Pwned by Vpon

Vpon is one of many mobile ad SDKs marketed towards mainland Chinese and Taiwanese developers and app users. Recently, FireEye mobile security researchers identified a branch of Vpon ad SDK on iOS containing code that allows a malicious actor be it the app developer or the SDK creator to remotely...

New Angler Exploits Bypass EMET Mitigations

New Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash exploits that bypass Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET have found their way into an updated version of the Angler Exploit Kit. EMET is a suite of freely available tools for Windows machines that mitigate memory-based attacks. The...

APT Group Sends Spear Phishing Emails to Indian Government Officials

Introduction On May 18, 2016, FireEye Labs observed a suspected Pakistan-based APT group sending spear phishing emails to Indian government officials. This threat actor has been active for several years and conducting suspected intelligence collection operations against South Asian political and...

APT Group Sends Spear Phishing Emails to Indian Government Officials

Introduction On May 18, 2016, FireEye Labs observed a suspected Pakistan-based APT group sending spear phishing emails to Indian government officials. This threat actor has been active for several years and conducting suspected intelligence collection operations against South Asian political and...

New Irongate ICS Malware Steals From Stuxnet Playbook

New malware that targets industrial control systems called Irongate was found by researchers who say the discovery should serve as another wakeup call to the security industry to shore up its detection capabilities around ICS and SCADA threats. Irongate, which shares some of the same attributes a...

Exploit Kits Attacking Adobe Flash Player Zero Day

Update Exploits for the most recent Adobe Flash Player zero-day vulnerability have been integrated into the Angler, Neutrino and Magnitude exploit kits, and are leading compromised computers to different ransomware strains, banking malware, and a credential-stealing Trojan. A French researcher wh...

Windows Zero-Day Vulnerability, CVE-2 0 1 6-0 1 6 7: the attack Payment Card data-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

2 0 1 6 years 3 month, there has been a batch of economic motivation to the retail, Foodservice and hospitality industry as the target of the attack, these attacks, the message contains a large number of with embedded macros of the Microsoft Word document, once downloaded it will execute a named...

CVE-2016-4117: Flash Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

On May 8, 2016, FireEye detected an attack exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player CVE-2016-4117 and reported the issue to the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team PSIRT. Adobe released a patch for the vulnerability in APSB16-15 just four days later. Attackers...

Cerber Ransomware On The Rise, Fueled By Dridex Botnet

Starting in April security experts at FireEye spotted a massive uptick in Cerber ransomware attacks delivered via a rolling wave of spam. Researchers there link the Cerber outbreaks to the fact that attackers are now leveraging the same spam infrastructure credited for making the potent Dridex...

Adobe Emergency Update Patches Flash Zero Day

As promised earlier this week, Adobe today released an updated version of Flash Player that includes a patch for a zero-day vulnerability. Adobe said it is aware of the existence of a public exploit for CVE-2016-4117, but said the flaw has not been publicly attacked. The vulnerability affects Fla...

FireEye Details Microsoft Zero Day Attack on 100 Companies

More than 100 North American companies were attacked by crooks exploiting a Windows zero day vulnerability. The attacks began in early March and involved the zero day vulnerability CVE-2016-0167 reported and partially fixed in April’s Patch Tuesday security bulletins by Microsoft. The zero day wa...

Exploiting CVE-2016-2060 on Qualcomm Devices

Mandiant’s Red Team recently discovered a widespread vulnerability affecting Android devices that permits local privilege escalation to the built-in user “radio”, making it so an attacker can potentially perform activities such as viewing the victim’s SMS database and phone history. The...

CVE-2 0 1 6-1 0 1 9 Flash vulnerability being added to exploit kit package-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

4 on number 2, security researcher @Kafeine found that Magnitude of vulnerability use tools to pack a few changes. Very grateful he found the collection of these samples, we analyzed them and found that the Magnitude of the tool in the package to update an unknown Adobe Flash PlayerCVE-2 0 1 6-1 ...

PoS Attack Net Crooks 20 Million Bank Cards, Up to $400 Million

In a storyline that rivals an episode of The Sopranos, researchers at FireEye documented the heist of bank card data from 20 million individuals that involved a complex web of crooks that may have netted hackers more than $100 million since 2014. In conjunction with recently acquired Isight...

MULTIGRAIN – Point of Sale Attackers Make an Unhealthy Addition to the Pantry

FireEye recently discovered a new variant of a point of sale POS malware family known as NewPosThings. This variant, which we call “MULTIGRAIN”, consists largely of a subset of slightly modified code from NewPosThings. The variant is highly targeted, digitally signed, and exfiltrates stolen payme...

Ghosts in the Endpoint

We would like to introduce the first of our “Ghosts in the Endpoint” series, a report prepared by FireEye Labs that documents malicious software not being detected in the wild by traditional signature-based detections. In this study, all the families identified are samples from VirusTotal VT with...

Ghosts in the Endpoint

We would like to introduce the first of our “Ghosts in the Endpoint” series, a report prepared by FireEye Labs that documents malicious software not being detected in the wild by traditional signature-based detections. In this study, all the families identified are samples from VirusTotal VT with...

community.fireeye.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://community.fireeye.com/community/training/tags?tags=%22%3E%3C/option%3E%3C%20/select%3E%3Cbody/onpageshow=prompt%28%29%3E%22%3E%3Csvg/onload=prompt%28/OPENBUGBOUNTY/%29%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:|...

POS Malware Tool "Treasurehunt' Targets Small US-Based Banks, Retailers

As more US companies snuff out point of sale malware by deploying chip-and-PIN bankcard technology, attackers are rushing to exploit existing magnetic strip card systems still vulnerable to malware. A group of hackers that go by the name Bears Inc. are behind the latest barrage of attacks with a...

TREASUREHUNT: A Custom POS Malware Tool

Since early 2015, FireEye Threat Intelligence has observed the significant growth of point-of-sale POS malware families in underground cyber crime forums. POS malware refers to malicious software that extracts payment card information from memory and usually uploads that data to a command and...