7-Zip DLL Hijack

Hi @ll, the executable installers ° of 7-Zip see and ALL self-extracting archives created with 7-Zip are vulnerable: 1. They load and execute a rogue/bogus/malicious UXTheme.dll ' eventually found in the directory they are started from the "application directory". For software downloaded with a w...

JRSoft InnoSetup DLL Hijack

Hi @ll, executable installers ° created with JRSoft InnoSetup see ; this includes of course InnoSetup itself too are vulnerable: 1. They load and execute a rogue/bogus/malicious UXTheme.dll ' eventually found in the directory they are started from the "application directory". For software...

Deliberately Insecure Web Application: OWASP WebGoat

WebGoat is a deliberately insecure web application maintained by OWASP designed to teach web application security lessons. You can install and practice with WebGoat in either J2EE or WebGoat for .Net in ASP.NET. In each lesson, users must demonstrate their understanding of a security issue by...

This Malware Can Delete and Replace Your Entire Chrome Browser with a lookalike

Security researchers have uncovered a new piece of Adware that replaces your entire browser with a dangerous copy of Google Chrome, in a way that you will not notice any difference while browsing. The new adware software, dubbed "eFast Browser," works by installing and running itself in place of...

Epic Operation Kicks Off Multistage Turla APT Campaign

The Turla APT campaign has baffled researchers for months as to how its victims are compromised. Peaking during the first two months of the year, Turla has targeted municipal governments, embassies, militaries and other high-value targets worldwide, with particular concentrations in the Middle Ea...

ICS Malware Found on Vendors' Update Installers

Malware targeting industrial control systems has infected the update installers belonging to three known industrial control vendors, according to an advisory from the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team ICS-CERT. The Havex remote access Trojan RAT is targeting vendors via...

Heartbleed Bug (CVE-2014-0160) and Qt

Although Qt as such is not affected by the Heartbleed Bug CVE-2014-0160 found in OpenSSL, it affects users of Qt, so I wanted to write a short summary about the topic. As defined at : "The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakne...

Design/Logic Flaw

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in the 1 full installer and 2 stub installer in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0 on Windows allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the default downloads directory. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for...

Design/Logic Flaw

PostgreSQL, 9.2.x before 9.2.4, 9.1.x before 9.1.9, 9.0.x before 9.0.13, 8.4.x before 8.4.17, and 8.3.x before 8.3.23 generates insecure temporary files with predictable filenames, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors related to "graphical installers for Linux and Mac OS X."...

Design/Logic Flaw

PostgreSQL, possibly 9.2.x before 9.2.4, 9.1.x before 9.1.9, 9.0.x before 9.0.13, 8.4.x before 8.4.17, and 8.3.x before 8.3.23 incorrectly provides the superuser password to scripts related to "graphical installers for Linux and Mac OS X," which has unspecified impact and attack vectors...

CVE-2013-1903

PostgreSQL, possibly 9.2.x before 9.2.4, 9.1.x before 9.1.9, 9.0.x before 9.0.13, 8.4.x before 8.4.17, and 8.3.x before 8.3.23 incorrectly provides the superuser password to scripts related to "graphical installers for Linux and Mac OS X," which has unspecified impact and attack vectors...

CVE-2013-1902

CVE-2013-1902 concerns PostgreSQL versions 8.3.x before 8.3.23, 8.4.x before 8.4.17, 9.0.x before 9.0.13, 9.1.x before 9.1.9, and 9.2.x before 9.2.4, which generate insecure temporary files with predictable filenames. The description notes an unspecified impact and attack vectors related to graph...

Infected Site Spreading SMS Android Malware

The website of a popular watch retailer is reportedly redirecting users that visit the site on Android-based devices to a number of malicious domains serving up premium rate SMS malware. According to a WebRoot report, users that visit the unnamed watch-selling website in Bulgaria are redirected t...

House Hearing to Address Capital Market Threats

The House Committee on Financial Services is hosting a hearing tomorrow in which they will explore the various cyber threats targeting capital markets and government sponsored enterprises. Entitled “Cyber Threats to Capital Markets and Corporate Accounts,” the hearing in front of the Committee on...

Specialized Trojan can stealing credit card details from hotel

Specialized Trojan can stealing credit card details from hotel The next time you check in to a hotel, a cybercriminal could be checking you out. A remote access computer Trojan RAT designed to steal credit card details from hotel point-of-sale PoS applications is being sold on the underground...

Mac OS X OSX/Flashback Trojan Detection

Using the supplied credentials, Nessus has found evidence that the remote Mac OS X host has been compromised by a trojan in the OSX/Flashback family of trojans. The software is typically installed by means of a malicious Java applet or Flash Player installer. Depending on the variant, the trojan...

Mobile, Android Threats Continued Sharp Growth in 2011

The occurrence of mobile malware increased by 155 percent across all platforms in 2011, and, according to Juniper Network’s 2011 Mobile Threat Report, malware specifically targeting the Android operating system saw its own increase of more than 3,000 percent. Juniper Networks attributes Android’s...

Elevating Privileges Via Windows Installers

There’s an odd bit of behavior that some Windows systems will exhibit when certain kinds of installers are launched, automatically elevating the privileges of the installer process to system-level privileges. In theory, the issue shouldn’t be exploitable because at one point in the process the...

Safenet Sentinel and 7-T Input Sanitization Vulnerability

Overview ICS-CERT originally released advisory ICSA-11-314-01P on the US-CERT secure portal on November 14, 2011. This web page release was delayed to allow users time to download and install the update. Security researcher Carlos Mario Penagos Hollman of Synapse-labs has identified an input...

CVE-2004-2335

The Macromedia installers and e-licensing client on Mac OS X, as used for Macromedia Contribute 2, Director, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, and Studio, install the AuthenticationService setuid and writable by other users, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the program...