News Wrap: WhatsApp, Microsoft, Intel and Cisco Flaws

This week was filled with flaws, flaws and more flaws: From a zero-day under active exploit in the WhatsApp messaging app, to Patch Tuesday glitches addressed by Microsoft. Threatpost breaks down the top vulnerabilities of the week, including: A WhatsApp zero-day vulnerability being exploited in...

Spam and phishing in Q1 2019

Quarterly highlights Valentine's Day As per tradition, phishing timed to coincide with lovey-dovey day was aimed at swindling valuable confidential information out of starry-eyed users, such as bank card details. The topics exploited by cybercriminals ranged from online flower shops to dating...

Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Windows 2003

Microsoft today is taking the unusual step of releasing security updates for unsupported but still widely-used Windows operating systems like XP and Windows 2003, citing the discovery of a "wormable" flaw that the company says could be used to fuel a fast-moving malware threat like the WannaCry...

WhatsApp Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Spyware Attacks

UPDATE WhatsApp is urging users to update as soon as possible, after a zero-day vulnerability found in its messaging platform was exploited by attackers who were able to inject spyware onto victims’ phones in targeted campaigns. First reported by the Financial Times, the popular messaging app...

Hackers Used WhatsApp 0-Day Flaw to Secretly Install Spyware On Phones

Whatsapp has recently patched a severe vulnerability that was being exploited by attackers to remotely install surveillance malware on a few "selected" smartphones by simply calling the targeted phone numbers over Whatsapp audio call. Discovered, weaponized and then sold by the Israeli company NS...

Easy WP SMTP v1. 3. 9）0 day vulnerability is being attacked in the process and reproducibility-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Foreword Your own blog site with wordpres hosting, last month found some abnormalities. 3.12 days, the mailbox explosion, received more than 100 letter on the site is the blasting of the notification mail. ! Day to see also not strange, because before it appeared such a situation, every day there...

Chrome V8 Turbofan JSCallReducer::ReduceArrayIndexOfIncludes Failed Check

v8: turbofan: JSCallReducer::ReduceArrayIndexOfIncludes fails to insert Map checks Since commit https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8.git/+/c22bb466d8934685d897708119543d099b9d2a9a turbofan supports inlining calls to array.includes and array.indexOf. The logic of the function is roughly: 1. Che...

Leaked NSA Hacking Tools

In 2016, a hacker group calling itself the Shadow Brokers released a trove of 2013 NSA hacking tools and related documents. Most people believe it is a front for the Russian government. Since, then the vulnerabilities and tools have been used by both government and criminals, and put the NSA's...

CHAPTER 3: ELECTION DAY - BEST PRACTICES AND READINESS CHECKLIST FOR DIGITAL NEWS PUBLISHERS

CHAPTER 3: ELECTION DAY - BEST PRACTICES AND READINESS FOR DIGITAL NEWS PUBLISHERS As the 2019 General Election results approach, the frenzy and anticipation continue to build. Digital news publishers have the opportunity to engage with audiences on their digital properties as users go online to...

harfbuzz/hb-subset-fuzzer: Heap-buffer-overflow in OT::UnsizedArrayOf<OT::IntType<unsigned char, 1u> >::copy

Project: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5733203291144192 Project: harfbuzz Fuzzer: aflharfbuzzhb-subset-fuzzer Fuzz target binary: hb-subset-fuzzer Job Type: aflasanharfbuzz Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow READ 1 Cra...

Chinese Spies Stole NSA Cyberweapons Long Before Shadow Brokers Leak

Hacking tools allegedly developed by the National Security Agency NSA were being used in the wild by at least one APT long before the Shadow Brokers released the now-infamous trove of U.S. cyberweapons, new analysis suggests. According to researchers at Symantec, an attack group affiliated with t...

Chinese Hackers Used NSA Hacking Tools Before Shadow Brokers Leaked Them

In a shocking revelation, it turns out that a hacking group believed to be sponsored by Chinese intelligence had been using some of the zero-day exploits linked to the NSA's Equation Group almost a year before the mysterious Shadow Brokers group leaked them. According to a new report published by...

The Strange Journey of an NSA Zero-Day—Into Multiple Enemies' Hands

How a "secret" hackable bug found by the NSA was used over by Chinese, North Korean, and Russian hackers to wreak havoc...

Microsoft Windows PowerShell ISE - Remote Code Execution

Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/WINDOWS-POWERSHELL-ISE-FILENAME-PARSING-FLAW-RCE-0DAY.txt + ISR: ApparitionSec + Zero Day Initiative Program Vendor www.microsoft.com Product Windows PowerShell ISE The...

Gray Day: My Undercover Mission To Expose America’s First Cyber Spy

Who is Eric O’Neill? Eric O’Neill serves as Carbon Black’s national security strategist where he is a thought leader on a wide range of issues including counterterrorism and national security matters. Prior to this, he was as an operative for the FBI, where he conducted national security field...

unicorn/fuzz_emu_arm64_arm: Use-of-uninitialized-value in float64_squash_input_denormal_aarch64

Project: https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5681075289849856 Project: unicorn Fuzzer: libFuzzerunicornfuzzemuarm64arm Fuzz target binary: fuzzemuarm64arm Job Type: libfuzzermsanunicorn Platform Id: linux Crash Type:...

2 Million IoT Devices Vulnerable to Complete Takeover

Over 2 million IP security cameras, baby monitors and smart doorbells have serious vulnerabilities that could enable an attacker to hijack the devices and spy on their owners — and there’s currently no known patch for the shared flaws. The attack stems from peer-to-peer P2P communication technolo...

'Highly Critical' Unpatched Zero-Day Flaw Discovered In Oracle WebLogic

A team of cybersecurity researchers today published a post warning enterprises of an unpatched, highly critical zero-day vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic server application that some attackers might have already started exploiting in the wild. Oracle WebLogic is a scalable, Java-based multi-tier...

'Highly Critical' Unpatched Zero-Day Flaw Discovered In Oracle WebLogic

A team of cybersecurity researchers today published a post warning enterprises of an unpatched, highly critical zero-day vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic server application that some attackers might have already started exploiting in the wild. Oracle WebLogic is a scalable, Java-based multi-tier...

wget2/libwget_iri_fuzzer: Heap-buffer-overflow in _iri_unescape_inline

Project: https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5641953338720256 Project: wget2 Fuzzer: libFuzzerwget2libwgetirifuzzer Fuzz target binary: libwgetirifuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerasanwget2 Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow READ 1 Cras...