FIN7 Spear Phishing Campaign Targets Personnel Involved in SEC Filings

In late February 2017, FireEye as a Service FaaS identified a spear phishing campaign that appeared to be targeting personnel involved with United States Securities and Exchange Commission SEC filings at various organizations. Based on multiple identified overlaps in infrastructure and the use of...

FIN7 Spear Phishing Campaign Targets Personnel Involved in SEC Filings

In late February 2017, FireEye as a Service FaaS identified a spear phishing campaign that appeared to be targeting personnel involved with United States Securities and Exchange Commission SEC filings at various organizations. Based on multiple identified overlaps in infrastructure and the use of...

Yahoo Tells SEC Executives Failed to Act on Breach

Yahoo’s quarterly SEC filings have been the only window into the massive data breaches that have exposed more than 1.5 billion records in the past four years. This week, Yahoo’s Q4 2016 filing was made public, and the view got uglier. The company admitted to the SEC and its investors that its...

X.org Privilege Escalation / Use-After-Free / Weak Entropy Vulnerabilities

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits Multiple Vulnerabilities in X.org ================================= Overview -------- Vendor: X.org/Freedesktop.org Vendor URL: https://www.x.org/wiki/ Credit: X41 D-Sec GmbH, Eric Sesterhenn Advisory-URL:...

X.org Privilege Escalation / Use-After-Free / Weak Entropy

X41 D-Sec GmbH Security Advisory: X41-2017-001 Multiple Vulnerabilities in X.org ================================= Overview -------- Vendor: X.org/Freedesktop.org Vendor URL: https://www.x.org/wiki/ Credit: X41 D-Sec GmbH, Eric Sesterhenn Advisory-URL:...

Aruba AirWave 8.2.3 - XML External Entity Injection / Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Exploit for hardware platform in category web applications title: XML External Entity Injection XXE, Reflected Cross Site Scripting product: Aruba AirWave vulnerable version: =8.2.3 fixed version: 8.2.3.1 CVE number: CVE-2016-8526, CVE-2016-8527 impact: high homepage: http://www.arubanetworks.com...

ytnef 1.9 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits Multiple Vulnerabilities in ytnef ================================= Overview -------- Severity Rating: High Confirmed Affected Versions: 1.9 and earlier Confirmed Patched Versions: 1.9.1 Vendor: Yerase Vendor URL: https://github.com/Yeraze/ytn...

OpenBSD 6.0 httpd Content-Length DoS Exploit

Exploit for openbsd platform in category dos / poc Log message: Reimplement httpd's support for byte ranges. The previous implementation loaded all the output into a single output buffer and used its size to determine the Content-Length of the body. The new implementation calculates the body leng...

Sony Closes Backdoors in IP-Enabled Cameras

Sony, in late November, provided a firmware update for a popular IP-enabled camera line used by enterprises and law enforcement alike that closed off remote administration backdoors. The backdoors could be abused to draft these devices into botnets or allow for manipulation of images and...

EnCase Forensic Imager 7.10 Denial Of Service / Heap Buffer Overflow

SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory ======================================================================= title: Denial of service & heap-based buffer overflow product: Guidance Software EnCase Forensic Imager & EnCase Forensic vulnerable version: EnCase Forensic Imager= 7.10 EnCase...

EnCase Forensic Imager 7.10 Denial Of Service / Heap Buffer Overflow

EnCase Forensic Imager versions 7.10 and below suffer from denial of service and heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities. title: Denial of service & heap-based buffer overflow product: Guidance Software EnCase Forensic Imager & EnCase Forensic vulnerable version: EnCase Forensic Imager= 7.10...

Yahoo Tells SEC It Knew About Data Breach in 2014

Yahoo fessed up in its latest SEC filing that it knew in 2014 that attackers were on its network and stole information from 500 million accounts. The breach was disclosed in September and Yahoo blamed state-sponsored attackers, a claim that was challenged by some experts who instead said a crimin...

RSA Enterprise Compromise Assessment Tool 4.1.0.1 - XML External Entity Injection

SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory ======================================================================= title: XML External Entity Injection XXE product: RSA Enterprise Compromise Assessment Tool ECAT vulnerable version: 4.1.0.1 fixed version: 4.1.2.0 CVE Number: - impact: Medium...

MuM MapEdit 3.2.6.0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Security Advisory -- Multiple Vulnerabilities - MuM Map Edit Product Vendor: Mensch und Maschine Software SE / Mensch und Maschine acadGraph GmbH Product: MapEdit Affected software version: 3.2.6.0 MuM MapEdit provides geodata to the internet and intranets and is deployed on several communal and...

St. Jude Alleges False Claims, Stock Manipulation in Suit Against Med Sec, Muddy Waters

St. Jude Medical yesterday filed a lawsuit alleging that investment research firm Muddy Waters and healthcare security research company Med Sec made false claims in a report focused on the security of St. Jude products. The report released Aug. 25 warned of potentially catastrophic cybersecurity...

Unsealing the Deal: Cyber Threats to Mergers and Acquisitions Persist in a Hot Market

Risks Posed by Sensitive Corporate Communications, Broadened Attack Surface In 2015, a record $5 trillion dollars was tied up in mergers and acquisitions M&A deals, according to JP Morgan. So far, mega deals in 2016 include Microsoft’s purchase of LinkedIn, Shire’s acquisition of Baxalta, and...

Unsealing the Deal: Cyber Threats to Mergers and Acquisitions Persist in a Hot Market

Risks Posed by Sensitive Corporate Communications, Broadened Attack Surface In 2015, a record $5 trillion dollars was tied up in mergers and acquisitions M&A deals, according to JP Morgan. So far, mega deals in 2016 include Microsoft’s purchase of LinkedIn, Shire’s acquisition of Baxalta, and...

Wendy's Comes Clean On Data Breach

Fast-food chain Wendy’s disclosed it was a victim of a point-of-sale system attack that installed malware on PoS computers affecting 300 franchise restaurants. The disclosure was part the company’s first quarter 2016 SEC filings on Wednesday and is the most complete account to date of a 2015 data...

libotr 4.1.0 - Memory Corruption

''' X41 D-Sec GmbH Security Advisory: X41-2016-001 Memory Corruption Vulnerability in "libotr" =========================================== Overview -------- Severity Rating: high Confirmed Affected Version: 4.1.0 and below Confirmed Patched Version: libotr 4.1.1 Vendor: OTR Development Team Vendo...

FreeBSD : wireshark -- multiple vulnerabilities (42c2c422-df55-11e5-b2bd-002590263bf5)

Wireshark development team reports : The following vulnerabilities have been fixed : - wnpa-sec-2015-31 NBAP dissector crashes. Bug 11602, Bug 11835, Bug 11841 - wnpa-sec-2015-37 NLM dissector crash. - wnpa-sec-2015-39 BER dissector crash. - wnpa-sec-2015-40 Zlib decompression crash. Bug 11548 -...