ShadowBrokers Planning Monthly Exploit, Data Dump Service

Popcorn in hand, the ShadowBrokers say they’re taking in the WannaCry outbreak from the sidelines before starting in June a subscription service for new exploits and stolen data akin to a wine of the month club. In what’s become a signature periodic rant from the unknowns behind the leak of...

Shadow Brokers, Who Leaked WannaCry SMB Exploit, Are Back With More 0-Days

The infamous hacking collective Shadow Brokers – the one who leaked the Windows SMB exploit in public that led to last weekend's WannaCrypt menace – are back, this time, to cause more damage. In typically broken English, the Shadow Brokers published a fresh statement with full of frustration a fe...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 8, 2017

Although I’m still dreaming of the sandy beaches of Cancun, it’s time to get back to reality. Security vulnerabilities never take a holiday and this week is no exception. In addition to our normal Digital Vaccine DV package delivered earlier this week, we also issued an out-of-band DV package to...

Microsoft Issues Patches for Another Four Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

As part of this month's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released security patches for a total of 55 vulnerabilities across its products, including fixes for four zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild. Just yesterday, Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band update separately to pat...

Microsoft Plugs Three Zero Day Holes as Part of May Patch Tuesday

Microsoft patched three zero day vulnerabilities actively under attack today as part of its May Patch Tuesday release. Researchers with FireEye who uncovered the three vulnerabilities said the bugs were actively being exploited by threat actors Turla and APT28. Two of the zero day vulnerabilities...

EPS Processing Zero-Days Exploited by Multiple Threat Actors

In 2015, FireEye published details about two attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Encapsulated PostScript EPS of Microsoft Office. One was a zero-day and one was patched weeks before the attack launched. Recently, FireEye identified three new zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office products...

EPS Processing Zero-Days Exploited by Multiple Threat Actors

In 2015, FireEye published details about two attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Encapsulated PostScript EPS of Microsoft Office. One was a zero-day and one was patched weeks before the attack launched. Recently, FireEye identified three new zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office products...

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...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 1, 2017

As you read this blog, I am probably sitting on a beach in Cancun, Mexico getting a nice tan and not thinking about security well, maybe just a little. A couple of days before I left, I had to deal with the inevitable. It never fails – every time I am about to go on vacation, the urgency of thing...

Unpatched WordPress Password Reset Vulnerability Lingers

A zero-day vulnerability exists in WordPress Core that in some instances could allow an attacker to reset a user’s password and gain access to their account. Researcher Dawid Golunski of Legal Hackers disclosed the vulnerability on Wednesday via his new ExploitBox service. All versions of...

Advantech WebAccess

CVSS v3 7.1 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: Advantech Equipment: WebAccess Vulnerability: Absolute Path Traversal AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following WebAccess versions are affected: WebAccess Version 8.1 and prior. IMPACT Successful exploitation of this...

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

There was a time when a person’s motivation to hack something was for financial reasons or for street cred. But now we’re seeing organizations that have other motivations. Pawn Storm is a cyber-espionage organization whose motives include foreign and domestic espionage, and influence on...

Pawn Storm: The Power of Social Engineering

In our latest report on Pawn Storm a.k.a. APT28, Fancy Bear, Strontium, etc., researchers expose the scope and scale of the cyber espionage group’s attacks but more importantly their cyber tradecraft. Our researchers have observed activity going back seven years targeting government, military,...

Microsoft Office Word Malicious Hta Execution Exploit

This Metasploit module creates a malicious RTF file that when opened in vulnerable versions of Microsoft Word will lead to code execution. The flaw exists in how an olelink object can make a https request, and execute hta code in response. This bug was originally seen being exploited in the wild...

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

I’ve never been one to adopt the latest fashion trends, aside from what I wore growing up in the 1980s. I wore shoulder pads, blue eyeliner, designer jeans, and even parachute pants. While I continue to rock my 80s hair to this day, other trends I thought were long gone are making a comeback...

The Shadow Brokers Release Zero Day Exploit Tools

On Friday, a hacker group known as The Shadow Brokers publicly released a large number of functional exploit tools. Several of these tools make use of zero-day vulnerabilities, most of which are in Microsoft Windows. Exploiting these vulnerabilities in many cases leads to remote code execution an...

Microsoft Office Word Malicious Hta Execution

This module creates a malicious RTF file that when opened in vulnerable versions of Microsoft Word will lead to code execution. The flaw exists in how a olelink object can make a https request, and execute hta code in response. This bug was originally seen being exploited in the wild starting in...

'High Risk' Zero-Day Leaves 200,000 Magento Merchants Vulnerable

A popular version of the open source Magento ecommerce platform is vulnerable to a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability, putting as many as 200,000 online retailers at risk. The warning comes from security firm DefenseCode, which found and originally reported the vulnerability to Magento ...

Not Just Criminals, But Governments Were Also Using MS Word 0-Day Exploit

Recently we reported about a critical code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Word that was being exploited in the wild by cyber criminal groups to distribute malware like Dridex banking trojans and Latentbot. Now, it turns out that the same previously undisclosed vulnerability in Word...

CVE-2017-0199 Used as Zero Day to Distribute FINSPY Espionage Malware and LATENTBOT Cyber Crime Malware

FireEye recently identified a vulnerability – CVE-2017-0199 – that allows a malicious actor to download and execute a Visual Basic script containing PowerShell commands when a user opens a Microsoft Office RTF document containing an embedded exploit. We worked with Microsoft and published the...