Revoke-Obfuscation: PowerShell Obfuscation Detection Using Science

Many attackers continue to leverage PowerShell as a part of their malware ecosystem, mostly delivered and executed by malicious binaries and documents. Of malware that uses PowerShell, the most prevalent use is the garden-variety stager: an executable or document macro that launches PowerShell to...

custominteriorsbythomas.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://custominteriorsbythomas.com/?s=%3Cimg%20src=x%20onerror=prompt/OPENBUGBOUNTY/%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 23.10.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / Not calculated VIP...

macOS Fruitfly Backdoor Analysis Renders New Spying Capabilities

LAS VEGAS—The FruitFly backdoor became a known entity in January, but it’s a good bet that for years it had been in the wild, undetected by analysts and security software. The macOS and OS X malware has a number of insidious spying capabilities that would make anyone uneasy, and a variant recentl...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Vulnerabilities in CorelDRAW X8

Today, Talos is disclosing several vulnerabilities that have been identified in CorelDRAW X8. CorelDRAW X8 is graphics suite used for manipulating raster and vector images and is a common alternative to Adobe Creative Cloud. Several of the vulnerabilities being disclosed today specifically affect...

Modified Versions of Nukebot in Wild Since Source Code Leak

Some opportunistic criminals have put the leaked source code for the Nukebot banking Trojan to use, targeting banks in the United States and France with variants of the malware, while another group has adapted it to steal mail client and browser passwords. The leak was disclosed in early March wh...

Bad Code Library Triggers Devil's Ivy Vulnerability in Millions of IoT Devices

Tens of millions of products ranging from airport surveillance cameras, sensors, networking equipment and IoT devices are vulnerable to a flaw that allows attackers to remotely gain control over devices or crash them. The vulnerability, dubbed Devil’s Ivy, was identified by ​researchers at Senrio...

Cisco DDR2200 / 2201v1 Insecure Direct Object Reference / Path Traversal Vulnerabilities

Cisco DDR2200 and 2201v1 ADSL2+ Residential Gateway devices suffer from insecure direct object reference vulnerabilities that allow for remote code execution as well as a path traversal issue. Copyright and Disclaimer The information in this advisory is Copyright 2017 Conviso and provided so that...

Friday Squid Blogging: Eyeball Collector Wants a Giant-Squid Eyeball

They're rare: The one Dubielzig really wants is an eye from a giant squid, which has the biggest eye of any living animal -- it's the size of a dinner plate. "But there are no intact specimens of giant squid eyes, only rotten specimens that have been beached," he says. As usual, you can also use...

Book Review: Twitter and Tear Gas, by Zeynep Tufekci

There are two opposing models of how the Internet has changed protest movements. The first is that the Internet has made protesters mightier than ever. This comes from the successful revolutions in Tunisia 2010-11, Egypt 2011, and Ukraine 2013. The second is that it has made them more ineffectual...

Virtuozzo 6 : kernel / kernel-abi-whitelists / kernel-debug / etc (VZLSA-2017-1486)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

Virtuozzo 7 : glibc / glibc-common / glibc-devel / glibc-headers / etc (VZLSA-2017-1481)

An update for glibc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

Virtuozzo 7 : kernel / kernel-abi-whitelists / kernel-debug / etc (VZLSA-2017-1484)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

Virtuozzo 6 : glibc / glibc-common / glibc-devel / glibc-headers / etc (VZLSA-2017-1480)

An update for glibc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

Over 14 Million Verizon Customers' Data Exposed On Unprotected AWS Server

Verizon, the major telecommunications provider, has suffered a data security breach with over 14 million US customers' personal details exposed on the Internet after NICE Systems, a third-party vendor, mistakenly left the sensitive users’ details open on a server. Chris Vickery, researcher and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: yara-3.6.2-1.fc25

YARA is a tool aimed at but not limited to helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions of malware families or whatever you want to describe based on textual or binary patterns. Each description, a.k.a rule, consists of a set of strin...

CVE-2017-10974

Yaws 1.91 allows Unauthenticated Remote File Disclosure via HTTP Directory Traversal with /%5C../ to port 8080. NOTE: this CVE is only about use of an initial /%5C sequence to defeat traversal protection mechanisms; the initial /%5C sequence was apparently not discussed in earlier research on thi...

DNI Wants Research into Secure Multiparty Computation

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity IARPA is soliciting proposals for research projects in secure multiparty computation: Specifically of interest is computing on data belonging to different -- potentially mutually distrusting -- parties, which are unwilling or unable e.g., due t...

Updated libffi packages fix security vulnerability

libffi, a library used to call code written in one language from code written in a different language, was enforcing an executable stack on the i386 architecture. While this might not be considered a vulnerability by itself, this could be leveraged when exploiting other vulnerabilities, such as t...

The Real-World Impact of Bug Bounties and Vulnerability Research

Running the world’s largest vendor agnostic bug bounty program has afforded us the unique opportunity to purchase bugs of all varieties. The submissions to the Zero Day Initiative ZDI program range in severity from slightly annoying to hugely impactful. We wouldn’t have it any other way. Generall...

Researchers Crack 1024-bit RSA Encryption in GnuPG Crypto Library

Security boffins have discovered a critical vulnerability in a GnuPG cryptographic library that allowed the researchers to completely break RSA-1024 and successfully extract the secret RSA key to decrypt data. Gnu Privacy Guard GnuPG or GPG is popular open source encryption software used by many...