Security News

'Unpatchable' iOS Bootrom Exploit Allows Jailbreaking of Many iPhones
2019-09-27 15:47

A researcher specializing in iOS security claims to have created a bootrom exploit that can be leveraged to jailbreak hundreds of millions of iOS devices, including all iPhones between iPhone 4S...

Rash of Exploits Targets Critical vBulletin RCE Bug
2019-09-26 17:45

After someone dropped a zero-day exploit on Securelist this week, the platform rushed out a fix -- time to apply it.

How to protect your business from cyberattacks that exploit Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol
2019-09-25 13:11

The industry wide use of Remote Desktop Protocol makes it a tempting target for hackers, says a new report from threat detection company Vectra.

vBulletin zero-day exploited in the wild in wake of exploit release
2019-09-25 09:27

An anonymous bug hunter has released a working and elegantly simple exploit for a pre-authentication remote code execution flaw (CVE-2019-16759) affecting vBulletin and it didn’t take long for...

Hacker Releases Exploit for vBulletin Zero-Day Vulnerability
2019-09-25 08:30

A hacker has released an exploit for an unpatched remote command execution vulnerability affecting the vBulletin forum software. read more

This vBulletin vBug is vBad: Zero-day exploit lets miscreants hijack vulnerable web forums
2019-09-24 22:02

Hackers can inject system commands via version 5 of software, no patch available It's a good day to be running an ancient version of vBulletin, as researchers have disclosed a zero-day flaw that...

[Unpatched] Critical 0-Day RCE Exploit for vBulletin Forum Disclosed Publicly
2019-09-24 19:04

An anonymous hacker today publicly revealed details and proof-of-concept exploit code for an unpatched, critical zero-day remote code execution vulnerability in vBulletin—one of the widely used...

1-Click iPhone and Android Exploits Target Tibetan Users via WhatsApp
2019-09-24 14:48

A team of Canadian cybersecurity researchers has uncovered a sophisticated and targeted mobile hacking campaign that is targeting high-profile members of various Tibetan groups with one-click...

Massive Gaming DDoS Exploits Widespread Technology
2019-09-18 13:00

The attack -- the 4th-largest the company has ever encountered -- leveraged WS-Discovery, the same exploit used in the 2016 Dyn incident.

News Wrap: IoT Radio Telnet Backdoor And ‘SimJacker’ Active Exploit
2019-09-13 12:50

Threatpost editors Tara Seals and Lindsey O'Donnell talk about the top news stories of the week - from leaky databases to SIM card attacks.