Darkhotel APT Group Targeting Top Executives in Long-Term Campaign

APT groups tend to be grouped together in a large amorphous blob of sinister intentions and similar targets, but not all APT crews are created equal. Researchers have identified a group that’s been operating in Asia for at least seven years and has been using hotel networks as key infection point...

Samsung 'Find My Mobile' Flaw Allows Hacker to Remotely Lock Your Device

The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST is warning users of a newly discovered Zero-Day flaw in the Samsung Find My Mobile service, which fails to validate the sender of a lock-code data received over a network. The Find My Mobile feature implemented by Samsung in their devices is...

Attackers Exploiting Windows OLE Vulnerability

Attackers are using a zero day vulnerability in nearly all supported versions of Windows in a series of targeted attacks. The flaw is in the OLE technology in Windows and can be used for remote code execution is a targeted user opens a rigged Office file. Microsoft is warning customers that there...

Microsoft PowerPoint Vulnerable to Zero-Day Attack

It seems that there is no end to the Windows zero-days, as recently Microsoft patched three zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows which were actively exploited in the wild by hackers, and now a new Zero-day vulnerability has been disclosed affecting all supported releases of Windows operating syste...

Firms Detail Zero Days Targeting Windows Kernel

After they were patched in yesterday’s round of Patch Tuesday security bulletins, security firms have begun to peel back the layers on two zero-day vulnerabilities that are being used in limited, targeted attacks against Microsoft’s Windows Kernel. According to FireEye, one of the firms that...

Microsoft Patches 3 Zero-day Vulnerabilities actively being Exploited in the Wild

As part of monthly patch update, Microsoft released eight security bulletins on Tuesday that address dozens of vulnerabilities including a zero-day flaw reportedly being exploited by Russian hackers to target NATO computers and a pair of zero-day Windows vulnerabilities that attackers have been...

Cloud application security: preventing security vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Currently, cloud-based applications are widely used, and with amazing speed growing. Since cloud-based applications can be accessed through the Internet, and anyone, anywhere can access – therefore, application security becomes particularly important. This is why the creation and management of...

Sandworm APT Team Found Using Windows Zero Day Vulnerability

UPDATE–A cyberespionage team, possibly based in Russia, has been using a Windows zero day vulnerability to target a variety of organizations in several countries, including the United States, Poland, Ukraine and western Europe. The vulnerability, which will be patched today by Microsoft, is...

Use-after-free interacting with text directionality — Mozilla

Security researcher regenrecht reported, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, a use-after-free during text layout when interacting with text direction. This results in a crash which can lead to arbitrary code execution...

Microsoft Windows Zero-Day Vulnerability "CVE-2014-4114" Used to Hack NATO

Once again a Russian cyber espionage group has gained media attention by exploiting a Zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows operating system to spy on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO, Ukrainian and Polish government agencies, and a variety of sensitive European industries over...

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...

September 2014 Microsoft Patch Tuesday security bulletins

The Operation SnowMan espionage campaign, which targeted military intelligence earlier this year via an Internet Explorer zero day, exposed a weak spot in Microsoft’s vulnerability management efforts. What was unique about the SnowMan operation is that it included a check as to whether the...

Use-after-free setting text directionality — Mozilla

Security researcher regenrecht reported, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, a use-after-free during text layout when interacting with the setting of text direction. This results in a use-after-free which can lead to arbitrary code execution...

DEF CON SOHOpelessly Broken Router Hacking Contest

It’s becoming cliché to say it’s trivial to pop a small office or home router. Vendors are making it easy, since most are interested in cramming features such as print, file and media servers into these boxes and less so on basic security measures. Therefore, it sometimes helps to illustrate the...

Adobe Releases Critical Security Updates for Flash Player, Acrobat and Adobe Reader

Adobe has released security updates to fix seven vulnerabilities in its Flash and Air platforms and one in its Reader and Acrobat which, according to the company, is being exploited by attackers in wild "...in limited, isolated attacks targeting Adobe Reader users on Windows." The vulnerabilities...

August 2014 Adobe Patch Tuesday security updates

Adobe today released an out-of-band patch for a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat that has been leveraged in targeted attacks. Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis Team director Costin Raiu is credited with reporting the vulnerability. Details were not announced, but Raiu...

Epic Operation Kicks Off Multistage Turla APT Campaign

The Turla APT campaign has baffled researchers for months as to how its victims are compromised. Peaking during the first two months of the year, Turla has targeted municipal governments, embassies, militaries and other high-value targets worldwide, with particular concentrations in the Middle Ea...

Dan Geer: Security at the Forefront of Policy Decisions

LAS VEGAS – Dan Geer carried his version of computer security’s Ten Commandments to a rapt Black Hat 2014 audience today, offering up 10 personal recommendations and observations related to the current state of security in the context of government surveillance and eroding privacy. Adorned in...

The IE vulnerability is a doubling of Flash Player easy to be attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, foreign security vendor Bromium released a 2 0 1 4 annual security report, in 2 0 1 3 to 2 0 1 4 during the year, IE browser vulnerabilities to the large number doubled. At the same time, the report also analyzed the cybercriminals most commonly used vulnerabilities to attack the...

Microsoft Releases EMET 5.0 Exploit Mitigation Tool

The latest version of Microsoft’s freely available stopgap against zero-day exploits was released today with two new exploit mitigations and a batch of new configuration options. The update to Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Tool kit, or EMET, comes six months after a technical preview...