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Firefox 0 day in the wild.
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A few hours ago a zero day vulnerability emerged in the Tor browser bundle and the Firefox web browser. Currently it exploits Windows systems with a high success rate and affects Firefox versions 41 to 50 and the current version of the Tor Browser Bundle which contains Firefox 45 ESR.
In the event that you utilize Firefox, we prescribe you incidentally change programs to Chrome, Safari or a non-firefox based program that is secure until the Firefox dev group can discharge an overhaul. This weakness permits an aggressor to execute code on your Windows workstation. The endeavor is in the wild, which means it's presently open and each programmer on the planet has admittance to it. There is no fix at the time of this writing.
As of now this exploit causes a workstation to report back to an IP address based at OVH in France. In any case, this code can likely be re-purposed to taint workstations with malware or ransom-ware. The endeavor code is presently open information so we expect new variations of this assault to rise quickly.
The shell code in this assault gets back to IP address 5.39.27.226, which was a web server facilitated at OVH in France. The site is currently down. Our own examination demonstrates that in the event that you look into this IP address in Shodan, it had a SSL testament that is a special case for the energycdn.com space name. That site for energycdn is oversimplified and as indicated by archive.org, it has not changed since 2014.
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