AOL Advertising Network Abused to Distribute Malware

Security researchers have uncovered a malvertising campaign used to distribute malware to visitors of The Huffington Post website, as well as several other sites, through malicious advertisements served over the AOL advertising network. At the end of last year, Cyphort Labs, security firm...

Malvertising Campaign Hits AOL Ad Network, Leads to Exploit Kit

Researchers have detected a malvertising campaign running on a pair of sites owned by Huffington Post that is using ads distributed through an AOL ad network. The attack is sending victims through a series of redirects that eventually brings them to a landing page that is running an exploit kit...

Microsoft Reports Massive Increase in Macros Enabled Threats

The Microsoft Malware Protection Center says there has been a dramatic increase in threats using macros to spread malware via spam and social engineering over the last month. Macros are used for automating frequently used tasks in Office. Macro-related infections were constant and near zero daily...

CVE-2014-4634

Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in EMC Replication Manager through 5.5.2 and AppSync before 2.1.0 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse application with a name composed of an initial substring of a path that contains a space character...

CVE-2014-4634

Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in EMC Replication Manager through 5.5.2 and AppSync before 2.1.0 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse application with a name composed of an initial substring of a path that contains a space character...

Beware: Fake 'The Interview' App Affects Android Users

"The Interview", the controversial North Korean-baiting film which appeared to be the root cause of the cyber mishap occurred at Sony Pictures Entertainment that threatened terror attack at theaters showing the movie, now threatens to expose users of Android phones to a malware attack. Since its...

CVE-2014-9416

Huawei eSpace Desktop (pre-V200R003C00) is affected by DLL Hijacking involving mfc71enu.dll, mfc71loc.dll, tcapi.dll and airpcap.dll. The vulnerability, described as untrusted search path leading to arbitrary code execution, relies on loading these libraries via Trojan-horse scenarios. Multiple C...

Built-In Backdoor Found in Popular Chinese Android Smartphones

Chinese smartphone manufacturers have been criticized many times for suspected backdoors in its products, the popular Chinese smartphone brands, Xiaomi and Star N9500 smartphones are the top examples. Now, the China's third-largest mobile and world's sixth-largest phone manufacturer 'Coolpad', ha...

MCollective: Privilege escalation

Background MCollective is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems. Description Two vulnerabilities have been found in MCollective: An untrusted search path vulnerability exists in MCollective CVE-2014-3248 MCollective does not properly validate server...

Upatre Downloader Spreading Dyreza Banking Trojan

The Upatre downloader is the vehicle that has driven numerous banking Trojan and ransomware attacks to the front door of countless victims at great cost. Microsoft on Thursday warned of a wire-transfer spam campaign that it’s spotted that is spreading Upatre and eventually loading the dangerous...

Amazon Linux AMI : facter (ALAS-2014-456)

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise 2.8 before 2.8.7, Puppet before 2.7.26 and 3.x before 3.6.2, Facter 1.6.x and 2.x before 2.0.2, Hiera before 1.3.4, and Mcollective before 2.5.2, when running with Ruby 1.9.1 or earlier, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan...

Medium: facter

Issue Overview: Untrusted search path vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise 2.8 before 2.8.7, Puppet before 2.7.26 and 3.x before 3.6.2, Facter 1.6.x and 2.x before 2.0.2, Hiera before 1.3.4, and Mcollective before 2.5.2, when running with Ruby 1.9.1 or earlier, allows local users to gain privileges...

'DeathRing' Chinese Malware Found Pre-Installed On Several Smartphones

Malware authors are trying hard to create malicious software with more innovative ways to infect victims. A new mobile Trojan horse infection has been discovered by security researchers that comes pre-loaded onto low-cost Chinese-made Android smartphones popular in Asia and Africa. The trojan,...

Design/Logic Flaw

CCH Wolters Kluwer ProSystem fx Engagement aka PFX Engagement 7.1 and earlier uses weak permissions Authenticated Users: Modify and Write for the 1 Pfx.Engagement.WcfServices, 2 PFXEngDesktopService, 3 PFXSYNPFTService, and 4 P2EWinService service files in PFX Engagement, which allows local users...

CVE-2014-9113

CCH Wolters Kluwer ProSystem fx Engagement aka PFX Engagement 7.1 and earlier uses weak permissions Authenticated Users: Modify and Write for the 1 Pfx.Engagement.WcfServices, 2 PFXEngDesktopService, 3 PFXSYNPFTService, and 4 P2EWinService service files in PFX Engagement, which allows local users...

CVE-2014-8419

Wibu-Systems CodeMeter Runtime before 5.20 uses weak permissions read and write access for all users for codemeter.exe, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file...

CVE-2014-8419

Wibu-Systems CodeMeter Runtime before 5.20 uses weak permissions read and write access for all users for codemeter.exe, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file...

'Regin' - 'State-Sponsored' Spying Tool Targeted Govts, Infrastructures for Years

Researchers have uncovered a highly advanced, sophisticated piece of malware they believe was used to spy on a wide-range of international targets including governments, infrastructure operators and other high-profile individuals since at least 2008. The nasty malware, dubbed "Regin", is said to ...

New Citadel Trojan Targets Your Password Managers

Unless we are a human supercomputer, remembering password is not an easy task and that too, if you have a different password for every different site. But luckily to make the whole process easy, there is a growing market for password managers which provides an extra layer of protection. Wait! Wai...

Citadel Variant Targets Password Managers

The Citadel Trojan has once again branched out beyond its roots as banking malware and is now targeting the master passwords guarding major password management products. Researchers from IBM Trusteer today said they’ve notified makers of the nexus Personal Security Client, Password Safe and KeePa...