Icefog Cyberespionage Campaign Hit 3 US Oil, Gas Companies

When the curtain was peeled back on the Icefog targeted espionage campaign in September, a new type of operator was unveiled, one that took the persistence out of advanced persistent threats APT. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab noted in uncovering Icefog that the attacks against the defense supply...

Malware Infections on the Rise in Turkey

In its latest Security Intelligence Report, the Microsoft Malware Protection Center MMPC determined that the malware encounter rate in Turkey is far greater than that of any other country in the entire world, let alone the other countries among the top 10 in malware infections. Encounter rate, pe...

Facebook - Delete The Admin Of Any Page Exploit

It is possible to delete the admin of any page just with a single click.This can also be converted into a bot or a worm leading to the deletion of admin of thousands of pages. It is also possible to fully automate this worm.It is very effective when we aim for wide spread attack.Targeted attacks...

TIFF Zero Day Patch Among December 2013 Microsoft updates

Microsoft will, next week, patch a zero-day vulnerability in its GDI+ graphics component being exploited in targeted attacks in the Middle East and Asia. The zero day has sat unpatched since it was made public Nov. 5; Microsoft did release a FixIt tool as a temporary mitigation. The patch is one ...

Microsoft Releases Security Advisory for Microsoft Windows Kernel

Microsoft has released Security Advisory 2914486 to address a vulnerability in a kernel component of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to obtain elevation of privilege and then execute arbitrary code. Microsoft is aware of limited, targeted attacks tha...

Zero Day Fixed in Microsoft November 2013 Patch Tuesday

Microsoft today issued eight bulletins addressing 19 separate vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system, Internet Explorer Web browser, Office, and other products. Microsoft gave three of the bulletins its highest “critical” rating, while the remaining five received the second-most-severe...

Technical details of the targeted attack using IE vulnerability CVE-2013-3918

Over the weekend we became aware of an active attack relying on an unknown remote code execution vulnerability of a legacy ActiveX component used by Internet Explorer. We are releasing this blog to confirm one more time that the code execution vulnerability will be fixed in today’s UpdateTuesday...

CVE-2013-3918

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IBM Lotus Sametime WebPlayer DoS

This module exploits a known flaw in the IBM Lotus Sametime WebPlayer version 8.5.2.1392 and prior to cause a denial of service condition against specific users. For this module to function the target user must be actively logged into the IBM Lotus Sametime server and have the Sametime Audio Visu...

Attacks on New Microsoft Zero Day Using Multi-Stage Malware

Attackers exploiting the Microsoft Windows and Office zero day revealed yesterday are using an exploit that includes a malicious RAR file as well as a fake Office document as the lure, and are installing a wide variety of malicious components on newly infected systems. The attacks seen thus far a...

CVE-2013-3906 : Zero Day Vulnerability in Microsoft Graphics Component

Microsoft has issued a temporary fix for a 0day vulnerability that can be exploited to install malware via infected Word documents. A Zero-day Remote code execution flaw, which has been dubbed CVE-2013-3906, exploits a vulnerability in a Microsoft graphics component, to target Microsoft Office...

Microsoft Warns of Targeted Attacks on Windows 0-Day

Microsoft is warning users about targeted attacks against a new vulnerability in several versions of Windows and Office that could allow an attacker to take over a user’s machine. The bug, which is not yet patched, is being used as part of targeted attacks with malicious email attachments, mainly...

CVE-2013-3906: a graphics vulnerability exploited through Word documents

Recently we become aware of a vulnerability of a Microsoft graphics component that is actively exploited in targeted attacks using crafted Word documents sent by email. Today we are releasing Security Advisory 2896666 which includes a proactive Fix it workaround for blocking this attack while we...

Microsoft Releases Security Advisory 2896666

Today we released Security Advisory 2896666 regarding an issue that affects customers using Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Office 2003 through 2010, and all supported versions of Microsoft Lync. We are aware of targeted attacks, largely in the Middle East and South Asi...

Major Companies Fall Victim to Social Engineering

The annual Social Engineering Capture the Flag contest held during DEF CON may seem on the surface to be just an opportunity for pen-testers and hackers to flex their pretexting muscles. But if you’re one of the 10 major technology, manufacturing and critical infrastructure organizations targeted...

MS13-080 addresses two vulnerabilities under limited, targeted attacks

Today we released MS13-080 which addresses nine CVEs in Internet Explorer. This bulletin fixes multiple security issues, including two critical vulnerabilities that haven been actively exploited in limited targeted attacks, which we will discuss in details in this blog entry. CVE-2013-3893: the...

MIRcon Preview: Why C-Level Executives Should Attend

Security conferences come and go and most are well attended by information security practitioners for professional development and networking. But what about the executives who are responsible for strategy and who hold the budgets - what conferences should they attend? With MIRcon 2013, Nov. 5-6,...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday - 8 Security Updates, 4 critical vulnerabilities, including Internet Explorer zero-day

October is turning out to be a busy month for patches. This month also marks the 10-year anniversary of the Patch Tuesday program, which Microsoft started in October of 2003. Scheduled for tomorrow, Microsoft has announced that they will release eight security updates including four critical,...

Mailbox App for iOS Automatically Executes Javascript

UPDATE – The popular Mailbox app for iOS suffers from a bit of a security nightmare. A security researcher in Italy recently discovered that the app automatically executes javascript contained in any HTML email. “It is just a bad design choice,” said researcher Michele Spagnulo, a computer...

IE Zero Day Used in Targeted Attacks Against Japanese Firms

Attackers exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser have compromised several popular local Japanese media outlets and have infected systems belonging to government, high tech and manufacturing organizations in Japan. Researchers at FireEye said the attacks appea...