Zoom Flaw Could Have Allowed Hackers To Crack Meeting Passcodes

A security issue in popular video conferencing platform Zoom was disclosed this week, which could have allowed attackers to crack private meeting passcodes and snoop in on video conferences. The problem, which has already been fixed, stems from Zoom not having any check against repeated incorrect...

Beers with Talos Ep. #88: It’s not about the vote, it’s about trust

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 88 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos:Apple Podcasts Google PodcastsSpotify StitcherIf iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. By Mitch Neff. Recorded July 7, 2020 Nigel is out this week, but we have a...

Zoom Addresses Vanity URL Zero-Day

A previously undisclosed bug in Zoom’s customizable URL feature has been addressed that could have offered a hacker a perfect social-engineering avenue for stealing credentials or sensitive information. Disclosed by Zoom and Check Point on Thursday, the security flaw existed in the “Vanity URL”...

Amazon-Themed Phishing Campaigns Swim Past Security Checks

Amazon in the era of COVID-19 has become a staple of many people’s lives, as they order everything from sourdough starter to exercise equipment. Cybercrooks have latched onto the delivery behemoth as a lure for phishing emails, knowing that plenty of legitimate delivery messages are also making i...

Microsoft Tackles 123 Fixes for July Patch Tuesday

A critical DNS bug and a publicly known elevation-of-privilege flaw top Microsoft’s July Patch Tuesday list of 123 fixes. The DNS flaw is a remote code-execution bug and is touted as one of the most critical Windows vulnerabilities released this year, earning the highest-severity CVSS score of 10...

Unpatched Critical Flaw Disclosed in Zoom Software for Windows 7 or Earlier

A zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in Zoom video conferencing software for Windows that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a victim's computer running Microsoft Windows 7 or older. To successfully exploit the zoom vulnerability, all an attacker needs to do is tricking ...

Unpatched Critical Flaw Disclosed in Zoom Software for Windows 7 or Earlier

A zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in Zoom video conferencing software for Windows that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a victim's computer running Microsoft Windows 7 or older. To successfully exploit the zoom vulnerability, all an attacker needs to do is tricking ...

Zoom Zero-Day Allows RCE, Patch on the Way

UPDATE A newly discovered bug in the Zoom Client for Windows could allow remote code-execution, according to researchers at 0patch, which disclosed the existence of the flaw on Thursday after pioneering a proof-of-concept exploit for it. The issue was confirmed for Threatpost by a Zoom...

Exploit for Path Traversal in Citrix Application_Delivery_Controller_Firmware

Remote Code Execution Exploit CVE-2019-19781- Citrix Applica...

Microsoft Releases Emergency Security Updates for Windows 10, Server

Microsoft has quietly pushed out two emergency security updates to fix remote code execution bugs in Microsoft Windows Codecs Library. Windows Codecs Library handles how the OS compresses large multimedia files such as photos and videos, and then decodes them for playback within applications. The...

Microsoft Releases Urgent Windows Update to Patch Two Critical Flaws

Microsoft yesterday quietly released out-of-band software updates to patch two high-risk security vulnerabilities affecting hundreds of millions of Windows 10 and Server editions' users. To be noted, Microsoft rushed to deliver patches almost two weeks before the upcoming monthly 'Patch Tuesday...

A week in security (June 22 – 28)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we provided a zero-day guide for 2020 featuring recent attacks and advanced preventive techniques, and we learned how to cough in the face of scammers, offering security tips for the 2020 tax season. We also looked at a web skimmer hiding within EXIF metadata that...

'Satori' IoT DDoS Botnet Operator Sentenced to 13 Months in Prison

The United States Department of Justice yesterday sentenced a 22-year-old Washington-based hacker to 13 months in federal prison for his role in creating botnet malware, infecting a large number of systems with it, and then abusing those systems to carry out large scale distributed...

NETGEAR R6700v3 Password Reset / Remote Code Execution Exploit

This document describes a stack overflow vulnerability that was found in October, 2019 and presented in the Pwn2Own Mobile 2019 competition in November 2019. The vulnerability is present in the UPNP daemon /usr/sbin/upnpd, running on NETGEAR R6700v3 router with firmware versions V1.0.4.8210.0.57...

D-Link DCS-2530L Camera Unauthorized RCE 0day Vulnerability

The D-Link DCS-2530L is a camera from AUO D-Link. The D-Link DCS-2530L camera suffers from an unauthorized RCE 0day vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the target device as root to execute arbitrary commands on the target device...

A zero-day guide for 2020: Recent attacks and advanced preventive techniques

Zero-day vulnerabilities enable threat actors to take advantage of security blindspots. Typically, a zero-day attack involves the identification of zero-day vulnerabilities, creating relevant exploits, identifying vulnerable systems, and planning the attack. The next steps are infiltration and...

Adobe Prompts Users to Uninstall Flash Player As EOL Date Looms

With Flash Player’s Dec. 31, 2020 kill date quickly approaching, Adobe said that it will start prompting users to uninstall the software in the coming months. The End of Life EOL timeline has been a long time coming. Adobe first announced in July 2017 that it will no longer update or distribute...

Netgear Zero-Day Allows Full Takeover of Dozens of Router Models

UPDATED Researchers this week said they discovered an unpatched, zero-day vulnerability in firmware for Netgear routers that put 79 device models at risk for full takeover, they said. Netgear has since issued several hot fixes, available here. The flaw, a memory-safety issue present in the...

Microsoft June Patch Tuesday Fixes 129 Flaws in Largest-Ever Update

Microsoft has released patches for 129 vulnerabilities as part of its June Patch Tuesday updates – the highest number of CVEs ever released by Microsoft in a single month. Within the blockbuster security update, 11 critical remote code-execution flaws were patched in Windows, SharePoint server,...

Microsoft Releases June 2020 Security Patches For 129 Vulnerabilities

Microsoft today released its June 2020 batch of software security updates that patches a total of 129 newly discovered vulnerabilities affecting various versions of Windows operating systems and related products. This is the third Patch Tuesday update since the beginning of the global Covid-19...