Microsoft Patches USB-Related Flaw Used in Targeted Attacks

It used to be that dropping a USB stick in a parking lot in the hope that someone plugs the malicious peripheral into an important computer was the realm of penetration testers and ambitious nation-state actors. That’s just not so anymore. The practice has gone mainstream, even infiltrating popul...

Adobe Releases Emergency Patch for Flash Zero-Day Vulnerability

Adobe has rolled out an emergency software patch for its Flash Player to patch a critical zero-day vulnerability that is already exploited by the hackers in the wild. The company said the flaw could potentially allow hackers to take control of the affected system and that it had evidence of...

Adobe Flash Player -- critical vulnerabilities

Adobe reports: Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. These updates address a critical vulnerability CVE-2015-3113 that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe is aware of reports that CVE-2015-3113 is...

Stegoloader Malware Uses Steganography to Hide Itself

Malware writers aren’t hesitant to do what it takes to protect a campaign and keep it hidden from detection technologies and security researchers. The group behind the Stegoloader malware, disclosed Monday by researchers at Dell SecureWorks, has taken to digital steganography to keep its...

Microsoft Word Intruder RTF FILE

Malicious word documents can be created using Microsoft Word Intruder MWI. This tool can be used in targeted attacks. Successful infection will allow the attacker to download additional malware to the target...

APT Group Embeds C&C Data on TechNet Pages

The so-called Deputy Dog APT group has surfaced again with a means of keeping its command and control servers under wraps that involves Microsoft’s TechNet online resources. New research published last week by Microsoft and FireEye revealed targeted attacks against organizations have been...

IBM Websphere Portal - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting

IBM Websphere Portal - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting IBM WebSphere Portal Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability CVE-2014-0910 + Author: Filippo Roncari + Target: IBM WebSphere Portal + Version: 7.0, 6.1.5, 6.1.0 + Vendor: http://www.ibm.com + Accessibility: Remote + Severity: Medium + CVE:...

D-Link cloud routing memory vulnerability: hack 1 minute break or leakage of online banking passwords-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

D-Link cloud routing memory the vulnerability may leak password Relates to 1 of 7 models; the Friends of the news group in English official website released four of the model number Router the patch, but there is no Chinese version of the Beijing news news recently, the domestic security experts...

Malvertising Abuses Real-Time Bidding on Ad Networks

Dark corners of the Internet harbor trouble. They’re supposed to. But what about when Yahoo, CNN.com, TMZ and other busy destination sites heave disaster upon visitors? That’s the challenge posed by malvertising, the latest hacker Golden Goose used in cybercrime operations and even in some target...

Social Engineering Email Sender – SEES

SEES – Social Engineering Email Sender Most of the companies nowadays have their firewalls, threat monitoring and prevention security appliances setup. With these mechanisms in place, security precautions are taken and incidents are monitored. Inbound traffic being restricted, SEES on the other...

Red October Attackers Return With CloudAtlas APT Campaign

The attackers behind the Red October APT campaign that was exposed nearly two years ago have resurfaced with a new campaign that is targeting some of the same victims and using similarly constructed tools and spear phishing emails. Red October emerged in January 2013 and researchers found that th...

The sword refers to the Android and iOS system DoubleDirect middle attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

A security researcher found a new man in the middle attack technique, it targets mostly run of the Android system and iOS system of smartphone and tablets. This is called DoubleDirect of art belonging to the middleman（MITM attack. An attacker can use this technique to put the victim to visit...

Most Targeted Attacks Exploit Privileged Accounts

We all like to write and talk about flashy zero-day vulnerabilities. However, a new threat report cautions enterprises not to flatter themselves, because the majority of criminals are not using valuable zero-days exploits to penetrate corporate networks: they’re phishing privileged account...

Microsoft Releases Emergency Out-of-Band Patch for Kerberos Bug MS14-068

Microsoft today released an "out-of-band" security updates to fix a critical vulnerability in all supported versions of its Windows Server software that cyber criminals are exploiting to compromise whole networks of computers. The Emergency patch release comes just one week after Microsoft provid...

Microsoft to Release Critical Out-of-Band Windows Patch

UPDATE–Microsoft on Tuesday released a rare out-of-band patch for a critical vulnerability in several versions of Windows and Windows Server, including Windows 8 and 8.1. The Ms14-068 vulnerability is a flaw in the Kerberos implementation in Windows that could enable an attacker to elevate his...

OnionDuke APT Malware served through Tor Network

The malicious Russian Tor exit node, which was claimed to be patching binary files, is actually distributing a malware program to launch cyber-espionage attacks against European government agencies. The group behind the rogue Tor exit node had likely been infecting files for more than a year,...

OpenShift: /proc/net/tcp information disclosure

It was found that OpenShift Enterprise did not restrict access to the /proc/net/tcp file in gears, which allowed local users to view all listening connections and connected sockets. This could result in remote system's IP or port numbers in use to be exposed, which may be useful for further...

Destructive BlackEnergy Malware Plug-Ins Target Cisco Routers

BlackEnergy, a converted crimeware tool, operates behind a laundry list of plug-ins for Linux and Windows systems that allows it to be used to attack Cisco networking devices, steal digital certificates, brick systems it infects, and skillfully hide from security analysts. Researchers from...

Attackers Exploiting Windows OLE Vulnerability

Attackers are using a zero day vulnerability in nearly all supported versions of Windows in a series of targeted attacks. The flaw is in the OLE technology in Windows and can be used for remote code execution is a targeted user opens a rigged Office file. Microsoft is warning customers that there...

Firms Detail Zero Days Targeting Windows Kernel

After they were patched in yesterday’s round of Patch Tuesday security bulletins, security firms have begun to peel back the layers on two zero-day vulnerabilities that are being used in limited, targeted attacks against Microsoft’s Windows Kernel. According to FireEye, one of the firms that...