About Spoofing – Windows File Explorer (CVE-2025-24071) vulnerability

About Spoofing - Windows File Explorer CVE-2025-24071 vulnerability. The vulnerability is from the March Microsoft Patch Tuesday. The VM vendors didn't highlight it in their reviews. A week later, on March 18, researcher 0x6rss published a write-up and a PoC exploit. According to him, the...

StripedFly: Perennially flying under the radar

Introduction Its just another cryptocurrency miner… Nobody would even suspect the mining malware was merely a mask, masquerading behind an intricate modular framework that supports both Linux and Windows. It comes equipped with a built-in TOR network tunnel for communication with command servers,...

Millions of Routers, IoT Devices at Risk from BotenaGo Malware

Newly surfaced malware that is difficult to detect and written in Google’s open-source programming language has the potential to exploit millions of routers and IoT devices, researchers have found. Discovered by researchers at AT&T AlienLabs, BotenaGo can exploit more than 30 different...

Analyzing attacks that exploit the CVE-2021-40444 MSHTML vulnerability

In August, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC identified a small number of attacks less than 10 that attempted to exploit a remote code execution vulnerability in MSHTML using specially crafted Microsoft Office documents. These attacks used the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-40444, as...

Analyzing attacks that exploit the CVE-2021-40444 MSHTML vulnerability

In August, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC identified a small number of attacks less than 10 that attempted to exploit a remote code execution vulnerability in MSHTML using specially crafted Microsoft Office documents. These attacks used the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-40444, as...

CVE-2020-8899 Samsung Quarm RCE via MMS

There is a buffer overwrite vulnerability in the Quram qmg library of Samsung’s Android OS versions O8.x, P9.0 and Q10.0. An unauthenticated, unauthorized attacker sending a specially crafted MMS to a vulnerable phone can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow in the Quram image codec leading to an...

Exploit for Out-of-bounds Write in Microsoft

CVE-2018-8174EXP usage: CVE-2018-8174.py -h -u URL -o OUTPU...

CVE-2017-10271 Used to Deliver CryptoMiners: An Overview of Techniques Used Post-Exploitation and Pre-Mining

Introduction FireEye researchers recently observed threat actors abusing CVE-2017-10271 to deliver various cryptocurrency miners. CVE-2017-10271 is a known input validation vulnerability that exists in the WebLogic Server Security Service WLS Security in Oracle WebLogic Server versions 12.2.1.2.0...

Ironsquirrel - Encrypted Exploit Delivery for the Masses

This project aims at delivering browser exploits to the victim browser in an encrypted fashion. Ellyptic-curve Diffie-Hellman secp256k1 is used for key agreement and AES is used for encryption. By delivering the exploit code and shellcode to the victim in an encrypted way, the attack can not be...

Encrypted Exploit Delivery For The Masses: Ironsquirrel

This project aims at delivering browser exploits to the victim browser in an encrypted fashion. Ellyptic-curve Diffie-Hellman secp256k1 is used for key agreement and AES is used for encryption. By delivering the exploit code and shellcode to the victim in an encrypted way, the attack can not be...

CVE-2016-1019: A New Flash Exploit Included in Magnitude Exploit Kit

On April 2, security researcher @Kafeine at Proofpoint discovered a change to the Magnitude Exploit Kit. Thanks to their collaboration, we analyzed the sample and discovered that Magnitude EK was exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player CVE-2016-1019. The in-the-wild...

Many Flash, Java Users Running Older, Vulnerable Versions

It’s long been known that Java and Flash are favored targets of attackers, thanks to their huge install bases and numerous security issues. And the users who are targeted by these attacks aren’t doing themselves any favors either, as new research shows that 19 percent of business users are runnin...

Automatic Drive-by Download

Added: 07/23/2010 Background This tool waits for client connections, and then gathers information about the operating system and installed software on the client. Next, it chooses the latest and most reliable client exploit for the client's operating system and installed software, and delivers th...