This Week in Security News: APT33 Botnets Used for Extreme Narrow Targeting and Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday Arrives with A Patch for An IE Zero-Day

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about the APT33 threat group that is using live C&C servers for extremely narrow targeting. Also, read about Trend Micro’s complete...

New IE Zero Day Found Targeting Military Intelligence

Attackers were able to compromise the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars’ website this week and serve up a previously unknown zero day exploit in Internet Explorer 10, and while motivation behind the campaign is still unclear, experts are speculating its aim was to procure military intelligence...

Microsoft Patch Zero Day Used to Attack Deptartment of Labor

Microsoft will ship 10 bulletins in the May edition of Patch Tuesday. The company considers just two of the patches critical, one of which supplements the currently available “Fix it” tool that resolved the IE zero-day vulnerability exploited recently in a watering-hole attack targeting the U.S...

Microsoft Releases Two Critical Patches; Promises Update for IE Watering Hole Zero Day

It’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday, and while there were two critical security updates released today, the concern among IT managers is likely over the patch that isn’t there. Microsoft’s monthly security bulletins do not address a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that has been actively...

Microsoft Recommends Workarounds to Mitigate Latest IE Zero-Day; Patch Still to Come

Microsoft issued a security advisory Monday night and recommended several workarounds to mitigate a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer reported over the weekend that is being exploited in the wild. Microsoft said it is still investigating the vulnerability, and may issue an out-of-band...

Accidental Leak Reveals Chinese Hackers Have IE Zero Day !

Evidence, leaked accidentally, points to Chinese based miscreants' knowledge, and potential exploitation, of the latest Microsoft Corporation NasdaqGS: MSFT Internet Explorer zero day, via a recently released Google Inc.'s NasdaqGS: GOOG researcher'sMichal Zalewski fuzzer application… Ooops. More...