How Next-Generation Firewall Platforms Help Protect Your Perimeter at Each Stage of the Cyber Kill Chain*

Whether you need to upgrade your firewalls on-premise or in the cloud, next-generation firewalls NGFWs can significantly reduce the risks associated with the modern threat landscape. Since attacks have evolved using techniques such as encryption, polymorphism, etc., firewalls have also evolved to...

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Releases Update to Fix 53 Vulnerabilities

It's Patch Tuesday—time to update your Windows devices. Microsoft has released a large batch of security updates as part of its November Patch Tuesday in order to fix a total of 53 new security vulnerabilities in various Windows products, 19 of which rated as critical, 31 important and 3 moderate...

Adobe Patches Flash Player, 56 Bugs in Reader and Acrobat

Adobe kicked off today’s Patch Tuesday barrage with a monster update for Acrobat and Reader patching dozens of remote code execution vulnerabilities, along with the near-customary Flash Player update addressing a handful of critical flaws. None of the vulnerabilities patched today are under activ...

How Reputation Intelligence Improves Application Security

Reputation intelligence is information about cyber entities known for specific activity, whether malicious or benign, which can be fed to and actioned on by a web application firewall WAF. It provides an additional application security layer by effectively identifying and blocking threats from...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of November 6, 2017

I started a 14-day detox this week that eliminates common food allergens and hormones. It’s going to be two weeks of no fun, but it’s good to give your body a little reset. Plus, I’ll be done just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. Eliminating toxins from your body can be compared to eliminati...

Tor Browser Users Urged to Patch Critical ‘TorMoil’ Vulnerability

The Tor Project released a patch for a vulnerability that leaks the real IP addresses of macOS and Linux users of its Tor Browser. The patch was issued late Friday and fixes a vulnerability found in Tor Browser version 7.0.8. The patch is in an upgrade to Tor Browser 7.0.9. Windows users running...

Warning: Critical Tor Browser Vulnerability Leaks Users’ Real IP Address—Update Now

If you follow us on Twitter, you must be aware that since yesterday we have been warning Mac and Linux users of the Tor anonymity browser about a critical vulnerability that could leak their real IP addresses to potential attackers when they visit certain types of web pages. Discovered by Italian...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of October 30, 2017

Competition is inherent in our DNA. At a basic level, we compete for things like water and food. We also take it up a level and compete for wealth, fame and power. Some compete to be the best in sports, like my Houston Astros winning the 2017 World Series, and others compete to be the best in the...

Siemens Update Patches SIMATIC PCS 7 Bug in Some Versions

Siemens has made an update available for some of its SIMATIC PCS 7 distributed control systems that are impacted by a remotely exploitable input validation vulnerability. Siemens said version 8.2 and V8.1 prior to 8.1 SP1 with WinCC v7.3 Update 13 are affected. “Successful exploitation of this...

About the security content of Safari 11.0.1 - Apple Support

About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page. For more information about security, se...

Advantech WebAccess

CVSS v3 7.3 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: Advantech Equipment: WebAccess Vulnerabilities: Stack-based Buffer Overflow, Untrusted Pointer Dereference AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following versions of WebAccess, an HMI platform, are affected: WebAccess versions prior...

WhatsApp 2.17.52 - Memory Corruption Exploit

Exploit for iOS platform in category dos / poc !/usr/bin/env python -- coding: utf-8 -- Found this and more exploits on my open source security project: http://www.exploitpack.com Exploit Author: Juan Sacco at KPN Red Team - http://www.kpn.com Date and time of release: 11 October 2017 Tested on:...

WhatsApp 2.17.52 Memory Corruption

!/usr/bin/env python -- coding: utf-8 -- Found this and more exploits on my open source security project: http://www.exploitpack.com Exploit Author: Juan Sacco at KPN Red Team - http://www.kpn.com Date and time of release: 11 October 2017 Tested on: iPhone 5/6s iOS 10.3.3 and 11 Description:...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of October 23, 2017

Just like Bugs Bunny wears disguises to avert his enemies, there’s another “wascally” rabbit causing trouble in the form of ransomware. Bad Rabbit is the latest ransomware campaign hitting Eastern European countries with what looks like a variant of the Petya/NotPetya ransomware. Bad Rabbit sprea...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of October 16, 2017

Various forms of fuzzing techniques that search for vulnerabilities in software programs have been around for several decades, but it can a tedious task, especially when looking at an entire enterprise application. Earlier this week, Zero Day Initiative ZDI vulnerability researcher Abdul-Aziz...

BlackOasis APT and new targeted attacks leveraging zero-day exploit

More information about BlackOasis APT is available to customers of Kaspersky Intelligence Reporting Service. Contact: [email protected] Introduction Kaspersky Lab has always worked closely with vendors to protect users. As soon as we find new vulnerabilities we immediately inform the...

Adobe Patches Flash Zero Day Exploited by Black Oasis APT

Adobe today released an out-of-band Flash Player update addressing a zero-day vulnerability being exploited by a little-known Middle Eastern APT group. The group known as Black Oasis was, as recently as this month, using exploits for the flaw to drop FinSpy as a payload. Sold by the controversial...

Hackers Use New Flash Zero-Day Exploit to Distribute FinFisher Spyware

FinSpy—the infamous surveillance malware is back and infecting high-profile targets using a new Adobe Flash zero-day exploit delivered through Microsoft Office documents. Security researchers from Kaspersky Labs have discovered a new zero-day remote code execution vulnerability in Adobe Flash,...

Cyberespionage Group Steps Up Campaigns Against Japanese Firms

Researchers are learning more about the cyberespionage group Bronze Butler. While the gang has been targeting Japanese heavy industry since 2012, not much is known about the group’s current modus operandi. In a report released Thursday by the Counter Threat Unit at SecureWorks, a subsidiary of De...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of October 9, 2017

Even though “Patch Tuesday” isn’t supposed to exist anymore, here I am blogging about it. As I looked at the October updates from Microsoft, the usual suspects were there. But this month was a little different. We usually see critical vulnerabilities on the browser side, but Microsoft Office is i...