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Zero Day Initiative Bug Hunters Rake in $1.5M in 2019
Zero Day Initiative ZDI awarded more than $1.5 million in cash and prizes to bug-hunters throughout 2019, it said, resulting in 1,035 security vulnerability advisories for the year. Most of those advisories 88 percent were published in conjunction with a patch from the vendor, Zero Day Initiative...
Pwn2Own Miami Contestants Haul in $180K for Hacking ICS Equipment
The very first Pwn2Own hacking competition that exclusively focuses on the industrial control systems ICS has kicked off in Miami. So far, a total of $180,000 has been awarded for pwning five different products. The contest hosts at Trend Micro’s Zero Day initiative ZDI have allocated more than...
Saudi Prince Allegedly Hacked World's Richest Man Jeff Bezos Using WhatsApp
The iPhone of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, was reportedly hacked in May 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message from the personal account of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Guardian newspaper revealed today. Citing unnamed sources familiar with digital forensic...
Microsoft Zero-Day Actively Exploited, Patch Forthcoming
An unpatched remote code-execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer is being actively exploited in the wild, Microsoft has announced. It’s working on a patch. In the meantime, workarounds are available. The bug CVE-2020-0674 which is listed as critical in severity for IE 11, and moderate for IE...
Imperva Mitigates Exploits of Citrix Vulnerability – Right Out of the Box
On December 17, Citrix issued a Security Bulletin on an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2019-19781 affecting its Citrix Application Delivery Controller ADC - formerly known as NetScaler ADC - and its Citrix Gateway - formerly known as NetScaler Gateway. At the time of the...
Microsoft Warns of Unpatched IE Browser Zero-Day That's Under Active Attacks
Internet Explorer is dead, but not the mess it left behind. Microsoft earlier today issued an emergency security advisory warning millions of Windows users of a new zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer IE browser that attackers are actively exploiting in the wild — and there is no patch ye...
Microsoft Warns of Unpatched IE Browser Zero-Day That's Under Active Attacks
Internet Explorer is dead, but not the mess it left behind. Microsoft earlier today issued an emergency security advisory warning millions of Windows users of a new zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer IE browser that attackers are actively exploiting in the wild — and there is no patch ye...
Critical Windows Vulnerability Discovered by NSA
Yesterday's Microsoft Windows patches included a fix for a critical vulnerability in the system's crypto library. A spoofing vulnerability exists in the way Windows CryptoAPI Crypt32.dll validates Elliptic Curve Cryptography ECC certificates. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by using a...
Exploit for Path Traversal in Citrix Application_Delivery_Controller_Firmware
Remote Code Execution Exploit CVE-2019-19781- Citrix Applica...
Critical Firefox 0-Day Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser Now!
Attention! Are you using Firefox as your web browsing software on your Windows, Linux, or Mac systems? If yes, you should immediately update your free and open-source Firefox web browser to the latest version available on Mozilla's website. Why the urgency? Mozilla earlier today released Firefox...
Critical Firefox 0-Day Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser Now!
Attention! Are you using Firefox as your web browsing software on your Windows, Linux, or Mac systems? If yes, you should immediately update your free and open-source Firefox web browser to the latest version available on Mozilla's website. Why the urgency? Mozilla earlier today released Firefox...
Mozilla Updates Firefox Browser: Zero-Day Bug Patched, Fingerprinting Nixed
UPDATE Mozilla patched a critical vulnerability actively being exploited in the wild with its latest update to the Firefox browser. Mozilla said in a security bulletin Wednesday that it was “aware of targeted attacks in the wild that were abusing the flaw. A successful attack “could make it...
3 Google Play Store Apps Exploit Android Zero-Day Used by NSO Group
Watch out! If you have any of the below-mentioned file managers and photography apps installed on your Android phone—even if downloaded from the official Google Store store—you have been hacked and being tracked. These newly detected malicious Android apps are Camero , FileCrypt , andcallCam tha...
Are You Ready for Microsoft Windows 7 End of Support on 14th January 2020?
January 14, 2020, is a day cybersecurity stakeholders should pay attention to, as it marks the end of Microsoft support in Windows 7. From a security perspective, both the routine monthly security patches as well as hotfixes for attacks in the wild will not be available, effectively making any...
Are You Ready for Microsoft Windows 7 End of Support on 14th January 2020?
January 14, 2020, is a day cybersecurity stakeholders should pay attention to, as it marks the end of Microsoft support in Windows 7. From a security perspective, both the routine monthly security patches as well as hotfixes for attacks in the wild will not be available, effectively making any...
Windows - Shell COM Server Registrar Local Privilege Escalation Exploit
Windows - Shell COM Server Registrar Local Privilege Escalation Exploit // Axel '0vercl0k' Souchet - December 28 2019 // References: // - Found by an anonymous researcher, written up by Simon '@HexKitchen' Zuckerbraun // -...
Microsoft Windows - Shell COM Server Registrar Local Privilege Escalation
// Axel '0vercl0k' Souchet - December 28 2019 // References: // - Found by an anonymous researcher, written up by Simon '@HexKitchen' Zuckerbraun // - https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2019/12/19/privilege-escalation-via-the-core-shell-com-registrar-object // -...
Sony Playstation 4 (PS4) 6.72 - WebKit Code Execution (PoC)
Sony Playstation 4 PS4 6.72 - WebKit Code Execution PoC / badhoist ============ Exploit implementation of CVE-2018-4386. Obtains addrof/fakeobj and arbitrary read/write primitives. Supports PS4 consoles on 6.XX. May also work on older firmware versions, but I am not sure. Bug was fixed in firmwar...
Top Mobile Security Stories of 2019
Top Mobile Security Stories of 2019 Cybercriminals are increasingly and successfully targeting mobile users, as our look back on the Top 10 2019 mobile security stories show. For enterprises that are embracing an ever-more-mobile workforce, escalating mobile attack vectors significantly widen the...
Biggest Malware Threats of 2019
One out of five computer users were subject to at least one malware-class web attack in 2019. This past year cities such as New Orleans were under ransomware siege by the likes of malware Ryuk. Zero-day vulnerabilities were also in no short supply with targets such as Google Chrome and Operation...