CVE-2017-8635

Microsoft browsers in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user due to the way that...

The Ultimate Hosts Blacklist

The Ultimate hosts file for protecting your computer or device against over a million bad web sites. Protect your children and family from gaining access to bad web sites and protect your devices and pc from being infected with Malware or Ransomware. A hosts file for use on any operating system t...

Adware the series, part 6

In this series of posts, we will be using the flowchart below to follow the process of determining which adware we are dealing with. Our objective is to give you an idea of how many different types of adware are around for Windows systems. Though most are classified as PUPs, you will also see the...

Dealing with Petya

Akamai is aware of and is tracking the malware threat known as "Petya". Petya is ransomware spread using several methods, including PSexec, Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line WMIC, and the EternalBlue exploit used by the WannaCry family of ransomware. The malware spreads via port 139...

Windows NSA Information Assurance: Locklevel

Windows NSA Information Assurance LOCKLEVEL was a rapidly built prototype that demonstrates a method for scoring how well Windows systems have implemented some of the NSA Information Assurance top 10 mitigation strategies . This prototype is being shared to encourage industry adoption of these...

Available Tools Making Dent in WannaCry Encryption

Tools are beginning to emerge that can be used to start the process of recovering files encrypted by WannaCry on some Windows systems. This takes on extra urgency because today marks one week from the initial outbreak, and files encrypted during that first wave are on the clock and close to being...

Microsoft Internet Explorer CVE-2017-0158 Scripting Engine Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to view a specially crafted web page. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-i...

CVE-2017-0148

The SMBv1 server in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2; Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1; Windows 7 SP1; Windows 8.1; Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2; Windows RT 8.1; and Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607; and Windows Server 2016 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted packets, aka...

FireEye Responds to Wave of Destructive Cyber Attacks in Gulf Region

In 2012, a suspected Iranian hacker group called the “Cutting Sword of Justice” used malware known as Shamoon – or Disttrack. In mid-November, Mandiant, a FireEye company, responded to the first Shamoon 2.0 incident against an organization located in the Gulf states. Since then, Mandiant has...

Windows Forensic Data Collection: IR-rescue

Windows Forensic Data Collection ir-rescue is a Windows Batch script that collects a myriad of forensic data from 32-bit and 64-bit Windows systems while respecting the order of volatility. It is intended for incident response use at different stages in the analysis and investigation process. It...

Syslog Server 1.2.3 Denial Of Service

Title: Syslog Server "npriority" field remote Denial of Service vulnerability Software : Syslog Server Software Version : Syslog Server 1.2.3 Vendor: https://sourceforge.net/p/syslog-server/ Vulnerability Published : 2016-07-02 Vulnerability Update Time : Status : Impact : MediumCVSS2 Base : 5.0,...

Conficker Used in New Wave of Hospital IoT Device Attacks

Internet-connected medical devices such as MRI machines, CT scanners and dialysis pumps are increasingly being targeted by hackers seeking to steal patient medical records from hospitals. Attackers consider the devices soft digital targets, seldom guarded with same security as client PCs and...

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-15

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.352 and 19.x through 21.x before 21.0.0.242 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.621 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service memory corruption via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-1096,...

Technical analysis Potato provided the right principle-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Graphic unrelated 0×0 0 Preface A while ago included a Potato to mention the right tools, find the tools provide the right posture with the conventional tool are not the same, but with WPAD proxy related, so expand the test and analysis, primarily through the analysis of its network traffic to...

10 Year Poseidon APT Group Identified As First Portuguese Speaking Campaign

TENERIFE, Spain–For more than 10 years, attackers have carried out a series of covert attacks on firms worldwide and capitalized on that connection by coercing the companies into a phony business relationship where they can further steal data. Experts with Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and...

Raising the Dead

Posted by James Forshaw, your Friendly Neighbourhood Necromancer. It’s a bit late for Halloween but the ability to resurrect the dead processes that is is an interesting type of security issue when dealing with multi-user Windows systems such as Terminal Servers. Specifically this blog is about...

LATENTBOT: Trace Me If You Can

FireEye Labs recently uncovered LATENTBOT, a new, highly obfuscated BOT that has been in the wild since mid-2013. It has managed to leave hardly any traces on the Internet, is capable of watching its victims without ever being noticed, and can even corrupt a hard disk, thus making a PC useless...

Microsoft Windows Security Mechanism Bypass Vulnerability (CNVD-2015-07598)

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems designed for personal computer and server users from the American company Microsoft. Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT Gold and...

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB15-25

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.252 and 19.x before 19.0.0.207 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.535 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 19.0.0.213, Adobe AIR SDK before 19.0.0.213, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 19.0.0.213 allows attackers to execute arbitrary...

smb-vuln-cve2009-3103 NSE Script

Detects Microsoft Windows systems vulnerable to denial of service CVE-2009-3103. This script will crash the service if it is vulnerable. The script performs a denial-of-service against the vulnerability disclosed in CVE-2009-3103. This works against Windows Vista and some versions of Windows 7, a...