Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Addresses Two Zero-Days in 60-Flaw Roundup

Microsoft has rolled out its August Patch Tuesday fixes, addressing 19 critical vulnerabilities, including fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities that are under active attack. Overall, the company patched a total of 60 flaws, spanning Microsoft Windows, Edge, Internet Explorer IE, Office, .NET...

February 1, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Super Bowl” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! February 1, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Kim Jong Nam met...

Foxit to Fix PDF Reader Zero Days by Friday

In an about-face, Foxit Software says it will fix a pair of zero days in its PDF reader Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF, its PDF editing software. Foxit said it would push a patch for Reader and PhantomPDF, bringing the software to version 8.3.2, later this week—by Friday at the latest. The fixes com...

Updates to Sofacy, Turla Highlight 2017 Q2 APT Activity

Attackers behind advanced persistent threat campaigns have kept busy over the past several months, adding new ways to bypass detection, crafting new payloads to drop, and identifying new zero days and backdoors to help them infect users and maintain persistence on machines. Juan Andres...

Platinum APT First to Abuse Intel Chip Management Feature

Advanced attackers operating in Southeast Asia are abusing a feature in Intel chips to quietly load malware and exploits onto compromised machines. Microsoft on Thursday published its latest research into a group it calls Platinum, which is keen on using previously untapped resources to stealthil...

Dan Geer: Cybersecurity, Humanity's Future "Conjoined"

Given the intertwinement of technology with communication, politics, economies and overall human progress, it seems to go hand-in-hand that cybersecurity must be elevated in parallel. Dan Geer, considered atop the food chain of security thinkers, said during last week’s Source Boston conference...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Exposed ███████ Administrative Interface (ColdFusion 11)

Summary: The "/██████████/administrator/" directory is accessible to the public and allows an attacker to further enumerate the system and/or perform brute force attacks. Description: The ████████ website has an exposed "Administrative Interface" for ColdFusion 11, which could be useful to an...

Stuxnet LNK Exploits Still Widely Circulated

One of the alleged mandates around the development of the Stuxnet worm was that malware’s numerous components—which included a handful of zero days—should never escape the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in Iran. Eight years later, evidence continues to mount as to how that mandate was...

ShadowBrokers' Windows Zero-Days Already Patched

Hours after what was thought to be a damaging release of NSA hacking tools for Windows systems, Microsoft quelled some anxiety with a late-night statement on Friday that most of the vulnerabilities disclosed by the ShadowBrokers had already been patched. The biggest surprise was that the most...

Apple Patches Trident Vulnerabilities in OS X, Safari

The disclosure a week ago that three Apple iOS zero days were used to spy on a political dissident from the United Arab Emirates included high-profile exposes of the activities of a cyber arms-dealing outfit in Israel known as the NSO Group and an emergency update for iOS. Last night, Apple...

Citing Wassenaar, HP Pulls out of Mobile Pwn2Own

More evidence of the potential chilling effect the Wassenaar Arrangement could have on security research surfaced this week when it was revealed HP has decided not to take part in November’s Mobile Pwn2Own hacking contest in Japan. Dragos Ruiu, who organizes the CanSecWest and PacSecWest...

Fake EFF Site Used in Spear Phishing Campaign

Attackers, possibly associated with the Russian government, registered a phony Electronic Frontier Foundation domain earlier this month in an attempt to dupe users into thinking correspondence from the site was coming from the well-known privacy watchdog. The scheme, largely carried out via spear...

Darkhotel APT Latest to Use Hacking Team Zero Day

The fallout from the HackingTeam data dump shows no signs of abating. Since the controversial surveillance software maker was hacked and 400 Gb of its data posted online in early July, a handful of zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits were publicly leaked and continue to find their way into the...

Feds Detail Shutdown of Cybercrime Forum Darkode

Officials worldwide this week culminated an 18-month effort to take down Darkode, a cybercrime forum where hackers fraternized, shared malware, credit card information and more. The campaign, dubbed Operation Shrouded Horizon, resulted in the arrest of 28 hackers and 27 house searches across 18...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso on the OPM Hack Hearing and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the brutal House Oversight Committee hearing on the OPM breach, the Navy soliciting zero days, the LastPass breach, and the Cardinals-Astros hacking story. Download: digitalunderground208.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Proposed U.S. Wassenaar Rules on Intrusion Software

Two things worth noting from yesterday’s unveiling of the Bureau of Industry and Security’s proposed Wassenaar rules for the U.S. that weren’t so overt: a The U.S. generally leads the way in implementing Wassenaar changes, and this time it’s been beaten by the EU by almost 18 months; and b reques...

Massive, Decades-Long Cyberespionage Framework Uncovered

CANCUN–Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a cyberespionage group that has been operating for at least 15 years and has worked with and supported the attackers behind Stuxnet, Flame and other highly sophisticated operations. The attackers, known as the Equation Group, used two of the zero...

Creaking Patch Tuesday's Viability Rests with Quality, Speed

Today is Patch Tuesday, the 11-year-old procession of security bulletins from Microsoft streamed out automatically to consumers of Windows Update, and pulled en masse by enterprise admins worldwide needing to test each for compatibility. This is how it’s been done since shortly after Bill Gates’...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Anthem Breach, Flash Zero Days and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the Anthem data breach, the continuing Flash 0-day happy fun times, the expansion of exploit kits and the crowd funding support for GnuPG. Music by Chris Gonsalves Download: digitalunderground183.mp3...

Hanjuan Exploit Kit, Malvertising Dangers in Flash Zero Days

The recent trio of Flash zero days has not only caused a lot of scrambling at Adobe—which yesterday released a patch for the last in that line of vulnerabilities—but also shined light on a fairly unknown exploit kit, exposed the evolving danger associated with malvertising, and made clear the pai...