WordPress Bitcoin Payments – Blockonomics Security Vulnerabilities

Ukraine Police Arrest Suspect Linked to LockBit and Conti Ransomware Groups

The Cyber Police of Ukraine has announced the arrest of a local man who is suspected to have offered their services to LockBit and Conti ransomware groups. The unnamed 28-year-old native of the Kharkiv region allegedly specialized in the development of crypters to encrypt and obfuscate malicious...

10 years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program

Each year, we celebrate the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program, highlighting impressive bugs and researchers, rewards, live hacking events, and more. This year, we celebrate a new milestone: 10 years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program! While we've had some exciting growth over the last 10...

Update: CVE-2024-4577 quickly weaponized to distribute “TellYouThePass” Ransomware

Introduction Recently, Imperva Threat Research reported on attacker activity leveraging the new PHP vulnerability, CVE-2024-4577. From as early as June 8th, we have detected attacker activity leveraging this vulnerability to deliver malware, which we have now identified to be a part of the...

Bypassing 2FA with phishing and OTP bots

Introduction Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a security feature we have come to expect as standard by 2024. Most of today's websites offer some form of it, and some of them won't even let you use their service until you enable 2FA. Individual countries have adopted laws that require certain...

Security Bulletin: Security fixes available for The IBM® Engineering System Design Rhapsody products on IBM Jazz Technology

Summary The IBM® Engineering System Design Rhapsody 10.0 iFix001, The IBM® Engineering System Design Rhapsody 9.0.2 iFix002 and The IBM® Engineering System Design Rhapsody 9.0.1 iFix006 contain fixes for vulnerabilities identified in the Vulnerabilities Details section. The refererred iFix...

The sliding doors of misinformation that come with AI-generated search results

As someone who used to think that his entire livelihood would come from writing, I've long wondered if any sort of computer or AI could replace my essential functions at work. For now, it seems there are enough holes in AI-generated language that my ability to write down a complete, accurate and...

CVE-2024-1175

The WP-Recall – Registration, Profile, Commerce & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'delete_payment' function in all versions up to, and including, 16.26.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete...

CVE-2024-1175

The WP-Recall – Registration, Profile, Commerce & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'delete_payment' function in all versions up to, and including, 16.26.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete...

CVE-2024-1175 WP-Recall – Registration, Profile, Commerce & More <= 16.26.6 - Unauthenticated Payment Deletion via delete_payment

The WP-Recall – Registration, Profile, Commerce & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'delete_payment' function in all versions up to, and including, 16.26.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete...

CVE-2024-1175 WP-Recall – Registration, Profile, Commerce & More <= 16.26.6 - Unauthenticated Payment Deletion via delete_payment

The WP-Recall – Registration, Profile, Commerce & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'delete_payment' function in all versions up to, and including, 16.26.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete...

CVE-2023-48285

Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) vulnerability in Tips and Tricks HQ Stripe Payments allows Code Injection.This issue affects Stripe Payments: from n/a through...

CVE-2023-48285

Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) vulnerability in Tips and Tricks HQ Stripe Payments allows Code Injection.This issue affects Stripe Payments: from n/a through...

CVE-2023-48285 WordPress Accept Stripe Payments plugin <= 2.0.79 - Content Injection vulnerability

Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) vulnerability in Tips and Tricks HQ Stripe Payments allows Code Injection.This issue affects Stripe Payments: from n/a through...

CVE-2023-48285 WordPress Accept Stripe Payments plugin <= 2.0.79 - Content Injection vulnerability

Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) vulnerability in Tips and Tricks HQ Stripe Payments allows Code Injection.This issue affects Stripe Payments: from n/a through...

IT threat evolution Q1 2024

IT threat evolution Q1 2024 IT threat evolution Q1 2024. Mobile statistics IT threat evolution Q1 2024. Non-mobile statistics Targeted attacks Operation Triangulation: the final mystery Last June, we published a series of reports on Operation Triangulation, a previously unknown iOS malware...

IT threat evolution in Q1 2024. Non-mobile statistics

IT threat evolution Q1 2024 IT threat evolution Q1 2024. Mobile statistics IT threat evolution Q1 2024. Non-mobile statistics The statistics presented here are based on detection verdicts by Kaspersky products and services received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Quarterly.....

Attackers are impersonating a road toll payment processor across the U.S. in phishing attacks

My wife (no stranger to weird types of scams) recently received a fake text message from someone claiming to be New Jersey's E-ZPass program saying that she had an outstanding balance from highway tolls that she owed, prompting her to visit a site so she could pay and avoid additional fines. There....

Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF)

sylius/resource-bundle is vulnerable to a Cross-Site Request Forgery. The vulnerability is due to the absence of proper validation and insufficient CSRF protection for actions such as marking order payments or product reviews in the AdminBundle and ResourceBundle. This allowing attackers to...

Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF)

sylius/admin-bundle is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). The vulnerability is due to the absence of a CSRF token requirement in several administrative actions, such as marking orders payments as completed or refunded, and marking product reviews as accepted or rejected. This flaws...

2024 Cybersecurity Trends: What’s Observable Already?

2024 has already witnessed a staggering number of cyber incidents, with over 29.5 billion records breached across 4,645 publicly disclosed incidents in January alone, according to the IT Governance Security Spotlight. Moreover, CVEs are growing significantly year over year, with 13% growth from...

U.S. Sentences 31-Year-Old to 10 Years for Laundering $4.5M in Email Scams

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has sentenced a 31-year-old man to 10 years in prison for laundering more than $4.5 million through business email compromise (BEC) schemes and romance scams. Malachi Mullings, 31, of Sandy Springs, Georgia pleaded guilty to the money laundering offenses in...

Microsoft Uncovers 'Moonstone Sleet' — New North Korean Hacker Group

A never-before-seen North Korean threat actor codenamed Moonstone Sleet has been attributed as behind cyber attacks targeting individuals and organizations in the software and information technology, education, and defense industrial base sectors with ransomware and bespoke malware previously...

Indian National Pleads Guilty to $37 Million Cryptocurrency Theft Scheme

An Indian national has pleaded guilty in the U.S. over charges of stealing more than $37 million by setting up a website that impersonated the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange platform. Chirag Tomar, 30, pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in...

4-Step Approach to Mapping and Securing Your Organization's Most Critical Assets

You're probably familiar with the term "critical assets". These are the technology assets within your company's IT infrastructure that are essential to the functioning of your organization. If anything happens to these assets, such as application servers, databases, or privileged identities, the...

Message board scams

Marketplace fraud is nothing new. Cybercriminals swindle money out of buyers and sellers alike. Lately, we've seen a proliferation of cybergangs operating under the Fraud-as-a-Service model and specializing in tricking users of online marketplaces, in particular, message boards. Criminals are...

New Bitcoin Token Protocol “Runes” Carries Potential Phishing Risk

By Owais Sultan Is the innovative Runes protocol on Bitcoin a cybersecurity concern waiting to happen? Cybersecurity experts at Resonance Security… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Bitcoin Token Protocol "Runes" Carries Potential Phishing...

Cyber Criminals Exploit GitHub and FileZilla to Deliver Malware Cocktail

A "multi-faceted campaign" has been observed abusing legitimate services like GitHub and FileZilla to deliver an array of stealer malware and banking trojans such as Atomic (aka AMOS), Vidar, Lumma (aka LummaC2), and Octo by impersonating credible software like 1Password, Bartender 5, and...

CVE-2024-30527

Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in Tips and Tricks HQ WP Express Checkout (Accept PayPal Payments) allows Manipulating Hidden Fields.This issue affects WP Express Checkout (Accept PayPal Payments): from n/a through...

CVE-2024-30527

Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in Tips and Tricks HQ WP Express Checkout (Accept PayPal Payments) allows Manipulating Hidden Fields.This issue affects WP Express Checkout (Accept PayPal Payments): from n/a through...

CVE-2024-30527 WordPress WP Express Checkout plugin <= 2.3.7 - Price Manipulation vulnerability

Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in Tips and Tricks HQ WP Express Checkout (Accept PayPal Payments) allows Manipulating Hidden Fields.This issue affects WP Express Checkout (Accept PayPal Payments): from n/a through...

Rounding up some of the major headlines from RSA

While I one day wish to make it to the RSA Conference in person, I've never had the pleasure of making the trek to San Francisco for one of the largest security conferences in the U.S. Instead, I had to watch from afar and catch up on the internet every day like the common folk. This at least...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (May 6, 2024 to May 12, 2024)

Did you know we're running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! Last week, there were 184 vulnerabilities disclosed in 146...

Easy Digital Downloads < 3.2.12 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

Description The Easy Digital Downloads – Sell Digital Files & Subscriptions (eCommerce Store + Payments Made Easy) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.11. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract...

