Xen Patches VM Escape Flaw

The Xen Project has patched a serious vulnerability that could allow an attacker in a guest virtual machine to escape and gain the ability to run arbitrary code on the host machine. The vulnerability is in the QEMU open source machine emulator that ships as part of the Xen hypervisor. The problem...

Adobe Patches Hacking Team Zero Days in Flash

Adobe has put the two outstanding Hacking Team Flash Player zero-day vulnerabilities in check. Today, Adobe released an updated Flash Player that patches CVE-2015-5122 and CVE-2015-5123, two use-after-free bugs uncovered and exploited by the controversial Italian surveillance software vendor. The...

WordPress CartPress Plugin Zero Day Disclosure

Another round of WordPress vulnerability disclosures has taken place with details made public on a handful of unpatched bugs in the CartPress ecommerce plugin. These disclosures come on the heels of a separate disclosure of a zero-day in the WordPress core engine. Those vulnerabilities have since...

Angler Adds Keen Team Use After Free IE Vulnerability

Attackers behind the Angler Exploit Kit have added a tweaked version of an exploit for a patched Internet Explorer use-after-free vulnerability. Microsoft patched the vulnerability MS14-056 in last October’s round of Patch Tuesday updates but that hasn’t stopped attackers from adding the...

Seagate Business NAS Firmware Vulnerabilities Disclosed

Firmware running on certain Seagate network-attached storage devices that are popular with small businesses and home offices, are vulnerable to remote attacks. Researchers at Beyond Binary, a security consulting firm in Australia, on Sunday went public with their disclosure after a nearly...

DDoS Exploit Targets Open Source Rejetto HFS

Apparently no vulnerability is too small, no application too obscure, to escape a hacker’s notice. A honeypot run by Trustwave’s SpiderLabs research team recently snared an automated attack targeting users of the open source Rejetto HTTP File Server Rejetto HFS. Someone was trying to exploit a...

Half of Leading USB Controller Chips Vulnerable to BadUSB

BadUSB hasn’t gone from bad to worse necessarily, but it sure has reached a new state of confusion for security experts and consumers in the crosshairs. Researcher Karsten Nohl, who warned the world during Black Hat last summer that the controller chips in most USB devices could be reprogrammed t...

Facebook Set to Let Users Edit Own Advertising Info

Facebook announced today it will soon be rolling out a new feature to give users more control when it comes to the types of advertisements they see on the site. If users are tired of getting barraged with ads for shoes, video games or discount plane tickets, they’ll not only be able to stop the...

Google Fixes Nearly 20 Bugs in Chrome 33

Google has fixed 19 security flaws in its Chrome browser, including more than a dozen high-risk bugs. The company paid out $3,500 in rewards to security researchers who reported flaws. Two of the high-risk vulnerabilities fixed in Chrome 33 are use-after-free flaws, one in SVG images and the othe...

11 China APTs Linked by Central Arms Dealer Infrastructure

As targeted Chinese espionage campaigns are disclosed, it’s easy to get caught up in the immediate impact and details with regard to the compromised site or malware samples involved. It’s also simple to discount them as separate endeavors, one-off projects targeting the secrets held so precious b...

Vulnerability Patched in Schneider Electric ICS Gear

The Industrial Control System CERT released an advisory this week warning of a vulnerability in a popular sensor monitoring system used in a number of critical industries, including energy, water and manufacturing. Aaron Portnoy of Exodus Intelligence discovered the flaw in the Windows-based...

VMware Patches Directory Traversal Vulnerability in View Server and Security Server

Virtualization vendor VMware has patched a critical vulnerability in its VMware View desktop virtualization product that could have led to a directory traversal attack and an attacker reading or downloading files without the need for authentication. VMware View 5.x prior to 5.1.2 and 4.x prior to...

Critical Vulnerability Fixed in Chrome 23

It’s Patch Tuesday, and not just for Microsoft and Adobe. Google also patched a number of security vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser today, including one critical flaw and three high-severity ones. The most serious vulnerability that Google fixed in Chrome 23 is a crash in the browser’s histo...

Apache Fixes Two Security Flaws in Version 2.4.3

The Apache Software Foundation has fixed two vulnerabilities in its ubiquitous Web server, including a cross-site scripting bug that could enable an attacker to upload files to a remote server. The new version of the Apache HTTP Server also includes updates that resolve dozens of other,...

Google Chrome 21 Fixes Six High-Risk Vulnerabilities

Google has released Chrome 21, the most recent stable version of its flagship browser. The new release includes more than two dozen security fixes, among them patches for six high-priority flaws. Chrome 21 is the rare release from Google that includes fixes for mainly low and medium-severity...

New Morto Strain Emerges With File Infection Capability

A new strain of the Morto worm has added a file infection capability in addition to its existing ability to compromise remote desktop connections, according to new research from Microsoft. Now Morto is infecting files in the default RDP file share, ‘tsclient,’ after it determines which drives it...

Traffic Sniffing, Not Botnet, May Have Led to Android Spam Run

It’s not every day that you get a security story that involves Yahoo, Google and Microsoft, but that’s what has happened with the claims from a Microsoft official that there was an Android-based botnet in existence sending spam from compromised devices. Now it seems that the spam emanating from...

