Category Archives: hypervisors

clipboard hijacking, directory traversal vulnerability, Hyper-V, hypervisors, path traversal attack, RDP server hacking, RDP Vulnerability, Virtual Machine, windows hacking, Windows RDP Server

Reverse RDP Attack Also Enables Guest-to-Host Escape in Microsoft Hyper-V

Remember the Reverse RDP Attack?Earlier this year, researchers disclosed clipboard hijacking and path-traversal issues in Microsoft's Windows built-in RDP client that could allow a malicious RDP server to compromise a client computer, reversely.(You can find details and a video demonstration for this security vulnerability, along with dozens of critical flaws in other third-party RDP
Hacking news, hypervisors, Virtual Machine, VirtualBox, Virtualization software, Vulnerability, zero-day exploit, Zero-Day Vulnerability

Unpatched VirtualBox Zero-Day Vulnerability and Exploit Released Online

An independent exploit developer and vulnerability researcher has publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in VirtualBox—a popular open source virtualization software developed by Oracle—that could allow a malicious program to escape virtual machine (guest OS) and execute code on the operating system of the host machine.The vulnerability occurs due to memory corruption issues and affects
Foreshadow Attack, Hacking news, hypervisors, intel chipset, intel processor, intel vulnerability, speculative execution, speculative side-channel attack, Virtual Machine, Virtualization software

Foreshadow Attacks — 3 New Intel CPU Side-Channel Flaws Discovered

2018 has been quite a tough year for Intel.While the chip-maker giant is still dealing with Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities, yet another major speculative execution flaw has been revealed in Intel's Core and Xeon lines of processors that may leave users vulnerable to cyber-attacks.Dubbed Foreshadow, alternatively called L1 Terminal Fault or L1TF, the new attacks include