Windows Zero Day Selling for $90,000

Hackers claim to have unearthed a zero-day vulnerability giving attackers admin rights to any Windows machine from Windows 2000 to a fully patched version of Windows 10. The zero day is for sale on the black market for $90,000. Security experts say the zero-day exploit looks legitimate and in the...

New Security Flaw Found in Lenovo Solution Center Software

A new vulnerability has been discovered in Lenovo’s much-maligned Lenovo Solution Center LSC software. The vulnerability allows attackers with local network access to a PC to execute arbitrary code, said researchers at Trustwave SpiderLabs. The flaw allows an attacker to elevate privileges and is...

Zen Cart Shopping Cart App Plugs Big XSS Vulnerability

Popular open source shopping cart app Zen Cart is warning its users of dozens of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities found in its software. Affected websites, security experts say, risk exposing customers to malware, theft of cookies data and site defacement. Researchers at the security firm...

Locky Ransomware Now Part Of Massive Spam Attack

Researchers are tracking a massive spam campaign pelting inboxes with Locky ransomware downloaders in the form of JavaScript attachments. The huge spike, reported by security firm Trustwave, represents an extraordinary uptick in the attempted distribution of the Locky ransomware. Trustwave said...

Casino Sues Cyber Security Company Over Failure to Stop Hackers

IT security firm Trustwave has been sued by a Las Vegas-based casino operator for conducting an allegedly "woefully inadequate" investigation following a network breach of the casino operator’s system. Affinity Gaming, an operator of 5 casinos in Nevada and 6 elsewhere in the United States, has...

Two New Strains of POS Malware, Cherry Picker, Abaddon, Surface

Point of sale malware has gotten more sophisticated as we inch closer to the two-year anniversary of the Target data breach. Now, two weeks from the biggest shopping day of the year, two new and different strains of point of sale malware have come to light, including one that’s gone largely...

Joomla Update Patches Critical SQL Injection

Joomla on Thursday released a new version of its content management system, 3,4,5, that addresses a critical SQL injection vulnerability that could have let attackers gain access to data in the backend of any site running on the platform. The bug existed in versions 3.2 to 3.4.4 of the CMS, and...

Oracle GlassFish Server 4.1 - Directory Traversal

Oracle GlassFish Server 4.1 - Directory Traversal Trustwave SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2015-016: Path Traversal in Oracle GlassFish Server Open Source Edition Published: 08/27/2015 Version: 1.0 Vendor: Oracle Corporation Project sponsored by Oracle Product: GlassFish Server Open Source...

Oracle GlassFish Server 4.1 - Directory Traversal

Trustwave SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2015-016: Path Traversal in Oracle GlassFish Server Open Source Edition Published: 08/27/2015 Version: 1.0 Vendor: Oracle Corporation Project sponsored by Oracle Product: GlassFish Server Open Source Edition Version affected: 4.1 and prior versions Produ...

RedHat Update for pam RHSA-2015:1640-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CentOS 6 / 7 : pam (CESA-2015:1640)

An updated pam package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is availabl...

Rig Exploit Kit 3.0 Claims 1 Million Malvertising Victims

LAS VEGAS – A rampant malvertising campaign fueled by a new version of the Rig Exploit Kit has claimed at least 950,000 victims worldwide and is doing so with an unprecedented success rate. Researchers at Trustwave said in advance of this week’s Black Hat conference that they have been watching...

RubyGems Patches Serious Redirection Vulnerability

RubyGems make life easier for developers to distribute software to users. A vulnerability in the Ruby package manager could make life easier for hackers to redirect victims to trouble. Disclosed today by researchers at Trustwave and OpenDNS, the vulnerability, CVE-2015-3900, enables an attacker t...

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance XAUTH Bypass Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Internet Key Exchange IKE version 1 v1 code of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance ASA Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to bypass Extended Authentication XAUTH and successfully log in via IPsec remote VPN. The vulnerability is due to improper implementation ...

Angler Exploit Kit, Bedep Malware Inflating Video Views

A new sort of hacktivism emerged last week when experts from Trustwave published new research revealing that attackers are using the Angler exploit kit and the Bedep Trojan in order to drive artificial views to politically controversial videos. The motivation for the scheme, it appears, is to...

Macro-Enabled Malware Making a Comeback

Malware that uses macros as part of its infection method has been around for more than a decade, and was one of the first major techniques to drive changes at software vendors such as Microsoft. The tactic has been making a comeback of late, and Microsoft is seeing a major spike in the volume of...

Dridex Banking Trojan Spreading Via Macros in XML Files

Not long ago, criminals pushing the Dridex banking Trojan were using Microsoft Excel documents spiked with a malicious macro as a phishing lure to entice victims to load the malware onto their machines. Even though macros are disabled by default inside most organizations, the persistent hackers a...

DDoS Exploit Targets Open Source Rejetto HFS

Apparently no vulnerability is too small, no application too obscure, to escape a hacker’s notice. A honeypot run by Trustwave’s SpiderLabs research team recently snared an automated attack targeting users of the open source Rejetto HTTP File Server Rejetto HFS. Someone was trying to exploit a...

Adobe Begins Patching Third Flash Player Zero Day

Adobe announced today that it will begin distributing a patch for the third and most recent zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player. Version 16.0.0.305 will be distributed to users who have enabled auto-update. Adobe said it expects to have a manual update available tomorrow. “We are working with...

Third Adobe Flash 0Day Under Attack in HanJuan Exploit Kit

The little-known HanJuan exploit kit is delivering attacks targeting the most recent Adobe Flash Player zero-day vulnerability. Adobe has yet to produce a patch for the flaw, which researchers at Trustwave said is a use-after-free vulnerability. The flaw is the third to hit Flash in the last two...