Dropping Pony, Dyre Malware

Some strains of Bartalex malware, a macro-based malware that first surfaced earlier this year, have recently been spotted dropping Pony loader malware and the Dyre banking Trojan. Primarily spread through spam, the first iterations of Bartalex were observed in late March embedded in Microsoft Wor...

CVE-2015-4472

Off-by-one error in the READENCINT macro in chmd.c in libmspack before 0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted CHM file...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4472

Off-by-one error in the READENCINT macro in chmd.c in libmspack before 0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted CHM file...

POS Malware Nitlove Seen Dropped in Spam Campaign

Toss another strain of point-of-sale POS malware onto the growing heap discovered this year. The latest variant, a variant dubbed NitlovePOS, was spotted being dropped on victims who were compromised by a spam operation. Researchers with the firm FireEye were in the middle of tracking a campaign ...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID15107: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on May 5, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 38694 First Published: 2015 May 6 15:29 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID15107 may contain the following files: Name | Size ...

Updated fcgi packages fix CVE-2012-6687

Updated fcgi packages fix security vulnerability: FCGI does not perform range checks for file descriptors before use of the FDSET macro. This FDSET macro could allow for more than 1024 total file descriptors to be monitored in the closing state. This may allow remote attackers to cause a denial o...

X.Org libX11 'MakeBigReq()' Macro Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

libX11 is the X11 X Window System client library run by the X.Org Foundation. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the X.Org libX11 'MakeBigReq' Macro. The vulnerability stems from a failure to adequately check user-supplied data before copying it into an adequately sized buffer. An attacker...