CVE-2016-1019: A New Flash Exploit Included in Magnitude Exploit Kit

On April 2, security researcher @Kafeine at Proofpoint discovered a change to the Magnitude Exploit Kit. Thanks to their collaboration, we analyzed the sample and discovered that Magnitude EK was exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player CVE-2016-1019. The in-the-wild...

Mac OS X Zero-Day Exploit Can Bypass Apple's Latest Protection Feature

A critical zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in all versions of Apple's OS X operating system that allows hackers to exploit the company’s newest protection feature and steal sensitive data from affected devices. With the release of OS X El Capitan, Apple introduced a security protection...

Sandworm Team and the Ukrainian Power Authority Attacks

Update 1.11.16 - SANS ICS Team Connects Dots Updating the blog entry to bring attention to the recent analysis published by Mike Assante from the SANS ICS team. "After analyzing the information that has been made available by affected power companies, researchers, and the media it is clear that...

Chrome Zero-day Exploit leaves MILLIONS of Android devices vulnerable to Remote Hacking

Hackers have found a new way to hack your Android smartphone and remotely gain total control of it, even if your device is running the most up-to-date version of the Android operating system. Security researcher Guang Gong recently discovered a critical zero-day exploit in the latest version of...

Recently Patched Adobe Flash Versions Hit by Another Zero-day Exploit

Does Adobe Flash, the standard that animated the early Web, needs to Die? Unfortunately, Yes. Despite Adobe’s best efforts, Flash is not safe anymore for Internet security, as a recent zero-day Flash exploit has been identified. Just Yesterday Adobe released its monthly patch update that addresse...

Java Zero-day vulnerability exploited in the Wild

Really a bad weekend for Internet users. Three previously unknown critical zero-day vulnerabilities were revealed in Adobe’s Flash Player over the weekend, thanks to Hacking team data Breach in which 400GB of internal data were leaked over the Internet. Now, a new zero-day vulnerability has been...

MacKeeper - URL Handler Remote Code Execution

!/usr/bin/python """ SecureMac has released an advisory on a vulnerability discovered today with MacKeeper. The advisory titled MacKeeper URL handler remote code execution vulnerability and proof-of-concept Zero-Day contains the latest information including vulnerability, proof of concept and...

Adobe Flash Player - Arbitrary Code Execution

Adobe Flash Player - Arbitrary Code Execution Source: https://github.com/SecurityObscurity/cve-2015-0313 PoC: https://github.com/offensive-security/exploitdb-bin-sploits/raw/master/bin-sploits/36491.zip Adobe Flash vulnerability source code cve-2015-0313 from Angler Exploit Kit Reference:...

MongoDB phpMoAdmin GUI Tool Zero-day Vulnerability Puts Websites at Risk

About two weeks back, over 40,000 organizations running MongoDB were found unprotected and vulnerable to hackers. Now, once again the users of MongoDB database are at risk because of a critical zero-day vulnerability making rounds in underground market. MongoDB, one of the leading NoSQL databases...

DEF CON SOHOpelessly Broken Wireless Router Hacking Contest

Home and small office wireless routers are feature-rich networking devices, providing consumers and mom-and-pop shops with much more than an Internet gateway. Some, for example, have a print server function, while others store personal files—and very few are secure out of the box. Hackers and...

Adobe GetPlus get_atlcom 1.6.2.48 - ActiveX Remote Exec PoC (0day)

No description provided by source. object id=TestObj classid=CLSID:E2883E8F-472F-4fb0-9522-AC9BF37916A7 style=width:100;height:350 PARAM NAME=cx VALUE=0xFFFFFFFF PARAM NAME=cy VALUE=0xFFFFFFFF PARAM NAME=Service-URL...

China's Keen Team Topples Safari, Flash at Pwn2Own

VANCOUVER – One is the bug hunter, the other the exploit specialist. Fang Jiahong and Liang Chen represented the Keen Team at Pwn2Own on Thursday, starting off the second day of the annual exploit festival with a quick takedown of Apple’s Safari browser. They then wrapped up the contest with a...

Oil, Energy Watering Hole Attacks Linked to DOL attack

A string of watering hole attacks targeting oil and energy companies dating back to May could be linked to similar attacks against the U.S. Department of Labor website. Researchers at Cisco discovered the compromised domains of 10 oil and energy companies worldwide, including hydroelectric plants...

NSA bought Hacking tools from 'Vupen', a French based zero-day Exploit Seller

The US government, particularly the National Security Agency has been paying a French security firm for backdoors and zero day hacks. According to a contract newly released in response to a Freedom of Information request, last year the NSA purchased a 12-month subscription to a "binary analysis a...

Microsoft issues Emergency Fix for Internet Explorer zero-day exploit

All supported versions of Internet Explorer are vulnerable to a zero-day Exploit that is currently being exploited in targeted attacks against IE 8 and IE 9, dubbed "CVE-2013-3893 MSHTML Shim Workaround". Microsoft confirmed that the flaw was unknown before the attacks and that it is already...

NSA bought Hacking tools from 'Vupen', a French based zero-day Exploit Seller

The US government, particularly the National Security Agency has been paying a French security firm for backdoors and zero day hacks. According to a contract newly released in response to a Freedom of Information request, last year the NSA purchased a 12-month subscription to a “binary analysis a...

Microsoft issues Emergency Fix for Internet Explorer zero-day exploit

All supported versions of Internet Explorer are vulnerable to a zero-day Exploit that is currently being exploited in targeted attacks against IE 8 and IE 9, dubbed "CVE-2013-3893 MSHTML Shim Workaround". Microsoft confirmed that the flaw was unknown before the attacks and that it is already...

Russian Hacker put up an Android Firefox Zero-Day Exploit for Sale

A Russian Exploit writer and underground Hacker who goes by the handle "fil9" put up an Android Firefox Zero-Day Exploit for Sale in an open Exploit Market. Author claims a Zero Day vulnerability in Firefox for Android, which works on Firefox versions 23/24/26 Nightly. The advertisement was spott...

Warning : Java 6 vulnerable to zero-day exploit; added to Neutrino exploit kit

Hackers are using a new exploit for a bug in the out-of-date but popular Java 6 platform to attack victims, and has been added to a commercially available Neutrino exploit kit. The use of Java 6 still is prevalent, opening up a significant number of users to the threat. F-secure analyst Timo...

Warning : Java 6 vulnerable to zero-day exploit; added to Neutrino exploit kit

Hackers are using a new exploit for a bug in the out-of-date but popular Java 6 platform to attack victims, and has been added to a commercially available Neutrino exploit kit. The use of Java 6 still is prevalent, opening up a significant number of users to the threat. F-secure analyst Timo...