Attackers Dropping Kasidet Bot via Office Macros

It’s well documented that attackers have reignited their love affair with the Office macro, using it as a vector for spreading banking malware and even the BlackEnergy Trojan as of late. According to researchers at the San Jose security company zScaler, the bot Kasidet, also known as Neutrino, ha...

Cross Platform ELF Analysis: ELF Parser

ELF Parser attempts to move ELF malware analysis forward by quickly providing basic information and static analysis of the binary. The end goal of ELF Parser is to indicate to the analyst if it thinks the binary is malicious / dangerous and if so why. Load Any Executable ELF ELF Parser supports...

LATENTBOT: Trace Me If You Can

FireEye Labs recently uncovered LATENTBOT, a new, highly obfuscated BOT that has been in the wild since mid-2013. It has managed to leave hardly any traces on the Internet, is capable of watching its victims without ever being noticed, and can even corrupt a hard disk, thus making a PC useless...

Vulnerability acquisition platform Zerodium publication of various types of software and digital intrusion method price list-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! 1 1 May 1 8, Zerodium（0day brokers published a variety of from a network of criminals to buy and then resell to the needs of the target software and intrusion methods of the price list. Vulnerabilities platform released a price list Zerodium CEO Chaouki bekrar has said: “0day trading the first...

Important: Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: libcap-ng bug fix and enhancement update

Updated libcap-ng packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. The libcap-ng library is designed to make programming with POSIX capabilities easier. It is shipped with utilities to analyze the POSIX capabilities of all running...

NSA Exploiting Weak Diffie-Hellman Primes to Break Crypto

The great mystery since the NSA and other intelligence agencies’ cyber-spying capabilities became watercooler fodder has not been the why of their actions, but the how? For example, how are they breaking crypto to decode secure Internet communication? A team of cryptographers and computer...

Design/Logic Flaw

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the PrintWebViewHelper class in components/printing/renderer/printwebviewhelper.cc in Google Chrome before 45.0.2454.85 allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering nested IPC...

CVE-2015-1295

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the PrintWebViewHelper class in components/printing/renderer/printwebviewhelper.cc in Google Chrome before 45.0.2454.85 allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering nested IPC...

chromium-browser: Use-after-free in Printing

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the PrintWebViewHelper class in components/printing/renderer/printwebviewhelper.cc in Google Chrome before 45.0.2454.85 allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering nested IPC...

WordPress YouTube Embed 3.3.2 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

WordPress YouTube Embed plugin version 3.3.2 suffers from a stored cross site scripting vulnerability. Details ================ Software: YouTube Embed Version: 3.3.2 Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-embed/ CVE ID: CVE-2015-6535 Pending CWE ID: CWE-79 CVSS: 5.5 Medium;...

WordPress YouTube Embed 3.3.2 Cross Site Scripting

Details ================ Software: YouTube Embed Version: 3.3.2 Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-embed/ CVE ID: CVE-2015-6535 Pending CWE ID: CWE-79 CVSS: 5.5 Medium; AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N Description ================ A stored XSS vulnerability in YouTube Embed 3.3.2 and...

WordPress post Request Privilege Escalation (CVE-2015-2212; CVE-2015-5623)

A privilege escalation vulnerability has been found in WordPress Post Request. An authenticated remote attacker may leverage this vulnerability to gain access From Subscriber to certain Editor capabilities of the vulnerable server...

Banking Malware Vawtrak Seen Using Tor2Web

Developers behind the banking Trojan Vawtrak have begun obscuring some of their servers with Tor2Web, a move that’s added another degree of difficulty when it comes to uncovering their activity. To this point the malware’s techniques – its evolution beyond banking websites, ability to break...

Toshiba Commerce Solutions Retail Software Security Vulnerabilities

Toshiba last week patched a potentially serious vulnerability in its CHEC self-checkout software prevalent in retail locations, while it is still wrangling with another security issue in its point-of-sale offering. The vulnerabilities were reported in August 2014 by David Odell of FishNet Securit...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: openstack-neutron-2013.2.4-8.fc20

Neutron is a virtual network service for Openstack. Just like OpenStack Nova provides an API to dynamically request and configure virtual servers, Neutron provides an API to dynamically request and configure virtual networks. These networks connect "interfaces" from other OpenStack services e.g.,...

Coordinated Takedown Puts End to Simda Botnet

The Simda botnet, known for spreading banking malware and dropping a backdoor on hundreds of thousands of machines worldwide, was taken down last Thursday in a collaborative effort between international law enforcement bodies and private security and technology companies. Fourteen command and...

CVE-2015-1115

CVE-2015-1115 affects Apple's iOS Telephony component prior to iOS 8.3, where an attacker could bypass sandbox protections and access restricted telephony features via a crafted app. The issue stems from an access-control weakness in the Telephony subsystem (sandbox/entitlement handling). Apple r...

New Evasion Techniques Help AlienSpy RAT Spread Citadel Malware

Hackers have co-opted AlienSpy, a remote access tool, to deliver the Citadel banking Trojan and establish backdoors inside a number of critical infrastructure operations. AlienSpy is a descendent of the Adwind, Unrecom and Frutas Java-based remote access Trojans, according to security company...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libvirt on SL7.x x86_64 (20150305)

It was found that QEMU's qemuDomainMigratePerform and qemuDomainMigrateFinish2 functions did not correctly perform a domain unlock on a failed ACL check. A remote attacker able to establish a connection to libvirtd could use this flaw to lock a domain of a more privileged user, causing a denial o...

Amazon Linux AMI : file (ALAS-2015-497)

The ELF parser in file 5.08 through 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large number of notes. CVE-2014-9620 The ELF parser readelf.c in file before 5.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption or crash via a large number of 1 program or 2...