Why car location tracking needs an overhaul

Across America, survivors of domestic abuse and stalking are facing a unique location tracking crisis born out of policy failure, unclear corporate responsibility, and potentially risky behaviors around digital sharing that are now common in relationships. No, we’re not talking about stalkerware......

Black Basta Ransomware Strikes 500+ Entities Across North America, Europe, and Australia

The Black Basta ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation has targeted more than 500 private industry and critical infrastructure entities in North America, Europe, and Australia since its emergence in April 2022. In a joint advisory published by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency....

RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in clipboard (CVE-2020-16025) chromium-browser: Out of bounds...

State of ransomware in 2024

Ransomware attacks continue to be one of the biggest contemporary cybersecurity threats, affecting organizations and individuals alike on a global scale. From high-profile breaches in healthcare and industrial sectors – compromising huge volumes of sensitive data or halting production entirely –...

U.S. Charges Russian Man as Boss of LockBit Ransomware Group

The United States joined the United Kingdom and Australia today in sanctioning 31-year-old Russian national Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the alleged leader of the infamous ransomware group LockBit. The U.S. Department of Justice also indicted Khoroshev and charged him with using Lockbit to attack....

Russian Hacker Dmitry Khoroshev Unmasked as LockBit Ransomware Administrator

The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) has unmasked the administrator and developer of the LockBit ransomware operation, revealing it to be a 31-year-old Russian national named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev. In addition, Khoroshev has been sanctioned by the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development...

Russian Operator of BTC-e Crypto Exchange Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering

A Russian operator of a now-dismantled BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges from 2011 to 2017. Alexander Vinnik, 44, was charged in January 2017 and taken into custody in Greece in July 2017. He was subsequently extradited to the U.S. in August 2022. Vinnik.....

It Costs How Much?!? The Financial Pitfalls of Cyberattacks on SMBs

Cybercriminals are vipers. They're like snakes in the grass, hiding behind their keyboards, waiting to strike. And if you're a small- and medium-sized business (SMB), your organization is the ideal lair for these serpents to slither into. With cybercriminals becoming more sophisticated, SMBs like.....

Financial cyberthreats in 2023

Money is what always attracts cybercriminals. A significant share of scam, phishing and malware attacks is about money. With trillions of dollars of digital payments made every year, it is no wonder that attackers target electronic wallets, online shopping accounts and other financial assets,...

GLSA-202405-14 : QtWebEngine: Multiple Vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202405-14 (QtWebEngine: Multiple Vulnerabilities) Insufficient policy enforcement in iOS Security UI in Google Chrome prior to 121.0.6167.85 allowed a remote attacker to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page....

Fully Offline Electronic Cash: Is It an Intractable Problem?

By Daily Contributors Is truly offline offline electronic Cash possible? Unlike Bitcoin, experts dig deeper into the technical hurdles of creating software-based cash that works without the internet. Discover why achieving this might be a tougher nut to crack than expected. This is a post from...

ROS-20240503-01

A vulnerability in the Web Audio component of Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome browsers is related to memory usage after it has been freed. Exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an attacker acting remotely, execute arbitrary code A vulnerability in the Skia graphics library of Google...

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (April 22, 2024 to April 28, 2024)

Did you know we're running a Bug Bounty Extravaganza again? Earn over 6x our usual bounty rates, up to $10,000, for all vulnerabilities submitted through May 27th, 2024 when you opt to have Wordfence handle responsible disclosure! Last week, there were 304 vulnerabilities disclosed in 232...

Ukrainian REvil Hacker Sentenced to 13 Years and Ordered to Pay $16 Million

A Ukrainian national has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison and ordered to pay $16 million in restitution for carrying out thousands of ransomware attacks and extorting victims. Yaroslav Vasinskyi (aka Rabotnik), 24, along with his co-conspirators part of the REvil ransomware group...

Bitcoin Forensic Analysis Uncovers Money Laundering Clusters and Criminal Proceeds

A forensic analysis of a graph dataset containing transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain has revealed clusters associated with illicit activity and money laundering, including detecting criminal proceeds sent to a crypto exchange and previously unknown wallets belonging to a Russian darknet...

A Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering

Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM have released a new AI model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it's trained on—that aims to spot the “shape” of bitcoin money...

Easy Accept Payments < 5.0 - Missing Authorization

Description The Easy Accept Payments via PayPal plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.10. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized...