Adobe Fixes Half a Dozen Flash Vulnerabilities and More

Flash has been the top target for exploit kits and we have observed that defender behavior, i.e. how fast patches are applied along with other factors in the threat landscape could have led to a decline in the number of Flash vulnerabilities being weaponized in exploit kits. In 2016, the time to...

Intel® Branded NUC’s Vulnerable to SMM exploit

Summary: Intel is releasing updated BIOS firmware for a privilege escalation issue. This issue affects Intel® NUC Kits listed in the Model Number section below. The issue identified is a method that enables malicious code to gain access to System Management Mode SMM. Description: A malicious...

HPESBHF03724 rev.1 - HPE ConvergedSystem 700 Solution with Comware v7 Switches, Remote Disclosure of Information

Potential Security Impact: Remote: Unauthorized Disclosure of Information SUPPORTED SOFTWARE VERSIONS: ONLY impacted versions are listed. HP ConvergedSystem 700 for Virtualization 1.0 HP ConvergedSystem 700 for Virtualization 1.1 1.1 HP ConvergedSystem 700 Virtualization 2.0 VMware Kit 2.0 HP...

Stuxnet LNK Exploits Still Widely Circulated

One of the alleged mandates around the development of the Stuxnet worm was that malware’s numerous components—which included a handful of zero days—should never escape the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in Iran. Eight years later, evidence continues to mount as to how that mandate was...

Nebula exploit package CVE-2016-0189 exploit analysis-exploit warning-the black bar safety net

1. Introduction In recent years, exploit kitsEK/Exploit Kitmarket amidst the winds of change。 2016 early June, once rampant in the Angler EK disappeared, the Neutrino EK quickly filled the void. Then just less than 3 months time, the Neutrino EK and go for the underground, the RIG EK and then...

Exploit Kit Activity Quiets, But is Far From Silent

Over the past six months, the roar of exploit kits has quieted to a whimper. But that doesn’t mean exploit kit threats are nonexistent. According to security experts, gangs behind them are regrouping, tweaking code and finding fresh software exploits to target. Here are the exploit kits and explo...

Adobe Fixes Flash, PDF reader and Photoshop in April

Adobe released five security bulletins today following a pre-notification which was released on Thursday of last week. Highest priority goes to the Flash update APSB17-10 as flash has been the top choice for malware and exploit kits. If left un-patched, the vulnerabilities allow attackers to take...

Hot on the Credential Theft Trail: Tracking a Hacker from a Dropbox Phishing Campaign

We the Imperva Defense Center research team frequently investigate cases of credential theft to gain a deeper understanding of methods and tools used by cyber criminals—in particular, to learn how accounts are taken over once credentials are compromised through phishing campaigns. We recently cho...

Apache Struts 2 Exploits Installing Cerber Ransomware

Attackers are attempting to exploit the recent Apache Struts vulnerability on Windows servers and the payload is a variant of the Cerber ransomware. The SANS Internet Storm Center on Thursday said it has seen numerous attempts during the past month to exploit the vulnerability in this way. The fl...

Still Getting Served: A Look at Recent Malvertising Campaigns Involving Exploit Kits

Malvertising occurs when an online advertising network knowingly or unknowingly serves up malicious advertisements on a website. Malvertisements are a type of “drive-by” threat that tend to result in users being infected with malware for simply visiting a website. The victims of this threat are...

Where Have All The Exploit Kits Gone?

The bloom is off exploit kits. Once a mainstay for cybercriminals, attacks tied to exploit kits have now dried up to just a trickle. For sure, they haven’t gone away. But researchers say Angler, Neutrino and Nuclear, kits that once dominated the threat landscape, are gone; usurped by new threats...

Still Getting Served: A Look at Recent Malvertising Campaigns Involving Exploit Kits

Malvertising occurs when an online advertising network knowingly or unknowingly serves up malicious advertisements on a website. Malvertisements are a type of “drive-by” threat that tend to result in users being infected with malware for simply visiting a website. The victims of this threat are...

Ransomware: A declining nuisance or an evolving menace?

Note: Read our latest comprehensive report on ransomware: Ransomware 1H 2017 review: Global outbreaks reinforce the value of security hygiene. The volume of ransomware encounters is on a downward trend. Are we seeing the beginning of the end of this vicious threat? Unfortunately, a look at the...

CryptoShield Infections from RIG EK Picking Up

The RIG Exploit Kit remains fairly active despite an overall decline in such activity, and of late, it’s been spreading a fairly new variant of ransomware called CryptoShield. The main culprit is an attack group known for using EITest to deliver malware; it has been infecting victims’ machines vi...

Buffer overflow

Vulnerability in the Oracle Outside In Technology component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: Outside In Filters. Supported versions that are affected are 8.5.2 and 8.5.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle...

Exploit kits remain a cybercrime staple against outdated software – 2016 threat landscape review series

Despite the disruption of Axpergle Angler, which dominated the landscape in early 2016, exploit kits as a whole continued to be a threat to PCs running unpatched software. Some of the most prominent threats, from malvertising to ransomware, used exploit kits to infect millions of computers...

Two New Edge Exploits Integrated into Sundown Exploit Kit

Six months of relative quiet around exploit kits recently changed when a public proof-of-concept attack disclosed by a Texas startup was integrated into the Sundown Exploit Kit. The proof-of-concept exploit was developed by Theori, a research and development firm in Austin, which opened its doors...

Google 'Android Things' — An Operating System for the Internet of Things

Google announced a Developers Preview of "Android Things" — an Android-based operating system platform for smart devices and Internet of Things IoT products. The Android-based Internet of Things OS is designed to make it easier for developers to build a smart appliance since they will be able to...

New Decryptor Unlocks CryptXXX v3 Files

Researchers have neutralized the threat of the latest strain of the CryptXXX v.3 ransomware, releasing a decryption tool for unlocking files, and have added it to the RannohDecryptor, a free utility hosted by Kaspersky Lab’s No Ransom Project. Previous decryption tools had been available for...

Security researchers found that attack kits favorite Flash Player security vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

By RecordedFuture a new study suggests that, due to its vulnerability, Flash Player will continue to the global computer at risk, cybercriminals are still looking for the Adobe solutions among the security flaws to the invasion of the computer. This year the exploit kit used by the top 10...