BlueBorne: Critical Bluetooth Attack Puts Billions of Devices at Risk of Hacking

If you are using a Bluetooth enabled device, be it a smartphone, laptop, smart TV or any other IoT device, you are at risk of malware attacks that can carry out remotely to take over your device even without requiring any interaction from your side. Security researchers have just discovered total...

Apache Foundation Refutes Involvement in Equifax Breach

A group of developers behind Apache Struts, believed by some to be the culprit behind last week’s Equifax breach, took umbrage with those claims over the weekend. René Gielen, vice president of the Apache Struts Project Management Committee PMC at the Apache Software Foundation, wrote Saturday th...

Researcher Discloses 10 Zero-Day Flaws in D-Link 850L Wireless Routers

A security researcher has discovered not one or two but a total of ten critical zero-day vulnerabilities in routers from Taiwan-based networking equipment manufacturer D-Link which leave users open to cyber attacks. D-Link DIR 850L wireless AC1200 dual-band gigabit cloud routers are vulnerable to...

Microsoft windows the latest kernel has a vulnerability bug flaws: pass to kill all Windows version-bug warning-the black bar safety net

enSilo the research staff of the invention, a Microsoft kernel flaws, onslaught can take to bypass the anti-virus system and loaded vicious thoughts software. The flaws exist in the PsSetLoadImageNotifyRoutine, affects Windows 2000 to Windows 10 all editions. ! Microsoft in Windows 2000 to enable...

CVE-2017-9805: Analysis of Apache Struts RCE Vulnerability in REST Plugin

Just two months ago we published an analysis of a critical remote code execution RCE security vulnerability in Apache Struts. Now Apache Struts has published a new version fixing yet another critical RCE vulnerability September 5, 2017. CVE-2017-9805 is a vulnerability in Apache Struts related to...

proj4: Index-out-of-bounds in reverse_obs

Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=6621912241274880 Project: proj4 Fuzzer: libFuzzerproj4standardfuzzer Fuzz target binary: standardfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerubsanproj4 Platform Id: linux Crash Type: Index-out-of-bounds Crash Address: Crash State: reverseobs pjinvobs projtransobs...

openjpeg: Heap-buffer-overflow in opj_mct_decode_real

Project: https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg.git https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg-data.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5317114783072256 Project: openjpeg Fuzzer: libFuzzeropenjpegopjdecompressfuzzer Fuzz target binary: opjdecompressfuzzer Job Type:...

Mobile Bootloaders From Top Manufacturers Found Vulnerable to Persistent Threats

Security researchers have discovered several severe zero-day vulnerabilities in the mobile bootloaders from at least four popular device manufacturers that could allow an attacker to gain persistent root access on the device. A team of nine security researchers from the University of California...

Wallarm to sponsor OWASP AppSec USA

If you are a SecOps or DevOps professional you can not miss the application security event of the year: AppSec USA, September 19–22nd at Disney Coronado Spring Resort, Orlando, FL Use the code: UNLM50WLLRM to register to get $50 discount. You will get great information on the new security tools a...

NEC EXPRESS CLUSTER clpwebmc Remote Root Exploit

NEC EXPRESS CLUSTER comes with Cluster Manager, a Java applet for cluster configuration and management. The underlying webserver 'clpwebmc' runs as root and accepts connections on TCP port 29003 which can be initiated without authentication in the default installation. / 2017 update: as of 3.3.4...

Bitdefender Total Security 'bdfwfpf' Kernel Driver Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bitdefender Total Security is prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

September 1, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Labor Day Weekend” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! September 1, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: This Week In...

Reflected XSS Bug Patched in Popular WooCommerce WordPress Plugin

An extension of the WooCommerce WordPress plugin, used by 28 percent of all online stores, has been patched against a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability. The vulnerability was found in the Product Vendors plugin, which allows an existing ecommerce site to support multiple vendors,...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of August 21, 2017

In last week’s blog entry, I mentioned the fact that the Zero Day Initiative ZDI published two zero-day advisories ZDI-17-691 and ZDI-17-692 for vulnerabilities found in Foxit Reader after Foxit failed to meet the 120-day deadline outlined in ZDI’s disclosure policy. Since the public disclosure,...

A Company Offers $500,000 For Secure Messaging Apps Zero-Day Exploits

How much does your privacy cost? It will soon be sold for half a Million US dollars. A controversial company specialises in acquiring and reselling zero-day exploits is ready to pay up to US$500,000 for working zero-day vulnerabilities targeting popular secure messenger applications, such as...

Zerodium Offers $500K for Secure Messaging App Zero Days

Zerodium, a vendor operating in the nebulous exploit acquisition market, has put a premium on zero-day vulnerabilities in secure messaging applications in a new pricing structure announced today. Remote code execution and local privilege elevation zero days in messaging apps such as WhatsApp,...

SpiderControl SCADA MicroBrowser

CVSS v3 7.3 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: SpiderControl Equipment: SCADA MicroBrowser Vulnerability: Stack-based Buffer Overflow AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following versions of SCADA MicroBrowser, a software management platform, are affected: SCADA MicroBrowser...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of August 14, 2017

One of my favorite movies is the 1999 comedy “Galaxy Quest,” which features the cast of a science-fiction television series similar to Star Trek. In the movie, the crew is visited by real aliens who ask them for help against an intergalactic adversary because they believe that Galaxy Quest is a...

Two Critical Zero-Day Flaws Disclosed in Foxit PDF Reader

Are you using Foxit PDF Reader? If yes, then you need to watch your back. Security researchers have discovered two critical zero-day security vulnerabilities in Foxit Reader software that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on a targeted computer, if not configured to open files in th...

fuchsia_fidl: Crash in fidl::Lexer::Peek

Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=6200421431377920 Project: fuchsiafidl Fuzzer: libFuzzerfuchsiafidlfuzzer Fuzz target binary: fuchsiafidlfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerasanfuchsiafidluntrusted Platform Id: linux Crash Type: UNKNOWN READ Crash Address: 0x614000010000 Crash State:...