Google Releases Chrome 20 With Fixes for 20 Security Vulnerabilities

Google has released version 20 of its Chrome browser, and has fixed a nice, symmetrical 20 flaws in the browser, including 13 high-risk bugs. Google also paid out $8,000 in rewards to researchers who reported bugs. A large number of the bugs fixed in Chrome 20 are use-after-free vulnerabilities i...

Trivial Password Flaw Leaves MySQL Databases Exposed

There is a trivially exploitable vulnerability in MySQL that enables an attacker to gain root access to the database server. The bug, which recently was patched, stems from an error in the way that MySQL and MariaDB handle passwords, giving an attacker a chance of getting root access by supplying...

OpenSSL Releases New Fix for CVE-2012-2110 ASN1 Bug

The OpenSSL developers have had to re-release the fix for a serious vulnerability in the software’s ASN.1 implementation that could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service or potentially run arbitrary code on a remote machine. The updated fix only applies to version 0.9.8v; all of the othe...

Exploit For Ms12-020 RDP Bug Moves to Metasploit

As the inquiry into who leaked the proof-of-concept exploit code for the MS12-020 RDP flaw continues, organizations that have not patched their machines yet have a new motivation to do so: A Metasploit module for the vulnerability is now available. It’s been a week now since Microsoft released a...

Attackers Reused Adobe Reader Exploit Code From 2009 In Extremely Targeted Hacks

The targeted attack that exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in Adobe’s Reader application last month was extremely focused on defense industrial base firms, and affected just a handful of systems, according to a company spokesman. Fewer than 20 machines, spread across a number of firms ...

Adobe Zero-Day Targets Lockheed Martin

Adobe said a previously undisclosed vulnerability in its Reader and Acrobat applications was passed along by defense contractor Lockheed Martin, raising the specter of a targeted attack on the important military supplier. In issuing a warning about a critical flaw on Tuesday, Adobe credied both...

Stars Attack on Iran Was Early Version of Duqu

A few months after the hysteria around Stuxnet had died down, officials in Iran announced in April that some sensitive systems in the government’s networks had been attacked by a new piece of malware, known then as Stars. It now appears that attack was, in fact, the first appearance of an early...

New BIND Release Fixes High-Severity Remote Bugs

The Internet Systems Consortium has released new versions of the ubiquitous BIND server software that fix a pair of vulnerabilities in existing releases, one of which enables an attacker to stop the software from running on remote DNS servers. The high-severity vulnerability in many versions of t...

Obama Cybersecurity Chief: Other Nations Key To Securing Cyberspace

This is the first part of a two-part Threatpost interview with Howard Schmidt, White House cybersecurity coordinator, about the challenges of international cooperation, the proliferation of cybercrime and what can be done to address those issues. Look for part two tomorrow. The Obama administrati...

Huge Increase Seen in Attacks on Windows Help Center Flaw

Attackers are ramping up their attempts to exploit the recently disclosed vulnerability in the Windows Help and Support Center in Windows XP. There have been targeted attacks against the flaw for two weeks now, but experts have noticed a major increase in the volume and spread of them in recent...

Apple Plugs Critical iPhone Security Holes

Apple has shipped a patch to cover five documented vulnerabilities that expose iPhone and iPod Touch users to malicious hacker attacks. The most serious flaw could allow remote code execution if an iPhone/iPod Touch user opens audio and image files. Here’s the skinny on the vulnerabilities being...

Oracle Releases Critical Patch Update

Oracle has released its Critical Patch Update for October 2009 to address 38 vulnerabilities across several database and server products. The update contains the following security fixes: 16 for the Oracle Database 3 for the Oracle Application Server 8 for the Oracle E-Business Suite and...

Virtual Currency Platform ‘Tornado Cash’ Accused of Aiding APTs

The U.S. government has slapped sanctions on virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash for laundering more than $7 billion in crypto cash derived from cybercriminal activity. At least $455 million of that was moved for state-sponsored Lazarus Group in part to help fund North Korea’s missile program,...

You Can’t Eliminate Cyberattacks, So Focus on Reducing the Blast Radius

Lately, I’ve started wondering if the biggest risk concerning cyberattacks is that we’re becoming desensitized to them. After all, businesses experience a ransomware attack every 11 seconds—the majority of which the public never hears about. Faced with this reality, it may seem like your efforts ...

Conti Ransomware Attack Spurs State of Emergency in Costa Rica

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared a state of national cybersecurity emergency over the weekend following a financially motivated Conti ransomware attack against his administration that has hamstrung the government and economy of the Latin American nation. The attack—attributed to the...

Threat Actors Blanket Androids with Flubot, Teabot Campaigns

Researchers have discovered a raft of active campaigns delivering the Flubot and Teabot trojans through a variety of delivery methods, with threat actors using smishing and malicious Google Play apps to target victims with fly-by attacks in various regions across the globe. Researchers from...

