WinSaber - Unquoted Service Path Privilege Escalation

Document Title: =============== WinSaber - Unquoted Service Path Privilege Escalation References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1879 Release Date: ============= 2016-07-28 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 1879...

Five-Year 'Dust Storm' APT Campaign Seen Targeting Japanese Critical Infrastructure

A five-year campaign primarily focused on extracting sensitive information from Japanese oil, gas, and electric utilities was outlined by researchers on Tuesday. Referred to as Operation Dust Storm .PDF by researchers at Cylance, the campaign has managed to stay persistent over the years, and...

Emissary Panda APT Group Gets Selective About Data it Steals

LAS VEGAS – The Emissary Panda APT group has a long history of invading Western organizations—be they enterprises, government or political outfits—hungry for reams of intellectual property. Lately the group, however, has become a little more selective about what it steals. Researchers at Dell...

This 20-year-old Student Has Written 100 Malware Programs in Two Years

Security firm Trend Micro has identified a 20-year-old Brazilian college student responsible for developing and distributing over 100 Banking Trojans selling each for around US$300. Known online as 'Lordfenix', 'Hacker's Son' and 'Filho de Hacker', the computer science student first began his...

Coordinated Takedown Puts End to Simda Botnet

The Simda botnet, known for spreading banking malware and dropping a backdoor on hundreds of thousands of machines worldwide, was taken down last Thursday in a collaborative effort between international law enforcement bodies and private security and technology companies. Fourteen command and...

jQuery Official Website Compromised To Serve Malware

The official website of the popular cross-platform JavaScript library jQuery jquery.com has been compromised and redirecting its visitors to a third-party website hosting the RIG exploit kit, in order to distribute information-stealing malware. JQuery is a free and open source JavaScript library...

POWELIKS — A Persistent Windows Malware Without Any Installer File

Malware is nothing but a malicious files which is stored on an infected computer system in order to damage the system or steal sensitive data from it or perform other malicious activities. But security researchers have uncovered a new and sophisticated piece of malware that infects systems and...

SSL Black List Aims to Publicize Certificates Associated With Malware

Malware and botnet operators are always adapting their tactics, trying to stay a step or two ahead of defensive technologies and techniques. One of the methods many attackers have adopted is using SSL to communicate with the infected machines they control, and a researcher has started a new...

Phishers Use Luis Suarez Bite as Bait

The World Cup is the most popular sporting event on the planet, and not just among sports fans; attackers and scammers of all stripes love it as well, as it presents a unique opportunity to separate victims from their money. Phishing and malware scams tied to the World Cup in Brazil have been...

NT 4.0/4.0 SP1/4.0 SP2/4.0 SP3/4.0 SP4 Server Operator to Administrator Privilege Escalation: System Key Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/182/info The default ACL over the HKEYLocalMachine\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon key System value includes an entry for Server Operators:Special. The Special setting allows Server Ops to Set this...

Eric Allman Sendmail 8.8 .x Socket Hijack Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/774/info Through exploiting a combination of seemingly low-risk vulnerabilities in sendmail, it is possible for a malicious local user to have an arbitrary program inherit or hijack the file descriptor for the socket...

India to Host 3rd Annual 'The Hackers Conference' this Year in August

A crowd of Cyberspace experts along with the best minds in Indian hacking community, leaders in the information security community, policymakers and Government representatives will come together at a common platform to join their efforts in addressing the most critical issues of the Internet...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: chkrootkit-0.49-9.fc19

chkrootkit is a tool to locally check for signs of a rootkit. It contains: chkrootkit: shell script that checks system binaries for rootkit modification. ifpromisc: checks if the network interface is in promiscuous mode. chklastlog: checks for lastlog deletions. chkwtmp: checks for wtmp deletions...

Slack: Open redirect vulnerability

Hi, Open redirect issue: 1 Go to this URL: https://sehacure.slack.com/link?url=http://www.likelo.com The victim will be redirected. Impacts: The attacker can force the user to install trojans,malwares, etc. into his system. And can conduct phishing attacks. Please have a check. Best regards, Anan...

Microsoft Ships IE 10 Zero Day Fix-It Tool

Microsoft last night released a Fix-It tool as a temporary mitigation for a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 10 being exploited by two hacker groups against the Veterans of Foreign Wars in the U.S. as well as a French aerospace manufacturer. IE 9 also contains the same use-after free...

[AFF v0.1] Anonymous FTP Finder

Anonymous FTP Scanner AFF is a Security tool for penetration testers, network admins etc. The tool is written in Python with wxPython as GUI and compiled with Py2exe. AFF can scan large networks for Anonymous FTP Servers and regular FTP:s. Example of Anonymous FTP Server is network equipment, Mul...

[Download Hash Verifier] Quickly Verify Integrity (MD5/SHA256 Hash) of Downloaded File

Download Hash Verifier is the FREE tool to verify the integrity of your downloaded file. It makes file hash verification easier and quicker with its smart features such as 'Auto Hash Detection', 'Drag & Drop File', 'Instant copy from Clipboard' etc Hash verification is a standard mechanism used t...

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...

New Attacks Target Syrian Activists

A new set of malware campaigns targeted at Syrian activists, journalists and NGOs has emerged, and security researchers say that the attackers are employing a variety of tactics, including a new OS X Trojan that could be part of a “false flag” operation. The details of the new round of attacks on...

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...