Exploit Details Emerge for Unpatched Microsoft Bug

New details have emerged about an unpatched security vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer that was recently used in a complex campaign against security researchers. A fresh analysis from 0patch offers further insight into where the bug exists and how it can be triggered in real-world...

TeamViewer Flaw in Windows App Allows Password-Cracking

Popular remote-support software TeamViewer has patched a high-severity flaw in its desktop app for Windows. If exploited, the flaw could allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute code on users’ systems or crack their TeamViewer passwords. TeamViewer is a proprietary software application...

Critical DNS Bug Opens Windows Servers to Infrastructure Takeover

A critical Microsoft Windows Server bug opens company networks to hackers, allowing them to potentially seize control of IT infrastructures. Microsoft issued a patch for the bug on Tuesday as part of its July Patch Tuesday roundup. It turns out that the bug is 17 years old. Impacted are Windows...

TikTok To Stop Clipboard Snooping After Apple Privacy Feature Exposes Behavior

A new privacy feature in Apple iOS 14 sheds light on TikTok’s practice of reading iPhone users’ cut-and-paste data, even though the company said in March it would stop. Apple added a new banner alert to iOS 14 that lets users know if a mobile app is pasting from the clipboard and thus able to rea...

iPhone iOS 13 Lockscreen Bypass Flaw Exposes Contacts

An iPhone lock screen bypass has been discovered that could enable an attacker to access victims’ address books, including their contacts’ names, email addresses, phone numbers, mailing addresses and more. The hack was first discovered by researcher Jose Rodriguez, an Apple enthusiast based in...

Smart-TV Bug Allows Rogue Broadcasts

An unpatched vulnerability in smart TVs would allow attackers on the same Wi-Fi network to hijack the TV set to broadcast their own content – including, potentially, fake emergency broadcast messages. Discovered by security researcher Dhiraj Mishra, the flaw CVE-2019-12477 is found in the SUPRA...

Critical Flaws Found in Eight Wireless Presentation Systems

Multiple wireless presentation systems have critical vulnerabilities – including a remote command-injection glitch and an unauthenticated remote stack buffer overflow flaw. Wireless presentation systems allow users to display their content directly from their laptop no network cable necessary by...

GitHub Doubles Maximum Bug Bounty Payouts

Almost a year to the day since Github announced its bug bounty program, the Git repository said yesterday that it will double its maximum payout to $10,000. Ben Toews, a GitHub staffer, said yesterday that since the launch of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty, 73 previously unknown vulnerabilities...

Malware Posing as Russia DDoS Tool Bites Pro-Ukraine Hackers

Looking to cyber-hassle Russia, Ukrainian sympathizers? Be careful — malware is making the rounds, disguised as a pro-Ukraine cyber-tool that will turn around and bite you instead, researchers are warning. In a Wednesday threat advisory, Cisco Talos described a campaign it’s observed in which a...

Crypto Hack Earned Crooks $600 Million

Attackers reportedly stole $600 million from the cryptocurrency platform Poly Network, in what experts say is one of the largest crypto heists to date. Poly Network, a decentralized finance DeFi platform based in China, publicly acknowledged that an attacker “exploited a vulnerability” that allow...

‘PwnedPiper’: Devastating Bugs in >80% of Hospital Pneumatics

Researchers have discovered nine vulnerabilities – collectively dubbed PwnedPiper – in the pneumatic tube systems PTS used in more than 80 percent of major hospitals in North America. The bugs, in Swisslog Healthcare’s Translogic PTS, include hard-coded passwords, unencrypted connections and...

WordPress Patches 3-Year-Old High-Severity RCE Bug

WordPress released a 5.5.2 update to its ubiquitous web publishing software platform. The update patches a high-severity bug, which could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to take over a targeted website via a narrowly tailored denial-of-service attack. In all, the WordPress Security and...

Critical SAP ASE Flaws Allow Complete Control of Databases

Researchers are urging users to apply patches for several critical vulnerabilities in SAP’s Adaptive Server Enterprise ASE. If exploited, the most severe flaws could give unprivileged users complete control of databases and – in some cases – even underlying operating systems. ASE previously known...

Dell Patches SupportAssist Flaw That Allows Arbitrary Code Execution

Dell has patched a high-severity flaw in its SupportAssist software that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with administrator privileges on affected computers. The flaw, an uncontrolled search path vulnerability that is being tracked as CVE-2020-5316, could allow a locally...

D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain Unpatched

D-Link won’t patch a critical unauthenticated command-injection vulnerability in its routers that could allow an attacker to remotely take over the devices and execute code. The vulnerability CVE-2019-16920 exists in the latest firmware for the DIR-655, DIR-866L, DIR-652 and DHP-1565 products,...

Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices

More than 2 million connected security cameras, baby monitors and other IoT devices have serious vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed for more than two months – yet they are still without a patch or even any vendor response. Security researcher Paul Marrapese, who disclosed the flaws...

Critical Adobe Flash, ColdFusion Vulnerabilities Patched

Adobe has issued fixes for critical flaws in Adobe Flash and ColdFusion that could lead to arbitrary code execution if exploited. Overall, Adobe patched 11 vulnerabilities across Adobe Flash, Adobe ColdFusion and Adobe Campaign – including five critical flaws – during its regularly-scheduled...

