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...

Adobe Patches Nine Code Execution Flaws in Flash Player

Two weeks after rushing out an emergency patch for a zero-day vulnerability, Adobe today released another Flash Player security update. The new release patched nine vulnerabilities, all of which expose the host system to remote code execution. Adobe said it is not aware of public exploits against...

Microsoft Tears off the Band-Aid with EMET

Microsoft last week extended the end-of-life expiration date to July 2018 on its exploit mitigation add-on, the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET. But for some time, the once-useful tool has been well on its way out to pasture. While EMET was never meant to be anything more than stopgap...

Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Using Unpatched Windows Bug Disclosed by Google

Google's Threat Analysis Group publically disclosed on Monday a critical zero-day vulnerability in most versions of Windows just 10 days after privately disclosed both zero days to Microsoft and Adobe. While Adobe rushed an emergency patch for its Flash Player software on October 26, Microsoft ha...

Microsoft Says Russian APT Group Behind Zero-Day Attacks

Microsoft has singled out Sofacy, an APT group long thought to have ties to Russia’s military intelligence arm GRU, as the entity behind targeted attacks leveraging Windows kernel and Adobe Flash zero days in targeted attacks. The group, which Microsoft calls Strontium, is also known as APT28, Ts...

Google discloses Critical Windows Zero-Day that makes all Windows Users Vulnerable

Google has once again publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in current versions of Windows operating system before Microsoft has a patch ready. Yes, the critical zero-day is unpatched and is being used by attackers in the wild. Google made the public disclosure of the vulnerability just 10...

Google Reveals Windows Kernel Zero Day Under Attack

A Windows zero-day vulnerability is being used in an unknown number of attacks, Google disclosed today, 10 days after it privately reported the issue to Microsoft. Google’s disclosure follows its internal policy, which states that companies should fix or publicly report flaws that are under attac...

Chrome for Android Update

Chrome for Android has been updated to version 54.0.2840.85; the update will be available in Google Play over the next few days. A partial list of changes in this build can be found here. This release fixes some IME regressions discovered in the previous version as well as the following security...

Keen Lab Takes Down iPhone 6S, Nexus 6P, at Mobile Pwn2Own

Hackers identified a series of vulnerabilities in Android and iOS to take down a Google Nexus 6P and an Apple iPhone 6S this week at Mobile Pwn2Own. The mobile version of the popular hacking challenge, put on by Trend Micro and Tipping Point’s Zero Day Initiative, was held in tandem with the...

Adobe Patches Flash Zero Day Under Attack

Adobe today released an emergency Flash Player update that includes a patch for a vulnerability being exploited in targeted attacks. The vulnerability, CVE-2016-7855, was privately disclosed by Neel Mehta and Billy Leonard of the Google Threat Analysis Group. Mehta was one of four researchers...

FruityArmor APT Group Used Recently Patched Windows Zero Day

One of the four zero-day vulnerabilities Microsoft patched last week was being used by an APT group called FruityArmor to carry out targeted attacks, escape browser-based sandboxes, and execute malicious code in the wild. Anton Ivanov, a researcher at Kaspersky Lab, was credited by Microsoft for...

Microsoft revealed there have been hacker using the Microsoft Edge vulnerability in the attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Microsoft today to Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 1 0 and Office to push a security update to fix vulnerabilities. These updates fixes the IE, Microsoft Edge, Office, Windows and Skype Business 4 9 security vulnerabilities. This 4 9 a security vulnerability 5 the vulnerability can be used to...

Microsoft Patches 5 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Being Exploited in the Wild

Microsoft has released its monthly Patch Tuesday update including a total of 10 security bulletin, and you are required to apply the whole package of patches altogether, whether you like it or not. That's because the company is kicking off a controversial new all-or-nothing patch model this month...

Microsoft Patches Five Zero Days Under Attack

Update: Microsoft today said it mislabeled CVE-2016-7189 in bulletin MS16-119 as exploited. “There is no evidence of any active attacks using this vulnerability and the bulletin text has been corrected.” – a Microsoft spokesperson said. Microsoft today patched a handful of zero-day vulnerabilitie...

Vulnerability alert: JPEG 2 0 0 0 a vulnerability to execute arbitrary code-a vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Vulnerability number CVE-2 0 1 6-8 3 3 2 TALOS-2 0 1 6-0 1 9 3 Affected version OpenJpeg openjp2 2.1.1 Vulnerability description Recently, Cisco's Talos security team disclosed a JPEG 2 0 0 0 of a zero-day exploit, the vulnerability can execute arbitrary code. OpenJPEG is an open-source JPEG 2 0 ...

The Ethics and Morality Behind APT Reports

DENVER—Investigations into state-sponsored APT campaigns are much more than black-and-white research into malware, exploits and zero-days. Behind the scenes, these can be geopolitical powder kegs that require moral examinations into the ethics of publishing public reports that could expose tools...

VMSA-2016-0015:VMware Horizon View updates address directory traversal vulnerability

VMSA-2016-0015 VMware Horizon View updates address directory traversal vulnerability VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2016-0015 VMware Security Advisory Severity: Important VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware Horizon View updates address directory traversa...

Beware! You Can Get Hacked Just by Opening a 'JPEG 2000' Image

Researchers have disclosed a critical zero-day vulnerability in the JPEG 2000 image file format parser implemented in OpenJPEG library, which could allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on the affected systems. Discovered by security researchers at Cisco Talos group, the zero-day...

Microsoft Office 365 Word - Code Execution Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Microsoft Office 365 Word - Code Execution Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1030 Release Date: ============= 2016-10-01 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ====================================...

Zerodium Offers $1.5 Million Bounty For iOS Zero-Day Exploits

Well, there's some good news for Hackers and Bug hunters, though a terrible news for Apple! Exploit vendor Zerodium has tripled its bug bounty for an Apple's iOS 10 zero-day exploit, offering a maximum payout of $US1.5 Million. Yes, $1,500,000.00 Reward. That's more than seven times what Apple is...