Critical Flaws Found in VxWorks RTOS That Powers Over 2 Billion Devices

Security researchers have discovered almost a dozen zero-day vulnerabilities in VxWorks, one of the most widely used real-time operating systems RTOS for embedded devices that powers over 2 billion devices across aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, automotive, consumer electronics, networkin...

Critical Flaws Found in VxWorks RTOS That Powers Over 2 Billion Devices

Security researchers have discovered almost a dozen zero-day vulnerabilities in VxWorks, one of the most widely used real-time operating systems RTOS for embedded devices that powers over 2 billion devices across aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, automotive, consumer electronics, networkin...

Microsoft Announces Top Contributing Partners in the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP)

Today we announce the top organizational candidates for Vulnerability Top Contributors, Threat Indicator Top Submitters, and Zero-Day Top Reporting for the period of July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019. The Microsoft Active Protections Program provides security and protection to customers through...

Microsoft Announces Top Contributing Partners in the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP)

Today we announce the top organizational candidates for Vulnerability Top Contributors, Threat Indicator Top Submitters, and Zero-Day Top Reporting for the period of July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019. The Microsoft Active Protections Program provides security and protection to customers through...

Microsoft Announces Top Contributing Partners in the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP)

Today we announce the top organizational candidates for Vulnerability Top Contributors, Threat Indicator Top Submitters, and Zero-Day Top Reporting for the period of July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019. The Microsoft Active Protections Program provides security and protection to customers through...

New 3-Second DDoS Mitigation SLA is 3x Faster and the Industry’s Best

Back in 2018, we made waves with a groundbreaking DDoS Mitigation SLA service level agreement for our DDoS Protection service that guaranteed to mitigate DDoS attacks in under 10 seconds. Now, we’ve upped the ante to ensure DDoS attack mitigation with a new, industry-best three seconds-or-less...

A week in security (July 8 – 14)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at ways to send your sensitive information in a secure fashion, examined some tactics in incident response land, and explored federal data privacy law. We also looked at how security tools can turn against you, and took a deep dive into the rather fiendis...

Apple Issues Silent Update Removing Zoom's Hidden Server

Apple has pushed a silent update to Mac users that removes a hidden web server from Zoom users’ machines. The Zoom web- and video-conferencing service has come under scrutiny for its handling of a zero-day bug CVE-2019–13450 found by researcher Jonathan Leitschuh, which would allow an attacker to...

Zoom Pushes Emergency Patch for Webcam Hijack Flaw

After facing public outcry over its handling of a zero-day vulnerability in its collaboration client for Mac, the Zoom web- and video-conferencing service has rushed out an emergency patch. The flaw CVE-2019–13450, allows a malicious website to hijack a user’s web camera without their permission,...

Patch Tuesday Lowdown, July 2019 Edition

Microsoft today released software updates to plug almost 80 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software. Among them are fixes for two zero-day flaws that are actively being exploited in the wild, and patches to quash four other bugs that were publicly detailed prior to...

Microsoft Patches A Pair of Zero-Days Under Active Attack

Microsoft has addressed 77 vulnerabilities in its July Patch Tuesday update, with 15 of them rated as critical and two known to be under active exploit; and Adobe issued a small group of updates, with surprisingly none for Acrobat Reader or Flash. Eleven of the critical bugs are for scripting...

Vulnerability in Zoom video conference app lets Mac’s camera hijacking

By Waqas The vulnerability in the Zoom video conference app lets attackers hijack Mac's camera by merely using malicious websites. The Zoom video conference app is currently being used by millions of users around the world and that makes it a lucrative target for cybercriminals. Jonathan Leitschu...

Schneider Electric Zelio Soft 2

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Schneider Electric Equipment: Zelio Soft 2 Vulnerability: Use After Free 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow remote code execution through the opening of a...

Firefox Releases Critical Patch Update to Stop Ongoing Zero-Day Attacks

Important Update 21 June 2019— Mozilla on Thursday released another update Firefox version 67.0.4 to patch a second zero-day vulnerability. If you use the Firefox web browser, you need to update it right now. Mozilla earlier today released Firefox 67.0.3 and Firefox ESR 60.7.1 versions to patch a...

Firefox Releases Critical Patch Update to Stop Ongoing Zero-Day Attacks

Important Update 21 June 2019—Mozilla on Thursday released another update Firefox version 67.0.4 to patch a second zero-day vulnerability. If you use the Firefox web browser, you need to update it right now. Mozilla earlier today released Firefox 67.0.3 and Firefox ESR 60.7.1 versions to patch a...

Microsoft Word (2016) Deceptive File Reference

Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MICROSOFT-WORD-DECEPTIVE-FILE-REFERENCE.txt + ISR: ApparitionSec + Zero Day Initiative Program Vendor www.microsoft.com Product Microsoft Word 2016 Vulnerability Type...

Critical Adobe Flash, ColdFusion Vulnerabilities Patched

Adobe has issued fixes for critical flaws in Adobe Flash and ColdFusion that could lead to arbitrary code execution if exploited. Overall, Adobe patched 11 vulnerabilities across Adobe Flash, Adobe ColdFusion and Adobe Campaign – including five critical flaws – during its regularly-scheduled...

Smart TV and then exposed vulnerabilities--Supra Smart Cloud TV vulnerability can cause the device to be hijacking-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

An attacker can take advantage of a smart TV vulnerability, the attack connected to the home router to get remote access. Supra smart TV in a not patched the vulnerability so that the same Wi-Fi network, the attacker can hijack the TV device, play their own content, such as a fake emergency...

SandboxEscaper Debuts ByeBear Windows Patch Bypass

Guerrilla developer SandboxEscaper has disclosed a second bypass exploit for a patch that fixes a Windows local privilege-escalation LPE flaw — again without notifying Microsoft. The exploit, dubbed “ByeBear,” enables attackers to get past the patch to attack a permissions-overwrite,...

This Week in Security News: Gray Alerts and Wormable Malware

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about the new wormable malware that’s dropping a Monero miner in web servers, networks and removable drivers. Also, read about the bes...