Prometei Botnet Could Fire Up APT-Style Attacks

A heretofore little-seen botnet dubbed Prometei is taking a page from advanced persistent threat APT cyberattackers: The malware is exploiting two of the Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities collectively known as ProxyLogon, in order to drop a Monero cryptominer on its targets. It’s also highly...

Critical WordPress Plugin Bug Afflicts 700K Sites

A popular WordPress plugin, which helps make websites compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, has issued fixes for a critical flaw. If exploited, the vulnerability could enable attackers to modify content or inject malicious JavaScript code into victim websites. The plugin, GD...

Zendesk Exposes 10,000 Accounts to Unknown Third Party

Cloud-based customer service company Zendesk notified customers that account information for 10,000 users was accessed prior to November 2016. In a note posted Wednesday, Zendesk said email addresses, user names, and phone numbers were accessed for customers and users of its Support and Chat...

LinkedIn’s 1.2B Data-Scrape Victims Targeted by Attackers

Just days after a yet another data-scraping operation aimed at LinkedIn was discovered, evidence has popped up in a popular hacker forum that the vast amount of lifted data is being collated and refined to identify specific targets. This might signal the start of a series of LinkedIn-fueled...

Molson Coors Cracks Open a Cyberattack Investigation

Another high-profile company has been hit with a cyber attack that’s causing a major disruption to its business. Brewing company Molson Coors acknowledged on Thursday that it has “experienced a systems outage that was caused by a cybersecurity incident,” according to a Form 8-K filed with the SEC...

NVIDIA Patches Critical Bug in High-Performance Servers

NVIDIA released a patch for a critical bug in its high-performance line of DGX servers that could open the door for a remote attacker to take control of and access sensitive data on systems typically operated by governments and Fortune-100 companies. In all, NVIDIA issued nine patches, each fixin...

Cybercriminals Swarm Windows Utility Regsvr32 to Spread Malware

A Windows living-off-the-land binary LOLBin known as Regsvr32 is seeing a big uptick in abuse of late, researchers are warning, mainly spreading trojans like Lokibot and Qbot. LOLBins are legitimate, native utilities used daily in various computing environments, that cybercriminals use to evade...

MacOS Bug Could Let Creeps Snoop On You

Microsoft on Monday released details about a bug in macOS that Apple fixed last month – named “powerdir” – that could let attackers hijack apps, install their own nasty apps, use the microphone to eavesdrop or grab screenshots of whatever’s displayed on your screen. The vulnerability allows...

‘Appalling’ Riot Games Job Fraud Takes Aim at Wallets

Riot Games, the developer behind League of Legends, has filed a California lawsuit against scammers, whose identities aren’t yet known, for ripping off job seekers with the promise of a gig with the company. Usually early in their careers and eager for a chance with a gaming company like Riot, jo...

RCE Exploit Released for IBM Data Risk Manager

UPDATED Four serious security vulnerabilities in the IBM Data Risk Manager IDRM have been identified that can lead to unauthenticated remote code execution RCE as root in vulnerable versions, according to analysis – and a proof-of-concept exploit is available. IBM weighed in on the problem this...

Lifeline Assistance Phone Users Targeted with 'Uninstallable' Adware

Government-funded, low-cost cell phones are shipping with pre-installed malware aimed at bombing users with unwanted ads, according to researchers. The UMX U686CL Android-based phone, which is made available to low-income citizens in the U.S. via the Lifeline Assistance Program for $35, uses a...

News Wrap: IoT Radio Telnet Backdoor And 'SimJacker' Active Exploit

Threatpost editors break down the biggest news stories of this week ended Sept. 13, including: Researchers warning that more than one billion mobile users are at risk from a SIM card flaw being currently exploited by threat actors A Telnet backdoor opened more than 1 million Imperial Dabman IoT...

DHS Warning: Small Aircraft are Ripe for Hacking

The Department of Homeland Security issued an alert Tuesday warning that small aircraft are vulnerable to hackers that can gain physical access to a plane. It warned that a hacker can easily manipulate aircraft telemetry data, which can result in loss of control of the airplane. The bulletin was...

Max-Severity Bug in Infusion Pump Gateway Puts Lives at Risk

Researchers have disclosed two separate vulnerabilities within the Becton Dickinson Alaris Gateway Workstation for medical infusion pumps in hospitals, one carrying a critical rating of 10 out of 10 on the CVSS v.3 severity scale. Alaris Gateway Workstations power, monitor and control infusion...

Critical SonicWall VPN Bugs Allow Complete Appliance Takeover

Critical security vulnerabilities in SonicWall’s Secure Mobile Access SMA 100-series VPN appliances could allow an unauthenticated, remote user to execute code as root. The SMA 100 line was created to provide end-to-end secure remote access to corporate resources, be they hosted on-prem, cloud or...

90% of Enterprise iPhone Users Open to iMessage Spy Attack

Over 90 percent of Apple iPhone users — consumer and enterprise — are still vulnerable to bugs in iOS that can be remotely exploited without any user interaction via the iMessage client. These could reveal pictures, videos, notes, PDFs and so on stored on the phone. Though Apple has fully patched...

