Spike in “Chain Gang” Destructive Attacks on ATMs

Last summer, financial institutions throughout Texas started reporting a sudden increase in attacks involving well-orchestrated teams that would show up at night, use stolen trucks and heavy chains to rip Automated Teller Machines ATMs out of their foundations, and make off with the cash boxes...

How Fake Accounts and Sneaker-Bots Took Over the Internet

Recently, one of my friends from my submarine days sent me a friend request on Facebook. The weird thing is, I was already connected with this friend. Looking further at the profile, I noticed a few of the same pictures but only 11 friends. So I knew this was some scammer and, being me, I message...

Oracle Auditing Part 1: Standard Auditing

This is the first of three articles on the topic of Oracle auditing. It is relevant to Oracle 10g, 11g, and 12c, although Unified Auditing in 12c makes some of this content irrelevant if you choose to use Pure Unified Auditing. Unified Auditing will be covered in the third part of this series...

WordPress Plainview Activity Monitor 20161228 Plugin - Remote Code Execution (Authenticated) Exploit

Exploit Title: WordPress Plugin Plainview Activity Monitor 20161228 - Remote Code Execution RCE Authenticated 2 Exploit Author: Beren Kuday GORUN Vendor Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/plainview-activity-monitor/ Software Link:...

WordPress Plainview Activity Monitor 20161228 Remote Code Execution

Exploit Title: WordPress Plugin Plainview Activity Monitor 20161228 - Remote Code Execution RCE Authenticated 2 Date: 07.07.2021 Exploit Author: Beren Kuday GORUN Vendor Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/plainview-activity-monitor/ Software Link:...

WordPress Plugin Plainview Activity Monitor 20161228 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) (Authenticated) (2)

Exploit Title: WordPress Plugin Plainview Activity Monitor 20161228 - Remote Code Execution RCE Authenticated 2 Date: 07.07.2021 Exploit Author: Beren Kuday GORUN Vendor Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/plainview-activity-monitor/ Software Link:...

CVE-2021-24494

The WP Offload SES Lite WordPress plugin before 1.4.5 did not escape some of the fields in the Activity page of the admin dashboard, such as the email's id, subject and recipient, which could lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues when an attacker can control any of these fields, like the...

CVE-2021-24494

The WP Offload SES Lite WordPress plugin before 1.4.5 did not escape some of the fields in the Activity page of the admin dashboard, such as the email's id, subject and recipient, which could lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues when an attacker can control any of these fields, like the...

Top 8 Database Security Best Practices

There is a large body of knowledge on what activities are required in order to secure databases and in order to comply with regulations and requirements. We’ve gathered the top 8 best practices for ensuring database security. Databases are arguably the most important and, unfortunately, also the...

Know where your project stands with the new project overview!

In late April, I introduced the new project experience for SonarCloud, which has already been adopted by a lot of you. Today, we’re adding a brand new project overview page! We can’t wait for you to try it! Let’s discover what’s inside in this blog. Your project status & activity all in one place...

WordPress 插件跨站脚本漏洞

WordPress is a set of blogging platforms developed using the PHP language by the Wordpress Foundation. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the WordPress WP Offload SES Lite plugin prior to version 1.4.5...

Why You’re Not Making the Leap from Compliance to a Database Security Strategy

Gartner strongly recommends that the concept of “big data strategy” should be replaced with “making big data part of our everyday strategy.” Technology has created a database activity explosion for most enterprises and made traditional agent-based data logging, monitoring, and auditing far too...

IndigoZebra APT Hacking Campaign Targets the Afghan Government

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of ongoing attacks coordinated by a suspected Chinese-speaking threat actor targeting the Afghanistan government as part of an espionage campaign that may have had its provenance as far back as 2014. Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point Research attributed...

Facebook Sues 4 Vietnamese for Hacking Accounts and $36 Million Ad Fraud

Facebook on Tuesday revealed it filed two separate legal actions against perpetrators who abused its ad platform to run deceptive advertisements in violation of the company's Terms and Advertising Policies. "In the first case, the defendants are a California marketing company and its agents...

Forblaze - A Python Mac Steganography Payload Generator

Forblaze is a project designed to provide steganography capabilities to Mac OS payloads. Using python3, it will build an Obj-C file for you which will be compiled to pull desired encrypted URLs out of the stego file, fetch payloads over https, and execute them directly into memory. It utilizes...

Do CAPTCHAs work and what’s the alternative?

We know youre busy, so the answer is “No”. Users want less friction, and a good bot detection and mitigation solution will do the job MUCH better. The first lesson on the first day of UI school is that users want the path of least resistance. While the gamification of cybersecurity does have a...

WP Offload SES Lite < 1.4.5 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

The plugin did not escape some of the fields in the Activity page of the admin dashboard, such as the email's id, subject and recipient, which could lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues when an attacker can control any of these fields, like the subject when filling a contact form for exampl...

Banning Surveillance-Based Advertising

The Norwegian Consumer Council just published a fantastic new report: "Time to Ban Surveillance-Based Advertising." From the Introduction: The challenges caused and entrenched by surveillance-based advertising include, but are not limited to: privacy and data protection infringements opaque...

CVE-2021-0608

In handleAppLaunch of AppLaunchActivity.java, there is a possible arbitrary activity launch due to a confused deputy. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android...

CVE-2021-0608

In handleAppLaunch of AppLaunchActivity.java, there is a possible arbitrary activity launch due to a confused deputy. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android...