Details of RCE Bug in Adobe Experience Manager Revealed

Details of an Adobe zero-day bug found in its content-management solution Adobe Experience Manager AEM, which affected customers ranging from Mastercard, LinkedIn and PlayStation, were revealed Monday. The bug, patched in May, allowed hackers to bypass authentication protection and execute code...

Watch Out! Zyxel Firewalls and VPNs Under Active Cyberattack

Taiwanese networking equipment company Zyxel is warning customers of an ongoing attack targeting a "small subset" of its security products such as firewall and VPN servers. Attributing the attacks to a "sophisticated threat actor," the firm noted that the attacks single out appliances that have...

Lexmark Printers Open to Arbitrary Code-Execution Zero Day

Lexmark printers – those ubiquitous, inky office workhorses that fill homes and offices, and are found all the way on up to the federal government – have an unpatched vulnerability that could lead to serious, easy-to-execute attacks that require neither privileges nor user interaction and which c...

Behind the scenes with the head of Kaspersky’s GReAT

Costin Raiu has been with Kaspersky since 2000, initially as the Chief Security Expert overseeing research efforts in the EEMEA region. In 2010, he became Director of our Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT. During his tenure at Kaspersky, he has spearheaded the companys research on some of t...

Exploitation of Accellion File Transfer Appliance

Summary This joint advisory is the result of a collaborative effort by the cybersecurity authorities of Australia,1 New Zealand,2 Singapore,3 the United Kingdom,4 and the United States.56 These authorities are aware of cyber actors exploiting vulnerabilities in Accellion File Transfer Appliance...

Microsoft SharePoint Unsafe Control And ViewState Remote Code Execution

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'http://microsoft.com/sharepoint/webpartpages', 'soap' = 'http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope', 'xsi' =...

Microsoft SharePoint Unsafe Control And ViewState Remote Code Execution Exploit

The EditingPageParser.VerifyControlOnSafeList method fails to properly validate user supplied data. This can be leveraged by an attacker to leak sensitive information in rendered-preview content. This module will leak the ViewState validation key and then use it to sign a crafted object that will...

Ukrainian Police Nab Six Tied to CLOP Ransomware

Authorities in Ukraine this week charged six people alleged to be part of the CLOP ransomware group, a cybercriminal gang said to have extorted more than half a billion dollars from victims. Some of CLOPs victims this year alone include Stanford University Medical School, the University of...

Patch now! Apple fixes in-the-wild iPhone vulnerabilities

Apple has fixed two vulnerabilities in Safaris WebKit component, announcing it is aware of a report that they may have been actively exploited. Both vulnerabilities could be abused by maliciously crafted web content that could lead to arbitrary code execution: In other words, the bugs let rogue...

Apple Hurries Patches for Safari Bugs Under Active Attack

Apple issued two out-of-band security fixes for its Safari web browser, fixing zero-day vulnerabilities that “may have been actively exploited,” according to a Monday security bulletin by the company. The bugs affect sixth-generation Apple iPhones, iPads and iPod touch model hardware, released...

Apple Issues Urgent Patches for 2 Zero-Day Flaws Exploited in the Wild

Apple on Monday shipped out-of-band security patches to address two zero-day vulnerabilities in iOS 12.5.3 that it says are being actively exploited in the wild. The latest update, iOS 12.5.4, comes with fixes for three security bugs, including a memory corruption issue in ASN.1 decoder...

Quarterly Report: Incident Response trends from Spring 2021

By David Liebenberg and Caitlin Huey. While the security community made a great effort to warn users of the exploitation of several Microsoft Exchange Server zero-day vulnerabilities, it was still the biggest threat Cisco Talos Incident Response CTIR saw this past quarter. These... This is only t...

New Chrome 0-Day Bug Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser ASAP!

Attention readers, if you are using Google Chrome browser on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computers, you need to update it immediately to the latest version Google released earlier today. The internet services company has rolled out an urgent update to the browser to address 14 newly discovered...

Microsoft fixes seven zero-days, including two PuzzleMaker targets, Google fixes serious Android flaw

This patch Tuesday harvest was another big one. The Windows updates alone included seven zero-day vulnerability updates, two of them are actively being used in the wild by a group called PuzzleMaker, four others that have also been seen in the wild, plus one other zero-day vulnerability not known...

Update Your Windows Computers to Patch 6 New In-the-Wild Zero-Day Bugs

Microsoft on Tuesday released another round of security updates for Windows operating system and other supported software, squashing 50 vulnerabilities, including six zero-days that are said to be under active attack. The flaws were identified and resolved in Microsoft Windows, .NET Core and Visu...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes 6 In-The-Wild Exploits

Microsoft jumped on 50 vulnerabilities in this month’s Patch Tuesday update, issuing fixes for CVEs in Microsoft Windows, .NET Core and Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Edge Chromium-based and EdgeHTML, SharePoint Server, Hyper-V, Visual Studio Code – Kubernetes Tools, Windows HTML...

Microsoft Patches Six Zero-Day Security Holes

Microsoft today released another round of security updates for Windows operating systems and supported software, including fixes for six zero-day bugs that malicious hackers already are exploiting in active attacks. Junes Patch Tuesday addresses just 49 security holes -- about half the normal...

PuzzleMaker attacks with Chrome zero-day exploit chain

On April 14-15, 2021, Kaspersky technologies detected a wave of highly targeted attacks against multiple companies. Closer analysis revealed that all these attacks exploited a chain of Google Chrome and Microsoft Windows zero-day exploits. While we were not able to retrieve the exploit used for...

odix and Microsoft: Protecting users against malware attacks with free FileWall license

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association MISA guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. The fight against malware has become the epic battle of our generation, placing businesses of all sizes against a never-ending stream of hackers and zero-day attacks bent on...

HPE Fixes Critical Zero-Day in SIM

Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE has fixed a critical zero-day remote code execution RCE flaw in its HPE Systems Insight Manager SIM software for Windows that it originally disclosed in December. HPE SIM is a tool that enables remote support automation and management for a variety of HPE servers,...