Amazon Patches Certificate Vulnerabilities in Fire Phones

Amazon last week patched three vulnerabilities in its Fire smartphones, including two in its Certinstaller package that put devices at risk. An attacker could take advantage of the vulnerability in the package, which allows mobile apps to install certificates on Amazon Fire devices without user...

Magnitude Exploit Kit Adobe Flash Zero Day 0Day

The urgency to patch Adobe Flash Player installations ramped up over the weekend when exploits for a recently patched zero-day vulnerability were found in the Magnitude Exploit Kit. French researcher Kafeine said on Sunday that a sample he encountered was dropping two instances of Cryptowall...

Drupal Content Construction Kit Module Open Redirect Vulnerability

Drupal is a free and open source content management system developed in PHP. An open redirection vulnerability exists in the Drupal Content Construction Kit module that allows an attacker to construct a malicious URI, trick users into parsing it, and redirect users to an arbitrary WEB site for...

FBI Says Cryptowall Cost Victims $18 Million Since 2014

In a little more than a year, consumers affected by the Cryptowall ransomware have reported to the FBI more than $18 million in losses related to infections from the malware. Cryptowall is among the group of ransomware families that encrypt the files on victims’ computers and then demands a ranso...

JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 5.0u85, 6u95, 7u79 and 8u45 (2D)

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 5.0u81, 6u91, 7u76, and 8u40, and Java FX 2.2.76, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to 2D, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-0459...

Cryptowall 3.0 Infections Spike from Angler EK, Malicious Spam

Since the Angler Exploit Kit began in late May spreading Cryptowall 3.0 ransomware, traffic containing the malware has continued to grow, putting more potential victims in harm’s way. Today, the SANS Internet Storm Center reported that Cryptowall 3.0 infections are emanating from not only the...

SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : FUSE (SUSE-SU-2015:1024-1)

This update for FUSE fixes the following security issue : CVE-2015-3202: FUSE did not clear the environment upon execution of external programs. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to...

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB15-11

Integer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.292 and 14.x through 18.x before 18.0.0.160 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.466 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 18.0.0.144 on Windows and before 18.0.0.143 on OS X and Android, Adobe AIR SDK before 18.0.0.144 on Windows and before 18.0.0.143...

'Tox' Offers Free build-your-own Ransomware Malware Toolkit

"Ransomware" threat is on the rise, but the bad news is that Ransomware campaigns are easier to run, and now a Ransomware kit is being offered by hackers for free for anyone to download and distribute the threat. Ransomware is a type of computer virus that infects a target computer, encrypts thei...

Angler Exploit Kit Exploiting New Adobe Vulnerability, Dropping Cryptowall 3.0

While the Angler Exploit Kit may have already established itself as one of the more sophisticated kits on the underground market, it appears it’s still finding ways to evolve. Angler, this week, was spotted dropping the latest iteration of CryptoWall ransomware and leveraging yet another previous...

Apple Blocks Older Versions of Flash Player

On the heels of a major Adobe Flash Player update two weeks ago, Apple last night updated its blacklist to include older versions of the software. In its advisory, Apple said it will begin blocking out-of-date versions of Flash in its Safari browser. “If you’re using an out-of-date version of the...

Exploit Kit Delivers Pharming Attacks Against SOHO Routers

Attacks targeting small office and home router DNS settings, long a target for network intruders seeking to redirect web traffic to malicious sites, have for the first time been included in an exploit kit—one that specializes in cross-site request forgery attacks. An exploit kit has been spotted ...

Free Ransomware Decryption and Malware Removal ToolKit

A security researcher has compiled a ransomware removal and rescue kit to help victims deal with ransomware threats and unlock encrypted files without paying off a single penny to the cyber crooks. Ransomware is a growing threat to the evolution of cyber criminals techniques in an attempt to part...

SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : libfreebl3 (SUSE-SU-2013:1920-1)

Mozilla NSS has been updated to the 3.15.3.1 security release. The update blacklists an intermediate CA that was abused to create man in the middle certificates. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has...

Malvertising Leads to Magnitude Exploit Kit, Ransomware Infection

Criminals are injecting malicious redirect code into advertisements in order to route user traffic toward sites hosting the Magnitude exploit kit, which, in turn, infects those users with strains of file-encrypting ransomware. Magnitude predominately relies on drive-by-download attacks in which i...

SAP NetWeaver RFC SDK Information Disclosure Vulnerability

SAP NetWeaver is a business suite of solutions that provides a development and runtime environment for SAP applications. the RFC SDK is one of the software development kits used to build C++ function-controlled RFC communications on an external client. An information disclosure vulnerability exis...

Angler Exploit Kit Pushing New, Unnamed Ransomware

Attackers are using the infamous Angler exploit kit to disseminate a new, yet unnamed variant of the TeslaCrypt and AlphaCrypt ransomware, according to Rackspace security researcher Brad Duncan. Duncan analyzed the threat on the SANS Internet Storm Center, saying that the malware presents its...

IBM JDK Java Information Disclosure Vulnerability

IBM Java is a JRE runtime environment. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the IBM JDK Java virtual machine, which allows attackers to exploit the vulnerability to bypass privilege checks and gain access to sensitive information...

Angler Exploit Kit, Bedep Malware Inflating Video Views

A new sort of hacktivism emerged last week when experts from Trustwave published new research revealing that attackers are using the Angler exploit kit and the Bedep Trojan in order to drive artificial views to politically controversial videos. The motivation for the scheme, it appears, is to...

RIG Exploit Kit Landing Page

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...