MS Office zero-day exploited in attacks – no enabling of macros required!
A new zero-day flaw affecting all versions of Microsoft Office is being exploited in attacks in the wild, and no user is safe – not even those who use a fully patched …
Actively exploited zero-day in IIS 6.0 affects 60,000+ servers
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 sports a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2017-7269) that was exploited in the wild last summer and is likely also being exploited …
DoubleAgent attack uses built-in Windows tool to hijack applications
Security researchers from computer and network security outfit Cybellum have revealed a new zero-day code injection and persistence technique that can be used by attackers to …
Several high risk 0-day vulnerabilities affecting SAP HANA found
Onapsis discovered several high risk vulnerabilities affecting SAP HANA platforms. If exploited, these vulnerabilities would allow an attacker, whether inside or outside the …
Leaked: Docs cataloguing CIA’s frightening hacking capabilities
WikiLeaks has released 8,761 documents and files they claim originate from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – more specifically, from an “isolated, …
Will February’s Patch Tuesday fix a known zero-day?
Coming into Patch Tuesday we have a known zero day on the Microsoft side, and we’ve seen example code for an SMB exploit that could lead to DoS and BYOD of a system. US …
Exploit for Windows DoS zero-day published, patch out on Tuesday?
A zero-day bug affecting Windows 10, 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and 2016 can be exploited to crash a vulnerable system and possibly even to compromise it. The bug It is a memory …
WordPress kept users and hackers in the dark while secretly fixing critical zero-day
Last week WordPress released the newest version (4.7.2) of the popular CMS, ostensibly fixing three security issues affecting versions 4.7.1 and earlier. What the WordPress …
Firefox 0-day exploited in the wild to unmask Tor users
An anonymous user of the SIGAINT darknet email service has revealed the existence of a JavaScript exploit that is apparently being actively used to de-anonymize Tor Browser …
Pawn Storm raced to pop many targets before Windows zero-day patch release
As promised, Microsoft provided this Tuesday a patch for the Windows zero-day (CVE-2016-7855) actively exploited by the Strontium (aka Pawn Storm) cyber espionage hacking …
Post-pumpkin Patch Tuesday: What’s in store for November
There has been a lot of activity since October’s Patch Tuesday. During that short period of time, Oracle released its quarterly CPU, including an update for Java JRE; Adobe …
Latest Windows zero-day exploited by DNC hackers
Due to Google’s public release of information about an actively exploited Windows zero-day, Microsoft was forced to offer its own view of things and more information …
