Threat Round-up for July 14 - July 21

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between July 14 and July 21. As with previous round-ups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavior characteristics,...

Atlassian's Confluence Cross Site Scripting

A while back I reported some bugs in Atlassian's Confluence. As everyone should have upgraded by now I feel that I can now release my proof of concept for CONF-21508 and CONF-21819. note - I uncovered and reported these bugs at different times. Issue 1 CONF-21508: the document macro did not...

security flaw

OpenOffice.org aka StarOffice 1.1.x up to 1.1.5 and 2.0.x before 2.0.3 allows user-assisted attackers to conduct unauthorized activities via an OpenOffice document with a malicious BASIC macro, which is executed without prompting the user...