Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Windows 2003

Microsoft today is taking the unusual step of releasing security updates for unsupported but still widely-used Windows operating systems like XP and Windows 2003, citing the discovery of a "wormable" flaw that the company says could be used to fuel a fast-moving malware threat like the WannaCry...

Prevent a worm by updating Remote Desktop Services (CVE-2019-0708)

Today Microsoft released fixes for a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability, CVE-2019-0708, in Remote Desktop Services – formerly known as Terminal Services – that affects some older versions of Windows. The Remote Desktop Protocol RDP itself is not vulnerable. This vulnerability is...

Prevent a worm by updating Remote Desktop Services (CVE-2019-0708)

Today Microsoft released fixes for a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability, CVE-2019-0708, in Remote Desktop Services – formerly known as Terminal Services – that affects some older versions of Windows. The Remote Desktop Protocol RDP itself is not vulnerable. This vulnerability is...

Prevent a worm by updating Remote Desktop Services (CVE-2019-0708)

Today Microsoft released fixes for a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability, CVE-2019-0708, in Remote Desktop Services – formerly known as Terminal Services – that affects some older versions of Windows. The Remote Desktop Protocol RDP itself is not vulnerable. This vulnerability is...

Watch Out! New Cryptocurrency-Mining Android Malware is Spreading Rapidly

Due to the recent surge in cryptocurrency prices, threat actors are increasingly targeting every platform, including IoT, Android, and Windows, with malware that leverages the CPU power of victims' devices to mine cryptocurrency. Just last month, Kaspersky researchers spotted fake antivirus and...

Windows Search Bug Worth Watching, and Squashing

Between Conficker and WannaCry, there was a nearly a decade when network worms went dark. WannaCry changed that, riding into enterprises globally on the coattails of a leaked nation-state exploit. In the months since the May 12 ransomware attack, vendors, researchers and network admins have been ...

A King’s Ransom It is Not

The first half of 2017 began with two intriguing ransomware events, both partly enabled by wormable exploit technology dumped by a group calling themselves "The ShadowBrokers". These WannaCry and ExPetr ransomware events are the biggest in the sense that they spread the quickest and most...

Analysis of the Shadow Brokers release and mitigation with Windows 10 virtualization-based security

On April 14, a group calling themselves the Shadow Brokers caught the attention of the security community by releasing a set of weaponized exploits. Shortly thereafter, one of these exploits was used to create wormable malware that we now know as WannaCrypt, which targeted a large number of...

Samba Patches Critical Bug Exploitable With One Line Of Code

A patch for a critical vulnerability impacting the free networking software Samba was issued Wednesday. The flaw poses a severe threat to users, with approximately 104,000 Samba installations vulnerable to remote takeover. More troubling, experts say, the vulnerability can be exploited with just...

Wanna Cry Again? NSA’s Windows 'EsteemAudit' RDP Exploit Remains Unpatched

Brace yourselves for a possible 'second wave' of massive global cyber attack, as SMB Server Message Block was not the only network protocol whose zero-day exploits created by NSA were exposed in the Shadow Brokers dump last month. Although Microsoft released patches for SMB flaws for supported...

7-Year-Old Samba Flaw Lets Hackers Access Thousands of Linux PCs Remotely

A 7-year-old critical remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in Samba networking software that could allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected Linux and Unix machines. Samba is open-source software re-implementation of SMB networking protocol that runs on the majorit...

Emergency Update Patches Zero Day in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine

Microsoft made quick work of what two prominent Google researchers called the worst Windows vulnerability in recent memory, releasing an emergency patch Monday night, 48 hours after Google’s private disclosure was made. The mystery Windows zero day CVE-2017-0290 was in the Microsoft Malware...

Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch For Critical RCE in Windows Malware Scanner

Microsoft's own antivirus software made Windows 7, 8.1, RT and 10 computers, as well as Windows Server 2016 more vulnerable. Microsoft has just released an out-of-band security update to patch the crazy bad bug discovered by a pair of Google Project Zero researchers over the weekend. Security...

Wormable Windows Zero Day Reported to Microsoft

Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy has a long legacy of finding unknown, critical software vulnerabilities to his credit. So when he calls a new bug the worst in recent memory, it’s likely not hyperbole. On Saturday, Ormandy tweeted that he and colleague Natalie Silvanovich has found a...

Bash Botnet Exploit Found, Bash Patches Incomplete

The urgency to patch systems against the Bash zero-day vulnerability has been cranked to 10 after reports of an exploit in the wild have been made public by AusCERT, the Computer Emergency Response Team of Australia. This seems to reflect a similar finding posted by a researcher who goes by the...

PHP-Nuke 7.0/8.1/8.1.35 - Wormable Remote Code Execution

No description provided by source. !/usr/bin/php ?php / Wormable Remote Code Execution in PHP-Nuke 7.0/8.1/8.1.35newist as of release Vendor's Website:http://phpnuke.org/ Secuirty Researcher: Michael Brooks https://sitewat.ch Original Advisory:...

August 2013 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Updates

Another month, another set of Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for Internet Explorer. For what seems to be the umpteenth month in a row, Microsoft will patch its browser, one of three critical updates expected to be shipped on Tuesday among eight bulletins. While IE patches remain a...

Microsoft, Security Experts Warn 'Wormable' RDP Exploit Will Come Sooner Than Later

As a follow-up to its usual Patch Tuesday release this week, officials at Microsoft are warning users that an exploit against the recently disclosed Remote Desktop Protocol RDP vulnerability for Windows is likely to come in the next 30 days. According to a supplementary entry on its Security...

PHP-Nuke 7.08.18.1.35 - Wormable Remote Code Execution

PHP-Nuke 7.08.18.1.35 - Wormable Remote Code Execution !/usr/bin/php ?php / Wormable Remote Code Execution in PHP-Nuke 7.0/8.1/8.1.35newist as of release Vendor's Website:http://phpnuke.org/ Secuirty Researcher: Michael Brooks https://sitewat.ch Original Advisory:...

PHP-Nuke 7.0/8.1/8.1.35 - Wormable Remote Code Execution

!/usr/bin/php ?php / Wormable Remote Code Execution in PHP-Nuke 7.0/8.1/8.1.35newist as of release Vendor's Website:http://phpnuke.org/ Secuirty Researcher: Michael Brooks https://sitewat.ch Original Advisory: http://blog.sitewat.ch/2010/05/vulnerabilities-in-php-nuke.html Google hack: "Francisco...