Exploit kits: fall 2018 review

Exploit kit EK activity continues to surprise us as the weather cools, the leaves change, and we move into the fall of 2018. Indeed, shortly after our summer review, a new exploit kit was discovered, and while no new vulnerabilities were added to the current EKs, several malvertising chains are...

CVE-2018-12364

NPAPI plugins, such as Adobe Flash, can send non-simple cross-origin requests, bypassing CORS by making a same-origin POST that does a 307 redirect to the target site. This allows for a malicious site to engage in cross-site request forgery CSRF attacks. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 60,...

CVE-2018-12364

The CVE-2018-12364 entry affects Thunderbird and was mitigated in various distributions through Thunderbird 52.9.1 and related security advisories. The connected documents confirm concrete details: NPAPI plugins (e.g., Flash) can bypass CORS by issuing a same-origin POST that redirects (307) to t...

CVE-2018-12364

NPAPI plugins, such as Adobe Flash, can send non-simple cross-origin requests, bypassing CORS by making a same-origin POST that does a 307 redirect to the target site. This allows for a malicious site to engage in cross-site request forgery CSRF attacks. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 60,...

Fake Adobe updates installing cryptomining malware while updating Flash

By Waqas The IT security researchers at Palo Alto Networks has identified that a fake Flash updater is circulating the web and fooling computer users by sneakily installing cryptocurrency mining bot XMRig. In the past few months, researchers have identified 113 fake updaters installing cryptomini...

Fake Adobe Flash Installers Come With a Little Malware Bonus

A clever new cryptomining scheme downloads the latest version of Adobe for you, but adds malware to the bargain...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Oct. 12

Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals discuss the top news of the week ended Oct. 12. The week started with a bang with a report that Google did not disclose a potential data breach in Google+, likely contributing to the tech giant’s decision to shut down the social networking...

Fake Adobe Flash Updates Hide Malicious Crypto Miners

While fake Flash updates that push malware have traditionally been easy to spot and avoid, a new campaign has employed new tricks that stealthily download cryptocurrency miners on Windows systems. To the average user, the newly discovered samples, which have been active as early as August, seem...

Patch Tuesday, October 2018 Edition

Microsoft this week released software updates to fix roughly 50 security problems with various versions of its Windows operating system and related software, including one flaw that is already being exploited and another for which exploit code is publicly available. The zero-day bug --...

Adobe Releases Security Patch Updates for 11 Vulnerabilities

Adobe has released its monthly security updates to address a total of 11 vulnerabilities in Adobe Digital Editions, Framemaker, and Technical Communications Suite, of which four are rated critical and rest 7 are important in severity. Adobe has also released updated versions for Flash Player, but...

APSB18-35 Security updates available for Adobe Flash Player

Adobe has released updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS. These updates address feature and performance bugs, and do not include security fixes...

CVE-2018-9069 BIOS Write Protection Race Condition

In some Lenovo IdeaPad consumer notebook models, a race condition in the BIOS flash device locking mechanism is not adequately protected against, potentially allowing an attacker with administrator access to alter the contents of BIOS...

Cybersecurity Researchers Spotted First-Ever UEFI Rootkit in the Wild

Cybersecurity researchers at ESET have unveiled what they claim to be the first-ever UEFI rootkit being used in the wild, allowing hackers to implant persistent malware on the targeted computers that could survive a complete hard-drive wipe. Dubbed LoJax , the UEFI rootkit is part of a malware...

dctv.ph XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-680328 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| dctv.ph Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| WordPress Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

CVE-2018-15967

Adobe Flash Player versions 30.0.0.154 and earlier have a privilege escalation vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to information disclosure...

CVE-2018-15967

Adobe Flash Player versions 30.0.0.154 and earlier have a privilege escalation vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to information disclosure...

Privilege escalation

Adobe Flash Player versions 30.0.0.154 and earlier have a privilege escalation vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to information disclosure...

CVE-2018-15967

CVE-2018-15967 affects Adobe Flash Player

CVE-2018-15967

Adobe Flash Player versions 30.0.0.154 and earlier have a privilege escalation vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to information disclosure...

huber-verlag.de XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-678978 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| huber-verlag.de Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...