Platinum APT Group Abuses Windows Hotpatching

An obscure Windows feature known as hotpatching, missing in the OS since the introduction of Windows 8, is a preferred tool used by a resourced attack group called Platinum that was uncovered by Microsoft. The group has carried out targeted attacks in South and Southeast Asia since at least 2009,...

Adobe Analytics AppMeasurement for Flash Library Patch

Adobe today patched a vulnerability in the Adobe Analytics AppMeasurement for Flash library, which can be added to Flash projects to measure the usage of Flash-based content. The vulnerability is a DOM-based cross-site scripting flaw that can be abused for cookie theft, said researcher Randy...

Google Chrome Security Update 50.0.2662.75

Google on Wednesday pushed its third Chrome update since the beginning of March, patching a pair of high-severity vulnerabilities in the browser. Yesterday’s update brings Chrome to version 50.0.2662.75 and patched 20 vulnerabilities, according to the Google Chrome Releases blog. Eight of the bug...

Latest Flash Zero Day Being Used to Push Ransomware

Exploits for a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player are being aggressively distributed in two exploit kits. The zero day, meanwhile, was patched by Adobe in an emergency update released Thursday night. Attackers are using the previously unpatched flaw in the maligned Flash Player to infec...

CVE-2016-1019: A New Flash Exploit Included in Magnitude Exploit Kit

On April 2, security researcher @Kafeine at Proofpoint discovered a change to the Magnitude Exploit Kit. Thanks to their collaboration, we analyzed the sample and discovered that Magnitude EK was exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player CVE-2016-1019. The in-the-wild...

Apple Mac OS X Zero Day Vulnerability SIP Bypass

System Integrity Protection SIP was implemented in OS X El Capitan and imposes limitations on what actions that Mac computers’ root accounts can take against protected paths of the operating system. Yesterday at the SysCan360 conference in Singapore, a researcher from SentinelOne disclosed detail...

Mac OS X Zero-Day Exploit Can Bypass Apple's Latest Protection Feature

A critical zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in all versions of Apple's OS X operating system that allows hackers to exploit the company’s newest protection feature and steal sensitive data from affected devices. With the release of OS X El Capitan, Apple introduced a security protection...

The study found: the majority of software vulnerabilities are on the day there is a patch-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Each year, the IT industry a number of manufacturers of a variety of software products in total will find a myriad of vulnerabilities. Software company Flexera Software's computer security research Department of Secunia Research annually publish the vulnerabilities of the assessment report. ! 2 0...

Pwn2Own Day Two: Safari, Microsoft Edge Go Down Winner Announced

In the end, it was a nail-biter pitting Tencent Security Team Sniper KeenLab and PC Manager against JungHoon Lee lokihardt for the title of Master of Pwn for Pwn2Own 2016. After a tense last two minutes of the competition, it was Tencent Security Team Sniper and its successful code execution of a...

Here's How Hackers Stole $80 Million from Bangladesh Bank

The recent cyber attack on Bangladesh's central bank that let hackers stole over $80 Million from the institutes' Federal Reserve bank account was reportedly caused due to the Malware installed on the Bank's computer systems. Few days ago, reports emerged of a group of unknown hackers that broke...

Use-after-free in HTML5 string parser — Mozilla

Security researcher ca0nguyen, working with HP's Zero Day Initiative, reported a use-after-free issue in the HTML5 string parser when parsing a particular set of table-related tags in a foreign fragment context such as SVG. This results in a potentially exploitable crash...

Use-after-free in SetBody — Mozilla

Security researcher lokihardt, working with HP's Zero Day Initiative, reported a use-after-free issue in the SetBody function of HTMLDocument. This results in a potentially exploitable crash...

Angler Exploit Kit Attacks Silverlight Vulnerability

Exploits for a vulnerability in Microsoft Silverlight have found their way into the dangerous Angler Exploit Kit a little more than a month after it was patched. French security researcher Kafeine said he was able to get independent confirmation from researchers at Kaspersky Lab that the exploit...

Cisco ASA VPN Portal Cross Site Scripting

Exploit author: Juan Sacco - [email protected] Affected program: Cisco ASA VPN Portal - Zero Day Cisco ASA VPN is prone to a XSS on the password recovery page. This vulnerability can be used by an attacker to capture other user's credentials. The password recovery form fails to filter proper...

They Named it — Einstein, But $6 Billion Firewall Fails to Detect 94% of Latest Threats

The US government's $6 Billion firewall is nothing but a big blunder. Dubbed EINSTEIN, the nationwide firewall run by the US Department of Homeland Security DHS is not as smart as its name suggests. An audit conducted by the United States Government Accountability Office GAO has claimed that the...

On the Linux Zero Day, Twitter Users Looking for Answers, and Bot Fraud

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news, including the Linux zero day–how it was patched in Android, Twitter users sent nation state messages that are still looking for answers, and bot fraud. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapJanuary222016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Zero-Day Flaw Found in 'Linux Kernel' leaves Millions Vulnerable

A new critical zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux kernel that could allow attackers to gain root level privileges by running a malicious Android or Linux application on an affected device. The critical Linux kernel flaw CVE-2016-0728 has been identified by a group of...

Kaspersky Lab found that the Silverlight zero-day-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, Kaspersky Lab found in the Silverlight application in the presence of a dangerous zero-day vulnerabilities, millions of users pose a security risk. On Wednesday, in a blog post, the network security company Kaspersky said the vulnerability would allow an attacker to gain access to the...

Microsoft Silverlight Zero Day Vulnerability Patched

Microsoft Silverlight vulnerabilities certainly don’t have the same hacker cred as bugs in Adobe Flash, for example, but nonetheless, that does not diminish their value, nor does that mean they should be ignored. Microsoft patched a critical flaw in the application framework on Tuesday, and...

Sandworm Team and the Ukrainian Power Authority Attacks

Update 1.11.16 - SANS ICS Team Connects Dots Updating the blog entry to bring attention to the recent analysis published by Mike Assante from the SANS ICS team. "After analyzing the information that has been made available by affected power companies, researchers, and the media it is clear that...