Microsoft Office Word Malicious Hta Execution

This module creates a malicious RTF file that when opened in vulnerable versions of Microsoft Word will lead to code execution. The flaw exists in how a olelink object can make a https request, and execute hta code in response. This bug was originally seen being exploited in the wild starting in...

'High Risk' Zero-Day Leaves 200,000 Magento Merchants Vulnerable

A popular version of the open source Magento ecommerce platform is vulnerable to a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability, putting as many as 200,000 online retailers at risk. The warning comes from security firm DefenseCode, which found and originally reported the vulnerability to Magento ...

Not Just Criminals, But Governments Were Also Using MS Word 0-Day Exploit

Recently we reported about a critical code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Word that was being exploited in the wild by cyber criminal groups to distribute malware like Dridex banking trojans and Latentbot. Now, it turns out that the same previously undisclosed vulnerability in Word...

CVE-2017-0199 Used as Zero Day to Distribute FINSPY Espionage Malware and LATENTBOT Cyber Crime Malware

FireEye recently identified a vulnerability – CVE-2017-0199 – that allows a malicious actor to download and execute a Visual Basic script containing PowerShell commands when a user opens a Microsoft Office RTF document containing an embedded exploit. We worked with Microsoft and published the...

Office Zero Day Delivering FINSPY Spyware to Victims in Russia

Since at least January, unidentified state-sponsored attackers have been targeting victims in Russia with FINSPY spyware delivered in exploits for an Office and WordPad zero-day vulnerability patched on Tuesday by Microsoft. Separately, the same zero-day has been leveraged in financially motivate...

CVE-2017-0199 Used as Zero Day to Distribute FINSPY Espionage Malware and LATENTBOT Cyber Crime Malware

FireEye recently identified a vulnerability – CVE-2017-0199 – that allows a malicious actor to download and execute a Visual Basic script containing PowerShell commands when a user opens a Microsoft Office RTF document containing an embedded exploit. We worked with Microsoft and published the...

Patch Tuesday - April 2017

This month's updates deliver vital client-side fixes, resolving publicly disclosed remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities for Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office that attackers are already exploiting in the wild. In particular, they've patched the CVE-2017-0199 zero-day flaw in Office and...

Microsoft Issues Patches for Actively Exploited Critical Vulnerabilities

Besides a previously undisclosed code-execution flaw in Microsoft Word, the tech giant patches two more zero-day vulnerabilities that attackers had been exploiting in the wild for months, as part of this month's Patch Tuesday. In total, Microsoft patches 45 unique vulnerabilities in its nine...

Microsoft Patches Three Vulnerabilities Under Attack

Microsoft today patched a zero-day Word vulnerability that has been publicly attacked along with deploying fixes for Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge and Windows 10. In all, nine Microsoft products received updates totaling 45 unique CVEs. Three of the vulnerabilities among Tuesday’s updates,...

Microsoft Patches Word Zero-Day Spreading Dridex Malware

Microsoft on Tuesday released a patch for a zero-day vulnerability that was discovered late last week and used to spread the Dridex banking Trojan. Attacks were spreading via a massive spam campaign where emails contain Microsoft Word documents with malicious attachments that exploited a...

Tools Used by Lamberts APT Found in Vault 7 Dumps

Links have emerged connecting targeted attacks going back a decade against high-profile government, industrial and financial targets around the world to hacking tools and documents leaked in the Vault 7 dump. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab today published a technical report on the activities of a...

Unpatched Microsoft Word Flaw is Being Used to Spread Dridex Banking Trojan

If you are a regular reader of The Hacker News, you might be aware of an ongoing cyber attack — detected in the wild by McAfee and FireEye — that silently installs malware on fully-patched computers by exploiting an unpatched Microsoft Word vulnerability in all current versions of Microsoft Offic...

Beware of an Unpatched Microsoft Word 0-Day Flaw being Exploited in the Wild

It's 2017, and opening a simple MS Word file could compromise your system. Security researchers are warning of a new in-the-wild attack that silently installs malware on fully-patched computers by exploiting a serious — and yet unpatched — zero-day vulnerability in all current versions of Microso...

Shadow Brokers Group Releases More Stolen NSA Hacking Tools & Exploits

Remember The Shadow Brokers? They are back. A hackers group that previously claimed to have stolen a bunch of hacking tools malware, zero-day exploits, and implants created by the NSA and gained popularity last year for leaking a portion of those tools is back. Today, The Shadow Brokers group...

Acknowledgement of Attacks Leveraging Microsoft Zero-Day

FireEye recently detected malicious Microsoft Office RTF documents that leverage a previously undisclosed vulnerability. This vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute a Visual Basic script when the user opens a document containing an embedded exploit. FireEye has observed several Office...

Acknowledgement of Attacks Leveraging Microsoft Zero-Day

FireEye recently detected malicious Microsoft Office RTF documents that leverage a previously undisclosed vulnerability. This vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute a Visual Basic script when the user opens a document containing an embedded exploit. FireEye has observed several Office...

On SAS 2017, the Microsoft IIS Zero Day, and Mirai

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook preview this year’s Security Analyst Summit and discuss the news of the week, including a Microsoft IIS zero day, a new Mirai variant, and the broadband privacy ruling. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapMarch312017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Publicly Attacked Microsoft IIS Zero Day Unlikely to be Patched

Microsoft is unlikely to patch a zero-day vulnerability in an older version of its Internet Information Services IIS webserver that’s been publicly attacked since last July and August. Two researchers from the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou posted a proof-of-concept exploit for...

Microsoft Bulletin: detection and protection CVE-2017-0005 mention the right vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! 2017 3 October 14, Microsoft released a security Bulletin MS17-013, designed to address the CVE-2017-0005 mention the right vulnerability, Qualys vulnerability Labs Director, Amol Sarwate, said:“CVE-2017-0005 is a zero-day vulnerability issue currently being the abuse, the use of Silverlight as...

Microsoft Offers Analysis of Zero-Day Exploited By Zirconium Group

Microsoft has released technical details on a zero-day vulnerability being exploited by a little-known APT group known as Zirconium. According to the company the vulnerability CVE-2017-0005 affects mostly older versions of Windows and can allow an adversary to execute remote code if a user either...