This Week in Security News: Trends and Tea Parties

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, the U.S. official in charge of election security was replaced, Trend Micro hosted a tea party in rural Taiwan, and a new cryptocurrency mino...

AutoSploit v2.0 - Automated Mass Exploiter

As the name might suggest AutoSploit attempts to automate the exploitation of remote hosts. Targets can be collected automatically through Shodan, Censys or Zoomeye. But options to add your custom targets and host lists have been included as well. The available Metasploit modules have been select...

Asterisk 15.x < 15.2.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities (AST-2018-001 - AST-2018-006)

According to its SIP banner, the version of Asterisk running on the remote host is 15.x prior to 15.2.2. It is therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as described in AST-2018-001, AST-2018-002, AST-2018-003, AST-2018-004, AST-2018-005, & AST-2018-006 advisories. Note that Nessus has not...

FinFisher exposed: A researcher’s tale of defeating traps, tricks, and complex virtual machines

Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection Office 365 ATP blocked many notable zero-day exploits in 2017. In our analysis, one activity group stood out: NEODYMIUM. This threat actor is remarkable for two reasons: Its access to sophisticated zero-day exploits for Microsoft and Adobe software Its use of...

Intel Releases Updated Spectre Fixes For Broadwell and Haswell Chips

Intel has issued updated microcode to help safeguard its Broadwell and Haswell chips from the Spectre Variant 2 security exploits. According to Intel documents, an array of its older processors, including the Broadwell Xeon E3, Broadwell U/Y, Haswell H,S and Haswell Xeon E3 platforms, have now be...

Hikvision IP Camera Remote Authentication Bypass

The remote Hikvision IP camera is affected by an authentication bypass vulnerability. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can read configurations including account passwords, access the camera images, or modify the camera firmware. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if descripti...

Massive Spam Campaign Targets Unpatched Systems

Cybercriminals are leveraging a recently patched critical Adobe Flash Player vulnerability in a massive spam campaign targeting unpatched computers. According to cybersecurity firm Morphisec, cybercriminals are blasting spam messages that urge recipients to click a link to download a Word documen...

Remote Code Execution Bug Patched in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

Researchers at Cisco Talos are detailing a remote code execution vulnerability found in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC that can be triggered when a malicious file is opened or a victim accesses a rigged webpage. According to Talos, the vulnerability CVE-2018-4901 was disclosed on Dec. 7 and Adobe issued...

Flaw in Popular μTorrent Software Lets Hackers Control Your PC Remotely

If you have installed world's most popular torrent download software, μTorrent, then you should download its latest version for Windows as soon as possible. Google's security researcher at Project Zero discovered a serious remote code execution vulnerability in both the 'μTorrent desktop app for...

Oracle Database Attacking Tool: ODAT

ODAT Oracle Database Attacking Tool is an open source penetration testing tool that tests the security of Oracle Databases remotely . Usage examples of ODAT: You have an Oracle database listening remotely and want to find valid SIDs and credentials in order to connect to the database You have a...

Drive-by download campaign targets Chinese websites, experiments with exploits

During our web crawls we sometimes come across bizarre findings or patterns we haven't seen before. This was the case with a particular drive-by download attack planted on Chinese websites. While by no means advanced it turned out to be fairly buggy, we witnessed a threat actor experimenting with...

VMware vCenter Server 6.5.x < 6.5u1f Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2018-0007) (Spectre-1) (Meltdown)

The version of VMware vCenter Server installed on the remote host is 6.5.x prior to 6.5u1f. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities. See advisory for details. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid106950; scriptversion"1.8";...

Intel Issues Updated Spectre Firmware Fixes For Newer Processors

Intel has issued updated microcode to help protect its newer processors from Spectre security exploits. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company’s new microcode updates – which impact its newer chip platforms, such as Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, and Skylake – have been released to OEM customers and...

Disappearing bytes: Reverse engineering the MS Office RTF parser

Microsoft Office was a prime target for attacks in 2017. As well as the large number of vulnerabilities discovered and proof-of-concept exploits published, malware authors felt it necessary to prevent detection of 'one-day' and 'old-day' exploits by antivirus software. It also became clear that...

vBulletin Security Forum Setup - Hardening & Configuration

Document Title: =============== vBulletin Security Forum Setup - Hardening & Configuration References: =========== https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=2119 Download: https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/documents/2119.txt Release Date: ============= 2018-02-20 Vulnerability...

Xen Multiple Vulnerabilities (Spectre) (Meltdown) (XSA-254)

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities. Note that Nessus has checked the changeset versions based on the xen.git change log. Nessus did not check guest hardware configurations or if patches were applie...

vBulletin Forum Setup - Hardening & Configuration

Document Title: =============== vBulletin Forum Setup - Hardening & Configuration References: =========== https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=2119 Download: https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/documents/2119.txt Release Date: ============= 2018-02-20 Vulnerability Laborato...

SUSE-SU-2018:0455-1 Security update for quagga

This update for quagga fixes the following security issues: - The Quagga BGP daemon contained a bug in the ASPATH size calculation that could have been exploited to facilitate a remote denial-of-service attack via specially crafted BGP UPDATE messages. CVE-2017-16227, bsc1065641 - The Quagga BGP...

Information Disclosure

activemq-client is vulnerable to information disclosure. When using the OpenWire protocol, sensitive information such as the operating system is exposed as plaintext. Using this knowledge, attackers can find existing exploits to make attacking an application easier...

What you didn’t know about OWASP Top-10 2017? Part 3/3

This is the last part of my trilogy about OWASP Top-10 2017 risks. Two previous parts one and two described A1-A6 risks and this time I’d like to not just explain A7-A10 risks but also draw an intersection or overlap venn diagram of them. I hope this diagram would clarify why the questions about...