Unpatched Microsoft Word Flaw is Being Used to Spread Dridex Banking Trojan

If you are a regular reader of The Hacker News, you might be aware of an ongoing cyber attack — detected in the wild by McAfee and FireEye — that silently installs malware on fully-patched computers by exploiting an unpatched Microsoft Word vulnerability in all current versions of Microsoft Offic...

Beware of an Unpatched Microsoft Word 0-Day Flaw being Exploited in the Wild

It's 2017, and opening a simple MS Word file could compromise your system. Security researchers are warning of a new in-the-wild attack that silently installs malware on fully-patched computers by exploiting a serious — and yet unpatched — zero-day vulnerability in all current versions of Microso...

Shadow Brokers Group Releases More Stolen NSA Hacking Tools & Exploits

Remember The Shadow Brokers? They are back. A hackers group that previously claimed to have stolen a bunch of hacking tools malware, zero-day exploits, and implants created by the NSA and gained popularity last year for leaking a portion of those tools is back. Today, The Shadow Brokers group...

Acknowledgement of Attacks Leveraging Microsoft Zero-Day

FireEye recently detected malicious Microsoft Office RTF documents that leverage a previously undisclosed vulnerability. This vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute a Visual Basic script when the user opens a document containing an embedded exploit. FireEye has observed several Office...

Acknowledgement of Attacks Leveraging Microsoft Zero-Day

FireEye recently detected malicious Microsoft Office RTF documents that leverage a previously undisclosed vulnerability. This vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute a Visual Basic script when the user opens a document containing an embedded exploit. FireEye has observed several Office...

On SAS 2017, the Microsoft IIS Zero Day, and Mirai

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook preview this year’s Security Analyst Summit and discuss the news of the week, including a Microsoft IIS zero day, a new Mirai variant, and the broadband privacy ruling. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapMarch312017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Publicly Attacked Microsoft IIS Zero Day Unlikely to be Patched

Microsoft is unlikely to patch a zero-day vulnerability in an older version of its Internet Information Services IIS webserver that’s been publicly attacked since last July and August. Two researchers from the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou posted a proof-of-concept exploit for...

Microsoft Bulletin: detection and protection CVE-2017-0005 mention the right vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! 2017 3 October 14, Microsoft released a security Bulletin MS17-013, designed to address the CVE-2017-0005 mention the right vulnerability, Qualys vulnerability Labs Director, Amol Sarwate, said:“CVE-2017-0005 is a zero-day vulnerability issue currently being the abuse, the use of Silverlight as...

Microsoft Offers Analysis of Zero-Day Exploited By Zirconium Group

Microsoft has released technical details on a zero-day vulnerability being exploited by a little-known APT group known as Zirconium. According to the company the vulnerability CVE-2017-0005 affects mostly older versions of Windows and can allow an adversary to execute remote code if a user either...

Detecting and mitigating elevation-of-privilege exploit for CVE-2017-0005

On March 14, 2017, Microsoft released security bulletin MS17-013 to address CVE-2017-0005, a vulnerability in the Windows Win32k component that could potentially allow elevation of privileges. A report from a trusted partner identified a zero-day exploit for this vulnerability. The exploit target...

CentOS Update for firefox CESA-2017:0558 centos7

Check the version of firefox 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 ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882683";...

Mozilla Patches Pwn2Own Zero Day in Firefox

Mozilla was quick to patch a zero day vulnerability identified in the Firefox browser at the Pwn2Own hacking competition last week. The company remedied the issue just shy of 24 hours of being made aware of the flaw, pushing out the updated version 52.0.1 of the browser late Friday. Asa Dotzler,...

firefox security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2017:0558 An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

VM Escape Earns Hackers $105K at Pwn2Own

Hackers managed to take down Microsoft Edge and escape a virtual machine to boot on the third day of Pwn2Own early Friday. Members from Qihoo’s 360 Security Team carried out the VM exploit, earning the group $105,000, by far the highest amount awarded to a group at the hacking challenge this week...

FATEK Automation PLC Ethernet Module

CVSS v3 7.3 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable. Low skill level to exploit. Vendor: FATEK Automation Equipment: PLC Ethernet Module Vulnerability: Stack-based buffer overflow AFFECTED PRODUCTS The affected Ethercfg software configuration tool runs on the following Fatek PLCs: CBEH versions prior to...

Zero Days Have Staying Power

It takes less than a month for most zero-day exploits to be developed, and about a quarter of those previously unknown and unpatched vulnerabilities will go undiscovered and undisclosed to the vendor for an average of 9.5 years. And the odds two hackers will find the same zero day are slim. RAND...

Uncovering cross-process injection with Windows Defender ATP

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Windows Defender ATP is a post-breach solution that alerts security operations SecOps personnel about hostile activity. As the nature of attacks evolve, Windows Defender ATP must advance so that it continues to help SecOps personnel uncover and address...

New Apache Struts Zero-Day Vulnerability Being Exploited in the Wild

Security researchers have discovered a Zero-Day vulnerability in the popular Apache Struts web application framework, which is being actively exploited in the wild. Apache Struts is a free, open-source, Model-View-Controller MVC framework for creating elegant, modern Java web applications, which...

WikiLeaks Exposed CIA's Hacking Tools And Capabilities Details

WikiLeaks has published a massive trove of confidential documents in what appear to be the biggest ever leak involving the US Central Intelligence Agency CIA. WikiLeaks announced series Year Zero, under which the whistleblower organization will reveal details of the CIA's global covert hacking...