Council on Foreign Relations Website Hit by Watering Hole Attack, IE Zero-Day Exploit

UPDATE – Another high profile watering hole attack has been discovered, this one targeting visitors to the Council on Foreign Relations website. The CFR is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that provides foreign policy and foreign affairs resources to government officials, journalists, and...

PT-2012-1250 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 6 through 8 Description: The issue is related to a use-after-free vulnerability in the CDwnBindInfo function of the mshtml.dll library in Internet Explorer. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to...

Samsung Exynos kernel exploit offer Root without Flashing

A user over at the XDA Developers Forum has gone searching through Samsung Exynos kernels and has found one whopper of an exploit. There's both good and bad news with this exploit so head down below for more details on this new found glory. This exploits affects a number of Samsung-made devices,...

Necurs Rootkit Infections Way Up

Infections from a nasty bit of malware, generally delivered by the Black Hole Exploit Kit, surged in November, hitting more than 83,000 machines. Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center rates the Necurs rootkit threat as severe. Dubbed a rootkit by Kaspersky Lab, Necurs has many dimensions to it...

Fake Facebook Alert Emails Link to Black Hole Sites

Attackers are sending spoofed “pending notification” emails to Facebook users, claiming that the recipients overlooked some alert on the world’s largest social network, and providing them with a link that supposedly leads to the allegedly neglected content but which, in reality, funnels users to ...

Yahoo Mail hijacking exploit available for $700

An Egyptian hacker "TheHell" is selling an exploit in $700 that allows individuals to hijack a Yahoo! email account. The method is shown off in a video that was posted on YouTube. A cross-site scripting XSS flaw on Yahoo! Mail creates a means to steal cookies and hijack accounts. In order to work...

Wordpress Plugin plg_novana Sql Injection Vulnerability

WordPress Plg Novana third party plugin suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability. Exploit Title : Wordpress plgnovana plugin Sql Injection Exploit Author : Ashiyane Digital Security Team Discovered By : sil3nt Home : www.ashiyane.org Security Risk : High - SQL Injection Dork :...

Gong Da Exploit Kit Bundling Numerous Java Attacks

Don’t expect any relief from the current assault on Java. A new sandbox-escape exploit targeting a vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment has been integrated into both the Black Hole and Gong Da exploit kits, setting the stage for additional attacks, researchers said. The exploit was...

Security hole allows anyone to hijack your Skype account

It looks like Skype has another big hole in their security. According to reports, a security hole makes Skype accounts vulnerable to hijacking. The security hole allows unauthorized users with knowledge of your Skype-connected email address to change the password on your Skype account, thus gaini...

New Java Attack Introduced into Cool Exploit Kit

A new exploit has been found in the Cool Exploit Kit for a vulnerability in Java 7 Update 7 as well as older versions, a flaw that’s been patched by Oracle in Java 7 Update 9. Cool Exploit Kit was discovered last month and is largely responsible for dropping the Reveton ransomware. A new Metasplo...

Update: Adobe Working to Confirm New Reader Zero-Day Sandbox-Bypass Exploit

Adobe said today it has been in contact with the Russian security company Group-IB, which discovered a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader and yesterday reported the existance of a pricey exploit circulating on the black market. The exploit, according to Group-IB, bypasses Adobe’s sandbox...

ZeroAccess Botnet Cashing in on Click Fraud and Bitcoin Mining

A mid-year switch in communication protocol and distribution strategy is behind a spike in activity from the ZeroAccess botnet, a prolific and malicious ad click fraud network. Researchers at Kindsight Security Lab reported today that ZeroAccess accounts for 29 percent of home network infections ...

phpyun talent system injection+background getshell-a vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Paul id proof 0day - - would have been ready to throw the clouds, but look to have previously submitted a This sets the source of the hole no response..just lost it. No nonsense /model/class/action.class.php 6 0 3 row function funipget if getenv"HTTPCLIENTIP" && strcasecmpgetenv"HTTPCLIENTIP",...

Fake Payroll Confirmation Email Leads to Black Hole Exploit Kit

Criminal hackers launched an attack campaign earlier this week in which they sent a slew of emails purporting to come from the financial software developer Intuit. The emails contained links that led to sites hosting the Blackhole exploit kit in an apparent attempt to infect the machines of...

Businesses Remain Scared of Spear-Phishing as Attackers Study Behavior

Scared is a strong word, but the reality, according to a Websense analysis by Patrik Runald, is that spear-phishers, like the ones that compromised a White House network last week, are implementing new evasion tactics, fundamentally changing their attack strategies, and revolutionizing the target...

Zenphoto 1.4.3.2 Cross Site Scripting

------------------------- Affected products: ------------------------- Product : Zenphoto 1.4.3.2 and maybe older fixed in 1.4.3.3 Affected function: printPublishIconLink ---------- Details: ---------- The file admin-news-articles.php calls the function printPublishIconLink which generates HTML...

Slackware Advisory SSA:2009-111-01 udev

The remote host is missing an update as announced via advisory SSA:2009-111-01. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: esoftslkssa200911101.nasl 6598 2017-07-07 09:36:44Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from the corresponding slackware advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2012...

Operation Aurora - Other Zero-Day Attacks targeting finance and Energy

The infamous Aurora Trojan horse is just one of many attacks launched by the same group of malware authors over the past three years, according to researchers at Symantec. Security researchers with Symantec have issued a report outlining the techniques used by the so-called "Edgewood" hacking...

'Elderwood' Crew, Tied to Google Aurora Attack, Targeting Defense, Energy, Finance Companies

UPDATE–The same team that attacked Google in the Aurora campaign in 2009 is still active and has been conducting a long-term campaign targeting defense contractors, financial services companies, energy companies, human rights organizations and government agencies using a seemingly inexhaustible...

CVE-2012-2128

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in doku.php in DokuWiki 2012-01-25 Angua allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that add arbitrary users. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by the vendor, who states that it is resultant from CVE-2012-2129...