ASLR bypass techniques are popular with APT attacks

Address space layout randomization ASLR is a security technique involved in protection from buffer overflow attacks. Many recent APT Advanced Persistent Threat attacks have utilized many different ASLR bypass techniques during the past year, according to Researchers at FireEye. Many exploits and...

Spamtitan Backdoors

a few month ago backdoors in barracuda was found https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/backdoorsbuilt.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/24/barracudabackdoor/ apparently their competitor spamtitan was quick making fun of them...

Linux Kernel Sendpage Local Privilege Escalation

The Linux kernel failed to properly initialize some entries in the protoops struct for several protocols, leading to NULL being dereferenced and used as a function pointer. By using mmap2 to map page 0, an attacker can execute arbitrary code in the context of the kernel. Several public exploits...

Unexpected IE Zero Day Used in Banking, Gaming Attacks

This was a two-for-one deal that Windows administrators could have done without. Already expecting one patch for an Internet Explorer zero-day being actively exploited, admins got fixes for two zero days instead yesterday as part of Microsoft’s October 2013 Patch Tuesday security updates. The...

AST-2013-004: Remote Crash From Late Arriving SIP ACK With SDP

Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2013-004 Product Asterisk Summary Remote Crash From Late Arriving SIP ACK With SDP Nature of Advisory Remote Crash Susceptibility Remote Unauthenticated Sessions Severity Major Exploits Known None Reported On February 11, 2013 Reported By Colin Cuthbertson...

October 2013 Adobe Patches Unrelated to Adobe Hack, Breach

Adobe, still reeling from the public disclosure of a massive breach of source code and customer information, released two security advisories today patching vulnerabilities unrelated to the recent break-in. The first concerns a vulnerability in Adobe RoboHelp 10 for Windows that could allow an...

Unnamed Android Vulna Ad Library Abused to Steal User Data

A popular Android mobile ad library available on Google Play can be used to collect device data or execute malicious code, security researchers have discovered. The most alarming aspect to the library is that close to 2 percent of Android apps with more than 1 million downloads on Google Play use...

Microsoft Internet Explorer CVE-2013-3872 Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a memory-corruption vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user. Failed attacks will cause denial-of-service conditions. Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 is affected...

Microsoft Windows Kernel 'Win32k.sys' CVE-2013-3879 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability that occurs in the Windows kernel. A local attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with kernel-level privileges. Successful exploits will result in the complete compromise of the affected...

ClipBucket 2.6 Multi Exploits(Arbitrary File Uploader and XSS)

Exploit for php platform in category web applications This is private exploit. You can buy it at https://0day.today...

Adobe Hackers Hit Other Companies

The attackers behind the Adobe hack and breaches against data brokers such as LexisNexis have also been linked to similar intrusions against other unnamed organizations. Security expert Alex Holden, who along with security blogger Brian Krebs uncovered the data lost in the Adobe breach, said thos...

Adobe Gets Hacked; Hackers Steal 2.9 million Adobe Customers accounts

Hackers broke into Adobe Systems' internal network on Thursday, stealing personal information on 2.9 million customers and the source code for several of Adobe's most popular products. This an absolutely massive blow to Adobe, especially their reputation. Adobe, which makes Photoshop and other...

WordPress fgallery_plus Plugin Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

The WordPress plugin SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:wordpress:wordpress"; ifdescription...

Adobe Gets Hacked; Hackers Steal 2.9 million Adobe Customers accounts

Hackers broke into Adobe Systems’ internal network on Thursday, stealing personal information on 2.9 million customers and the source code for several of Adobe’s most popular products. This an absolutely massive blow to Adobe, especially their reputation. Adobe, which makes Photoshop and other...

Researchers Ponder When to Notify Users of Public Vulnerability Exploits

BERLIN–Just whispering the words “vulnerability disclosure” within earshot of a security researcher or vendor security response team members can put you in fear for your life these days. The debate is so old and worn out that there is virtually nothing new left to say or chew on at this point...

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Internet Explorer zero-day exploit used watering hole attacks to target Japanese users

Attackers exploiting a zero-day vulnerability CVE-2013-3893 in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser and served them on compromised popular Japanese news websites. According to FireEye, at least three major Japanese media websites were compromised in watering hole attacks, dubbed Operation...

[vFeed & vFeed API] The open source cross-linked local vulnerability database

vFeed is an open source naming scheme concept that provides extra structured detailed 3rd parties references for a CVE entry. While the emergence of the Open Standards helped undeniably to shape a new way to communicate about vulnerabilities1, the new vFeed is adding an intelligent structured xml...

NSA bought Hacking tools from 'Vupen', a French based zero-day Exploit Seller

The US government, particularly the National Security Agency has been paying a French security firm for backdoors and zero day hacks. According to a contract newly released in response to a Freedom of Information request, last year the NSA purchased a 12-month subscription to a “binary analysis a...

WordPress Plugin RokNewsPager - thumb.php Multiple Vulnerabilities

WordPress Plugin RokNewsPager - thumb.php Multiple Vulnerabilities source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62458/info The RokNewsPager plugin for WordPress is prone to multiple security vulnerabilities, including: 1. An information-disclosure vulnerability 2. A cross-site scripting vulnerabilit...