Microsoft Patches Five Zero Days Under Attack

Update: Microsoft today said it mislabeled CVE-2016-7189 in bulletin MS16-119 as exploited. “There is no evidence of any active attacks using this vulnerability and the bulletin text has been corrected.” – a Microsoft spokesperson said. Microsoft today patched a handful of zero-day vulnerabilitie...

Vulnerability alert: JPEG 2 0 0 0 a vulnerability to execute arbitrary code-a vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Vulnerability number CVE-2 0 1 6-8 3 3 2 TALOS-2 0 1 6-0 1 9 3 Affected version OpenJpeg openjp2 2.1.1 Vulnerability description Recently, Cisco's Talos security team disclosed a JPEG 2 0 0 0 of a zero-day exploit, the vulnerability can execute arbitrary code. OpenJPEG is an open-source JPEG 2 0 ...

The Ethics and Morality Behind APT Reports

DENVER—Investigations into state-sponsored APT campaigns are much more than black-and-white research into malware, exploits and zero-days. Behind the scenes, these can be geopolitical powder kegs that require moral examinations into the ethics of publishing public reports that could expose tools...

VMSA-2016-0015:VMware Horizon View updates address directory traversal vulnerability

VMSA-2016-0015 VMware Horizon View updates address directory traversal vulnerability VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2016-0015 VMware Security Advisory Severity: Important VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware Horizon View updates address directory traversa...

Beware! You Can Get Hacked Just by Opening a 'JPEG 2000' Image

Researchers have disclosed a critical zero-day vulnerability in the JPEG 2000 image file format parser implemented in OpenJPEG library, which could allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on the affected systems. Discovered by security researchers at Cisco Talos group, the zero-day...

Microsoft Office 365 Word - Code Execution Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Microsoft Office 365 Word - Code Execution Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1030 Release Date: ============= 2016-10-01 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ====================================...

Zerodium Offers $1.5 Million Bounty For iOS Zero-Day Exploits

Well, there's some good news for Hackers and Bug hunters, though a terrible news for Apple! Exploit vendor Zerodium has tripled its bug bounty for an Apple's iOS 10 zero-day exploit, offering a maximum payout of $US1.5 Million. Yes, $1,500,000.00 Reward. That's more than seven times what Apple is...

Leaked NSA Hacking Tools Were 'Mistakenly' Left By An Agent On A Remote Server

If you are a hacker, you might have enjoyed the NSA's private zero-day exploits, malware and hacking tools that were leaked last month. But the question is: How these hacking tools ended up into the hands of hackers? It has been found that the NSA itself was not directly hacked, but a former NSA...

Cisco finds new Zero-Day Exploit linked to NSA Hackers

Network equipment vendor Cisco is finally warning its customers of another zero-day vulnerability the company discovered in the trove of NSA's hacking exploits and implants leaked by the group calling itself "The Shadow Brokers." Last month, the Shadow Brokers published firewall exploits, implant...

On Schneier's DDoS Article, OS X Malware Detection, and Patches

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including Schneier’s DDoS article, a patched IE/Edge zero day, a new OS X malware detection method, and Google’s Project Zero prize. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapSeptember162016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Microsoft Patches Zero Day Used in AdGholas Malvertising Campaigns

An attack group behind a long-running malvertising campaign made effective use of a previously unreported low-level vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Edge browsers to rake in money via banking Trojans and ad fraud. Microsoft patched the zero-day this week among dozens of other...

Apple iOS < 10.0.1 Kernel Memory Information Disclosure (Trident)

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flashplugin: multiple issues

CVE-2016-4274, CVE-2016-4275, CVE-2016-4276, CVE-2016-4280, CVE-2016-4281, CVE-2016-4282, CVE-2016-4283, CVE-2016-4284, CVE-2016-4285, CVE-2016-6922, CVE-2016-6924 arbitrary code execution Multiple Memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution have been found...

Microsoft and Adobe Rolls Out Critical Security Updates - Patch Now!

In Brief You should not miss this month’s Patch Updates, as it brings fixes for critical issues in Adobe Flash Player, iOS, Xcode, the Apple Watch, Windows, Internet Explorer, and the Edge browser. Adobe has rolled out a critical update to address several issues, most of which are Remote Code...

New MySQL Zero Days — Hacking Website Databases

Two critical zero-day vulnerabilities have been discovered in the world's 2nd most popular database management software MySQL that could allow an attacker to take full control over the database. Polish security researcher Dawid Golunski has discovered two zero-days, CVE-2016-6662 and CVE-2016-666...

Update your Mac OS X — Apple has released Important Security Updates

If you own a Mac laptop or desktop, you need to update your system right now. It turns out that the critical zero-day security vulnerabilities disclosed last week, which targeted iPhone and iPad users, affect Mac users as well. Late last week, Apple rolled out iOS 9.3.5 update to patch a total of...

IPhone zero-day exploit or by hacking recommended that the user update the system-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The iPhone iOS operating system, there are 3 security vulnerabilities are“zero day”, it will be one sophisticated spyware use of to a particular iPhone user to launch a sustained attack. Apple to this rapid reaction, for security vulnerabilities carried out a System Repair. The researchers...

Apple iOS < 9.3.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Trident)

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Emergency iOS Update Patches Zero Days Used by Government Spyware

Apple rushed an emergency iOS update today after the discovery of three zero-day vulnerabilities used by governments to spy on the activities of human rights activists and journalists. The zero days, called Trident, allow an attacker to take complete control of an iPhone or iPad with just one...

Apple releases 'Emergency' Patch after Advanced Spyware Targets Human Rights Activist

Apple has released iOS 9.3.5 update for iPhones and iPads to patch three zero-day vulnerabilities after a piece of spyware found targeting the iPhone used by a renowned UAE human rights defender, Ahmed Mansoor. One of the world's most invasive software weapon distributors, called the NSO Group, h...