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...

Israeli Government Websites Targeted in Watering Hole Attack

A new watering hole attack has been reported, this one targeting two government-related websites based in Israel that have been injected with malware exploiting a six-month-old vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The two sites, ict.org.il and herzliyaconference.org, are related to Israel’s first...

NBC Website Hacked, Leading Visitors to Citadel Banking Malware

Another day, another media company hacked. This time it’s NBC which has fallen to victim hackers on the heels of compromises of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal websites. Various experts have confirmed that NBC’s website is compromised and leading visitors to the dangerous Citadel banki...

iOS Developer Site at Core of Facebook, Apple Watering Hole Attack

UPDATE – The missing link connecting the attacks against Apple, Facebook and possibly Twitter is a popular iOS mobile developers’ forum called iPhoneDevSDK which was discovered hosting malware in an apparent watering hole attack that has likely snared victims at hundreds of organizations beyond t...

Researchers See Spike in Attacks Against Uyghur Users

Researchers have noticed a spike in cyberattacks over the past few weeks targeting the Uyghur people, a Turkic ethnic group based primarily in China and Kazakhstan. The attacks have been exploiting a Microsoft Word vulnerability patched in June 2009, according to a Securelist post by Kaspersky La...

Group behind largest Ransomware campaign arrested by Spanish police

Police in Spain have arrested a gang of 11 cyber criminals who used ransomware to demand money from thousands of victims in 30 countries using malware known as Reveton. Police arrested six Russians, two Ukrainians and two Georgians in the Costa del Sol. The gang leader, a 27-year-old Russian, was...

Group behind largest Ransomware campaign arrested by Spanish police

Police in Spain have arrested a gang of 11 cyber criminals who used ransomware to demand money from thousands of victims in 30 countries using malware known as Reveton. Police arrested six Russians, two Ukrainians and two Georgians in the Costa del Sol. The gang leader, a 27-year-old Russian, was...

Default Password (openelec) for 'root' Account

The account 'root' on the remote host has the password 'openelec'. An attacker can exploit this issue to gain full access to the affected system. Note that a version of Linux optimized for Raspberry Pi ARM computers is known to use these credentials by default. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Netwo...

Default Password (raspi) for 'root' Account

The account 'root' on the remote host has the password 'raspi'. An attacker may leverage this issue to gain full access to the affected system. Note that a version of Linux optimized for Raspberry Pi ARM computers is known to use these credentials by default. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Attackers Exploit Java, Compromise Reporters Without Borders Site

The Java saga continued when unknown, and apparently well concealed goons exploited recent Java and Internet Explorer zero-days to compromise the website of the French-based, free-press advocacy group, Reporters Without Borders. The attack, which attempted to take advantage of the time-gulf that...

PayPal Addresses Months-Old SQL Injection Vulnerability, Frozen Accounts

Researchers with Vulnerability Lab today announced mega payment processor PayPal has fixed a flaw on its site that allowed a remote user or a local user with low privileges to compromise a Web application using a blind SQL injection. The vulnerability was first reported to PayPal back in August,...

Java 7u11 Update Addresses Only One of Two Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Microsoft can take some solace that it is not alone in sending out security updates that don’t fully address a zero-day vulnerability. A researcher at Immunity Inc., put Oracle on a similar hot seat this week when he reported that a recent out-of-band Java update repaired only one of two Java fla...

Out-of-Band IE Patch Released as More Sites Attacked

Internet Explorer users, exposed to a zero-day vulnerability in the browser and a faulty temporary Fix It from Microsoft, finally got some relief today when the company, as promised, released an out-of-band patch. Meanwhile, a handful of new telco, manufacturing and human rights sites have been...

Latest Internet Explorer zero-day linked to Elderwood Project

Last week we have seen ongoing attacks was exploiting a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer 8 that came to light after the Council on Foreign Relations website was hacked and was hosting the code. Symantec has linked exploits to the group responsible f...

Researchers Bypass Microsoft Fix It for IE Zero Day

Expect amped up pressure aimed in Microsoft’s direction for a patch for the Internet Explorer zero day that surfaced last week, now that researchers at Exodus Intelligence reported today they have developed a bypass for the Fix It that Microsoft released as a temporary mitigation. Their new explo...

Internet Explorer CButton Use After Free Vulnerability

Added: 01/04/2013 CVE: CVE-2012-4792 BID: 57070 OSVDB: 88774 Background Internet Explorer is an HTML web browser which comes by default on Microsoft operating systems. Problem All references to DOM button objects are not properly removed when a DOM buttom object is deleted. If the stale reference...

Internet Explorer CButton Use After Free Vulnerability

Added: 01/04/2013 CVE: CVE-2012-4792 BID: 57070 OSVDB: 88774 Background Internet Explorer is an HTML web browser which comes by default on Microsoft operating systems. Problem All references to DOM button objects are not properly removed when a DOM buttom object is deleted. If the stale reference...

IE Zero-Day Watering Hole Attack Expands to Handful of Political Sites

The scope of watering hole attacks utilizing a previously unreported vulnerability in Internet Explorer has widened to as many as four new sites, all of them with politically charged leanings. The attacks further demonstrate the effectiveness of watering hole attacks compared to phishing attacks...

Energy Manufacturer Also Victimized by IE Zero Day in Watering Hole Attack

This week’s watering hole attack exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer was not limited to the influential Council on Foreign Relations site. A Metasploit contributor said an energy manufacturer’s website has been serving malware related to the attack since September. Researcher...

Microsoft Responds to IE Zero Day Used in CFR Watering Hole Attack

UPDATE – Microsoft responded this weekend with temporary mitigations and workarounds for a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer exploited in an attack on the Council on Foreign Relations website. IE 6, 7 and 8 are vulnerable to exploits that would enable a remote attacker to execute code o...