Exploit Kit Attacks on the Rise as Astrum Emerges

While the cyber security industry noticed a reduction in exploit kit attacks during 2016 as well as early into 2017, these are still veritable threats that organizations must be aware of. Exploit kits typically follow a four-stage attack scenario, resulting in dangerous infections such as...

CVE-2017-0691

A denial of service vulnerability in the Android media framework. Product: Android. Versions: 7.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2. Android ID: A-36724453...

AdGholas malvertising thrives in the shadows of ransomware outbreaks

The latest wave of ransomware following the WannaCry outbreak has kept everyone very busy and been the topic of many conversations. In the meantime, other threat actors have been quite active and perhaps even enjoyed this complimentary diversion. This is certainly true for the most prolific...

Microsoft's Private Windows 10 Internal Builds and Partial Source Code Leaked Online

A massive archive of Microsoft's top-secret Windows 10 builds, and the source codes for private software has been reportedly leaked online, which could lead to a nasty wave of Windows 10 exploits, journalist at the Reg claims. The Leaked files – uploaded on BetaArchive website – contains more tha...

Pseudo DarkLeech Exploit Kits Traffic Distribution System

Pseudo DarkLeech Traffic Distribution System TDS operates by silently redirecting the victim to a malicious web page, leading to infection by an exploit kit. Successful infection will allow the attacker to download additional malware to the target...

Good Man Exploit Kits Traffic Distribution System

Good Man Traffic Distribution System TDS operates by silently redirecting the victim to a malicious web page, leading to infection by an exploit kit. Successful infection will allow the attacker to download additional malware to the target...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Container Development Kit 3.0.0 security update

An update is now available for Red Hat Container Development Kit 3.0.0. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...

UCL Ransomware Linked to AdGholas Malvertising Group

A ransomware attack that closed off access to personal and shared drives at University College London last week has been linked to a malvertising campaign spreading Mole, a variant of CryptoMix ransomware. Kafeine, a white-hat who works for Proofpoint and is known for his research into exploit...

The numeric tech support scam campaign

There are many different tech support scam TSS campaigns active at any given moment, the majority of them are fueled by malicious adverts the browser lockers, or bundled software the screen lockers. Something interesting happened recently, where legitimate - but hacked - websites would redirect t...

CVE-2017-6667

A vulnerability in the update process for the dynamic JAR file of the Cisco Context Service software development kit SDK could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected device with the privileges of the web server. More Information: CSCvb66730. Known...

40,000 Subdomains Tied to RIG Exploit Kit Shut Down

Tens of thousands of illegally established subdomains used by criminals involved with the RIG Exploit Kit were recently taken down after an investigation revealed that hackers were phishing domain account credentials to set up these subdomains. Most of the subdomains used GoDaddy as the primary...

Digital Forensics Platform: Autopsy

Digital Forensics Platform Autopsy® is a digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit® and other digital forensics tools. It is used by law enforcement, military, and corporate examiners to investigate what happened on a computer. You can even use it to recover photos from...

RIG Exploit Kit Landing Page URL

RIG exploit kit is a web exploit kit that operates by delivering malicious payload to the victim's computer. Successful infection will allow the attacker to download additional malware to the target...

Threat Round-up for May 19 - May 26

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 19 and May 26. As with previous round-ups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavior characteristics,...

PhishingKitHunter - Find Phishing Kits Which Use Your Brand/Organization'S Files And Image

Find phishing kits which use your brand/organization's files and image. PhishingKitHunter or PKHunter is a tool made for identifying phishing kits URLs used in phishing campains targeting your customers and using some of your own website files as CSS, JS, .... This tool - write in Python 3 - is...

Terror Exploit Kit Evolves Into Larger Threat

The relatively new Terror exploit kit is bucking the downward trend in the EK market, and is steadily evolving into more of a threat. Researchers at Cisco Talos said Terror has abandoned an early strategy that included “carpet-bombing” a target’s browser to one that now uses exploits that precise...

Terror Evolved: Exploit Kit Matures

This post is authored by Holger Unterbrink and Emmanuel Tacheau Executive SummaryTalos is monitoring the major Exploit KitsEK on an ongoing basis. While investigating the changes we recently observed in the RIG EK campaigns, we identified another well known candidate: Terror Exploit Kit.Terror EK...

Terror Exploit Kit URL Pattern

Terror exploit kit, is a web exploit kit that operates by delivering malicious payload to the victim's computer. Remote attackers can infect users with Terror exploit kit by enticing them to visit a malicious web page. Successful infection will allow the attacker to perform Remote Code Execution ...

JDK: XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition is vulnerable XML External Entity Injection XXE error when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose highly sensitive information or consume memory resources. IBM X-Force ID: 125150...

RHEL 6 : java-1.7.1-ibm (RHSA-2017:1216)

An update for java-1.7.1-ibm is now available for Red Hat Satellite 5.7 and Red Hat Satellite 5.6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available fo...