Zerodium is paying $2 million for Apple iOS remote jailbreak

By Waqas Zerodium, an infosec and premium zero-day acquisition platform known for selling zero-day exploits to governments has announced that it will be paying a huge amount of money to buy iOS remote jailbreak and exploits related to WhatsApp, iMessage, or SMS/MMS. See: Zerodium uses Twitter to...

Zerodium Offers to Buy Zero-Day Exploits at Higher Prices Than Ever

Well, there's some good news for hackers and vulnerability hunters, though terrible news for tech manufacturers! Exploit vendor Zerodium is now willing to offer significantly higher payouts for full, working zero-day exploits that allow stealing of data from WhatsApp, iMessage and other online ch...

Zerodium Offers to Buy Zero-Day Exploits at Higher Prices Than Ever

Well, there's some good news for hackers and vulnerability hunters, though terrible news for tech manufacturers! Exploit vendor Zerodium is now willing to offer significantly higher payouts for full, working zero-day exploits that allow stealing of data from WhatsApp, iMessage and other online ch...

Schneider Electric IIoT Monitor (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.3 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Schneider Electric Equipment: IIoT Monitor --------- Begin Update A Part 1 of 2 -------- Vulnerabilities: Path Traversal, Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type, XXE, Cryptographic Issues...

Zerodium Raises Zero-Day Payout Ceiling to $2M

Exploit acquisition vendor Zerodium said Monday that it is upping its payouts for full, working exploits across its entire program. It’s now paying $2 million for remote iOS jailbreaks, $1 million for WhatsApp/iMessage/SMS/MMS remote code-execution RCE and a half-million for Google Chrome RCEs. T...

Adobe Fixes Two Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws

Adobe on Thursday released unscheduled security updates for Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and MacOS. The updates fix two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2018-16011 and CVE-2018-19725. Successful exploitation of the flaws could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current...

Adobe Issues Emergency Patches for Two Critical Flaws in Acrobat and Reader

I hope you had biggest, happiest and craziest New Year celebration, but now it's time to come back at work and immediately update your systems to patch new security flaws that could exploit your computer just by opening a PDF file. Adobe has issued an out-of-band security update to patch two...

Hacker Discloses New Unpatched Windows Zero-Day Exploit On Twitter

A security researcher with Twitter alias SandboxEscaper today released proof-of-concept PoC exploit for a new zero-day vulnerability affecting Microsoft's Windows operating system. SandboxEscaper is the same researcher who previously publicly dropped exploits for two Windows zero-day...

Hacker Discloses New Unpatched Windows Zero-Day Exploit On Twitter

A security researcher with Twitter alias SandboxEscaper today released proof-of-concept PoC exploit for a new zero-day vulnerability affecting Microsoft's Windows operating system. SandboxEscaper is the same researcher who previously publicly dropped exploits for two Windows zero-day...

Microsoft IE Zero Day Gets Emergency Patch

Microsoft patched a zero-day vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser that is actively being exploited by attackers. The bug, reported by Google, is a remote code execution vulnerability that allowed attackers to infiltrate vulnerable systems via a booby trapped website that could have...

Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch For Under-Attack IE Zero Day

Microsoft today issued an out-of-band security update to patch a critical zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer IE Web browser that attackers are already exploiting in the wild to hack into Windows computers. Discovered by security researcher Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Grou...

Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch For Under-Attack IE Zero Day

Microsoft today issued an out-of-band security update to patch a critical zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer IE Web browser that attackers are already exploiting in the wild to hack into Windows computers. Discovered by security researcher Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Grou...

Microsoft Issues Patch for Windows Zero-Day Flaw Under Active Attack

Microsoft today, on its year-end December Patch Tuesday, released security updates to patch a total 39 vulnerabilities its Windows operating systems and applications—10 of which are rated as critical and other important in severity. One of the security vulnerabilities patched by the tech giant th...

Microsoft Issues Patch for Windows Zero-Day Flaw Under Active Attack

Microsoft today, on its year-end December Patch Tuesday, released security updates to patch a total 39 vulnerabilities its Windows operating systems and applications—10 of which are rated as critical and other important in severity. One of the security vulnerabilities patched by the tech giant th...

Zero-Day Bug Patched by Microsoft, Part of December Patch TuesdZero-Day Bug Fixed by Microsoft in December Patch Tuesdayay

Microsoft has patched a zero-day vulnerability actively being used against older versions of the Windows operating system, as part of its December Patch Tuesday updates. According to the software giant, the vulnerability CVE-2018-8611 is an elevation-of-privilege EoP bug that affects Windows 7...

Patch Tuesday, December 2018 Edition

Adobe and Microsoft each released updates today to tackle critical security weaknesses in their software. Microsoft's December patch batch is relatively light, addressing more than three dozen vulnerabilities in Windows and related applications. Adobe has issued security fixes for its Acrobat and...

Using Fuzzing to Mine for Zero-Days

Fuzzing is a term that sounds hard to take seriously. But it needs to be, in light of today’s attack landscape. Fuzzing has traditionally been a sophisticated technique used by professional threat researchers to discover vulnerabilities in hardware and software interfaces and applications. They d...

From DirectX to the Windows Kernel--a few of the CVE vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

One, Foreword Operating systemthe kernel is each vulnerability the use of chain final goal, we can view the Zero Day Initiative ZDI Pwn2Own calendar year, race, and understand this aspect of the content. Windows kernel has always been the attacker keen to target, my favorite is the abuse of the...

New Adobe Flash Zero-Day Exploit Found Hidden Inside MS Office Docs

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that hackers are actively exploiting in the wild as part of a targeted campaign appears to be attacking a Russian state health care institution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-15982 , is a...

New Adobe Flash Zero-Day Exploit Found Hidden Inside MS Office Docs

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that hackers are actively exploiting in the wild as part of a targeted campaign appears to be attacking a Russian state health care institution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-15982, is a...