Smominru Botnet Indiscriminately Hacked Over 90,000 Computers Just Last Month

Insecure Internet-connected devices have aided different types of cybercrime for years, most common being DDoS and spam campaigns. But cybercriminals have now shifted toward a profitable scheme where botnets do not just launch DDoS or spam—they mine cryptocurrencies as well. Smominru, an infamous...

Microsoft Jet Database Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-38619)

Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Windows Server are both products of Microsoft Corporation.Microsoft Windows is an operating system for personal devices.Microsoft Windows Server is a server operating system. Windows Jet Database Engine is one of the database engines. A remote code execution...

Windows Users at Risk From High-Severity Intel Software Flaw

Intel is warning of a high-severity vulnerability existing in its software that identifies the specification of Intel processors in Windows systems. The flaw could have an array of malicious impacts on affected systems, such as opening systems up to information disclosure or denial of service...

IBM DB2 Encryption Issues Vulnerabilities

IBM DB2 is a set of relational database management system from IBM in the United States. The main execution environments for this system are UNIX, Linux, IBMi, z/OS, and Windows server versions. IBM DB2 is vulnerable to an encryption issue. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to decrypt...

Forget BlueKeep: Beware the GoldBrute

While everyone’s talking about the BlueKeep Mega-Worm, this is not the main monster to fear, according to recent web attack activity. Rather, a researcher is warning that the GoldBrute botnet poses the greatest threat to Windows systems right now. In the past few days, GoldBrute named after the...

Hunting COM Objects

COM objects have recently been used by penetration testers, Red Teams, and malicious actors to perform lateral movement. COM objects were studied by several other researchers in the past, including Matt Nelson enigma0x3, who published a blog post about it in 2017. Some of these COM objects were...

Nearly 1 Million Computers Still Vulnerable to "Wormable" BlueKeep RDP Flaw

Nearly 1 million Windows systems are still unpatched and have been found vulnerable to a recently disclosed critical, wormable, remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol RDP—two weeks after Microsoft releases the security patch. If exploited, the vulnerability cou...

Nearly 1 Million Computers Still Vulnerable to "Wormable" BlueKeep RDP Flaw

Nearly 1 million Windows systems are still unpatched and have been found vulnerable to a recently disclosed critical, wormable, remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol RDP—two weeks after Microsoft releases the security patch. If exploited, the vulnerability cou...

Threat spotlight: CrySIS, aka Dharma ransomware, causing a crisis for businesses

CrySIS, aka Dharma, is a family of ransomware that has been evolving since 2006. We have noticed that this ransomware has become increasingly active lately, increasing by a margin of 148 percent from February until April 2019. The uptick in detections may be due to CrySIS' effective use of multip...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-6227

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 12.1.3, tvOS 12.1.2, watchOS 5.1.3, Safari 12.0.3, iTunes 12.9.3 for Windows, iCloud for Windows 7.10. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution...

Security Update for Adobe Flash Player: February 12, 2019

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The vulnerability of the Cisco Webex Network Recording Player and Cisco Webex Player for Windows operating systems arises from an operation that goes beyond buffer boundaries in memory, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the Cisco Webex Network Recording Player and Cisco Webex Player for Windows operating systems arises from operations that go beyond the buffer limits in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted ARF or...

Trying DetectionLab

Many security professionals run personal labs. Trying to create an environment that includes fairly modern Windows systems can be a challenge. In the age of "infrastructure as code," there should be a simpler way to deploy systems in a repeatable, virtualized way -- right? Enter DetectionLab, a...

Emotet Trojan Detection

The script tries to detect the Emotet Trojan via various known Indicators of Compromise IOC. Note: This script is not running by default as it needs to crawl the target host for various files which puts high load on the target during the scan. Please enable it separately within scripts preference...

CVE-2018-8514

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Remote Procedure Call runtime improperly initializes objects in memory, aka "Remote Procedure Call runtime Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server...

New NTLM Relay Vulnerability in Chrome, Java, Applications Running on Windows System Platforms

Java is an object-oriented programming language.Google Chrome is a fast, secure and free web browser. Chrome, Java, an application running on the Windows system platform, suffers from a new type of NTLM Relay vulnerability.NTLM authentication is a common authentication protocol in Microsoft Windo...

Microsoft Windows MSRPC Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 and others are a series of operating systems released by Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is a set of operating systems used for servers.Windows 10 is a set of operating systems used for personal computers. An information disclosure...

Code injection

Sennheiser HeadSetup 7.3.4903 places Certification Authority CA certificates into the Trusted Root CA store of the local system, and publishes the private key in the SennComCCKey.pem file within the public software distribution, which allows remote attackers to spoof arbitrary web sites or softwa...

CVE-2018-17612

Sennheiser HeadSetup 7.3.4903 places Certification Authority CA certificates into the Trusted Root CA store of the local system, and publishes the private key in the SennComCCKey.pem file within the public software distribution, which allows remote attackers to spoof arbitrary web sites or softwa...

Fake Adobe Flash Updates Hide Malicious Crypto Miners

While fake Flash updates that push malware have traditionally been easy to spot and avoid, a new campaign has employed new tricks that stealthily download cryptocurrency miners on Windows systems. To the average user, the newly discovered samples, which have been active as early as August, seem...