Threatpost Data: Password Managers Are Worth the Risk, Readers Say

Despite a high-profile memory-related vulnerability in password managers capturing headlines last week, a recent Threatpost poll found that 84 percent of respondents use password managers – while only 10 percent said they don’t due to security risks. There have been vulnerabilities found before i...

Kanboard 1.2.7 Code Execution / Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities

Kanboard version 1.2.7 contains multiple vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities include CSV account import cross site request forgery which allows an unauthenticated attacker to create a new administrative user. Cross site request forgery 2FA deactivation, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to...

Kanboard 1.2.7 Code Execution / Cross Site Request Forgery

Feb 11 2019 Kanboard 1.2.7 contains multiple vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities include CSV account import cross site request forgery which allows an unauthenticated attacker to create a new administrative user. Cross site request forgery 2FA deactivation, allowing an unauthenticated attacker t...

Modlishka - An Open Source Phishing Tool With 2FA Authentication

Modlishka is a flexible and powerful reverse proxy, that will take your phishing campaigns to the next level with minimal effort required from your side. Enjoy :- Features Some of the most important 'Modlishka' features : Support for majority of 2FA authentication schemes by design. No website...

A week in security (January 21 – 27)

Last week on the Malwarebytes Labs blog, we took a look at Modlishka, the latest hurdle in two-factor authentication 2FA, the potential for abuse of push notifications, a malware-phishing combo by the name of CryTekk ransomware, and why we detect PUPs, but enforce the power of users' choice. We...

Nextcloud: 2FA Session not expires after the password reset

A bug in Nextcloud Server 15.0.2 causes pending 2FA logins to not be correctly expired when the password of the user is reset...

Flexible and Powerful Reverse Proxy: Modlishka

Modlishka is a flexible and powerful reverse proxy, that will take your phishing campaigns to the next level. It was realeased with an aim to: help penetration testers to carry out an effective phishing campaign and reinforce the fact that serious threat can arise from phishing. show current 2FA...

Threatpost Survey Says: 2FA is Just Fine, But Go Ahead and Kill SMS

The author of a recently released penetration testing tool called Modlishka, which can bypass mainstream two-factor authentication 2FA, asked a provocative question in a recently published research note: “Is 2FA broken?” Since this isn’t the first example of how 2FA can be defeated, we asked...

Fortnite Flaws Allowed Hackers to Takeover Gamers' Accounts

Check Point researchers have discovered multiple security vulnerabilities in Fortnite, a massively popular online battle game, one of which could have allowed remote attackers to completely takeover player accounts just by tricking users into clicking an unsuspectable link. The reported Fortnite...

Dropbox: Significant Two step verification Authentication Bypass

This report described a concern with our “Trust this Computer” feature in Dropbox web sign in. The way our “Trust this Computer” feature works, at a high level, is that while authenticating using 2FA, the user can request that this device be trusted in the future so they don’t have to use 2FA...

Threatpost Poll: Can We Fix 2FA?

In the wake of the release of a penetration testing tool called Modlishka that shows how easy it is to bypass login protections for accounts protected by mainstream two-factor authentication 2FA, the tool’s author in his write-up asked, “is 2FA broken?” It’s a provocative question, so we asked...

New Attack Against Electrum Bitcoin Wallets

This is clever: How the attack works: Attacker added tens of malicious servers to the Electrum wallet network. Users of legitimate Electrum wallets initiate a Bitcoin transaction. If the transaction reaches one of the malicious servers, these servers reply with an error message that urges users t...

Fedora 28 : phpMyAdmin (2018-f2b24ce26e)

Upstream announcement : Security fix: phpMyAdmin 4.8.3 is released The phpMyAdmin team is pleased to announce the release of phpMyAdmin version 4.8.2. Among other bug fixes, this contains a security fix for an issue that can be exploited when importing files. A flaw was discovered with how warnin...

A week in security (December 17 – 23)

Last week on Labs we looked at Fuchsia OS as a possible alternative for Android, explained all the reasons why cybercriminals want to hack your phone, discussed a flaw in Twitter form that may have been abused by nation states, gave you a Christmas tech scams roundup, revealed why many online...

CVE-2018-20231

Cross Site Request Forgery CSRF in the two-factor-authentication plugin before 1.3.13 for WordPress allows remote attackers to disable 2FA via the tfaenabletfa parameter due to missing nonce validation...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

Cross Site Request Forgery CSRF in the two-factor-authentication plugin before 1.3.13 for WordPress allows remote attackers to disable 2FA via the tfaenabletfa parameter due to missing nonce validation...

CVE-2018-20231

CVE-2018-20231 affects the WordPress Two Factor Authentication plugin (pre-1.3.13). The vulnerability is a CSRF flaw that allows remote attackers to disable 2FA by triggering tfa_enable_tfa due to missing nonce validation. Impact is partial to high: it can disable two-factor protection, leaving a...

CVE-2018-20231

Cross Site Request Forgery CSRF in the two-factor-authentication plugin before 1.3.13 for WordPress allows remote attackers to disable 2FA via the tfaenabletfa parameter due to missing nonce validation...

Charming Kitten Iranian Espionage Campaign Thwarts 2FA

A range of political and civil society targets are under fire in an APT attack dubbed the Return of Charming Kitten. The campaign has been tailored to get around two-factor authentication in order to compromise email accounts and start monitoring communications. According to researchers at Certfa...

Hackers bypassed Gmail & Yahoo’s 2FA to target US officials

By Waqas The attack was carried out by Iran-backed charming kitten hackers and victims include dozens of US government officials. Private emails of US sanctions officials and nuclear scientists have been breached by Iranian state-sponsored hackers. As per the data obtained by Certfa, a...