Watering Hole Attack Hits US Department of Labor Website

The United States Department of Labor website is the latest high-profile government site to fall victim to a watering hole attack. Researchers at a number of security companies reported today that the site was hosting malware and redirecting visitors to a site hosting the Poison Ivy remote access...

CVE-2013-1652

Puppet before 2.6.18, 2.7.x before 2.7.21, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, and Puppet Enterprise before 1.2.7 and 2.7.x before 2.7.2 allows remote authenticated users with a valid certificate and private key to read arbitrary catalogs or poison the master's cache via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2013-1652

Puppet before 2.6.18, 2.7.x before 2.7.21, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, and Puppet Enterprise before 1.2.7 and 2.7.x before 2.7.2 allows remote authenticated users with a valid certificate and private key to read arbitrary catalogs or poison the master's cache via unspecified vectors...

PT-2013-1227

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Puppet versions prior to 2.6.18 Puppet versions 2.7.x prior to 2.7.21 Puppet versions 3.1.x prior to 3.1.1 Puppet Enterprise versions prior to 1.2.7 Puppet Enterprise versions 2.7.x prior to 2.7.2 Description The issue allows remote...

CVE-2013-1652: Undefined Security Weakness

Puppet before 2.6.18, 2.7.x before 2.7.21, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, and Puppet Enterprise before 1.2.7 and 2.7.x before 2.7.2 allows remote authenticated users with a valid certificate and private key to read arbitrary catalogs or poison the master's cache via unspecified vectors...

IE Zero-Day Watering Hole Attack Expands to Handful of Political Sites

The scope of watering hole attacks utilizing a previously unreported vulnerability in Internet Explorer has widened to as many as four new sites, all of them with politically charged leanings. The attacks further demonstrate the effectiveness of watering hole attacks compared to phishing attacks...

New Internet Explorer zero-day, Can trigger malware automatically

The new zero day exploit has been discovered and being exploited in the wild. This can be used to load malicious application on victim machines running fully patched Windows XP SP3 along with the latest editions of the IE 7 and IE 8 browser and Adobe's Flash software. Eric Romang was examining on...

Latest IE Zero-Day Flaw Tied to Nitro Hackers and Recent Java Zero-Day Exploits

Security experts are warning enterprise and consumer users to stay away from Internet Explorer until Microsoft issues a patch for a new zero-day vulnerability in the browser. Active exploits have been discovered in the wild and are being linked to Nitro, the same group of hackers from China who...

Plugx RAT targeting government organizations in Japan using spear phishing

Roland Dela Paz Threat Researcher at TrendMirco reported that last year a Malware Campaign to target specific users in Japan, China, and Taiwan once again on rise using new breed of Remote Access Tool RAT called Plugx also known as Korplug. This new custom made version comes for less recognition...

Joomla! Component Spider Calendar - SQL Injection

Joomla! Component Spider Calendar - SQL Injection Exploit Title: Joomla spider calendar lite Remote Exploit dork: inurl:comspidercalendar Date: 29-08-2012 Author: Daniel Barragan "D4NB4R" Twitter: @D4NB4R site: http://poisonsecurity.wordpress.com/ Vendor:...

Joomla! Component Spider Calendar - SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Joomla spider calendar lite Remote Exploit dork: inurl:comspidercalendar Date: 29-08-2012 Author: Daniel Barragan "D4NB4R" Twitter: @D4NB4R site: http://poisonsecurity.wordpress.com/ Vendor: http://web-dorado.com/products/spider-calendar-lite.html Version: Last License:...

Oracle Releases Fix For Java CVE-2012-4681 Flaw

Oracle on Thursday released a new version of Java that included a fix for the CVE-2012-4681 vulnerability that has been used in limited targeted attacks in the last couple of weeks. The release of Java 7 update 7 comes about four days after the Java flaw was publicly disclosed, but several months...

Use of Java Zero-Day Flaws Tied to Nitro Attack Crew

Researchers say that one of the attack groups using the two new Java zero-day vulnerabilities is the same group that was behind an earlier targeted attack campaign from 2011. That group was traced back to China and was essentially running a spear-phishing campaign, but now the crew, known as Nitr...

TikiWiki unserialize() Function Arbitrary Code Execution

The version of the TikiWiki installed on the remote host contains a flaw that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. The 'unserialize' function is not properly sanitized before being used in the 'lib/banners/bannerlib.php', 'tiki-printmultipages.php', 'tiki-sendobjects.php' and...

Joomla Component com_spidercalendar Remote Exploit

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Joomla spider calendar lite Remote Exploit dork: inurl:comspidercalendar Date: 29-08-2012 Author: Daniel Barragan "D4NB4R" Twitter: @D4NB4R site: http://poisonsecurity.wordpress.com/ Vendor:...

Detecting and Removing Vulnerable Java Versions

As attacks on the new Java zero-day vulnerability continue and researchers look for ways to mitigate the flaw, they are encouraging users to disable Java in their browsers. There is now a site that users can visit that will detect whether their browser is running a vulnerable version of Java...

Details of New Java Exploit Emerge

More details about the new Java zero day vulnerability are emerging, and as the seriousness of the problem has become clear, researchers have recommended that users disable Java altogether for the time being if they don’t have a specific need for it. The vulnerability in Java first emerged late...

New Java Zero Day Being Used in Targeted Attacks

There is a newly discovered zero day vulnerability in Java 7 that is being used in some targeted attacks right now. The vulnerability works against Internet Explorer and Firefox and researchers say that attackers are exploiting in the wild and installing a version of the Poison Ivy RAT on...

linux/x86 - execve(/bin/dash) - 49 bytes

/ Shellcode length: 49 Author: Chroniccommand /bin/dash My first attempt at shellcode Poison security / include //49 bytes char shellcode = "\xeb\x18\x5e\x31\xc0\x88\x46\x09\x89\x76\x0a" "\x89\x46\x0e\xb0\x0b\x89\xf3\x8d\x4e\x0a\x8d" "\x56\x0e\xcd\x80\xe8\xe3\xff\xff\xff\x2f"...

Poison Ivy 2.3.2 C&C Server Buffer Overflow

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/ require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 "Poison Ivy 2.3.2 C&C Server Buffer...