First-Ever Data Stealing Malware Found Using Intel AMT Tool to Bypass Firewall

It's not hard for a well-funded state-sponsored hacking group to break into corporate networks and compromise systems with malware, but what's challenging for them is to keep that backdoor and its communication undetectable from a firewall and other network monitoring applications. However, a...

How vulnerability research benefits both vendors and customers

Zero-day vulnerabilities - newly discovered exploits that haven't been previously identified - are now emerging more often. Worse still is the fact that these dangerous flaws sometimes aren't pinpointed until hackers have already exploited them. According to a prediction from Cybersecurity Ventur...

Man Accidentally Destroyed Production Database on First Day of His Job

By Waqas We all make mistakes, but some mistakes are fatal ending up with devastating consequences just like one of those Amazon engineers whos typo error caused a major service outage worldwide. But then theres this man /cscareerthrowaway567 who recently posted on Reddit explaining that he...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 29, 2017

“Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” It’s not exactly clear how Murphy’s Law originated, but it seems to always make an appearance at the one time you can’t afford for anything to go wrong. Your laptop starts to malfunction right as you need to finish a project this happened to yours truly...

gdal: Index-out-of-bounds in DDFSubfieldDefn::ExtractFloatData

Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=4881496894603264 Project: gdal Fuzzer: libFuzzergdalsrpfuzzer Fuzz target binary: srpfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerubsangdal Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Index-out-of-bounds Crash Address: Crash State: DDFSubfieldDefn::ExtractFloatData...

ffmpeg: Index-out-of-bounds in ff_hevc_decode_short_term_rps

Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=6209288450080768 Project: ffmpeg Fuzzer: libFuzzerffmpegAVCODECIDHEVCfuzzer Fuzz target binary: ffmpegAVCODECIDHEVCfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerubsanffmpeg Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Index-out-of-bounds Crash Address: Crash State:...

gdal: Heap-buffer-overflow in revmemcpy

Project: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=6674505617375232 Project: gdal Fuzzer: libFuzzergdalfilesystemfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerasangdal Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow READ 1 Crash Address: 0x6050000035b5 Crash State:...

gdal: Heap-buffer-overflow in RMFDataset::Open

Project: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5381896823373824 Project: gdal Fuzzer: libFuzzergdalfilesystemfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerasangdal Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow READ 4 Crash Address: 0x60300000b8e8 Crash State:...

ShadowBrokers Put Price on Monthly Zero Day Leaks

The threat posed by the first wave of ShadowBrokers leaks of Equation Group hacking tools was relatively benign. Some vendors had to scramble to patch zero days in older versions of products, but for the most part, the leaks and accompanying auction were more of a novelty. That obviously changed...

dlplibs: Heap-buffer-overflow in MsWksDBParser::readFormula

Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5753657637208064 Project: dlplibs Fuzzer: libFuzzerdlplibsclariswksfuzzer Fuzz target binary: clariswksfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerasandlplibs Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow READ 1 Crash Address: 0x62e00000bd99 Crash State:...

Shadow Brokers Launches 0-Day Exploit Subscriptions for $21,000 Per Month

As promised to release more zero-days exploits and hacking tools for various platforms starting from June 2017, the infamous hacking group Shadow Brokers is back with more information on how to subscribe and become a private member for receiving exclusive access to the future leaks. The Shadow...

wget2: Heap-buffer-overflow in getContent

Project: https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5103826937839616 Project: wget2 Fuzzer: aflwget2libwgetmetalinkparsefuzzer Fuzz target binary: libwgetmetalinkparsefuzzer Job Type: aflasanwget2 Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow REA...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 22, 2017

For those of you who follow the National Football League NFL, do you remember Super Bowl 47? I wasn’t exactly thrilled about the teams that played since I’m not a 49ers or Ravens fan. What was interesting about the game is that it was halted for over half an hour in the third quarter because of a...

WebKit Patch #1110 Universal Cross Site Scripting

WebKit: UXSS: the patch of 1110 made another bug Here's the patch of 1110. https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/212218/trunk/Source/WebCore/dom/ContainerNode.cpp void ContainerNode::parserRemoveChildNode& oldChild disconnectSubframesIfNeededthis, DescendantsOnly; d = document.querySelector'div'; p =...

The SMB vulnerability triggered“bloodshed”, far more than WannaCry-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Preface Since the Shadow Brokers published NSA Elite hacking team Equation Group the use of 0-day vulnerabilities and hacker tools, hacker groups and independent hackers started to exploit these vulnerabilities and tools to initiate various attacks. But industry insiders believe that the 4 month...

gdal: Bad-cast to xercesc_3_1::DOMElement from xercesc_3_1::DOMTextImpl;ILI2Reader::setFieldDefn;ILI2Reader::setFieldDefn

Project: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5314575312355328 Project: gdal Fuzzer: libFuzzergdalogrfuzzer Fuzz target binary: ogrfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerubsangdal Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Bad-cast Crash Address: 0x00000836a798 Crash State:...

gdal: Heap-buffer-overflow in NASReader::SetFeaturePropertyDirectly

Project: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=4908186949648384 Project: gdal Fuzzer: libFuzzergdalogrfuzzer Fuzz target binary: ogrfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerasangdal Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow READ 4 Crash Address:...

lcms: Heap-buffer-overflow in TetrahedralInterpFloat

Project: https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=4857091871211520 Project: lcms Fuzzer: afllcmscmstransformfuzzer Fuzz target binary: cmstransformfuzzer Job Type: aflasanlcms Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Heap-buffer-overflow READ 4 Crash Address:...

ShadowBrokers Planning Monthly Exploit, Data Dump Service

Popcorn in hand, the ShadowBrokers say they’re taking in the WannaCry outbreak from the sidelines before starting in June a subscription service for new exploits and stolen data akin to a wine of the month club. In what’s become a signature periodic rant from the unknowns behind the leak of...

Shadow Brokers, Who Leaked WannaCry SMB Exploit, Are Back With More 0-Days

The infamous hacking collective Shadow Brokers – the one who leaked the Windows SMB exploit in public that led to last weekend's WannaCrypt menace – are back, this time, to cause more damage. In typically broken English, the Shadow Brokers published a fresh statement with full of frustration a fe...