Cyberattacks on Squid Game Minecraft Tourney Take Down Andorra’s Internet

A massive Minecraft tournament styled after the Netflix blockbuster Squid Game known, of course, as “SquidCraft” apparently inspired a distributed denial of service DDoS attack that took down the sole and state-owned internet service provider in Andorra. Internet-freedom monitoring company...

20K WordPress Sites Exposed by Insecure Plugin REST-API

More than 20,000 WordPress sites are vulnerable to malicious code injection, phishing scams and more as the result of a high-severity cross-site scripting XSS bug discovered in the WordPress Email Template Designer – WP HTML Mail, a plugin for designing custom emails. The new vulnerability...

Adobe Cloud Abused to Steal Office 365, Gmail Credentials

Attackers are leveraging Adobe Creative Cloud to target Office 365 users with malicious links that appear to be coming legitimately from Cloud users but instead direct victims to a link that steals their credentials, researchers have discovered. Researchers from Avanan, a Check Point company, fir...

Facebook Outage Drags Down Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Oculus VR

As of Monday afternoon, Facebook had been flat on its face for hours, suffering a simultaneous worldwide outage not only on its main site, but also at its Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus VR subsidiaries. We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. We’re worki...

Apple AirTag Zero-Day Weaponizes Trackers

An unpatched stored cross-site scripting XSS bug in Apple’s AirTag “Lost Mode” could open up users to a cornucopia of web-based attacks, including credential-harvesting, click-jacking, malware delivery, token theft and more. That’s according to Bobby Rauch, an independent security researcher who...

Threat Actors Weaponize Telegram Bots for ExtortionThreat Actors Weaponize Telegram Bots to Compromise PayPal Accounts

Cybercriminals are using Telegram bots to steal one-time password tokens OTPs and defraud people through banks and online payment systems, including PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, new research has found. Researchers from Intel 471 discovered the campaign, which has been operational since June,...

Critical Cisco Bugs Allow Code Execution on Wireless, SD-WAN

Cisco is warning three critical security vulnerabilities affect its flagship IOS XE software, the operating system for most of its enterprise networking portfolio. The flaws impact Cisco’s wireless controllers, SD-WAN offering and configuration mechanisms in use for scads of products. The...

SOVA, Worryingly Sophisticated Android Trojan, Takes Flight

A new Android banking trojan named SOVA “owl” in Russian is under active development, researchers said, and it has big dreams even in its infancy stage. The malware is looking to incorporate distributed denial of service DDoS, man in the middle MiTM and ransomware functionality into its arsenal –...

TeamTNT’s New Tools Target Multiple OSes

The TeamTNT malware pushers have a slew of new toys with which to wreak havoc – multiple shell/batch scripts, open-source tools, a cryptocurrency miner, an IRC and more – that have inflicted more than 5,000 infections globally as antivirus AV tools struggle to catch up with the newest malware...

Feds Warn of Ransomware Attacks Ahead of Labor Day

Though lots of people might be taking some time off over the Labor Day weekend, threat actors likely won’t — which means organizations should remain particularly vigilante about the potential for ransomware attacks, the federal government has warned. Citing historical precedence, the FBI and CISA...

Top Strategies That Define the Success of a Modern Vulnerability Management Program

The CVE database reported 18,325 vulnerabilities in 2020. To add to this, more than 40% of the vulnerabilities do not even have a CVE identifier assigned, and open vulnerabilities on organizations’ infrastructure are the most widely exploited pain points for malicious attacks – including...

Chaos Malware: Ransomware and Wiper

An under-construction malware called Chaos has been spotted, which is being advertised on an underground forum as being available for testing. While it calls itself ransomware, an analysis revealed that it’s actually more of a wiper. According to Trend Micro researcher Monte de Jesus, Chaos has...

New CISA Director Confirmed, W.H. Gains Cyber-Director

The U.S. has made a key move to shore up its cybersecurity strategy, with the confirmation of Jen Easterly as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday. Easterly, a former official at the National Security Agency from 2011 to 2013 and two-time Bronze Star...

Insider Risks In the Work-From-Home World

The employee who exfiltrated data after being fired. The employees who exposed 250 million customer records. The employee who stole trade secrets to get a leg up in his next job because hey, after all, it’s “his” work that he’s taking, right? Those are our traditional notions of insider risk and...

Cyberpunk 2077 Hacked Data Circulating Online

New data from the February hack of CD Projekt Red, the videogame-development company behind Cyberpunk 2077 and the Witcher series, is circulating online. Earlier this year, the company suffered a ransomware attack in which a cyberattack group believed by some to be the HelloKitty gang “gained...

DoJ Task Force: Taking Down the Ransomware Economy

Ransomware has reached crisis levels across business sectors and across the globe, but a public-private Ransomware Task Force aims to stem the tide of attacks by disrupting the crooks’ business model. Join Threatpost for “Fortifying Your Business Against Ransomware, DDoS & Cryptojacking Attacks” ...

Babuk Ransomware Gang Targets Washington D.C. Police

The Babuk gang of threat actors claims to have stolen more than 250 gigabytes of data from the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department MPD on Monday, including police reports, internal memos, and arrested people’s mug shots and personal details. According to Vice, the attackers published t...