The return of Mamba ransomware

At the end of 2016, there was a major attack against San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency. The attack was done using Mamba ransomware. This ransomware uses a legitimate utility called DiskCryptor for full disk encryption. This month, we noted that the group behind this ransomware has...

HawkEye Credential Theft Malware Distributed in Recent Phishing Campaign

A wide variety of threat actors began distributing HawkEye malware through high-volume email campaigns after it became available for purchase via a public-facing website. The actors behind the phishing campaigns typically used email themes based on current events and media reports that would piqu...

MGASA-2017-0178 Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerabilities

Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox CVE-2017-5470, CVE-2017-5472, CVE-2017-7749, CVE-2017-7751,...

Privilege escalation

Malicious file execution vulnerability in Intel Security McAfee Security Scan+ MSS+ before 3.11.266.3 allows attackers to make the product momentarily vulnerable via executing preexisting specifically crafted malware during installation or uninstallation, but not during normal operation...

Dr0p1t-Framework - A Framework That Creates An Advanced FUD Dropper With Some Tricks

Have you ever heard about trojan droppers ? you can read about them from here . Dr0p1t let you create dropper like any tool but this time FUD with some tricks ; Features Works with Windows and Linux Adding malware after downloading it to startup Adding malware after downloading it to task schedul...

Android Code Execution

The vulnerability related to privilege escalation in the NVIDIA GPU operating system for Android is linked to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code of a local malware application within the kernel context. This issue is...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Document Attachment Email Messages on September 5, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30633 First Published: 2013 September 3 18:17 GMT Last Updated: 2013 September 5 16:29 GMT Version: 2 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain an attached document for the recipient. The text in the email messag...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Secure Message Notification Email Messages on August 13, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30401 First Published: 2013 August 13 19:58 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a secure message notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipie...

Code injection

F-Secure Anti-Virus does not properly interact with the processing of hcp:// URLs by the Microsoft Help and Support Center, which makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malware that is correctly detected by this product, but with a detection approach that occurs too la...

CVE-2001-0643: Undefined Security Weakness

Internet Explorer 5.5 does not display the Class ID CLSID when it is at the end of the file name, which could allow attackers to trick the user into executing dangerous programs by making it appear that the document is of a safe file type...

CVE-1999-1440: Undefined Security Weakness

Win32 ICQ 98a 1.30, and possibly other versions, does not display the entire portion of long filenames, which could allow attackers to send an executable file with a long name that contains so many spaces that the .exe extension is not displayed, which could make the user believe that the file is...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 - ActiveX Object For Constructing Type Libraries For Scriptlets File Write

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 for Windows 95/Windows 98/Windows NT 4 ActiveX "Object for constructing type libraries for scriptlets" Vulnerability source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/598/info The 'scriptlet.typlib' ActiveX control can create, edit, and overwrite files on the local disk...