CVE-2017-11579

In the most recent firmware for Blipcare, the device provides an open Wireless network called "Blip" for communicating with the device. The user connects to this open Wireless network and uses the web management interface of the device to provide the user's Wi-Fi credentials so that the device ca...

Design/Logic Flaw

An attacker could send a specifically crafted payload to the XML-RPC invocation script and trigger the unserialize call on the "what" parameter in the "openads.spc" RPC method. Such vulnerability could be used to perform various types of attacks, e.g. exploit serialize-related PHP vulnerabilities...

CVE-2019-5434

An attacker could send a specifically crafted payload to the XML-RPC invocation script and trigger the unserialize call on the "what" parameter in the "openads.spc" RPC method. Such vulnerability could be used to perform various types of attacks, e.g. exploit serialize-related PHP vulnerabilities...

Revive Adserver: Deserialization of Untrusted Data in www/delivery/adxmlrpc.php

An attacker could send a specifically crafted payload to the XML-RPC invocation script and trigger the unserialize call on the "what" parameter in the "openads.spc" RPC method. Impact Such vulnerability could be used to perform various types of attacks, e.g. exploit serialize-related PHP...

ThreatList: Holiday Spam, the Perfect Seasonal Gift for Criminals

Maybe holiday cheer makes people less cynical. If so, that explains why social-engineering spam tactics prove to be more effective during the festive season. New research shows that spam campaigns disguised as delivery notifications or online shopping invoices, while always a favored tactic by...

New Flash Player zero-day used against Russian facility

For the past couple of years, Office documents have largely replaced exploit kits as the primary malware delivery vector, giving threat actors the choice between social engineering lures and exploits or a combination of both. While today's malicious spam malspam heavily relies on macros and popul...

Fallout Exploit Kit Releases the Kraken Ransomware on Its Victims

ARCHIVED STORY Fallout Exploit Kit Releases the Kraken Ransomware on Its Victims By John Fokker · October 30, 2018 Alexandr Solad and Daniel Hatheway of Recorded Future are coauthors of this post. Read Recorded Future’s version of this analysis. Rising from the deep, Kraken Cryptor ransomware has...

PoC Attack Leverages Microsoft Office and YouTube to Deliver Malware

A stealthy malware delivery tactic has been uncovered in the way videos are embedded into Microsoft Word Documents, according to researchers. It allows JavaScript code-execution when a user clicks on a weaponized YouTube video thumbnail within a Word document – with no alert message displayed by...

ThreatList: Microsoft Macros Remain Top Vector for Malware Delivery

Attacks using malicious Microsoft macros, always a popular method for compromising target machines, are more virulent than ever, accounting for 45 percent of all delivery mechanisms analyzed in August. Top Malware Delivery Mechanisms in August Just behind this tried-and-true method lies the...

CVE-2018-1000665

Dojo Dojo Objective Harness DOH version prior to version 1.14 contains a Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in unit.html and testsDOH/base/loader/i18n-exhaustive/i18n-test/unit.html and testsDOH/base/i18nExhaustive.js in the DOH that can result in Victim attacked through their browser - deliv...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000665

Dojo Dojo Objective Harness DOH version prior to version 1.14 contains a Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in unit.html and testsDOH/base/loader/i18n-exhaustive/i18n-test/unit.html and testsDOH/base/i18nExhaustive.js in the DOH that can result in Victim attacked through their browser - deliv...

Cross site scripting

Dojo Dojo Objective Harness DOH version prior to version 1.14 contains a Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in unit.html and testsDOH/base/loader/i18n-exhaustive/i18n-test/unit.html and testsDOH/base/i18nExhaustive.js in the DOH that can result in Victim attacked through their browser - deliv...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000665

Dojo Dojo Objective Harness DOH version prior to version 1.14 contains a Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in unit.html and testsDOH/base/loader/i18n-exhaustive/i18n-test/unit.html and testsDOH/base/i18nExhaustive.js in the DOH that can result in Victim attacked through their browser - deliv...

How's that Security Back Door Doing? (Part 2)

In the first part of this blog post I wrote about how recursive DNS rDNS is an attack surface that many enterprises don't currently protect. Bad actors are exploiting that fact and developing advanced targeted threats that use DNS to bypass conventional security tools such as firewalls, secure we...

Cisco Firepower System Software detection engine remote security bypass vulnerability (CNVD-2018-11286)

Cisco Firepower System Software is a next-generation firewall product NGFW from Cisco. detection engine is an intrusion detection engine. A security vulnerability exists in the way the SMB protocol of the detection engine in Cisco Firepower System Software handles large file transfer failures. A...

Use of ‘StegWare’ Increases in Stealth Malware Attacks

SAN FRANCISCO – Researchers are warning of an uptick in the malicious use of steganography as a vehicle for delivering malware. Steganography, they say, is increasingly becoming a go-to tool for cybercriminals not just for infection, but also command-and-control, data exfiltration and as an...

CVE-2016-10258

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the Symantec Advanced Secure Gateway ASG and ProxySG management consoles. A malicious appliance administrator can upload arbitrary malicious files to the management console and trick another administrator user into downloading and executing malicious code...

A Deep Dive into Database Attacks [Part II]: Delivery and Execution of Malicious Executables through SQL commands (SQL Server)

An organization’s database servers are frequently the prime target of attackers. We recently started a new research project we named StickyDB to learn more about database hacking, primarily to understand common database attacks, tools and techniques engaged by attackers. To conduct this research,...

New Mac cryptominer has 23 older variants

On February 1, a new Mac cryptominer was discovered being distributed via a hack of the MacUpdate website. Since then, we've been doing some digging and found that this isolated incident was just the tip of the iceberg. The malware delivered by the MacUpdate hack appears to be the culmination of...

Fast Flux Botnet: Research Results

Just like that, another Akamai Edge has come and gone. If you were able to join us this year, I hope you had a chance to stop by my presentation on Threat Intelligence Insights: An In-Depth Analysis of a Fast Flux Botnet. In short, Fast Flux is a DNS technique used by botnets to hide various type...