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...

Internet Explorer zero-day exploit used watering hole attacks to target Japanese users

Attackers exploiting a zero-day vulnerability CVE-2013-3893 in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser and served them on compromised popular Japanese news websites. According to FireEye, at least three major Japanese media websites were compromised in watering hole attacks, dubbed Operation...

New Mac OS Malware exploited two known Java vulnerabilities

A new Mac OS Malware has been discovered called OSX/Leverage.A, which appears to be yet another targeted command-and-control Trojan horse, that creates a backdoor on an affected user’s machine. The Trojan named 'Leverage' because the Trojan horse is distributed as an application disguised as a...

Internet Explorer zero-day exploit used watering hole attacks to target Japanese users

Attackers exploiting a zero-day vulnerability CVE-2013-3893 in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser and served them on compromised popular Japanese news websites. According to FireEye, at least three major Japanese media websites were compromised in watering hole attacks, dubbed Operation...

Integrated circuits can be compromised using Undetectable hardware Trojans

A team of researchers from the U.S. and Europe has developed a Hardware Trojan, which is an undetectable to many techniques, raising the question on need of proper hardware qualification. They released a paper on stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans, showing how integrated circuits used in...

Oil, Energy Watering Hole Attacks Linked to DOL attack

A string of watering hole attacks targeting oil and energy companies dating back to May could be linked to similar attacks against the U.S. Department of Labor website. Researchers at Cisco discovered the compromised domains of 10 oil and energy companies worldwide, including hydroelectric plants...

CVE-2013-1726

Mozilla Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 24.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.9, Thunderbird before 24.0, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 2.21 does not ensure exclusive access to a MAR file, which allows local users to gain privileges by creating a Trojan horse file after...

Design/Logic Flaw

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the GL tracing functionality in Mozilla Firefox before 24.0 on Android allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse .so file in a world-writable directory...

CVE-2013-1726

Mozilla Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 24.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.9, Thunderbird before 24.0, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 2.21 does not ensure exclusive access to a MAR file, which allows local users to gain privileges by creating a Trojan horse file after...

CVE-2013-1057

Untrusted search path vulnerability in maas-import-pxe-files in MAAS before 13.10 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse importpxefiles configuration file in the current working directory...

Kaspersky revealed "Kimsuky" Cyber Espionage campaign targeting South Korea

Russian Security Firm Kaspersky Lab has revealed that it has been following a sustained attack on South Korea by hackers seemingly based in North Korea., This new Cyber Espionage campaign dubbed "Kimsuky" has targeted several South Korean think tanks. Researchers believe the Kimsuky malware is mo...

Kaspersky revealed "Kimsuky" Cyber Espionage campaign targeting South Korea

Russian Security Firm Kaspersky Lab has revealed that it has been following a sustained attack on South Korea by hackers seemingly based in North Korea., This new Cyber Espionage campaign dubbed "Kimsuky" has targeted several South Korean think tanks. Researchers believe the Kimsuky malware is mo...

phpcms multiple versions of the background holding shell vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Brief description: phpcms multiple versions of the background holding shell vulnerability. Detailed description: url rules with generated static can get the shell. Vulnerability proof: 1, the landing in the background." Extension"—"the URL rule Management"—"Add a rule" ! 2,“URL rule name”must be...

Hesperbot - A New Banking Trojan that can create hidden VNC server on infected systems

Security firm ESET has discovered a new and effective banking trojan, targeting online banking users and designed to beat the mobile multi-factor authentication systems. Hesperbot detected as Win32/Spy.Hesperbot is very identical to the infamous Zeus and SpyEye Banking Malwares and infects users ...

Warning : Fake Grand Theft Auto V torrent spreading malware

Excitement continues .. Rockstar Games schedule the release of latest The Grand Theft Auto series, GTA 5 on September 17, but Cyber Criminals has already released a fake version of GTA 5 contains malware on torrent networks. Romanian security firm BitDefender issued warning that GTA V hasn't been...

Obad Trojan First to Spread Via Mobile Botnet

The keepers of the mobile Obad Trojan realize the window of opportunity they have to spread the malware on Android devices may be closing since the vulnerability the Trojan exploits has been patched in Android 4.3. That could explain why Kaspersky Lab researchers have spotted a recent spike in...

Hesperbot - A New Banking Trojan that can create hidden VNC server on infected systems

Security firm ESET has discovered a new and effective banking trojan, targeting online banking users and designed to beat the mobile multi-factor authentication systems. Hesperbot detected as Win32/Spy.Hesperbot is very identical to the infamous Zeus and SpyEye Banking Malwares and infects users ...

Warning : Fake Grand Theft Auto V torrent spreading malware

Excitement continues .. Rockstar Games schedule the release of latest The Grand Theft Auto series, GTA 5 on September 17, but Cyber Criminals has already released a fake version of GTA 5 contains malware on torrent networks. Romanian security firm BitDefender issued warning that GTA V hasn’t been...

Hand of Thief Linux Banking Trojan Not Ready For Primetime

Upon further examination, a new banking Trojan variant may not be as commercially viable as it was thought to be. Researchers at RSA Security have peeled back the layers this week on the Hand of Thief banking Trojan, a piece of malware that made headlines over the summer after it was thought to b...

KINS Banking Trojan/Data Theft (credentialed check)

The remote Windows host has files that indicate that the KINS banking Trojan has been installed. False positives may occur if file names identical to files KINS creates are detected on the system. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid69555;...