SEMrush Plugs Remote Code Execution Bug in Its SaaS Platform

UPDATE Search engine optimization and analytics firm SEMrush patched a remote code execution vulnerability that allowed an attacker to send a malicious image to its service and generate a reverse shell, a typical first stage in a cyberattack. Public disclosure of the vulnerability was Monday when...

Tips on How to Fight Back Against DNS Spoofing Attacks

The Domain Name System DNS, known as the phone book for the internet, was recently retuned to improve performance as well as include new security provisions to protect against Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks. DNS Flag Day drew a line in the sand for noncompliant authoritative DNS serve...

Breached Credentials Used to Access Github Repositories

Github is forcing a password reset on some of its users after it detected a number of successful intrusions into its repositories using credentials compromised in other breaches. “This appears to be the result of an attacker using lists of email addresses and passwords from other online services...

On the Hunt for Conficker

There are several ongoing investigations attempting to find the authors of the Conficker botnet, one of the fastest spreading worms in history, but those responsible for the worm have proven elusive. Read the full article. TechTarget...

Fiserv Forgets to Buy Domain It Used as System Default

Fiserv, a multi-billion-dollar cybersecurity tech provider for financial institutions, forgot to buy the domain used as a default in their systems’ email communications, according to a report. The blunder could have exposed its clients’ user information to anyone with a few bucks to buy the domai...

Tutor LMS for WordPress Open to Info-Stealing

Security vulnerabilities in Tutor LMS, a WordPress plugin installed on more than 20,000 sites, open the door to information theft and privilege escalation, according to researchers. Tutor LMS is a learning-management system for educators that allows them to digitally reach their students. It...

High-Severity Cisco Flaw in IOS XE Enables Device Takeover

Cisco has patched a high-severity vulnerability in its software for routers and switches, which could enable a remote attacker to reconfigure or execute commands on impacted devices. IOS XE, a Linux-based version of Cisco’s Internetworking Operating System IOS, is software for Cisco routers and...

VLC Player Gets Patched for Two High-Severity Bugs

Maintainers of the popular open-source VLC media player patched two high-severity bugs Friday. The flaws were an out-of-bound write vulnerability and a stack-buffer-overflow bug. Developers behind the software, VideoLAN, said the patches were two of 33 fixes being pushed out to the media player a...

'5G is Coming,' But Can the Security Industry Keep Up?

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – With the advent of 5G, the tech community is bracing itself for new applications like self-driving cars and other IoT applications. But what does that mean for the security landscape? At the GSMA Mobile 360 Conference taking place this week in the Netherlands, experts she...

White House Denies Mulling Massive Cyberattacks Against Russia

The White House has denied reports that President Biden has been presented with an arsenal of ways to launch massive cyberattacks against Russia – attacks designed to disrupt the country’s ability to sustain its military operations in Ukraine. NBC News on Thursday reported that the options includ...

Brand-New Log4Shell Attack Vector Threatens Local Hosts

Defenders will once again be busy beavers this weekend: There’s an alternative attack vector for the ubiquitous Log4j vulnerability, which relies on a basic Javascript WebSocket connection to trigger remote code-execution RCE on servers locally, via drive-by compromise. In other words, an exploit...

Win10 Admin Rights Tossed Off by Yet Another Plug-In

It’s not just Razer’s mice and keyboards that gobble up Windows 10’s tip-top, admin-level SYSTEM privileges: A SteelSeries bug also tosses off Windows 10 admin rights if you just plug in a device. … Or, then again, you can save yourself some cash by simply tricking an Android phone into thinking ...

Data from 500M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale Online

Personal data from more than 500 million LinkedIn users has been posted for sale online in yet another incident of threat actors scraping data from public profiles and slinging it online for potential cybercriminal misuse. Hackers posted an archive containing data they said includes LinkedIn IDs,...

Citrix Accelerates Patch Rollout For Critical RCE Flaw

Citrix has quickened its rollout of patches for a critical vulnerability CVE-2019-19781 in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller ADC and Citrix Gateway products, on the heels of recent proof-of-concept exploits and skyrocketing exploitation attempts. Several versions of the products still...

Australia Proposes Facial Recognition to Watch Porn

The Australian government has proposed using facial recognition to verify the age of people wanting to access pornography online. Unlike in the U.S., Australian law actually doesn’t prohibit minors from visiting adult sites, so the facial-recognition measure would be part of changing this policy...

AMCA Healthcare Hack Widens Again, Reaching 20.1M Victims

The hack of the American Medical Collection Agency AMCA, a third-party bill collection vendor, continues to expand, now impacting 20.1 million patients across three laboratory services providers. In the wake of revelations that the personal data of 12 million patients from Quest Diagnostics had...

Video: HackerOne CEO on the Evolving Bug Bounty Landscape

The bug bounty landscape continues to change along with the concept and rules around vulnerability disclosure. Meanwhile, companies such as GitHub, Microsoft and others continue to keep pace, launching or expanding bounty programs. Even the European Commission is getting in on the action. On...