SMS PVA Part 1: Underground Service for Cybercriminals

In this three-part blog entry, our team explored SMS PVA, a service built on top of a global bot network that compromises smartphone cybersecurity as we know it...

Massive LinkedIn Phishing, Bot Attacks Feed on the Job-Hungry

Emotionally vulnerable and willing to offer up any information that lands the gig, job seekers are prime targets for social engineering campaigns. And with the “Great Resignation” in full swing, cybercriminals are having an easy time finding their next victim. Just since Feb. 1, analysts have...

Imperva Mitigates Massive Bot Attack of 400 Million Requests

Imperva Advanced Bot Protection detected and stopped the largest bot attack in Imperva history. The web scraping attack targeted a global job listing site with operations in six countries. The attacker used a large-scale botnet, generating no less than 400 million bot requests from nearly 400,000...

CVE-2022-23604

x26-Cogs is a repository of cogs made by Twentysix for the Red Discord bot. Among these cogs is the Defender cog, a tool for Discord server moderation. A vulnerability in the Defender cog prior to version 1.10.0 allows users with admin privileges to issue commands as other users who share the sam...

Design/Logic Flaw

x26-Cogs is a repository of cogs made by Twentysix for the Red Discord bot. Among these cogs is the Defender cog, a tool for Discord server moderation. A vulnerability in the Defender cog prior to version 1.10.0 allows users with admin privileges to issue commands as other users who share the sam...

CVE-2022-23604 Privilege escalation in Defender

x26-Cogs is a repository of cogs made by Twentysix for the Red Discord bot. Among these cogs is the Defender cog, a tool for Discord server moderation. A vulnerability in the Defender cog prior to version 1.10.0 allows users with admin privileges to issue commands as other users who share the sam...

UniswapHelper.buyFlanAndBurn is a subject to sandwich attacks

Handle hyh Vulnerability details Impact Trades can happen at a manipulated price and end up receiving fewer Flan to be bought than current market price dictates. For example, at the time a user decides to call buyFlanAndBurn Flan trades at 0.8 in the input token terms at the corresponding DEX poo...

Simple Chatbot Application 代码问题漏洞

Simple Chatbot Application is a chatbot application by Carlo Montero Personal Developer. A security vulnerability exists in Simple Chatbot Application 1.0 due to remote code execution in the botavatar parameter in SystemSettings.php...

WordPress AccessPress Themes Webshell Upload (CVE-2021-24867)

An attacker might upload a webshell backdoor to WordPress AccessPress Themes. A successful exploitation might allow the attacker to run arbitrary code, or use the server as a bot for further attacks...

Crime Shop Sells Hacked Logins to Other Crime Shops

Up for the "Most Meta Cybercrime Offering" award this year is Accountz Club, a new cybercrime store that sells access to purloined accounts at services built for cybercriminals, including shops peddling stolen payment cards and identities, spamming tools, email and phone bombing services, and tho...

PuddingBot Trust Management Issue Vulnerability

PuddingBot is a group management bot. PuddingBot is vulnerable to a trust management issue, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain a bot token in main.py...

CVE-2022-21669

PuddingBot is a group management bot. In version 0.0.6-b933652 and prior, the bot token is publicly exposed in main.py, making it accessible to malicious actors. The bot token has been revoked and new version is already running on the server. As of time of publication, the maintainers are plannin...

Code injection

PuddingBot is a group management bot. In version 0.0.6-b933652 and prior, the bot token is publicly exposed in main.py, making it accessible to malicious actors. The bot token has been revoked and new version is already running on the server. As of time of publication, the maintainers are plannin...

Pudding-Bot 信任管理问题漏洞

PuddingBot is a group management bot. PuddingBot is vulnerable to a trust management issue, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain a bot token in main.py...

CVE-2022-21669

The CVE-2022-21669 entry concerns PuddingBot, a group-management bot. Affected versions are 0.0.6-b933652 and earlier, where the bot token is publicly exposed in main.py due to the trust/credential handling issue. The token has been revoked and a new version is already deployed on the server. Pub...

CVE-2022-21669 Bot token exposed in main.py

PuddingBot is a group management bot. In version 0.0.6-b933652 and prior, the bot token is publicly exposed in main.py, making it accessible to malicious actors. The bot token has been revoked and new version is already running on the server. As of time of publication, the maintainers are plannin...

CVE-2022-21669 Bot token exposed in main.py

PuddingBot is a group management bot. In version 0.0.6-b933652 and prior, the bot token is publicly exposed in main.py, making it accessible to malicious actors. The bot token has been revoked and new version is already running on the server. As of time of publication, the maintainers are plannin...

Hackers take over 1.1 million accounts by trying reused passwords

The New York State Office of the Attorney General has warned 17 companies that roughly 1.1 million customers have had their user accounts compromised in credential stuffing attacks. Credential stuffing is the automated injection of stolen username and password pairs in to website login forms, in...

Threat Advisory: E-commerce Bots Use Domain Registration Services for Mass Account Fraud

While researching a recent large-scale bot campaign with CQ Prime Threat Research team lead, Dean Lendrum, we found attackers using domain parking and monetization services to register multiple domains, creating a large number of fake eCommerce accounts per domain. TL; DR ------ Analysis of...

2021 in Review, Part 2: 5 Top Cybersecurity Stories

Ransomware may have dominated headlines in 2021, but it’s only one of many threats security teams must protect against. We’re taking a look back at 5 top cybersecurity stories of 2021 that practitioners wanted to learn more about. 5. The State of Security in eCommerce Why you should learn more...