This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

CVE-2017-0199 Used as Zero Day to Distribute FINSPY Espionage Malware and LATENTBOT Cyber Crime Malware

FireEye recently identified a vulnerability – CVE-2017-0199 – that allows a malicious actor to download and execute a Visual Basic script containing PowerShell commands when a user opens a Microsoft Office RTF document containing an embedded exploit. We worked with Microsoft and published the...

The Japanese version of the WPS remote code execution vulnerability detailed analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Overview Word processing and work product in the vulnerability is the threat actors to exploit the useful target. Users often encounter in everyday life these software packages use the file type, and may in the email to open such a file, or be prompted to download from the website this file does...

The Japanese version of the WPS remote code execution vulnerability detailed analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Word processing and work product in the vulnerability is the threat actors to exploit the useful target. Users often encounter in everyday life these software packages use the file type, and may in the email to open such a file, or be prompted to download from the website this file does not produ...

M-Trends 2017: A View From the Front Lines

Every year Mandiant responds to a large number of cyber attacks, and 2016 was no exception. For our M-Trends 2017 report, we took a look at the incidents we investigated last year and provided a global and regional the Americas, APAC and EMEA analysis focused on attack trends, and defensive and...

Setting Expectations Between States on Cyberwar

A a panel of security experts at the RSA Conference on Wednesday said there is a lack of agreement on a definition of cyberwarfare and of the tools used to fight them. “Words matter and it’s important to have definitions. But one of the challenges is the pace of innovation gets in front of doctri...

Enhanced Analysis of GRIZZLY STEPPE

The Department of Homeland Security DHS has released an Analysis Report AR related to malicious cyber activity designated as GRIZZLY STEPPE. This AR provides a thorough analysis of the methods threat actors use to infiltrate systems, as well as specific mitigation techniques that may be used to...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of react-native-baidu-voice-synthesizer insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one,...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of openframe-ascii-image insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of windows-seleniumjar insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of windows-latestchromedriver insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of haxe3 insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on the...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of windows-iedriver insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of roslib-socketio insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of gfe-sass insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of massif insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on th...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of pk-app-wonderbox insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of fis-sass-all insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of arcanist insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of selenium-standalone-painful insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in...