Researchers discover vulnerabilities in smart assistants’ voice commands

Virtual personal assistants VPA, also known as smart assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant, are in the spotlight for vulnerabilities to attack. Take, for example, that incident about an Oregon couple’s Echo smart speaker inadvertently recording their conversation and sending it to...

Wicked Botnet Uses Passel of Exploits to Target IoT

Yet another variant of the Mirai botnet has appeared on the scene, but this one has a twist: The code is integrated with at least three exploits that target unpatched IoT devices, including closed-circuit cameras and Netgear routers. It also has ties to a web of other botnets, made for DDoS...

RedDawn Espionage Campaign Shows Mobile APTs on the Rise

A sophisticated and targeted mobile espionage campaign has been found targeting North Korean defectors. Mounted by a relatively new APT actor known as Sun Team, the offensive used Google Play and Facebook as attack vectors; and overall, it shows how quickly the mobile threat landscape is evolving...

The vulnerability of the Qualcomm operating system Android, which allows a hacker to increase their privileges

The vulnerability of the Qualcomm operating system Android is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to enhance their privileges remotely...

Mexico’s Banking System Sees $18M Siphoned Off in Phantom Transactions

Somewhere between $18 million to $20 million has gone missing during unauthorized interbank money transfers in Mexico’s central banking system. Authorities are investigating the shadow transactions, but answers are thus far scarce. The affected banks and government officials are determining wheth...

Panda Banking Trojan Diversifies into Cryptocurrency, Porn, Other Targets

The Panda banking trojan, a spin-off from the infamous Zeus malware, is widening its net to attack more than just financial services targets, as seen in three ongoing campaigns discovered in May. The Windows-focused Panda is far from the cuddly thing its name would suggest. It has a full arsenal ...

CVE-2018-10219: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

baijiacms V3 has physical path leakage via an index.php?mod=mobile&name=member&do=index request...

CVE-2018-6252

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer handler for DxgkDdiEscape where the software allows an actor access to restricted functionality that is unnecessary to production usage, and which may result in denial of service...

Upserve : reports.breadcrumb.com is vulnerable for Arbitrary file existence disclosur CVE-2014-7829

A directory traversal vulnerability in a third-party ruby gem allowed a remote actor to determine the existence but not the contents of files outside of the application root...

Iran-Linked Group ‘TEMP.Zagros’ Updates Tactics, Techniques In Latest Campaign

Researchers say a massive phishing campaign targeting Asia and Middle East regions is linked to an Iranian-based threat actor TEMP.Zagros, also known as MuddyWater. This latest attack illustrates an evolution by the threat actor, which has now adopted new tactics, techniques and procedures. “We...

China-Linked APT15 Used Myriad of New Tools To Hack UK Government Contractor

CANCUN, Mexico – Researchers at NCC Group have discovered multiple backdoors on a UK government contractor’s computer systems designed to steal sensitive government and military data. The hack is tied to China-linked cyber espionage group APT15, which researchers said is utilizing many new tools ...

Iranian Threat Group Updates Tactics, Techniques and Procedures in Spear Phishing Campaign

Introduction From January 2018 to March 2018, through FireEye’s Dynamic Threat Intelligence, we observed attackers leveraging the latest code execution and persistence techniques to distribute malicious macro-based documents to individuals in Asia and the Middle East. We attribute this activity t...

Olympic Destroyer: A False Flag Confusion Bomb

CANCUN, Mexico – A postmortem of the Olympic Destroyer malware used in the PyeongChang Olympics attack reveals a deliberate attempt by adversaries to plant a false flags when it comes to attribution, according to researchers. Days after the crippling attack on the backend networks tied to the...

Who Wasn’t Responsible for Olympic Destroyer?

This blog post is authored by Paul Rascagneres and Martin Lee. Summary Absent contributions from traditional intelligence capacities, the available evidence linking the Olympic Destroyer malware to a specific threat actor group is contradictory, and does not allow for unambiguous attribution. The...

Boomerang spam bombs Malwarebytes forum—not a smart move

Tech support scammers are generally not the best and brightest. As such, they will occasionally post ads for their fake companies in the comment sections here or on the Malwarebytes forums. Last week, however, scammers struggled with configuring their spambots, resulting in spam bombs on the foru...

The vulnerability in the Splunk Web platform for operational analysis of Splunk Enterprise’s web interface allows a perpetrator to bypass existing access restrictions or perform arbitrary actions on behalf of legitimate users.

The vulnerability of the Splunk Web platform for operational analysis in Splunk Enterprise is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to circumvent existing access restrictions or perform arbitrary actions on behalf of legitimate syst...

New Chrome and Firefox extensions block their removal to hijack browsers

What you don't see won't hurt you, must have been the reasoning of the threat actors who created the latest batch of extensions that make these browser hijackers even more difficult to remove. The extensions redirect users away from pages where they can disable or delete them in order to drive...

The vulnerability of the PCRE library in the Mac OS X operating system allows a hacker to cause a service failure or exert other effects.

Vulnerability of the PCRE library in the Mac OS X operating system. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service failure application termination or have other adverse effects...

Denial of Service

Overview Affected versions of mqtt do not properly handle PUBLISH packets returning from the server, leading to a Denial of Service condition. The vulnerability is completely mitigated if the only connected servers are trusted, guaranteed not to be under the control of a malicious actor. Proof of...

WordPress Plugin WordPress Download Manager 2.9.60 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

WordPress Plugin WordPress Download Manager 2.9.60 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Exploit Title: WordPress Download Manager CSRF Discovery Date: 2017-12-12 Exploit Author: Panagiotis Vagenas Author Link: https://twitter.com/panVagenas Vendor Homepage: https://www.wpdownloadmanager.com/ Software Lin...