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Do you ever feel that the web is breaking? When shopping online for a toaster, you can expect an ad for that thing to stalk you from site to site. If you have just a few web browser tabs open, your laptop battery drains rapidly. And don’t get me starte…
Continue Reading. Hackers are using the infrastructure, meant to transmit data between applications, for command and control. The security tools and strategies financial services organizations use to protect their data could be leveraged by cybercriminals who sneak in…
Continue ReadingToday increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks are crafted, honed, and improved by shady groups of hackers, often using custom tools that are directed at high value people, businesses, or even countries. From daring cyber heists that cause cash machine…
Continue ReadingA user surfs the web, downloads files, opens a data packet, reads an e-mail, clicks on a link, and all of a sudden, something about the PC is different than usual. Suddenly, commands are no longer executed, web pages will no longer launch – the PC take…
Continue ReadingJune 18, 2018 The Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group “APT15” has been found to have added a new malware to its arsenal, according to Intezer researchers. The malware, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) dubbed “MirageFox,” incorporates code from the “Mira…
Continue ReadingThe prolific Betabot malware was recently found being distributed in a new multi-stage attack campaign. Betabot initially appeared as a banking malware and later evolved to become a password stealer. Eventually, it was transformed into a botnet capable…
Continue ReadingSince our last report on exploit kits, there have been some new developments with the wider adoption of the February Flash zero-day, as well as the inclusion of a new exploit for Internet Explorer. We have not seen that many changes in the drive-by lan…
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The Betabot Trojan is being spread in a multi-stage attack that starts with malicious Office documents attempting to exploit a 17-year old vulnerability. Betabot is a piece of malware that evolved from being a banking Trojan to a password stealer, a…
Continue ReadingWriteup: https://codewhitesec.blogspot.com/2018/06/cve-2018-0624.html In May 2018 Microsoft patched an interesting vulnerability (CVE-2018-0824) which was reported by Nicolas Joly of Microsoft’s MSRC: A remote code execution vulnerability exists in “Mi…
Continue ReadingMicrosoft COM for Windows privilege escalation proof of concept exploit. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in “Microsoft COM for Windows” when it fails to properly handle serialized objects. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnera…
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