Patch Tuesday, August 2018 Edition

Adobe and Microsoft each released security updates for their software on Tuesday. Adobe plugged five security holes in its Flash Player browser plugin. Microsoft pushed 17 updates to fix at least 60 vulnerabilities in Windows and other software, including two "zero-day" flaws that attackers were...

ex-NSA Hacker Discloses macOS High Sierra Zero-Day Vulnerability

Your Mac computer running the Apple's latest High Sierra operating system can be hacked by tweaking just two lines of code, a researcher demonstrated at the Def Con security conference on Sunday. Patrick Wardle, an ex-NSA hacker and now Chief Research Officer of Digita Security, uncovered a...

ex-NSA Hacker Discloses macOS High Sierra Zero-Day Vulnerability

Your Mac computer running the Apple's latest High Sierra operating system can be hacked by tweaking just two lines of code, a researcher demonstrated at the Def Con security conference on Sunday. Patrick Wardle, an ex-NSA hacker and now Chief Research Officer of Digita Security, uncovered a...

VMSA-2018-0022:VMware Workstation and Fusion updates address an out-of-bounds write issue

VMSA-2018-0022 VMware Workstation and Fusion updates address an out-of-bounds write issue VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2018-0022 VMware Security Advisory Severity: Critical VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware Workstation and Fusion updates address an...

Horizon 6, 7, and Horizon Client for Windows updates address an out-of-bounds read vulnerability

Out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Message Framework library Horizon 6, 7, Horizon Agent, and Horizon Client for Windows contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Message Framework library. Successfully exploiting this issue may allow a less-privileged user to leak information from ...

CVE-2018-14261

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Foxit Reader 9.0.1.1049. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the...

WECON LeviStudioU (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: WECON Technology Co., Ltd Equipment: LeviStudioU --------- Begin Update A Part 1 of 3 --------- Vulnerabilities: Stack-based Buffer Overflow, Heap-based Buffer Overflow, Out-of-Bounds Write,...

Zero-Day Coverage Update – Week of July 23, 2018

We’re at the end of July and the Zero Day Initiative ZDI has published 873 advisories so far. That’s 273 advisories this month alone – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg! Earlier this week, ZDI announced the Targeted Incentive Program, which brings over $1,500,000 USD in special bounty awards...

VMSA-2018-0018 : VMware Horizon View Agent, VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion updates resolve multiple security issues

a. VMware Horizon View Agent local information disclosure vulnerability VMware Horizon View Agents contain a local information disclosure vulnerability due to insecure logging of credentials in the vmmsi.log file when an account other than the currently logged on user is specified during...

Zero-Day Coverage Update – Week of July 16, 2018

One night this week, I came across one of my favorite movies Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The world had gone crazy after the reclusive Willy Wonka announces that he has hidden five golden tickets in chocolate Wonka Bars that promised a factory tour and a lifetime supply of chocolate...

Recent Andariel Group ActiveX Attacks Point to Future Targets

Researchers say that the North Korea-linked Andariel hacking group may be looking to switch up its targets, based on key changes in its script found on recently compromised websites. The Andariel group is associated with the infamous Lazarus Group, North Korea’s cyber-espionage unit. Andariel has...

Zero-Day Coverage Update – Week of July 9, 2018

Earlier this week, I wrote a blog covering a couple of the statistics from the Zero Day Initiative’s ZDI first half of 2018. One of the stats that I didn’t cover is the increasing focus on enterprise applications. The team is seeing consistent growth in submissions of Microsoft and Apple...

APT Trends Report Q2 2018

In the second quarter of 2017, Kaspersky Lab's Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT began publishing summaries of the quarter's private threat intelligence reports, in an effort to make the public aware of the research we have been conducting. This report serves as the latest installment,...

WordPress Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability Plugged With Patch 4.9.7

On Jun 26 an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in the WordPress core was publicly disclosed, the vulnerability could allow an authenticated attacker to delete any file and in some cases execute arbitrary code. WordPress is a free, popular, and open-source content management system currently...

ThreatList: Virtualization-related Bug Reports Jump 275 Percent in 2018

Zero Day Initiative said Monday that so far in 2018, it has published 600 advisories – up 33 percent from the 451 published in 2017, which was previously its “busiest year ever.” “Interestingly, we had fewer advisories released as 0-day this year,” the company said in its mid-year report on...

Zero-Day Coverage Update – Week of July 2, 2018

The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR has been up and running for a couple of months now and your organization is compliant. It’s time to take a little break – well, not so fast! Late last week, the State of California passed a new data privacy law called the California Consumer Privacy Act...

Major Vulnerabilities in Foscam Cameras

For the past several months, VDOO’s security research teams have been undertaking broad-scale security research of leading IoT products, from the fields of safety and security. In most cases, the research was carried out together with the device vendors for the sake of efficiency and transparency...

Delving deep into VBScript

In late April we found and wrote a description of CVE-2018-8174, a new zero-day vulnerability for Internet Explorer that was picked up by our sandbox. The vulnerability uses a well-known technique from the proof-of-concept exploit CVE-2014-6332 that essentially "corrupts" two memory objects and...

New macro-less technique to distribute malware

One of the most common and effective infection vectors, especially for businesses, is the use of malicious Office documents. This year alone, we witnessed two zero-days for both Flash and the VBScript engine, which were first actually embedded into Office documents before gaining wider adoption i...

Two Zero-Day Exploits Found After Someone Uploaded 'Unarmed' PoC to VirusTotal

Security researchers at Microsoft have unveiled details of two critical and important zero-day vulnerabilities that had recently been discovered after someone uploaded a malicious PDF file to VirusTotal, and get patched before being used in the wild. In late March, researchers at ESET found a...