CVE-2014-0322: Internet Explorer zero-day exploit targets US Military Intelligence

Hackers are using a zero day vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer IE web browser and targeting US military personnels in an active attack campaign, dubbed as 'Operation Snowman'. FireEye Researchers have discovered that a U.S. veterans website was compromised to serve a zero day exploit...

New IE Zero Day Found Targeting Military Intelligence

Attackers were able to compromise the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars’ website this week and serve up a previously unknown zero day exploit in Internet Explorer 10, and while motivation behind the campaign is still unclear, experts are speculating its aim was to procure military intelligence...

New APT Campaign Dubbed The Mask Called Most Sophisticated Seen to Date

PUNTA CANA–A group of high-level, nation-state attackers has been targeting government agencies, embassies, diplomatic offices and energy companies with a cyber-espionage campaign for more than five years that researchers say is the most sophisticated APT operation they’ve seen to date. The attac...

Kaspersky Provides Details on Latest Adobe Flash Zero Day

Exploits for a newly reported zero-day vulnerability in Adobe’s Flash Player drop a password-grabbing Trojan that targets the email and social media accounts of users and organizations in China, researchers at Kaspersky Lab said today. The attacks appear to be an isolated campaign and there is no...

Adobe issues Emergency Flash Player update to patch critical zero-day threat

Adobe is recommending that users update their Flash Players immediately. The company has published an emergency security bulletin today, that addresses vulnerabilities the Flash Player and released a patch to fix a vulnerability which is currently being exploited in a sophisticated cyber espionag...

Use-after-free with imgRequestProxy and image processing — Mozilla

Security researcher Arthur Gerkis, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, reported a use-after-free during image processing from sites with specific content types in concert with the imgRequestProxy function. This causes a potentially exploitable crash...

HP Data Protector Backup Client Service opcode 42 directory traversal

Added: 01/28/2014 CVE: CVE-2013-6194 BID: 64647 OSVDB: 101630 Background HP OpenView Storage Data Protector is a backup solution for enterprise and distributed environments. Problem A vulnerability in the Backup Client Service OmniInet.exe allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to write files t...

Model Predicts Optimal Timing of a Cyber Conflict

Security researchers from the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan have published a mathematical model they said will produce the proper timing for the delivery of offensive cyberweapons. Defenders can also make use of the model to understand attackers and when an targeted...

Microsoft to Patch Zero Day in January 2014 Security Updates

Microsoft announced Thursday that it plans to release four bulletins next week as part of the year’s first batch of Patch Tuesday security updates, none of which are rated critical. Despite the relatively light load, the patches do address a zero-day vulnerability in Windows XP and Windows Server...

OpenSUSE Forums Hacked, User Email Addresses Compromised

The forums for the Linux-based operating system openSUSE remain down today and for the foreseeable future following a hack earlier this week that appears to have compromised some of its users’ email addresses. OpenSUSE claims the hacker was able to exploit a vulnerability in the forum’s software,...

USB Malware Targeting Siemens Control Software (Update C)

Overview VirusBlokAda, an antivirus vendor based in Belarus, announcedVirusBlokAda, http://www.anti-virus.by/en/tempo.shtml, website last visited July 15, 2010. the discovery of malware that uses a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Windows processing of shortcut files. The malware utilizes this...

Microsoft Windows ndproxy.sys Local Privilege Escalation

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits require 'msf/core' require 'rex' class Metasploit3 'Microsoft Windows ndproxy.sys Local Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a flaw in the ndproxy.sys driver on Windows XP SP3 and Windows 2003 SP2 systems, exploited...

The Evolution of Cyber Threat; Interview with IntelCrawler's Researchers

Today I desire to propose an interview with Andrey Komarov, CEO of IntelCrawler and Dan Clements, President of IntelCrawler. IntelCrawler is a multi-tier intelligence aggregator, which gathers information and cyber prints from a starting big data pool of over 3, 000, 000, 000 IPv4 and over 200,...

December 2013 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Updates

One zero-day down, one to go. As expected, Microsoft did today patch a zero-day in its GDI+ graphics component MS13-096 reported more than a month ago after exploits were spotted in the wild. The fix was one of 11 security bulletins—five critical—released as part of the December 2013 Patch Tuesda...

Microsoft released Security Patch for CVE-2013-5065 TIFF Zero-Day vulnerability

Microsoft has released 11 Security Patch this Tuesday, including one for CVE-2013-5065 zero-day vulnerability, recently discovered Local privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a hacker to launch an attack using corrupted TIFF images to take over victims' computers. FireEye researcher...

Growing market of zero-day vulnerability exploits pose real threat to Cyber Security

NSS Labs issued the report titled "The Known Unknowns" to explain the dynamics behind the market of zero-day exploits. Last week I discussed about the necessity to define a model for "cyber conflict" to qualify the principal issues related to the use of cyber tools and cyber weapons in an...

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 ...

Windows XP Zero Day Tied To Reader Flaw, Exploited in Wild

If your organization needed more incentive to move off Windows XP, a new zero-day vulnerability made public recently may be it. The bug, which is being exploited in the wild, allows local privilege escalation and kernel access. But in the bigger picture, it’s another indicator that attackers migh...

CVE-2013-5065: Microsoft Windows XP and Server 2003 Privilege escalation Zero-Day exploit discovered

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Blackhole and Cool Exploit Kits Nearly Extinct

When authorities in Russia arrested Paunch, the alleged creator of the Blackhole exploit kit, last month, security researchers and watchers of the malware underground predicted that taking him off the board would put a dent in the use of Blackhole and force its customers onto other platforms. Six...