A new exploit for zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-8589

Yesterday, Microsoft published its security bulletin, which patches a vulnerability discovered by our technologies. We reported it to Microsoft on October 17, 2018. The company confirmed the vulnerability and assigned it CVE-2018-8589. In October 2018, our Automatic Exploit Prevention AEP systems...

Microsoft Patches Zero-Day Bug in Win7, Server 2008 and 2008 R2

Microsoft patched a zero-day vulnerability that enabled attackers to escalate privileges on targeted systems, which include Windows 7, Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 systems. The vulnerability, rated important, was part of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday November security bulletin, which included 62...

Adobe Fixes Acrobat and Reader Flaw With Publicly-Available PoC

Adobe on Tuesday released three patches – including a fix for a flaw in Adobe Acrobat and Reader that exposes hashed passwords that already has a proof-of-concept PoC exploit code publicly available. The information disclosure vulnerability, CVE-2018-15979, exists in Adobe Acrobat and Reader for...

Russian exploit developer publicly disclosed VirtualBox zero-day vulnerability

By Waqas An independent IT security researcher and exploit developer from Russia has publicly revealed a zero-day vulnerability in all versions of VirtualBox VB 5.2.20 and prior. VB is commonly used open source virtualization software that has been developed by Oracle. According to the analysis o...

Unpatched VirtualBox Zero-Day Vulnerability and Exploit Released Online

An independent exploit developer and vulnerability researcher has publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in VirtualBox —a popular open source virtualization software developed by Oracle—that could allow a malicious program to escape virtual machine guest OS and execute code on the operating...

Unpatched VirtualBox Zero-Day Vulnerability and Exploit Released Online

An independent exploit developer and vulnerability researcher has publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in VirtualBox—a popular open source virtualization software developed by Oracle—that could allow a malicious program to escape virtual machine guest OS and execute code on the operating...

Cisco Security Appliance Zero-Day Found Actively Exploited in the Wild

Attackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in certain Cisco security products, to cause a denial-of-service DoS condition. The as-yet-unpatched flaw CVE-2018-15454 has an 8.6 CVSS score and is rated high-severity. It exists in the Session Initiation Protocol SIP inspection engine ...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

CSRF exists in zbusers/plugin/AppCentre/theme.js.php in Z-BlogPHP 1.5.2.1935 Zero, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code...

Windows ‘Deletebug’ Zero-Day Allows Privilege Escalation, Destruction

A proof-of-concept exploit for a Windows zero-day that works on fully patched Windows 10 machines has been released by a security researcher. It allows an attacker to delete any kind of file on a victim machine, including system data. The flaw no CVE has been assigned since it was just exposed on...

ThreatList: Ransomware, EKs and Trojans lead the Way in Q3 Malware Trends

When it comes to malware activity, businesses took a big hit in the third quarter, with detection trending upward by a whopping 55 percent, according to new research. Consumers saw an uptick too, but only a modest one: volume was up just 4 percent quarter-over-quarter for this segment. Overall,...

Hacker Discloses New Windows Zero-Day Exploit On Twitter

A security researcher with Twitter alias SandboxEscaper—who two months ago publicly dropped a zero-day exploit for Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler—has yesterday released another proof-of-concept exploit for a new Windows zero-day vulnerability. SandboxEscaper posted a link to a Github page hosti...

Hacker Discloses New Windows Zero-Day Exploit On Twitter

A security researcher with Twitter alias SandboxEscaper—who two months ago publicly dropped a zero-day exploit for Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler—has yesterday released another proof-of-concept exploit for a new Windows zero-day vulnerability. SandboxEscaper posted a link to a Github page hosti...

StrongPity APT Changes Tactics to Stay Stealthy

The APT group behind the sophisticated malware known as StrongPity a.k.a. Promethium has changed its tactics, after various research groups analyzed the malware and exposed its methods of deployment. The efforts have allowed the group to return to hidden status, even after being labeled a known...

Why traditional security isn't enough

We are constantly being bombarded with questions around the security of our data, but what about security for the devices needed to connect to that data? The world is a changing place and for those inclined to be unsavoury characters, a great place to anonymously make ill-gotten gains from...

RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm-rhev (RHSA-2018:2887)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2887 advisory. KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm-rhev packages provide the...

FLIR AX8 Thermal Camera 1.32.16 - RTSP Stream Disclosure

FLIR AX8 Thermal Camera 1.32.16 - RTSP Stream Disclosure Exploit Title: FLIR AX8 Thermal Camera 1.32.16 - RTSP Stream Disclosure Author: Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic @zeroscience Date: 2018-10-14 Vendor: FLIR Systems, Inc. Product web page: https://www.flir.com Affected version: Firmware: 1.32.16,...

Microsoft Zero-Day Patch for JET Bug Incomplete, Claims Firm

UPDATE Microsoft patched a zero-day in its JET Database Engine this week – but the patch was incomplete, according to researchers at 0patch. The company has developed a micropatch that corrects that hole, it said Friday. The memory corruption vulnerability CVE-2018-8423 could allow remote...

Patch Tuesday, October 2018 Edition

Microsoft this week released software updates to fix roughly 50 security problems with various versions of its Windows operating system and related software, including one flaw that is already being exploited and another for which exploit code is publicly available. The zero-day bug --...

FruityArmor Apt Exploits Yet Another Windows Graphics Kernel Flaw

A just-patched zero-day vulnerability in win32k.sys – the Windows graphics kernel component – is at the heart of a probable sighting of the FruityArmor APT group – an under-the-radar cyberespionage gang active in the Middle East. A recent campaign uncovered by Kaspersky Lab led researchers to the...

Zero-day exploit (CVE-2018-8453) used in targeted attacks

Yesterday, Microsoft published their security bulletin, which patches CVE-2018-8453, among others. It is a vulnerability in win32k.sys discovered by Kaspersky Lab in August. We reported this vulnerability to Microsoft on August 17, 2018. Microsoft confirmed the vulnerability and designated it...