Hackers Exploiting Three Microsoft Office Flaws to Spread Zyklon Malware

Security researchers have spotted a new malware campaign in the wild that spreads an advanced botnet malware by leveraging at least three recently disclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. Dubbed Zyklon, the fully-featured malware has resurfaced after almost two years and primarily found...

Invoke-PSImage - Embeds a PowerShell script in the pixels of a PNG file and generates a oneliner to execute

Embeds a PowerShell script in the pixels of a PNG file and generates a oneliner to execute Invoke-PSImage takes a PowerShell script and embeds the bytes of the script into the pixels of a PNG image. It generates a oneliner for executing either from a file of from the web when the -Web flag is...

CHM Help Files Deliver Brazilian Banking Trojan

Security researchers are warning of a new spam campaign targeting Brazilian institutions that contain Compiled HTML file attachments that are used to deliver a banking Trojan. Spam messages contain a malicious CHM attachment called “comprovante.chm”, wrote Rodel Mendrez, senior security researche...

PowerShell script to check what vdisk version is being used

Looking for assistance with powershell script to check what vdisk version on the PVS is being used by the VDI desktops Target Devices...

Hackers Exploit Recently Disclosed Microsoft Office Bug to Backdoor PCs

A recently disclosed severe 17-year-old vulnerability in Microsoft Office that lets hackers install malware on targeted computers without user interaction is now being exploited in the wild to distribute a backdoor malware. First spotted by researchers at security firm Fortinet, the malware has...

Carbanak Attackers Devise Clever New Persistence Trick

Hackers behind the Carbanak criminal gang have devised a clever way to gain persistence on targeted systems to more effectively pull off financially motivated crimes. The technique involves creating a bogus instance of a Microsoft Windows app compatibility feature. On Wednesday, Mandiant, FireEye...

Dridex and Locky Return Via PDF Attachments in Latest Campaigns

Dridex and Locky, two prolific malware families that made waves in 2016 after being distributed in several high-volume spam campaigns, have returned after a brief hiatus. FireEye observed a decline in the volume of Dridex and Locky in the latter half of 2016, but we recently observed two new larg...

Dridex and Locky Return Via PDF Attachments in Latest Campaigns

Dridex and Locky, two prolific malware families that made waves in 2016 after being distributed in several high-volume spam campaigns, have returned after a brief hiatus. FireEye observed a decline in the volume of Dridex and Locky in the latter half of 2016, but we recently observed two new larg...

FIN7 Evolution and the Phishing LNK

FIN7 is a financially-motivated threat group that has been associated with malicious operations dating back to late 2015. FIN7 is referred to by many vendors as “Carbanak Group”, although we do not equate all usage of the CARBANAK backdoor with FIN7. FireEye recently observed a FIN7 spear phishin...

'Events data collection failure' Issue

Challenge Veeam ONE raises Events data collection failure against Veeam Backup & Replication or Hyper-V server. Cause Permissions, UAC configuration, and firewall settings need to be configured. Solution Troubleshooting Checks Verify that the account used to connect to Veeam Backup & Replication ...

Sherlock - Tool to find missing Windows patches for Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

PowerShell script to quickly find missing Microsoft patches for local privilege escalation vulnerabilities. Currently looks for: MS10-015 : User Mode to Ring KiTrap0D MS10-092 : Task Scheduler MS13-053 : NTUserMessageCall Win32k Kernel Pool Overflow MS13-081 : TrackPopupMenuEx Win32k NULL Page...

The vulnerability of the Windows operating system, which allows a hacker to bypass the certificate verification process

The vulnerability of the PowerShell script for the Windows operating system exists due to insufficient checking of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a local attacker to bypass certificate verification...

CVE-2017-0007

Device Guard in Microsoft Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and Windows Server 2016 allows remote attackers to modify PowerShell script without invalidating associated signatures, aka "PowerShell Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability."...

Device Guard Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

A security feature bypass exists when Device Guard does not properly validate certain elements of a signed PowerShell script. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could modify the contents of a PowerShell script without invalidating the signature associated with the file...

Microsoft Device Guard Security Feature Bypass (MS17-012: CVE-2017-0007)

A security feature bypass vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Windows Device Guard. The vulnerability is due to the way Device Guard improperly validates certain elements of a signed PowerShell script. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enticing a target user to open a...

NTDS Grabber

This module uses a powershell script to obtain a copy of the ntds,dit SAM and SYSTEM files on a domain controller. It compresses all these files in a cabinet file called All.cab. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source:...

Locky Ransomware, Kovter Click-Fraud Malware Spreading in Same Campaigns

Researchers at Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center have spotted malicious email campaigns using .lnk attachments to spread Locky ransomware and the Kovter click-fraud Trojan, the first time criminals have simultaneously distributed both pieces of malware. According to Microsoft, the .lnk file n...

CVE-2016-0321

IBM Personal Communications aka PCOMM 6.x before 6.0.17 and 12.x before 12.0.0.1 does not properly restrict credential extraction, which allows local users to discover passwords by leveraging access to the victim account and executing a PowerShell script...

CVE-2016-0321

IBM Personal Communications aka PCOMM 6.x before 6.0.17 and 12.x before 12.0.0.1 does not properly restrict credential extraction, which allows local users to discover passwords by leveraging access to the victim account and executing a PowerShell script...

Design/Logic Flaw

IBM Personal Communications aka PCOMM 6.x before 6.0.17 and 12.x before 12.0.0.1 does not properly restrict credential extraction, which allows local users to discover passwords by leveraging access to the victim account and executing a PowerShell script...