Click-Fraud Malware Spreading via JavaScript Attachments

A new malware campaign has been spotted that has begun seeding spam messages with a downloader heavily obfuscated with JavaScript. The SANS Internet Storm Center said today that two days ago, a flood of spam messages were observed laced with .js attachments. The JavaScript obfuscates a downloader...

Magnitude Exploit Kit Adobe Flash Zero Day 0Day

The urgency to patch Adobe Flash Player installations ramped up over the weekend when exploits for a recently patched zero-day vulnerability were found in the Magnitude Exploit Kit. French researcher Kafeine said on Sunday that a sample he encountered was dropping two instances of Cryptowall...

Cryptowall 3.0 Infections Spike from Angler EK, Malicious Spam

Since the Angler Exploit Kit began in late May spreading Cryptowall 3.0 ransomware, traffic containing the malware has continued to grow, putting more potential victims in harm’s way. Today, the SANS Internet Storm Center reported that Cryptowall 3.0 infections are emanating from not only the...

New Spam Campaign Pushing CTB-Locker Ransomware

A new run of spam messages this week has been spotted dropping CTB-Locker ransomware. CTB-Locker, also known as Critroni, is a fairly new piece of crypto ransomware that encrypts hard drives and demands a ransom paid in Bitcoin to the attackers in exchange for the decryption key. Two days ago,...

New Utility Decrypts Files Lost to TeslaCrypt Ransomware

Crypto-ransomware variants have enterprises on edge because of the threat of irreversibly damaged files. Some organizations, including most recently the Tewksbury, Ma., police department have gone as far as to pay hundreds of dollars in ransom for the recovery key. Some technology companies are...

WordPress 4.0.1 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Patch

WordPress’s latest update, 4.0.1, patches a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability affecting comment boxes on websites running the content management system software. An attacker would need only to inject malicious JavaScript into a comment that would infect a reader viewing it on the webpag...

Eleanor CMS Open Redirect

URL Open Redirect on Eleanor CMS Risk: Low CWE number: CWE-601 Vendor: eleanor-cms.ru Version: All Date: 11/11/2014 Author: Felipe " Renzi " Gabriel Contact: [email protected] Tested on Linux Ubuntu 14.04 ; Mozilla Firefox 33.0 Vulnerable File: go.php Exploit: +...

CVE-2014-3566

The SSL protocol 3.0, as used in OpenSSL through 1.0.1i and other products, uses nondeterministic CBC padding, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain cleartext data via a padding-oracle attack, aka the "POODLE" issue...

FreeBSD Patches TCP Processing DoS Vulnerability

FreeBSD has patched a denial-of-service vulnerability that could affect a host of third-party packages built atop the UNIX-like operating system. The vulnerability—found in the way FreeBSD processes TCP packets—was discovered by a member of Juniper Networks’ incident response team. FreeBSD’s...

Google Public DNS Server Spoofed for SNMP based DDoS Attack

The Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is becoming more sophisticated and complex, and, according to security experts, the next DDoS vector to be concerned about is SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol amplification attacks. Yesterday afternoon, the SANS Internet Storm Center reported...

Palo Alto Network Vulnerability - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

No description provided by source. Palo Alto Network Vulnerability - Cross-Site Scripting XSS ------------------------------ Class: Cross-Site Scripting XSS Vulnerability CVE: CVE-2010-0475 Remote: Yes Local: Yes Published: May 11, 2010 08:30AM Timeline:Submission to MITRE: 1/18/2010 Vendor...

Album Photo Sans Nom <= 1.6 - Remote Source Disclosure Vulnerability

No description provided by source. Title..: 7 php scripts File Inclusion Vuln / Source disclosure Credits: DarkFig Og.link: http://acid-root.new.fr/poc/13061007.txt Using http://www.google.com/codesearch Few examples about what we can do with a code search engine For educational purpose only. You...

Album Photo Sans Nom 1.6 Getimg.PHP Remote File Include Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20441/info Album Photo Sans Nom is prone to a remote file-include vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data. Exploiting this issue may allow an attacker to compromise the application and t...

UltraDNS Dealing with DDoS Attack

UPDATE – UltraDNS said it has mitigated a distributed denial of service DDoS attack for most of its customers after the service was held down for most of the day. “Currently, only customers utilizing a segment of UltraDNS Name Server addresses are experiencing resolution latency due to intermitte...

Healthcare IT Security Practices Poor, Systems Compromised

A new report from the SANS Institute warns that the push to digitize all health care records along with the emergence of HealthCare.gov and the general proliferation of electronic protected health information ePHI online will only exacerbate the security problems faced by those that store sensiti...

Moon Worm Spreading on Linksys Home and SMB Routers

A self-replicating worm is spreading among a number of different Linksys home and small business routers. Researchers at the SANS Institute reported the outbreak yesterday and have not been able to determine whether there is a malicious payload or if the worm connects to a command and control...

Linksys Backdoor Port 32764 Probes On The Rise

The SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center reports a surge in probes against port 32764, which matches the port used by an alleged backdoor in Linksys routers that was reported over the New Year’s Day holiday. “At this point, I urge everybody to scan their networks for devices listening on port...

Nmap CheatSheet

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Secunia CSI 7.0 - Next generation Patch Management tool released

Cybercrime costs organizations millions of dollars and to protect business from the consequences of security breaches, vulnerability intelligence and patch management are basic necessities in the toolbox of any IT team, as emphasized by organizations like the SANS Institute and the National...

[REMnux] A Linux Distribution for Malware Analysis

REMnux incorporates a number of tools for analyzing malicious executables that run on Microsoft Windows, as well as browser-based malware, such as Flash programs and obfuscated JavaScript. This popular toolkit includes programs for analyzing malicious documents, such PDF files, and utilities for...