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December Patch Tuesday: Year-End Batch Addresses Win32k Elevation of Privilege and Windows DNS Server Vulnerabilities

  • Posted on:December 11, 2018 at 10:30 pm
  • Posted in:Vulnerabilities
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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The just-released Patch Tuesday for December includes a fix for the actively exploited Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2018-8611). The flaw allows an attacker to exploit a bug in the Windows Kernel and run arbitrary code to install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. It is also pointed out as likely being used with other bugs in targeted attacks.

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Tags: AdobebugsDNSMicrosoftWindows

One Month to DNS Changer Server Shutdown

  • Posted on:June 8, 2012 at 2:47 pm
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Jonathan Leopando (Technical Communications)
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The extension granted in March for the DNS servers run by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) for victims of the DNS Changer malware expires in a month. To recap: after the FBI (working with a cadre of private industry partners, including Trend Micro researchers) disconnected the ESThost/Rove Digital “rogue” DNS infrastructure in New York and…

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Tags: DNSDNS Changerdnschangerjuly 9

ZLOB Enters The Search Engine Market

  • Posted on:August 7, 2008 at 4:37 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Feike Hacquebord (Senior Threat Researcher)
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More than a year ago, Trend Micro threat researchers uncovered a network of over 900 rogue DNS (Domain Name System) servers related to the ZLOB Trojan family. We gave examples showing that these rogue DNS servers are part of click fraud and leakage of personal information. Just recently, however, we discovered that this network is…

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Tags: DNSrogue dns serverssearch enginezlob

Major DNS Cache-Poisoning Vulnerability: Patch Now

  • Posted on:July 22, 2008 at 2:28 pm
  • Posted in:Mobile, Vulnerabilities
  • Author:
    Paul Ferguson (Senior Threat Researcher)
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While this is completely unrelated to any particular malware, there is a rather disconcerting DNS cache-poisoning vulnerability that has surfaced which deserves the attention of any and every organization on the planet that operates their own DNS servers. The importance of determining if you are vulnerable, and getting the vulnerability fixed quickly, is becoming more…

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Tags: DNSPharming

Turkish Hackers Relive Memories in Photobucket

  • Posted on:June 25, 2008 at 11:39 pm
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Jovi Umawing (Technical Communications)
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Photobucket, one of cyberspace’s more popular image-sharing Web sites, was attacked by the Turkish hacker group NetDevilz, as reported in forums, discussion boards, and security blog posts. The Register also reported of the attack. Hackers were said to have used a Domain Name Server (DNS) hack that leads anyone who accesses photobucket.com to be redirected…

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Tags: DNSNetDevilzPhotobuckeryoutube
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