Microsoft’s Jan. 2018 Patch Tuesday Lowdown

Microsoft on Tuesday released 14 security updates, including fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown flaws detailed last week, as well as a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office that is being exploited in the wild. Separately, Adobe pushed a security update to its Flash Player software. Last week...

MGASA-2017-0409 Updated roundcubemail packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that roundcubemail contained a zero-day file disclosure vulnerability caused by insuficient input validation which was currently being exploited by hackers to read roundcube's configuration files and steal its database credentials CVE-2017-16651...

Tor Browser Users Urged to Patch Critical ‘TorMoil’ Vulnerability

The Tor Project released a patch for a vulnerability that leaks the real IP addresses of macOS and Linux users of its Tor Browser. The patch was issued late Friday and fixes a vulnerability found in Tor Browser version 7.0.8. The patch is in an upgrade to Tor Browser 7.0.9. Windows users running...

Not Just Criminals, But Governments Were Also Using MS Word 0-Day Exploit

Recently we reported about a critical code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Word that was being exploited in the wild by cyber criminal groups to distribute malware like Dridex banking trojans and Latentbot. Now, it turns out that the same previously undisclosed vulnerability in Word...

Office Zero Day Delivering FINSPY Spyware to Victims in Russia

Since at least January, unidentified state-sponsored attackers have been targeting victims in Russia with FINSPY spyware delivered in exploits for an Office and WordPad zero-day vulnerability patched on Tuesday by Microsoft. Separately, the same zero-day has been leveraged in financially motivate...

Tools Used by Lamberts APT Found in Vault 7 Dumps

Links have emerged connecting targeted attacks going back a decade against high-profile government, industrial and financial targets around the world to hacking tools and documents leaked in the Vault 7 dump. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab today published a technical report on the activities of a...

Acknowledgement of Attacks Leveraging Microsoft Zero-Day

FireEye recently detected malicious Microsoft Office RTF documents that leverage a previously undisclosed vulnerability. This vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute a Visual Basic script when the user opens a document containing an embedded exploit. FireEye has observed several Office...

Microsoft Bulletin: detection and protection CVE-2017-0005 mention the right vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! 2017 3 October 14, Microsoft released a security Bulletin MS17-013, designed to address the CVE-2017-0005 mention the right vulnerability, Qualys vulnerability Labs Director, Amol Sarwate, said:“CVE-2017-0005 is a zero-day vulnerability issue currently being the abuse, the use of Silverlight as...

New Apache Struts Zero-Day Vulnerability Being Exploited in the Wild

Security researchers have discovered a Zero-Day vulnerability in the popular Apache Struts web application framework, which is being actively exploited in the wild. Apache Struts is a free, open-source, Model-View-Controller MVC framework for creating elegant, modern Java web applications, which...

Microsoft Waits for Patch Tuesday to Fix SMB Zero Day

Microsoft will not rush out an emergency patch for a zero-day vulnerability disclosed on Wednesday in the Windows implementation of the Server Message Block protocol. Researcher Laurent Gaffie announced in a tweet, below, that he’d found a zero-day vulnerability in SMBv3 and released a...

Mozilla Patches Firefox Zero Day Used to Unmask Tor Browser Users

As expected, Mozilla released a new version of Firefox on Wednesday to address a zero-day vulnerability that was actively being exploited to de-anonymize Tor Browser users. The vulnerability, disclosed on a public Tor Project mailing list late Tuesday night, forced the Tor Project to also issue a...

Tor Patched Against Zero Day Under Attack

Update The Tor Project has provided a browser update that patches a zero-day vulnerability being exploited in the wild to de-anonymize Tor users. “The security flaw responsible for this urgent release is already actively exploited on Windows systems. Even though there is currently, to the best of...

Adobe Patches Nine Code Execution Flaws in Flash Player

Two weeks after rushing out an emergency patch for a zero-day vulnerability, Adobe today released another Flash Player security update. The new release patched nine vulnerabilities, all of which expose the host system to remote code execution. Adobe said it is not aware of public exploits against...

Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Using Unpatched Windows Bug Disclosed by Google

Google's Threat Analysis Group publically disclosed on Monday a critical zero-day vulnerability in most versions of Windows just 10 days after privately disclosed both zero days to Microsoft and Adobe. While Adobe rushed an emergency patch for its Flash Player software on October 26, Microsoft ha...

Microsoft Patches Zero Day Used in AdGholas Malvertising Campaigns

An attack group behind a long-running malvertising campaign made effective use of a previously unreported low-level vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Edge browsers to rake in money via banking Trojans and ad fraud. Microsoft patched the zero-day this week among dozens of other...

Exploit Kits Quickly Adopt Exploit Thanks to Open Source Release

A security researcher recently published source code for a working exploit for CVE-2016-0189 and the Neutrino Exploit Kit EK quickly adopted it. CVE-2016-0189 was originally exploited as a zero-day vulnerability in targeted attacks in Asia. The vulnerability resides within scripting engines in...

Apple iOS/watchOS/tvOS and OS X El Capitan IOAcceleratorFamily Denial of Service Vulnerability

Apple iOS is an operating system on Apple's cell phones. oS X El Capitan is a dedicated operating system developed for Mac computers. watchOS is a smartwatch operating system. A security vulnerability in IOAcceleratorFamily in Apple iOS, watchOS, and OS X El Capitan allows an attacker to exploit...

Adobe Analytics AppMeasurement for Flash Library Patch

Adobe today patched a vulnerability in the Adobe Analytics AppMeasurement for Flash library, which can be added to Flash projects to measure the usage of Flash-based content. The vulnerability is a DOM-based cross-site scripting flaw that can be abused for cookie theft, said researcher Randy...

Latest Flash Zero Day Being Used to Push Ransomware

Exploits for a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player are being aggressively distributed in two exploit kits. The zero day, meanwhile, was patched by Adobe in an emergency update released Thursday night. Attackers are using the previously unpatched flaw in the maligned Flash Player to infec...

The study found: the majority of software vulnerabilities are on the day there is a patch-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Each year, the IT industry a number of manufacturers of a variety of software products in total will find a myriad of vulnerabilities. Software company Flexera Software's computer security research Department of Secunia Research annually publish the vulnerabilities of the assessment report. ! 2 0...