CVE-2017-0199: In the Wild Attacks Leveraging HTA Handler

FireEye recently detected malicious Microsoft Office RTF documents that leverage CVE-2017-0199, a previously undisclosed vulnerability. This vulnerability allows a malicious actor to download and execute a Visual Basic script containing PowerShell commands when a user opens a document containing ...

The Word exposed 0day vulnerabilities: no need to enable the macros, open the document it automatically install a malicious program-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! In fact, the use of Word macros as the distribution of malicious programs is the way today's conventional via, so many people choose to disable macros, but if you say disable the macros are useless, such a malicious Word document danger is quite different. Recently, McAfee and FireEye security...

Spear Phishing Techniques Used in Attacks Targeting the Mongolian Government

Introduction FireEye recently observed a sophisticated campaign targeting individuals within the Mongolian government. Targeted individuals that enabled macros in a malicious Microsoft Word document may have been infected with Poison Ivy, a popular remote access tool RAT that has been used for...

AntiRansom - Fighting against Ransomware using Honeypots

AntiRansom is a tool capable of detect and stop attacks of Ransomware using honeypots. First, Anti Ransom creates a random decoy folder with many useless random documents Excel, PDF and then it monitors the folder waiting for changes. When a change is detected, AntiRansom tries to identify wich...

APT Group Sends Spear Phishing Emails to Indian Government Officials

Introduction On May 18, 2016, FireEye Labs observed a suspected Pakistan-based APT group sending spear phishing emails to Indian government officials. This threat actor has been active for several years and conducting suspected intelligence collection operations against South Asian political and...

APT Group Sends Spear Phishing Emails to Indian Government Officials

Introduction On May 18, 2016, FireEye Labs observed a suspected Pakistan-based APT group sending spear phishing emails to Indian government officials. This threat actor has been active for several years and conducting suspected intelligence collection operations against South Asian political and...

CVE-2016-4117: Flash Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

On May 8, 2016, FireEye detected an attack exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player CVE-2016-4117 and reported the issue to the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team PSIRT. Adobe released a patch for the vulnerability in APSB16-15 just four days later. Attackers...

McAfee 4.0,Network Associates for Windows NT 4.0.2/4.0.3 a,Norton AntiVirus 2000 Recycle Bin Exclusion

No description provided by source. McAfee VirusScan 4.0,Network Associates VirusScan for Windows NT 4.0.2/4.0.3 a,Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2000 Recycle Bin Exclusion Vulnerability source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/956/info Many commercial virus scanners for Windows platforms exclude the...

MiniDuke Malware spreads via Fake Ukraine-related Documents

A year back, Security Researchers from the Antivirus firm Kaspersky found a sophisticated piece of malware which they dubbed as ‘MiniDuke’, designed specifically to collect and steal strategic insights and highly protected political information, which is a subject to states’ security. Now, once...

NCH Software Express Burn Plus 4.68缓冲区溢出漏洞

NCH Software是适用于Windows和Mac OS X的音频，视频，听写，商业和计算机实用软件的厂商。 该漏洞是由于项目文件处理时的边界错误引起的，当用户打开例如特制的.EBP文件时，导致一个unicode缓冲区溢出。成功利用此漏洞可能允许执行任意代码。 0 NCH Software Express Burn Plus 4.68 目前厂商暂无提供补丁或者升级程序，我们建议使用此软件的用户随时关注厂商的主页以获取最新版本： http://www.nchsoftware.com/ use Cwd; use LWP::Simple; print "\n...

Chinese Hackers Caught by US water control system Honeypots

A notorious Chinese hacker collective known as APT1 or Comment Crew, possibly linked to the Chinese Army, have been caught red handed breaking into a fake United States water control system i.e. known as a Honeypot. Kyle Wilhoit, a researcher with security company Trend Micro has just revealed th...

Command and Control Used in Sanny APT Attacks Shut Down

Two message boards used by the Sanny malware as a command-and-control channel have been shut down by the Korea Information Security Agency in conjunction with security company FireEye. Sanny is a targeted attack, attributed to attackers in Korea, against individuals working in Russia’s aerospace,...

Network Anti-Reconnaissance Tool: Nova

Nova: Network Anti-Reconnaissance Tool The Network Obfuscation and Virtualized Anti-Reconnaissance Nova system is an open-source software tool developed to detect network based reconnaissance efforts, to deny the attacker access to real network data while providing false information regarding the...

New PDF Attack Targets Aviation Defense Industry

FireEye reported today it had detected a new critical PDF attack targeting the aviation defense industry. Malware Page exploits a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. An attacker would be able to execute code remotely via a crafted argument to the getIcon...

Malicious PDF Attack Baiting Defense Industry Victims

There has been a spate of spear-phishing attacks against a number of high-profile targets in the last few months, including RSA and others, and that trend is continuing unabated. Researchers have come across a fresh attack using the familiar malicious PDF attachment that appears to be targeting...