For almost the past month, key computer systems serving the government of Baltimore, Md. have been held hostage by a ransomware strain known as “Robbinhood.” Media publications have cited sources saying the Robbinhood version that hit Baltimore city computers was powered by “Eternal Blue,” a hacking tool developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) […]
The CVE-2018-8174 is a bug that allows remote code execution in the VBScript Engine. Found exploited in the wild as a 0day via Word documents, announced by Qihoo360 on April 20, 2018, patched by Microsoft on May 8, 2018 and explained in details by Kaspersky the day after. A Proof of Concept for Internet Explorer […]
The CVE-2018-15982 is a bug that allows remote code execution in Flash Player up to 31.0.0.153, spotted in the wild as a 0day. Patched on December 05, 2018 with APSB18-42. Underminer: Underminer exploit kit improves in its latest iteration – 2018-12-21 – Malwarebytes Fallout: 2019-01-16 Figure 4: Fallout exploiting CVE-2018-15982 on Windows 7 – 2019-01-16 […]