ShadowBrokers Selling Windows Exploits, Attack Tools

The latest Shadowbrokers dump of alleged NSA tools—a cache of Windows exploits—surfaced over the weekend. And for the first time since these unannounced releases started last summer, analysts don’t have the luxury of a free set of files to dig in to. The group is selling the database for 750...

Stolen NSA "Windows Hacking Tools" Now Up For Sale!

The Shadow Brokers who previously stole and leaked a portion of the NSA hacking tools and exploits is back with a Bang! The hacking group is now selling another package of hacking tools, “Equation Group Windows Warez,” which includes Windows exploits and antivirus bypass tools, stolen from the...

FreePBX Remote Code Execution

Exploit Title: Freepbx coockie recordings injection Google Dork: Ask Santa Date: 23/12/2016 Exploit Author: inj3ctor3 Vendor Homepage: https://www.freepbx.org/ Software Link: ISO LINKS IN SITE https://www.freepbx.org/ Version: ALL && unpatched/ Trixbox/freepbx/elastix/pbxinflash/ Tested on: Cento...

Update — Hacker Claims to Have Hacked the FBI, But It Wasn't

Update: A hacker yesterday claimed to have hacked the FBI's website running on Plone CMS, but it seems it wasn't hacked using any zero-day vulnerability in Plone. We contacted Plone security team and updated this story see below with official statements. A hacker, using Twitter handle CyberZeist,...

3 Critical Zero-Day Flaws Found in PHP 7 — One Remains Unpatched!

Three critical zero-day vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP 7 that could allow an attacker to take complete control over 80 percent of websites which run on the latest version of the popular web programming language. The critical vulnerabilities reside in the unserialized mechanism in PHP...

Freepbx < 2.11.1.5 - Remote Code Execution

Exploit Title: Freepbx coockie recordings injection Google Dork: Ask Santa Date: 23/12/2016 Exploit Author: inj3ctor3 Vendor Homepage: https://www.freepbx.org/ Software Link: ISO LINKS IN SITE https://www.freepbx.org/ Version: ALL && unpatched/ Trixbox/freepbx/elastix/pbxinflash/ Tested on: Cento...

Samba NDR Parsing ndr_pull_dnsp_name Heap-based Buffer

Description The Samba routine ndrpulldnspname contains an integer wrap problem, leading to an attacker-controlled memory overwrite. ndrpulldnspname parses data from the Samba Active Directory ldb database. Any user who can write to the dnsRecord attribute over LDAP can trigger this memory...

Twin zero-day attacks: PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM target individuals in Europe

Targeted attacks are typically carried out against individuals to obtain intellectual property and other valuable data from target organizations. These individuals are either directly in possession of the targeted information or are able to connect to networks where the information resides...

Flash Player Bug An Eavesdropper's Delight

Adobe yesterday patched a not-so-sweet 16 Flash Player vulnerabilities, including a zero day under attack. While not much is known about the targeted attacks using the Flash Player bug, or its victims, details have surfaced on another patched flaw that is a potential privacy nightmare...

Adobe Patches 31 Vulnerabilities, Flash Zero-Day Under Attack

Adobe patched 31 vulnerabilities across nine different product lines Tuesday morning, including a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player the company claims is being used in targeted attacks against Internet Explorer users on Windows. That vulnerability CVE-2016-7892 is one of 16 bugs in Flash tha...

Security researchers found that attack kits favorite Flash Player security vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

By RecordedFuture a new study suggests that, due to its vulnerability, Flash Player will continue to the global computer at risk, cybercriminals are still looking for the Adobe solutions among the security flaws to the invasion of the computer. This year the exploit kit used by the top 10...

Flash Exploit Found in Seven Exploit Kits

A nasty Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability that was remediated in an emergency update in October 2015 was thereafter co-opted by seven exploit kits, according to an analysis published today by researchers at Recorded Future. The Adobe vulnerability, CVE-2015-7645, was also used by the Russian APT...

Mozilla Patches Firefox Zero Day Used to Unmask Tor Browser Users

As expected, Mozilla released a new version of Firefox on Wednesday to address a zero-day vulnerability that was actively being exploited to de-anonymize Tor Browser users. The vulnerability, disclosed on a public Tor Project mailing list late Tuesday night, forced the Tor Project to also issue a...

UPDATE Firefox and Tor to Patch Critical Zero-day Vulnerability

The critical Firefox vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild to unmask Tor users has been patched with the release of new browser updates. Both Mozilla and Tor Project has patched the vulnerability that allows attackers to remotely execute malicious code on Windows operating system via...

Tor Patched Against Zero Day Under Attack

Update The Tor Project has provided a browser update that patches a zero-day vulnerability being exploited in the wild to de-anonymize Tor users. “The security flaw responsible for this urgent release is already actively exploited on Windows systems. Even though there is currently, to the best of...

Firefox Zero-Day Exploit to Unmask Tor Users Released Online

Hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Firefox to unmask Tor Browser users, similar to what the FBI exploited during an investigation of a child pornography site. Tor The Onion Router is an anonymity software that not only provides a safe heaven to human rights activists,...

InPage Zero Day Used in Attacks Against Banks

A zero-day vulnerability in InPage publishing software used primarily in Urdu, Pashto and Arabic-speaking nations has been publicly exploited in attacks against financial institutions and government agencies in the region. While there are more than 10 million InPage users in Pakistan and India...

Google Pixel Phone and Microsoft Edge Hacked at PwnFest 2016

The brand new Android smartphone launched by Google just a few months back has been hacked by Chinese hackers just in less than a minute. Yes, the Google's latest Pixel smartphone has been hacked by a team white-hat hackers from Qihoo 360, besides at the 2016 PwnFest hacking competition in Seoul...

Microsoft Patches Windows Zero-Day Flaw Disclosed by Google

Microsoft was very upset with Google last week when its Threat Analysis Group publically disclosed a critical Windows kernel vulnerability CVE-2016-7255 that had yet to be patched. The company criticized Google's move, claiming that the disclosure of the vulnerability, which was being exploited i...

Microsoft Patches Zero Day Disclosed by Google

Microsoft followed through and today patched a zero-day vulnerability being exploited in public attacks that was disclosed by Google researchers nine days ago. The victims have yet to have been identified, but Microsoft did accuse the Sofacy APT gang of carrying out the attacks. Sofacy is general...