Cisco Security Appliance Zero-Day Found Actively Exploited in the Wild

Attackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in certain Cisco security products, to cause a denial-of-service DoS condition. The as-yet-unpatched flaw CVE-2018-15454 has an 8.6 CVSS score and is rated high-severity. It exists in the Session Initiation Protocol SIP inspection engine ...

ThreatList: Fewer Big DDoS Attacks in Q3, Overall Rate Holds Steady

When it comes to distributed denial of service DDoS attacks, the third quarter of 2018 marked an apparent lull in the action, with fewer huge, multi-day attacks than in previous quarters. Researchers however warn against having a false sense of security: The total number of attacks in the quarter...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

CSRF exists in zbusers/plugin/AppCentre/theme.js.php in Z-BlogPHP 1.5.2.1935 Zero, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code...

day-finder.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-691649 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| day-finder.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| hidden...

Windows ‘Deletebug’ Zero-Day Allows Privilege Escalation, Destruction

A proof-of-concept exploit for a Windows zero-day that works on fully patched Windows 10 machines has been released by a security researcher. It allows an attacker to delete any kind of file on a victim machine, including system data. The flaw no CVE has been assigned since it was just exposed on...

ThreatList: Ransomware, EKs and Trojans lead the Way in Q3 Malware Trends

When it comes to malware activity, businesses took a big hit in the third quarter, with detection trending upward by a whopping 55 percent, according to new research. Consumers saw an uptick too, but only a modest one: volume was up just 4 percent quarter-over-quarter for this segment. Overall,...

Hacker Discloses New Windows Zero-Day Exploit On Twitter

A security researcher with Twitter alias SandboxEscaper—who two months ago publicly dropped a zero-day exploit for Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler—has yesterday released another proof-of-concept exploit for a new Windows zero-day vulnerability. SandboxEscaper posted a link to a Github page hosti...

Hacker Discloses New Windows Zero-Day Exploit On Twitter

A security researcher with Twitter alias SandboxEscaper—who two months ago publicly dropped a zero-day exploit for Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler—has yesterday released another proof-of-concept exploit for a new Windows zero-day vulnerability. SandboxEscaper posted a link to a Github page hosti...

StrongPity APT Changes Tactics to Stay Stealthy

The APT group behind the sophisticated malware known as StrongPity a.k.a. Promethium has changed its tactics, after various research groups analyzed the malware and exposed its methods of deployment. The efforts have allowed the group to return to hidden status, even after being labeled a known...

Why traditional security isn't enough

We are constantly being bombarded with questions around the security of our data, but what about security for the devices needed to connect to that data? The world is a changing place and for those inclined to be unsavoury characters, a great place to anonymously make ill-gotten gains from...

skia/android_codec: Heap-buffer-overflow in SkGifCodec::haveDecodedRow

Project: https://skia.googlesource.com/skia.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5678720501678080 Project: skia Fuzzer: libFuzzerskiaandroidcodec Fuzz target binary: androidcodec Job Type: libfuzzerasanskia Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow WRITE 4 Crash Addres...

harfbuzz/hb-shape-fuzzer: Heap-buffer-overflow in BEInt<unsigned short, 2>::operator unsigned short

Project: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5750379279548416 Project: harfbuzz Fuzzer: libFuzzerharfbuzzhb-shape-fuzzer Fuzz target binary: hb-shape-fuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerasanharfbuzz Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow...

RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm-rhev (RHSA-2018:2887)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2887 advisory. KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm-rhev packages provide the...

FLIR AX8 Thermal Camera 1.32.16 - RTSP Stream Disclosure

FLIR AX8 Thermal Camera 1.32.16 - RTSP Stream Disclosure Exploit Title: FLIR AX8 Thermal Camera 1.32.16 - RTSP Stream Disclosure Author: Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic @zeroscience Date: 2018-10-14 Vendor: FLIR Systems, Inc. Product web page: https://www.flir.com Affected version: Firmware: 1.32.16,...

Microsoft Zero-Day Patch for JET Bug Incomplete, Claims Firm

UPDATE Microsoft patched a zero-day in its JET Database Engine this week – but the patch was incomplete, according to researchers at 0patch. The company has developed a micropatch that corrects that hole, it said Friday. The memory corruption vulnerability CVE-2018-8423 could allow remote...

Patch Tuesday, October 2018 Edition

Microsoft this week released software updates to fix roughly 50 security problems with various versions of its Windows operating system and related software, including one flaw that is already being exploited and another for which exploit code is publicly available. The zero-day bug --...

FruityArmor Apt Exploits Yet Another Windows Graphics Kernel Flaw

A just-patched zero-day vulnerability in win32k.sys – the Windows graphics kernel component – is at the heart of a probable sighting of the FruityArmor APT group – an under-the-radar cyberespionage gang active in the Middle East. A recent campaign uncovered by Kaspersky Lab led researchers to the...

Zero-day exploit (CVE-2018-8453) used in targeted attacks

Yesterday, Microsoft published their security bulletin, which patches CVE-2018-8453, among others. It is a vulnerability in win32k.sys discovered by Kaspersky Lab in August. We reported this vulnerability to Microsoft on August 17, 2018. Microsoft confirmed the vulnerability and designated it...

Microsoft Patches Zero-Day Under Active Attack by APT

Microsoft has issued a patch for a zero-day bug being actively exploited in the wild, as part of its Patch Tuesday security bulletin. The vulnerability is an elevation-of-privilege flaw, rated important, affecting the Windows Win32k component. The zero-day CVE-2018-8453, found by Kaspersky Lab,...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-rhev security update

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...