The IoT Attack Vector “BlueBorne” Exposes Almost Every Connected Device (BlueBorne)

General Overview Armis Labs revealed a new attack vector endangering major mobile, desktop, and IoT operating systems, including Android, iOS, Windows, and Linux, and the devices using them. The new vector is dubbed “BlueBorne”, as it spread through the air airborne and attacks devices via...

Microsoft Patches .NET Zero Day Vulnerability in September Update

An actively exploited zero-day vulnerability tied to Microsoft’s .NET framework is one of 25 critical and 54 important vulnerabilities fixed by Microsoft in its September Patch Tuesday security bulletin. According to Microsoft, the .NET framework vulnerability CVE-2017-8759 allows attackers to...

BlueBorne: Critical Bluetooth Attack Puts Billions of Devices at Risk of Hacking

If you are using a Bluetooth enabled device, be it a smartphone, laptop, smart TV or any other IoT device, you are at risk of malware attacks that can carry out remotely to take over your device even without requiring any interaction from your side. Security researchers have just discovered total...

Apache Foundation Refutes Involvement in Equifax Breach

A group of developers behind Apache Struts, believed by some to be the culprit behind last week’s Equifax breach, took umbrage with those claims over the weekend. René Gielen, vice president of the Apache Struts Project Management Committee PMC at the Apache Software Foundation, wrote Saturday th...

Researcher Discloses 10 Zero-Day Flaws in D-Link 850L Wireless Routers

A security researcher has discovered not one or two but a total of ten critical zero-day vulnerabilities in routers from Taiwan-based networking equipment manufacturer D-Link which leave users open to cyber attacks. D-Link DIR 850L wireless AC1200 dual-band gigabit cloud routers are vulnerable to...

Microsoft windows the latest kernel has a vulnerability bug flaws: pass to kill all Windows version-bug warning-the black bar safety net

enSilo the research staff of the invention, a Microsoft kernel flaws, onslaught can take to bypass the anti-virus system and loaded vicious thoughts software. The flaws exist in the PsSetLoadImageNotifyRoutine, affects Windows 2000 to Windows 10 all editions. ! Microsoft in Windows 2000 to enable...

CVE-2017-9805: Analysis of Apache Struts RCE Vulnerability in REST Plugin

Just two months ago we published an analysis of a critical remote code execution RCE security vulnerability in Apache Struts. Now Apache Struts has published a new version fixing yet another critical RCE vulnerability September 5, 2017. CVE-2017-9805 is a vulnerability in Apache Struts related to...

Mobile Bootloaders From Top Manufacturers Found Vulnerable to Persistent Threats

Security researchers have discovered several severe zero-day vulnerabilities in the mobile bootloaders from at least four popular device manufacturers that could allow an attacker to gain persistent root access on the device. A team of nine security researchers from the University of California...

Wallarm to sponsor OWASP AppSec USA

If you are a SecOps or DevOps professional you can not miss the application security event of the year: AppSec USA, September 19–22nd at Disney Coronado Spring Resort, Orlando, FL Use the code: UNLM50WLLRM to register to get $50 discount. You will get great information on the new security tools a...

Bitdefender Total Security 'bdfwfpf' Kernel Driver Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bitdefender Total Security is prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

Reflected XSS Bug Patched in Popular WooCommerce WordPress Plugin

An extension of the WooCommerce WordPress plugin, used by 28 percent of all online stores, has been patched against a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability. The vulnerability was found in the Product Vendors plugin, which allows an existing ecommerce site to support multiple vendors,...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of August 21, 2017

In last week’s blog entry, I mentioned the fact that the Zero Day Initiative ZDI published two zero-day advisories ZDI-17-691 and ZDI-17-692 for vulnerabilities found in Foxit Reader after Foxit failed to meet the 120-day deadline outlined in ZDI’s disclosure policy. Since the public disclosure,...

A Company Offers $500,000 For Secure Messaging Apps Zero-Day Exploits

How much does your privacy cost? It will soon be sold for half a Million US dollars. A controversial company specialises in acquiring and reselling zero-day exploits is ready to pay up to US$500,000 for working zero-day vulnerabilities targeting popular secure messenger applications, such as...

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...