Twin zero-day attacks: PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM target individuals in Europe

Targeted attacks are typically carried out against individuals to obtain intellectual property and other valuable data from target organizations. These individuals are either directly in possession of the targeted information or are able to connect to networks where the information resides...

Flash Player Bug An Eavesdropper's Delight

Adobe yesterday patched a not-so-sweet 16 Flash Player vulnerabilities, including a zero day under attack. While not much is known about the targeted attacks using the Flash Player bug, or its victims, details have surfaced on another patched flaw that is a potential privacy nightmare...

Adobe Patches 31 Vulnerabilities, Flash Zero-Day Under Attack

Adobe patched 31 vulnerabilities across nine different product lines Tuesday morning, including a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player the company claims is being used in targeted attacks against Internet Explorer users on Windows. That vulnerability CVE-2016-7892 is one of 16 bugs in Flash tha...

Security researchers found that attack kits favorite Flash Player security vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

By RecordedFuture a new study suggests that, due to its vulnerability, Flash Player will continue to the global computer at risk, cybercriminals are still looking for the Adobe solutions among the security flaws to the invasion of the computer. This year the exploit kit used by the top 10...

Flash Exploit Found in Seven Exploit Kits

A nasty Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability that was remediated in an emergency update in October 2015 was thereafter co-opted by seven exploit kits, according to an analysis published today by researchers at Recorded Future. The Adobe vulnerability, CVE-2015-7645, was also used by the Russian APT...

Fedora 25 : firefox (2016-2967f5f965)

Update to new upstream 50.0.2 - fixes the 0-day vulnerability Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

Fedora 23 : firefox (2016-d2cbcd602d)

Update to new upstream 50.0.2 - fixes the 0-day vulnerability Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

Opera foreignObject textNode::removeChild Use-After-Free Vulnerability

Opera suffers from a foreignObject textNode::removeChild use-after-free vulnerability. Throughout November, I plan to release details on vulnerabilities I found in web-browsers which I've not released before. This is the twenty-second entry in that series. Unfortunately I won't be able to publish...

Mozilla Patches Firefox Zero Day Used to Unmask Tor Browser Users

As expected, Mozilla released a new version of Firefox on Wednesday to address a zero-day vulnerability that was actively being exploited to de-anonymize Tor Browser users. The vulnerability, disclosed on a public Tor Project mailing list late Tuesday night, forced the Tor Project to also issue a...

UPDATE Firefox and Tor to Patch Critical Zero-day Vulnerability

The critical Firefox vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild to unmask Tor users has been patched with the release of new browser updates. Both Mozilla and Tor Project has patched the vulnerability that allows attackers to remotely execute malicious code on Windows operating system via...

Tor Patched Against Zero Day Under Attack

Update The Tor Project has provided a browser update that patches a zero-day vulnerability being exploited in the wild to de-anonymize Tor users. “The security flaw responsible for this urgent release is already actively exploited on Windows systems. Even though there is currently, to the best of...

New Firefox/Tor Browser 0-day vulnerability （CVE-2016-9079）

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Firefox Zero-Day Exploit to Unmask Tor Users Released Online

Hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Firefox to unmask Tor Browser users, similar to what the FBI exploited during an investigation of a child pornography site. Tor The Onion Router is an anonymity software that not only provides a safe heaven to human rights activists,...

InPage Zero Day Used in Attacks Against Banks

A zero-day vulnerability in InPage publishing software used primarily in Urdu, Pashto and Arabic-speaking nations has been publicly exploited in attacks against financial institutions and government agencies in the region. While there are more than 10 million InPage users in Pakistan and India...

Google Pixel Phone and Microsoft Edge Hacked at PwnFest 2016

The brand new Android smartphone launched by Google just a few months back has been hacked by Chinese hackers just in less than a minute. Yes, the Google's latest Pixel smartphone has been hacked by a team white-hat hackers from Qihoo 360, besides at the 2016 PwnFest hacking competition in Seoul...

Microsoft Patches Windows Zero-Day Flaw Disclosed by Google

Microsoft was very upset with Google last week when its Threat Analysis Group publically disclosed a critical Windows kernel vulnerability CVE-2016-7255 that had yet to be patched. The company criticized Google's move, claiming that the disclosure of the vulnerability, which was being exploited i...

Microsoft Patches Zero Day Disclosed by Google

Microsoft followed through and today patched a zero-day vulnerability being exploited in public attacks that was disclosed by Google researchers nine days ago. The victims have yet to have been identified, but Microsoft did accuse the Sofacy APT gang of carrying out the attacks. Sofacy is general...

Adobe Patches Nine Code Execution Flaws in Flash Player

Two weeks after rushing out an emergency patch for a zero-day vulnerability, Adobe today released another Flash Player security update. The new release patched nine vulnerabilities, all of which expose the host system to remote code execution. Adobe said it is not aware of public exploits against...

Risk of Election Day Cyberattacks Low According To Cyber Chatter

Security experts monitoring cyber-chatter for virtual and real-world threats against U.S. Election Day targets say so far, so good. They don’t believe there will be cyberattack or al-Qaeda terror attack come Election Day. That’s not to say the U.S. government isn’t ready for the worst. The White...

Microsoft Tears off the Band-Aid with EMET

Microsoft last week extended the end-of-life expiration date to July 2018 on its exploit mitigation add-on, the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET. But for some time, the once-useful tool has been well on its way out to pasture. While EMET was never meant to be anything more than stopgap...