Reasonably Clever Extortion E-mail Based on Password Theft

Imagine you've gotten your hands on a file of e-mail addresses and passwords. You want to monetize it, but the site it's for isn't very valuable. How do you use it? You convince the owners of the password to send you money. I recently saw a spam e-mail that ties the password to a porn site. The...

Hacker Puts Airport's Security System Access On Dark Web Sale For Just $10

If you can't find it on Google, you will definitely find it on the Dark Web. Black markets on the Dark web are not known for just buying drugs, it is a massive hidden network where you can buy pretty much anything you can imagine—from pornography, weapon, and counterfeit currencies, to hacking...

Organizations Leave Backdoors Open to Cheap Remote Desktop Protocol Attacks

ARCHIVED STORY Organizations Leave Backdoors Open to Cheap Remote Desktop Protocol Attacks By John Fokker · July 11, 2018 Thanks to my colleague Christiaan Beek for his advice and contributions. While researching underground hacker marketplaces, the McAfee Advanced Threat Research team has...

Carbon Black TAU Threat Analysis: Recent Dharma Ransomware Highlights Attackers’ Continued Use of Open-Source Tools

In June of 2018, an organization contacted the Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU about a ransomware attack they were currently investigating. TAU team members worked with the firm investigating the incident. After the initial analysis was completed, it became apparent that this network had be...

Microsoft Windows: Client connection encryption level (Remote Desktop Services)

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winrdhostclientencrlevel.nasl 11363 2018-09-12 13:46:05Z emoss $ Check value for Set client connection encryption level Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Microsoft Windows: Service: Remote Desktop Services UserMode Port Redirector

The service SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.109272";...

MITM RDP Connections: Seth

Seth is a tool written in Python and Bash to MitM RDP connections by attempting to downgrade the connection in order to extract clear text credentials. It was developed to raise awareness and educate about the importance of properly configured RDP connections in the context of pentests, workshops...

CVE-2017-2835

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the RDP receive functionality of FreeRDP 2.0.0-beta1+android11. A specially crafted server response can cause an out-of-bounds write resulting in an exploitable condition. An attacker can compromise the server or use a man in the middle to...

CVE-2017-2835

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the RDP receive functionality of FreeRDP 2.0.0-beta1+android11. A specially crafted server response can cause an out-of-bounds write resulting in an exploitable condition. An attacker can compromise the server or use a man in the middle to...

CVE-2017-2835

CVE-2017-2835 : An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the RDP receive functionality of FreeRDP, specifically in versions around 2.0.0-beta1+android11. A specially crafted server response can cause an out-of-bounds write, leading to an exploitable condition. An attacker could compr...

CVE-2017-2835

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CVE-2018-0976

The CVE-2018-0976 entry describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Windows RDP that can be triggered by specially crafted RDP requests, reportedly affecting Windows 7, Windows Server 2008/2012 families, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10/Server 2016+ clients. The connected documents do not provide c...

Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4093118)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB4093118 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

KLA11221 Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Microsoft Windows . Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code, gain privileges, obtain sensitive information, cause denial of service and possibly to bypass security restrictions. Below is a complete list of...

KLA11896 Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Products (ESU)

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Microsoft Products Extended Support Update. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code, obtain sensitive information, gain privileges, cause denial of service. Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities: 1. A memory corrupti...

Security Updates for Windows Server 2008 (April 2018)

The remote Windows host is missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Windows Adobe Type Manager Font Driver ATMFD.dll when it fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully...

Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol CVE-2018-0976 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to cause the target service to stop responding, denying service to legitimate users. Technologies Affected Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems...

LockCrypt ransomware: weakness in code can lead to recovery

At the start of the year, it seemed that 2018 was going to be all about cryptominers. They so overwhelmingly dominated the landscape that it looked like no other threat had a chance. However, ransomware is not giving up the field so fast. There have been new variants popping up every couple of...

Microsoft Windows CredSSP MITM Remote Code Execution (CVE-2018-0886)

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in CredSSP. The vulnerability due to how CredSSP validates request during the authentication process. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted RDP request to the target...

CredSSP Flaw in Remote Desktop Protocol Affects All Versions of Windows

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in Credential Security Support Provider protocol CredSSP that affects all versions of Windows to date and could allow remote attackers to exploit RDP and WinRM to steal data and run malicious code. CredSSP protocol has been designed to be used by RDP...