A memory corruption vulnerability has been disclosed in the Microsoft Internet explorer. Upon successful exploitation an attacker can achieve remote arbitrary code execution within the context of the current user. CVE-2018-8653 has been assigned to track this vulnerability. Microsoft has addressed this issue via an out of band advisory release . The issue affects IE … Continue reading “Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability: CVE-2018-8653”
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VBScript Engine Use-After-Free Vulnerability : CVE-2018-8373
A use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability has been discovered in the Windows VBScript engine. Upon successful exploitation an attacker can achieve remote code execution on the target. CVE-2018-8373 has been assigned to track this vulnerability. CVE-2018-8373 is being exploited in the wild similar to CVE-2018-8174. The issue affects Internet explorer 9-11 unless VBScript is disabled by default. … Continue reading “VBScript Engine Use-After-Free Vulnerability : CVE-2018-8373”
Disdain EK
A new exploit kit (EK) named “Disdain” has been observed in the wild. The EK targets Windows vulnerabilities. Initially the presence of this EK was found in underground forums as an ad and was brought to light on twitter by @CryptoInsane. The EK can be rented for as low as 80$. Disdain claims to exploit … Continue reading “Disdain EK”
Sundown Exploit Kit and The EITEST Campaign
Abstract: After the vanishing of Angler and Neutrino Exploit kits (EK), the underground cyber world of EK was left with only one major player with Rig EK. Pseudo-Darkleech and EITEST, the two most popular website compromise campaigns, both redirected their victims to Rig EK. However, a few days back, our systems recently detected a major … Continue reading “Sundown Exploit Kit and The EITEST Campaign”
