Default password (dasdec1) for 'root' account

The account 'root' on the remote host has the password 'dasdec1'. An attacker may leverage this issue to gain access to the affected system and launch further attacks against it. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. account = "root"; password = "dasdec1";...

Blue Coat Authentication and Authorization Agent Remote Overflow

The version of Blue Coat Authentication and Authorization Agent installed on the remote Windows host is earlier than build 60258. It is, therefore, potentially affected by a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability when handling specially crafted TCP packets on port 16102. By exploiting this fla...

Exploit for most critical Android vulnerability publicly released

What if hackers could take an existing legitimate app or update with a valid digital signature, and modify it in order to use it as a malicious Trojan to access everything on your Android phone or tablet? Last week, researchers from Bluebox Security announced that the Android operating system has...

65 Sites Compromised in ZeroAccess Trojan Attacks

As many as 65 websites have been compromised in an attack that has snared another Washington, D.C.-area media website as well as a number of travel and leisure sites. While the sites aren’t topically related, they’re all hosting advertisements injected with malicious code hosted on...

Free Beacon Article Redirects to ZeroAccess Rootkit, Fake AV

Update: Aaron Harison, president of the Center for American Freedom, told Threatpost this morning that the issue has been resolved and the site is no longer serving malware. Hackers have latched on to the NSA surveillance story—literally. A news story on the outing of whistleblower Edward Snowden...

Microsoft Patches IE Zero Day Used In Watering Hole Attack

Microsoft wasted no time today delivering a patch for the Internet Explorer 8 vulnerability being exploited in watering hole attacks carried out against the U.S. Department of Labor website and nine others worldwide. Today’s Patch Tuesday security updates also include a fix for IE vulnerabilities...

USAID a Target of DoL Watering Hole Attackers

One of the nine sites serving malware tied to the recent watering hole attack on the U.S. Department of Labor was located in Cambodia and has ties to the United States Agency for International Development USAID. Speculation has it that the DoL attack was targeting downstream employees at the...

Microsoft Fix It a Temporary Patch for IE 8 Zero Day Flaw

Microsoft has released a Fix-It to address an Internet Explorer 8 zero-day that was exploited in a watering hole attack against the U.S. Department of Labor website last week. The Fix It is a temporary mitigation until a patch is released. Microsoft’s next scheduled Patch Tuesday security updates...

Internet Explorer 8 zero-day attack spreads on 9 other sites

Watering hole Internet Explorer 8 zero-day attack on the US Department of Labor website last week has spread to 9 more global websites over the weekend, including those run by a big European company operating in the aerospace, defense, and security industries as well as non-profit groups and...

Internet Explorer 8 zero-day attack spreads on 9 other sites

Watering hole Internet Explorer 8 zero-day attack on the US Department of Labor website last week has spread to 9 more global websites over the weekend, including those run by a big European company operating in the aerospace, defense, and security industries as well as non-profit groups and...

Hacked Media Sites Serving Fake AV Malware

Websites belonging to a number of Washington, D.C.-area media outlets have been compromised in a series of opportunistic attacks with criminals using a watering-hole tactic to spread scareware, or phony antivirus software. Popular D.C. radio station WTOP, sister station Federal News Radio, and th...

Internet Explorer zero-day exploit targets U.S. nuke researchers

Security researchers revealed that series of "Watering Hole" has been conducted exploiting a IE8 zero-day vulnerability to target U.S. Government experts working on nuclear weapons research. The news is not surprising but it is very concerning, the principal targets of the attacks are various...

IE 8 Zero Day Widens Scope of DoL Watering Hole Attack

The scope of a watering hole attack targeting the U.S. Department of Labor website widened significantly over the weekend. Researchers are reporting that as many as nine websites, including a European aerospace, defense and security manufacturer as well as a number of non-profit organizations hav...

Internet Explorer zero-day exploit targets U.S. nuke researchers

Security researchers revealed that series of "Watering Hole" has been conducted exploiting a IE8 zero-day vulnerability to target U.S. Government experts working on nuclear weapons research. The news is not surprising but it is very concerning, the principal targets of the attacks are various...

Watering Hole Attack Hits US Department of Labor Website

The United States Department of Labor website is the latest high-profile government site to fall victim to a watering hole attack. Researchers at a number of security companies reported today that the site was hosting malware and redirecting visitors to a site hosting the Poison Ivy remote access...

Stolen Winnti Certificates Used in Watering Hole Attack Against Tibet Orphans Site

The assault against Free Tibet and Uyghur supporters is unrelenting as another watering hole attack has been uncovered, this time against a caregiver site supporting Tibetan refugee children. The non-governmental organization NGO Tibetan Homes Foundation site remains compromised and is hosting a...

Apple Takes Tool offline After New Security Hole Surfaces

Less than a day after Apple announced a new two-factor authentication to better protect Apple ID and iCloud accounts, the company was scrambling to fix another major security hole with its own password reset tool. As first reported earlier Friday by The Verge, this new exploit allows anyone to ga...

Why Watering Hole Attacks Work

Information security is littered with bad analogies. And none sounds sillier than a watering hole attack, which plays off the tactic that dominant animals use when stalking food by loitering at a watering hole. Rather than chase their prey, a lion will wait for prey to come to it. Hackers are doi...

Internet Explorer 8 Exploit Found in Watering Hole Campaign Targeting Chinese Dissidents

On March 16th, we discovered a premeditated waterhole campaign that hosts exploits and malware on websites frequented by a specific target group. In this case the target includes Chinese dissidents. For the attacker, this approach is highly attractive since it is very difficult to discover the...

AT&T Hacker Andrew Auernheimer sentenced to 3.5 Years in prison

Self-described troll and Grey hat AT&T Hacker Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, 26, has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for exploiting an AT&T security hole three years ago, and releasing thousands of iPad owners email addresses. According to authorities, they obtained the ICC-ID and e-mail addres...