Zerodium Offers $500K for Secure Messaging App Zero Days

Zerodium, a vendor operating in the nebulous exploit acquisition market, has put a premium on zero-day vulnerabilities in secure messaging applications in a new pricing structure announced today. Remote code execution and local privilege elevation zero days in messaging apps such as WhatsApp,...

SpiderControl SCADA MicroBrowser

CVSS v3 7.3 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: SpiderControl Equipment: SCADA MicroBrowser Vulnerability: Stack-based Buffer Overflow AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following versions of SCADA MicroBrowser, a software management platform, are affected: SCADA MicroBrowser...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of August 14, 2017

One of my favorite movies is the 1999 comedy “Galaxy Quest,” which features the cast of a science-fiction television series similar to Star Trek. In the movie, the crew is visited by real aliens who ask them for help against an intergalactic adversary because they believe that Galaxy Quest is a...

Two Critical Zero-Day Flaws Disclosed in Foxit PDF Reader

Are you using Foxit PDF Reader? If yes, then you need to watch your back. Security researchers have discovered two critical zero-day security vulnerabilities in Foxit Reader software that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on a targeted computer, if not configured to open files in th...

Threat Intelligence for WAF

It’s all about security rules Stephen Hawking said, “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change”. One could say much the same of web application firewalls and WAF security rules. With web applications now one of the most attacked components of IT infrastructures, organizations have a critical...

Advantech WebOP

CVSS v3 4.8 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit. Public exploits are available. Vendor: Advantech Equipment: WebOP Vulnerability: Heap-Based Buffer Overflow AFFECTED PRODUCTS Researchers report that all versions of Advantech WebOP operator panels are affected. IMPACT Successful exploitation of...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of August 7, 2017

Earlier this month, a blog post from Blue Frost Security was released stating that they were giving away tickets to the upcoming Ekoparty Security Conference in Argentina. But there was a catch: in order to get the tickets and free whiskey, entrants had to complete an exploitation challenge and...

Fuji Electric Monitouch V-SFT

CVSS v3 7.3 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: Fuji Electric Equipment: Monitouch V-SFT Vulnerabilities: Stack-Based Buffer Overflow, Heap-Based Buffer Overflow, Improper Privilege Management AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following versions of Monitouch V-SFT, a screen...

More on the Vulnerabilities Equities Process

Richard Ledgett -- a former Deputy Director of the NSA -- argues against the US government disclosing all vulnerabilities: Proponents argue that this would allow patches to be developed, which in turn would help ensure that networks are secure. On its face, this argument might seem to make sense ...

Microsoft Patches Critical Windows Search Vulnerability

Microsoft patched more than two dozen remote code execution vulnerabilities today, many of them rated critical. One was a RCE bug that allowed an attacker to take complete control of a server or workstation via Windows Search. The fixes were part of Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday update that...

APT Trends report Q2 2017

Introduction Since 2014, Kaspersky Lab's Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT has been providing threat intelligence reports to a wide-range of customers worldwide, leading to the delivery of a full and dedicated private reporting service. Prior to the new service offering, GReAT published...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of July 31, 2017

During the DefCon Conference last week, a Windows SMB vulnerability was revealed by researchers from RiskSense. The 20-year-old bug can be found in Windows 2000 up to Windows 10. Microsoft has indicated that it will not be issuing a patch for the vulnerability as it doesn't meet their bar for...

Will The Real Security Community Please Stand Up

Threatpost Op-Ed is a regular feature where experts contribute essays and commentary on what’s happening in security and privacy. Black Hat 2017 was a vocabulary lesson for white-hats, and yes, words matter. Words such as nihilism, empathy and inclusion have to matter, because what you’re doing n...

NSA Collects MS Windows Error Information

Back in 2013, Der Spiegel reported that the NSA intercepts and collects Windows bug reports: One example of the sheer creativity with which the TAO spies approach their work can be seen in a hacking method they use that exploits the error-proneness of Microsoft's Windows. Every user of the...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of July 24, 2017

This week, I attended the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. 2017 marked the 20th anniversary of the Black Hat conference. A lot has certainly changed since I started attending back in 2002. I’m sure that many will have their opinions on the central themes that they saw at the conference...

Zero-Day Vulnerabilities against Windows in the NSA Tools Released by the Shadow Brokers

In April, the Shadow Brokers -- presumably Russia -- released a batch of Windows exploits from what is presumably the NSA. Included in that release were eight different Windows vulnerabilities. Given a presumed theft date of the data as sometime between 2012 and 2013 -- based on timestamps of the...

Microsoft Is Paying Up To $250,000 With Its New Bug Bounty Program

Microsoft has finally launched a new dedicated bug bounty program to encourage security researchers and bug hunters for finding and responsibly reporting vulnerabilities in its latest Windows versions of operating systems and software. Being the favourite target of hackers and cyber criminals,...

Adobe is Finally Killing FLASH — At the End of 2020!

Finally, Adobe is Killing FLASH — the software that helped make the Internet a better place with slick graphics, animation, games and applications and bring online video to the masses, but it has been hated for years by people and developers over its buggy nature. But the end of an era for Adobe...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of July 17, 2017

If you conduct a search on the Web for the number of languages spoken around the world, you’ll see numbers ranging anywhere from 6,000-7,000. I figure I’m doing okay since I can speak English and Spanish, sign the English alphabet, recite the Greek alphabet, and read music. There are roughly over...

July 19, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Rosetta Stone” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! July 19, 2017 - Headlines Cyberattack on Ukrainian Clinics, Pharmacies Worries...