Someone Hijacks Botnet Network & Replaces Malware with an Antivirus

The Dridex banking trojan that is widely being used by cyber criminals to distribute malware onto users’ machines has now been found distributing a security software. A portion of the Dridex banking Trojan botnet may have been hacked or compromised by an unknown Whitehat Hacker, who replaced the...

IRS Releases Tenth Security Tip

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has released the tenth in a series of tips intended to help the public protect personal and financial data online and at home. This tip describes steps tax preparers can take to protect sensitive information. Recommendations include conducting a full scan of all...

IRS Releases Fifth Tax Security Tip

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has released the fifth in a series of tips intended to help the public protect personal and financial data online and at home. This tip focuses on guarding personal information for family members who are susceptible to cyber threats. Recommendations include keepin...

Latest EMET Bypass Targets WoW64 Windows Subsystem

Backwards compatibility, a necessary evil for Microsoft in its need to support so many legacy applications on Windows, may be its undoing as researchers have found a way to exploit this layer in the operating system to bypass existing mitigations against memory-based exploits. Specifically in thi...

Integer Overflow Vulnerability in Multiple EMC RSA Products

EMC RSA BSAFE Micro Edition Suite MES and others are products of EMC Corporation.EMC RSA BSAFE is a security software product that supports cryptographic algorithms, certificate chain validation, and Transport Layer Security TLS encryption suites, among other things, to help users achieve a wide...

What is a "good" memory corruption vulnerability?

Posted by Chris Evans, register whisperer. Part 1 of 4. There are a lot of memory corruption vulnerabilities in software, but not all are created equal. To a certain degree, the “usefulness” of a given memory corruption vulnerability is determined by how reliably it might be exploited. In some...

Analysis and Exploitation of an ESET Vulnerability

Do we understand the risk vs. benefit trade-offs of security software? Tavis Ormandy, June 2015 Introduction Many antivirus products include emulation capabilities that are intended to allow unpackers to run for a few cycles before signatures are applied. ESET NOD32 uses a minifilter or kext to...

Antivirus Exclusions for Veeam ONE

Purpose This article documents antivirus exclusions that may be created to reduce the impact that antivirus software has on the functionality of Veeam ONE. These antivirus exclusions may be applied to the Windows built-in antivirus or third-party antivirus software. Note: Antivirus will not alway...

CVE-2015-2123

Unspecified vulnerability in HP NonStop Safeguard Security Software H06.x, L15.02, and J06.x before J06.19 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by leveraging Expand access...

Design/Logic Flaw

Unspecified vulnerability in HP NonStop Safeguard Security Software H06.x, L15.02, and J06.x before J06.19 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by leveraging Expand access...

CVE-2015-2123

Unspecified vulnerability in HP NonStop Safeguard Security Software H06.x, L15.02, and J06.x before J06.19 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by leveraging Expand access...

CVE-2015-2123

HP NonStop Safeguard Security Software (H06.x, L15.02) and J06.x prior to J06.19 are affected by a remote-privilege-elevation vulnerability. The issue allows an authenticated user to gain higher privileges by leveraging Expand access. No specific root cause, vulnerable component details, affected...

CVE-2015-2123: Undefined Security Weakness

Unspecified vulnerability in HP NonStop Safeguard Security Software H06.x, L15.02, and J06.x before J06.19 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by leveraging Expand access...

Antivirus Exclusions for Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Purpose This article documents antivirus exclusions that may be created to reduce the impact that antivirus software has on the functionality of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows. These antivirus exclusions may be applied to the Windows built-in antivirus or third-party antivirus software. Note:...

Palo Alto Traps Server XSS

Stored XSS in logs...

CURL-CVE-2015-3144 hostname out of boundary memory access

There is a private function in libcurl called fixhostname that removes a trailing dot from the hostname if there is one. The function is called after the hostname has been extracted from the URL libcurl has been told to act on. If a URL is given with a zero-length hostname, like in "http://:80" o...

Snowden recognized.“fourth citizen”hacker tool kit-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

On Snowden's latest Oscar best documentary, the most interesting point is in the fourth citizens ' at the end, is He of the various security software's Acknowledgements. Snowden two years ago, the leaked information is still affecting the people today of the life, and opened the data security,...

Ramnit Botnet Shut Down

The Ramnit botnet, a favorite among thieves dabbling in financial fraud for its frequent updates, has been shut down in a joint effort spearheaded by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre EC3. In a statement today, EC3 said investigators from across Europe, along with Microsoft, AnubisNetworks and...

Antivirus Exclusions for Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Threat Hunter service Exclusions When upgrading to Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3, the installer's Configuration Check will display a warning advising: The new Veeam Threat Hunter service scanning process might be interrupted by existing antivirus software on mount hosts. Please read KB199...

Adobe Flash Player Action Script Evasion (CVE-2015-0310; CVE-2015-0311)

Flash files can contain malicious Action Script code to exploit vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. Certain evasion tools can use evasion techniques in order to circumvent inspection by security software. A remote attacker can exploit this issue by enticing a victim to open a specially crafted...