Tag Archives: Watering hole attack

New Internet Explorer 8 Zero-Day Used in Watering Hole Attack

Microsoft has issued Security Advisory 2847140 in response to reports regarding public exploitation of a vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer 8. Other versions such as Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 9, and Internet Exp…

Latest Java Zero-Day Shares Connections with Bit9 Security Incident

Symantec recently received information on a new Java zero-day, Oracle Java Runtime Environment CVE-2013-1493 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2013-1493).  The final payload in the attack consisted of a DLL file, detected by Symantec as Tro…