Internet Explorer

Void Banshee Group Used ‘Windows Relic’ IE in Phishing Campaign
The APT group Void Banshee exploited a now-patched Windows security flaw and the retired Internet Explorer browser to distributed the Atlantida malware to steal system information and sensitive data from victims ...
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Microsoft Zero-Day-of-the-Month Club
Lior Div | | cyberattack, Exploits, Hafnium, Internet Explorer, Lior Blog, Microsoft, Microsoft Exchange, MSHTML, PrintNightmare, SolarWinds Attacks, Vulnerabilities, vulnerability, zero-day
When it comes to zero day attacks against Microsoft products, I often feel like Bill Murray’s character in the movie Groundhog Day. It seems like I keep waking up to the same ...

THREAT ALERT: Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Cybereason Global SOC Team | | CVE-2021-40444, cyberattack, Exploits, Internet Explorer, managed detection and response, managed security services provider, mdr, Microsoft, Microsoft Hypertext Markup Language, MSHTML, remediation, research, ResearchCat, Threat Alerts, Vulnerabilities, vulnerability
The Cybereason Global Security Operations Center (SOC) issues Cybereason Threat Alerts to inform customers of emerging impacting threats. The Alerts summarize these threats and provide practical recommendations for protecting against them ...

Microsoft Announces Internet Explorer 11’s Retirement Timeline
Microsoft has announced the first stages of the Internet Explorer 11 shutdown in a phase-out process meant to give users and businesses ample time to find other solutions. Simply removing Internet Explorer ...
Menlo Security Prevents Zero-Day Threat on Internet Explorer
James Locus | | Active-Threat, CVE-2020-1380, ie, Internet Explorer, Internet Isolation, isolaton, Malware, zero-day attack
The Still-Active Zero-Day Exploit Threatens the Frequently Vulnerable JavaScript Engine Customers of Menlo Security using Internet Explorer (IE) are protected against a recent and still-active zero-day exploit using Internet Explorer, as outlined ...

Microsoft reports Zero-Day Internet Explorer vulnerability exploited in the wild
Alina Bizga | | ie, Industry News, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Microsoft Internet Explorer, vulnerability, zero-day vulnerabilities
A Microsoft security advisory published last Friday warns users of a zero-day vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer 9, 10 and 11 when running on Windows 7 (recently discontinued), 8.1, 10, Server 2008, Server ...

In Case of Fire: Break Windows
Ochaun Marshall | | Internet Explorer, Penetration Testing, pentesting, training, virtual machine, web penetration testing, Windows 10
When a client calls us to pentest a web application that is only available in Internet Explorer. I cringe. I don’t know if it’s flashbacks from the countless hours spent getting a ...

Sodinokibi and the Successful Tactics it Uses
Tomas Meskauskas | | Bitcoin mining, Exploit, GrandCrab, Internet Explorer, Ransomware, RIG, Sodinokibi
Research by security firms places Ryuk and Sodinokibi as two of the prime ransomware threats facing enterprises today. While some reports illustrate ransomware infections across the board, ransom amounts have almost tripled ...
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Maze Ransomware Exploiting Exploit Kits
Tomas Meskauskas | | drive-by download, Exploit Kit, Internet Explorer, Malware, Maze, Ransomware, Spelevo
Cybercrime has never been one to hem in tactics with ideology or rules. Rather, malware operators are known to use what works and then modify code to continue to work. By “work,” ...
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It doesn’t matter if you don’t use Internet Explorer, you could still be at risk from this IE zero-day vulnerability
You might think that any security issues with Internet Explorer shouldn’t be much of a problem anymore. After all, most computer users have moved on to more modern alternative browsers like Chrome, ...