Why Watering Hole Attacks Work

Information security is littered with bad analogies. And none sounds sillier than a watering hole attack, which plays off the tactic that dominant animals use when stalking food by loitering at a watering hole. Rather than chase their prey, a lion will wait for prey to come to it. Hackers are doi...

Internet Explorer 8 Exploit Found in Watering Hole Campaign Targeting Chinese Dissidents

On March 16th, we discovered a premeditated waterhole campaign that hosts exploits and malware on websites frequented by a specific target group. In this case the target includes Chinese dissidents. For the attacker, this approach is highly attractive since it is very difficult to discover the...

Google Serves Up a Half Slice of Pwnium Cash for Pinkie Pie

Depending upon your perspective, the third iteration of Google Pwnium at this year’s CanSecWest conference was either a mild failure or a huge success. No researchers were able to come up with a full compromise of the Chrome OS, the target in this year’s contest, but Google said this week that it...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (ZYPP Patch Number 8506)

MozillaFirefox has been updated to the 17.0.4ESR release. Besides the major version update from the 10ESR stable release line to the 17ESR stable release line, this update brings critical security and bugfixes : - VUPEN Security, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, reported a use-after-free...

RHEL 6 : thunderbird (RHSA-2013:0627)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2013:0627 advisory. Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. A flaw was found in the processing of malformed content. Malicious content could cause...

CentOS Update for xulrunner CESA-2013:0614 centos5

Check for the Version of xulrunner OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for xulrunner CESA-2013:0614 centos5 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

RedHat Update for xulrunner RHSA-2013:0614-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

RHEL 5 / 6 : xulrunner (RHSA-2013:0614)

Updated xulrunner packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating...

xulrunner security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:0614 Updated xulrunner packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: xulrunner security update

Updated xulrunner packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating...

Firefox, Java, Flash All Taken Down at Pwn2Own

VANCOUVER–Finding and exploiting new vulnerabilities in the major browsers has become a difficult exercise for security researchers, thanks to the exploit mitigations, sandboxes and other protections that Microsoft, Google and Mozilla have added in the last few years. The same has become true of...

Use-after-free in HTML Editor — Mozilla

VUPEN Security, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, reported a use-after-free within the HTML editor when content script is run by the document.execCommand function while internal editor operations are occurring. This could allow for arbitrary code execution...

Oracle Rushes Emergency Java Update to Patch McRAT Vulnerabilities

Oracle has once again released an emergency Java update to patch zero-day vulnerabilities in the browser plug-in, the fifth time it has updated the platform this year. Today’s update patches CVE-2013-1493 and CVE-2013-0809, the former was discovered last week being exploited in the wild for Java ...

Another Java zero-day vulnerability being exploited in the wild

Do you still have Java installed? There is a bad news for you ! FireEye has detected yet another Java zero-day vulnerability being exploited in attacks in the wild. The vulnerability targets browsers that have the latest version of the Java plugin installed Java v1.6 Update 41 and Java v1.7 Updat...

The Java Zero-Day Procession Continues

After a glorious 72-hour stretch without one, security researchers confirmed yesterday that they found yet another zero-day vulnerability in Oracle’s thoroughly troubled Java platform. With a little help from Hermes Bojaxhi and his team at Cyber Engineering Services, researchers from the security...

Two new Java zero-day vulnerabilities reported to Oracle

A Polish security firm 'Security Explorations' reported two new Java zero-day vulnerabilities, as "issue 54" and "issue 55," with proof of concept code to Oracle. Oracle's security team is currently investigating the issue, but the status flaws not yet confirmed by Oracle. Less than a week after...

Two new Java zero-day vulnerabilities reported to Oracle

A Polish security firm 'Security Explorations' reported two new Java zero-day vulnerabilities, as “issue 54” and “issue 55,” with proof of concept code to Oracle. Oracle's security team is currently investigating the issue, but the status flaws not yet confirmed by Oracle. Less than a week after...

Two More Java Zero Days Found by Polish Research Team

The seemingly endless list of critical zero day bugs found in Java grew longer today with news that one of the flaws fixed in Oracle’s recent patches for the product is under attack and when that bug is paired with another, separate vulnerability, the sandbox in the latest build of Java can be...

iOS Developer Site at Core of Facebook, Apple Watering Hole Attack

UPDATE – The missing link connecting the attacks against Apple, Facebook and possibly Twitter is a popular iOS mobile developers’ forum called iPhoneDevSDK which was discovered hosting malware in an apparent watering hole attack that has likely snared victims at hundreds of organizations beyond t...

Apple Breached by Facebook Hackers Using Java Exploit

Apple is the latest major American company to enter the security confessional and disclose it has been breached. The company told Reuters today it was attacked by the same crew that hit Facebook, which disclosed its breach last Friday, and that like the social media giant, no data had been stolen...