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...

Patch Tuesday - April 2017

This month's updates deliver vital client-side fixes, resolving publicly disclosed remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities for Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office that attackers are already exploiting in the wild. In particular, they've patched the CVE-2017-0199 zero-day flaw in Office and...

Microsoft Issues Patches for Actively Exploited Critical Vulnerabilities

Besides a previously undisclosed code-execution flaw in Microsoft Word, the tech giant patches two more zero-day vulnerabilities that attackers had been exploiting in the wild for months, as part of this month's Patch Tuesday. In total, Microsoft patches 45 unique vulnerabilities in its nine...

Microsoft Fixes 45 Vulnerabilities with new Security Update Guide – says goodbye to Security Bulletins

Today is the first month since 1998 in which Microsoft stopped releasing security bulletins with the familiar MSxx-xxx format and replaced it with the new security update guide. We talked about this change earlier in a few blog posts and finally today it’s time to say good bye to security bulleti...

Microsoft Patches Three Vulnerabilities Under Attack

Microsoft today patched a zero-day Word vulnerability that has been publicly attacked along with deploying fixes for Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge and Windows 10. In all, nine Microsoft products received updates totaling 45 unique CVEs. Three of the vulnerabilities among Tuesday’s updates,...

Microsoft Patches Word Zero-Day Spreading Dridex Malware

Microsoft on Tuesday released a patch for a zero-day vulnerability that was discovered late last week and used to spread the Dridex banking Trojan. Attacks were spreading via a massive spam campaign where emails contain Microsoft Word documents with malicious attachments that exploited a...

Tools Used by Lamberts APT Found in Vault 7 Dumps

Links have emerged connecting targeted attacks going back a decade against high-profile government, industrial and financial targets around the world to hacking tools and documents leaked in the Vault 7 dump. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab today published a technical report on the activities of a...

Unpatched Microsoft Word Flaw is Being Used to Spread Dridex Banking Trojan

If you are a regular reader of The Hacker News, you might be aware of an ongoing cyber attack — detected in the wild by McAfee and FireEye — that silently installs malware on fully-patched computers by exploiting an unpatched Microsoft Word vulnerability in all current versions of Microsoft Offic...

Beware of an Unpatched Microsoft Word 0-Day Flaw being Exploited in the Wild

It's 2017, and opening a simple MS Word file could compromise your system. Security researchers are warning of a new in-the-wild attack that silently installs malware on fully-patched computers by exploiting a serious — and yet unpatched — zero-day vulnerability in all current versions of Microso...

Shadow Brokers Group Releases More Stolen NSA Hacking Tools & Exploits

Remember The Shadow Brokers? They are back. A hackers group that previously claimed to have stolen a bunch of hacking tools malware, zero-day exploits, and implants created by the NSA and gained popularity last year for leaking a portion of those tools is back. Today, The Shadow Brokers group...

Acknowledgement of Attacks Leveraging Microsoft Zero-Day

FireEye recently detected malicious Microsoft Office RTF documents that leverage a previously undisclosed vulnerability. This vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute a Visual Basic script when the user opens a document containing an embedded exploit. FireEye has observed several Office...

Acknowledgement of Attacks Leveraging Microsoft Zero-Day

FireEye recently detected malicious Microsoft Office RTF documents that leverage a previously undisclosed vulnerability. This vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute a Visual Basic script when the user opens a document containing an embedded exploit. FireEye has observed several Office...

dlplibs: Stack-buffer-overflow in StarWriterStruct::DatabaseName::read

Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5177092629069824 Project: dlplibs Fuzzer: libFuzzerdlplibssdwfuzzer Fuzz target binary: sdwfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerasandlplibs Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Stack-buffer-overflow WRITE 4 Crash Address: 0x7f3a03d7f378 Crash State:...

Watch your home TV: Samsung re-trapping product of the crisis, the Tizen system is explosion 40 0-day-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Samsung is currently the biggest crisis is what? Palm door Person Mr. Lee arrested for? Note7 explode? If this is not enough? Tizen operating systemonce to be disclosed 40 A 0-day, how? Strong enough? Samsung has been dedicated to making their products able to get rid of the Android system of...

libxml2: Use-of-uninitialized-value in xmlParseDocument

Project: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=6440880716120064 Project: libxml2 Fuzzer: libFuzzerlibxml2xmlreadmemoryfuzzer Fuzz target binary: libxml2xmlreadmemoryfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzermsanlibxml2 Platform Id: linux Crash Type:...

On SAS 2017, the Microsoft IIS Zero Day, and Mirai

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook preview this year’s Security Analyst Summit and discuss the news of the week, including a Microsoft IIS zero day, a new Mirai variant, and the broadband privacy ruling. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapMarch312017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

librevenge: Crash in librevenge::IStorage::load

Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5356949551972352 Project: librevenge Fuzzer: afllibrevengeolefuzzer Fuzz target binary: olefuzzer Job Type: aflasanlibrevenge Platform Id: linux Crash Type: UNKNOWN READ Crash Address: 0x619800000f78 Crash State: librevenge::IStorage::load...

Publicly Attacked Microsoft IIS Zero Day Unlikely to be Patched

Microsoft is unlikely to patch a zero-day vulnerability in an older version of its Internet Information Services IIS webserver that’s been publicly attacked since last July and August. Two researchers from the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou posted a proof-of-concept exploit for...

Microsoft Bulletin: detection and protection CVE-2017-0005 mention the right vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! 2017 3 October 14, Microsoft released a security Bulletin MS17-013, designed to address the CVE-2017-0005 mention the right vulnerability, Qualys vulnerability Labs Director, Amol Sarwate, said:“CVE-2017-0005 is a zero-day vulnerability issue currently being the abuse, the use of Silverlight as...

World Backup Day is as good as any to back up your data

In today’s security landscape, there are more threats to data than ever before. Beyond corruption caused by hardware or human failure, malware and cyberattacks can put data in serious danger. That’s why it’s imperative for enterprises, small-and-medium businesses, and individuals to back up data...