Tragic-Event-Related Scams

In the wake of Sunday's tragic event in Las Vegas, US-CERT warns users to be watchful for various malicious cyber activity targeting both victims and potential donors. Users should exercise caution when handling emails that relate to the event, even if those emails appear to originate from truste...

Revamped Nukebot Malware Changes Targets, Adds Functions

A revamped version of the Nukebot banking trojan dubbed Jimmy Nukebot has shifted focus from stealing bankcard data and now acts as a conduit for quietly downloading malicious payloads for web-injects, cryptocurrency mining, and taking screenshots of targeted systems. The code is a modification o...

Mozilla Firefox nsHtml5TreeBuilder Use-After-Free

CVE-2016-1960 / Exploit Title: Mozilla Firefox . 1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showbug.cgi?id=1246014 2 https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/44.0.2/win32/en-US/ / "use strict"; / This is executed after having pivoted the stack. esp' points to a region on the heap, and the original stack...

Many Factors Conspire in ICS/SCADA Attacks

Critical infrastructure operators can’t be blamed for a perpetual case of whiplash. They are mired between hackers targeting internet-facing and air-gapped systems with equal precision, and vendors and management unwilling to properly tackle security for fear of downtime and incompatibility. “The...

July 7, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Spiderman” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! July 7, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Residents of these states ar...

Xenforo Forum CMS 1.5.13 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Vulnerable Software: Xenforo Forum CMS | | Vendor: http://xenforo.com | | Vulnerability Type: Persistent XSS authenticated | | Date Released: 07/04/2017 | | Released by: MLT |...

Easy File Sharing Web Server 7.2 - GET HTTP Request (PassWD) Buffer Overflow (SEH) Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category remote exploits !/usr/bin/python Exploit Title: Easy File Sharing Web Server 7.2 - GET HTTP Request PassWD Buffer Overflow SEH Date: 19 June 2017 Exploit Author: clubjk Author Contact: email protected Vendor Homepage: http://www.sharing-file.com Software...

FIN10: Anatomy of a Cyber Extortion Operation

FireEye has identified a set of financially motivated intrusion operations being carried out by a threat actor we have dubbed FIN10. FIN10 is known for compromising networks, stealing sensitive data, and directly engaging victim executives and board members in an attempt to extort them into payin...

Terror Exploit Kit Evolves Into Larger Threat

The relatively new Terror exploit kit is bucking the downward trend in the EK market, and is steadily evolving into more of a threat. Researchers at Cisco Talos said Terror has abandoned an early strategy that included “carpet-bombing” a target’s browser to one that now uses exploits that precise...

Hundreds of Apps Using Ultrasonic Signals to Silently Track Smartphone Users

Your smartphone may have some apps that are continuously listening inaudible, high-frequency ultrasonic sounds from your surroundings and they know where you go, what you like and dislike — all without your knowledge. Ultrasonic Cross-Device Tracking is a new technology that some marketers and...

APT10 (MenuPass Group): New Tools, Global Campaign Latest Manifestation of Longstanding Threat

APT10 Background APT10 MenuPass Group is a Chinese cyber espionage group that FireEye has tracked since 2009. They have historically targeted construction and engineering, aerospace, and telecom firms, and governments in the United States, Europe, and Japan. We believe that the targeting of these...

Github Repository Owners Targeted by Data-Stealing Malware

Phishing emails zeroing in on developers who own Github repositories were infecting victims with malware capable of stealing data through keyloggers and modules that would snag screenshots. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks this week said that in mid-January, an unknown number of developers were...

Detecting and mitigating elevation-of-privilege exploit for CVE-2017-0005

On March 14, 2017, Microsoft released security bulletin MS17-013 to address CVE-2017-0005, a vulnerability in the Windows Win32k component that could potentially allow elevation of privileges. A report from a trusted partner identified a zero-day exploit for this vulnerability. The exploit target...

Geutebrueck GCore - GCoreServer.exe Buffer Overflow RCE

This module exploits a stack Buffer Overflow in the GCore server GCoreServer.exe. The vulnerable webserver is running on Port 13003 and Port 13004, does not require authentication and affects all versions from 2003 till July 2016 Version 1.4.YYYYY. Module Options msf use...

Disk Savvy Enterprise - GET Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' class MetasploitModule 'DiskSavvy Enterprise GET Buffer Overflow', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability ...

Malware exploit: Sakura

Sakura Type: SQLi http://localhost/func.php?showtopic=2 http://localhost/index.php?showtopic=322 http://localhost/sakuraadmin44.php?filename=1.png&cmd=rm%20-f%20-r%20%2Fusr%2F&edit=2312 http://localhost/sakuraadmin44.php?filename=1.png&cmd=apt-get%20install%20backdoor...

Attacks On MongoDB Rise As Hijackings Continue

The number of insecure MongoDB databases being hijacked by criminals is growing according to experts who say attacks that began last week are now targeting more valuable assets. Since identifying attacks against MongoDB installations on Dec. 27, Victor Gevers, an ethical hacker and founder of GDI...

‘One-Stop Shop’ – Phishing Domain Targets Information from Customers of Several Indian Banks

FireEye Labs recently discovered a malicious phishing domain designed to steal a variety of information – including credentials and mobile numbers – from customers of several banks in India. Currently, we have not observed this domain being used in any campaigns. The phishing websites appear to b...

WhatsApp to Share Your Data with Facebook — You have 30 Days to Stop It

Nothing comes for Free, as "Free" is just a relative term used by companies to develop a strong user base and then use it for their own benefits. The same has been done by the secure messaging app WhatsApp, which has now made it crystal clear that the popular messaging service will begin sharing...

M-Trends Asia Pacific: Organizations Must Improve at Detecting and Responding to Breaches

Since 2010, Mandiant, a FireEye company, has presented trends, statistics and case studies of some of the largest and most sophisticated cyber attacks. In February 2016, we released our annual global M-Trends® report based on data from the breaches we responded to in 2015. Now, we are releasing...