Russian Hacking Tools Codenamed WhiteBear Exposed

Kaspersky Labs exposed a highly sophisticated set of hacking tools from Russia called WhiteBear. From February to September 2016, WhiteBear activity was narrowly focused on embassies and consular operations around the world. All of these early WhiteBear targets were related to embassies and...

Locky ransomware adds anti sandbox feature (updated)

By Marcelo Rivero and Jérôme Segura The Locky ransomware has been very active since its return which we documented in a previous blog post. There are several different Locky campaigns going on at the same time, the largest being the one from affiliate ID 3 which comes with malicious ZIP containin...

QPDF Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-30595)

QPDF is content preserving PDF conversion system. The QPDF tokenizer implementation has a security vulnerability that allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability to build special PDF files that can be parsed by inducing users and can be used for denial-of-service attacks...

Defray Ransomware Seen Targeting Education, Healthcare Industry

Researchers observed a new, albeit small and selective ransomware campaign earlier this month targeting both education and healthcare verticals. The ransomware, dubbed Defray, comes hidden in rigged Microsoft Word document attachments, sent via email. Researchers with Proofpoint, who spotted two...

Spam Domains Imitating Popular Banks Spreading Trickbot Banking Trojan

Santander Bank customers should be aware of an effective spam campaign spreading the Trickbot banking Trojan that is coming from domains similar to those used by the financial institution. Researchers at My Online Security and the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center say that Santander is not t...

CVE-2017-11150

Command injection vulnerability in Document.php in Synology Office 2.2.0-1502 and 2.2.1-1506 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the crafted file name of RTF documents...

Command injection

Command injection vulnerability in Document.php in Synology Office 2.2.0-1502 and 2.2.1-1506 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the crafted file name of RTF documents...

CVE-2017-11150

Command injection vulnerability in Document.php in Synology Office 2.2.0-1502 and 2.2.1-1506 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the crafted file name of RTF documents...

CVE-2017-11150

CVE-2017-11150 affects Synology Office, affecting Document.php in versions 2.2.0-1502 and 2.2.1-1506. A command-injection flaw allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands by supplying shell metacharacters in the filename of crafted RTF documents. The underlying cause is input ...

When combining exploits for added effect goes wrong

IntroductionSince public disclosure in April 2017, CVE-2017-0199 has been frequently used within malicious Office documents. The vulnerability allows attackers to include Ole2Link objects within RTF documents to launch remote code when HTA applications are opened and parsed by Microsoft Word.In...

PT-2017-11775

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Synology Office versions 2.2.0-1502 through 2.2.1-1506 Description A command injection issue exists, allowing remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands. This is achieved by using shell metacharacters in the crafted file name of...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: libgxps-0.3.0-1.fc26

libgxps is a GObject based library for handling and rendering XPS documents...

Adobe Acrobat/Reader Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-26614)

Adobe Acrobat and Reader are the United States of America Audobee Adobe company's products. The former is a set of PDF file editing and conversion tools, the latter is a set of PDF document reading software. Adobe Acrobat and Reader in the internal data structure there is a heap buffer overflow...

Adobe Acrobat/Reader Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-25780)

Adobe Reader/Acrobat is a popular application for working with PDF files. A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader/Acrobat. Allowing an attacker to construct a malicious PDF file and trick the user into parsing it could crash the application or execute arbitrary code...

Microsoft Internet Explorer SVG Layout Uninitialized Memory Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the...

libreoffice security and bug fix update

1:5.0.6.2-14.0.1 - Replaced RedHat colors with Oracle colors, and the filename redhat.soc with oracle.soc in specfile - Build with --with-vendor='Oracle America, Inc.' 1:5.0.6.2-14 - Resolves: rhbz1454693 segv on interrupting tiled rendering 1:5.0.6.2-13 - Related: rhbz1444437 remove timer if...

RHEL 7 : ghostscript (RHSA-2017:2180)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:2180 advisory. The Ghostscript suite contains utilities for rendering PostScript and PDF documents. Ghostscript translates PostScript code to common bitmap formats ...

chromium-browser: out-of-bounds write in pdfium

Stack overflow in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Linux, Windows, and Mac allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit stack corruption via a crafted PDF file...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID30010: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on July 28, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 54619 First Published: 2017 July 28 14:20 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID30010 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Hardcoded credentials

MEDHOST Document Management System contains hard-coded credentials that are used for Apache Solr access. An attacker with knowledge of the hard-coded credentials and the ability to communicate directly with Apache Solr may be able to obtain or modify sensitive patient and financial information. T...