The much anticipated Badlock vulnerability wasn’t in the SMB protocol after all, but in SAM and LSAD and exposed Windows machines to privilege escalation.
Tag Archives: Vulnerabilities
ZeuS Banking Trojan Resurfaces As Atmos Variant
Atmos banking malware has perilous pedigree that includes Citadel and ZeuS.
Meet The Cryptoworm, The Future of Ransomware
The age of self-propagating ransomware, or cryptoworms, is right around the corner, says Cisco Talos.
Moxa Won’t Patch Publicly Disclosed Flaws Until August
A number of publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Moxa networking gear won’t be patched until August, if at all, according to ICS-CERT.
Google Updates Safe Browsing Alerts for Network Admins
Google enhanced the way it displays Safe Browsing Alerts for Network Administrators this week, adding information about sites circulating malware and carrying out social engineering attacks.
Latest Flash Zero Day Being Used to Push Ransomware
Exploits for an Adobe Flash Player zero day vulnerability have been folded into two exploit kits that are distributing ransomware to infected machines.
Mac Adware OSX.Pirrit Unleashes Ad Overload, For Now
Researchers discovered a Mac OS X variant of the Windows-based Pirrit adware that creates a proxy server on infected Mac computers and injects ads into webpages.
Private SSH Key, Weak Default Credentials Removed From ExaGrid Appliances
ExaGrid has removed public-private pairings and weak, hardcoded default credentials from its disk-backup appliances.
Emergency Update Coming for Flash Vulnerability Under Attack
Adobe will release an emergency Flash Player update as soon as Thursday, patching a critical vulnerability that is being publicly attacked.
Firefox Add-On Flaw Leaves Apple And Windows Computers Open To Attack
Researchers say reliance on an outdated Firefox extension platform opens the door for remote system attacks on Mac OS and Windows systems.