Baby Got Bots

By Ian Trump This is the first in a series of blog posts “on all things Bot.” From bad to good and looking towards the future, Bots remain an information security issue which has the potential to impact all commercial and recreational online activity. This series will explore the security and...

New Drupalgeddon Attacks Enlist Shellbot to Open Backdoors

Researchers are warning of a new wave of cyberattacks targeting unpatched Drupal websites that are vulnerable to Drupalgeddon 2.0. What’s unique about this latest series of attacks is that adversaries are using PowerBot malware, an IRC-controlled bot also called PerlBot or Shellbot. Researchers a...

Introducing the Bot Endpoint Protection Report

Todays comprehensive monitoring capabilities in Security Center provide great insight into bot activity and countermeasures applied across your valuable web properties. Filter options allow you to focus on almost any desired detail. However, understanding what is happening on specific protected...

Authentication Bypass

mediawiki/core is vulnerable to authentication bypass attacks. The vulnerability exists due to the lack of account lock status check during a botpassword login, allowing accounts to be logged in through a bot password...

Chaturbate: No rate limiting in starting up a bot.

hi security team, I was able to start up a bot numerous times. 1. Goto https://chaturbate.com/b/username 2. Choose a bot and capture the request. 3. Send to intruder and repeat the step numerous times. 4. I did this 196times 5.I was able to activate a bot numerous times 6. My room was flooded wit...

PT-2018-13959

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions slack-archive-bot versions prior to 2018-09-19 Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands. This is achieved via the text parameter to cursor.execute in the archivebot.py script. Recommendations For versions...

Telegram Vulners Bot - Exploit Search Engine And Security Feed In Your Pocket

Vulners Bot is a Telegram interface for popular vulnerability database. It gives you availability of searching for exploits, tools, patches and many more using Telegram inline queries. But the most powerful feature is customizable security subscriptions feeds. You can select predefined themes or...

Loki Bot: On a hunt for corporate passwords

Starting from early July, we have seen malicious spam activity that has targeted corporate mailboxes. The messages discovered so far contain an attachment with an .iso extension that Kaspersky Lab solutions detect as Loki Bot. The malware's key objective is to steal passwords from browsers,...

A week in security (August 6 – August 12)

Last week, we published a review of exploit kits, talked about everyday tech that can give you a headache, and showed how to protect RDP access from ransomware. We also published a study on the true cost of cybercrime. Other news: Discovered at Black Hat: WhatsApp "message manipulation" Source: T...

django-oscar (>=1.1.0, <=1.1.1), django-oscar-telegram-bot (>=0.1.0, <=0.5.0) +2 more potentially affected by CVE-2016-4009 via pillow (2.7.0)

pillow PYPI version 2.7.0 is affected by a known vulnerability. The following packages have a transitive dependency on pillow and may be impacted: - django-oscar =1.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.1, =0.2.1 Source cves: CVE-2016-4009 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-HVR8-466P-75RH...

django-oscar (>=1.1.0, <=1.1.1), django-oscar-telegram-bot (>=0.1.0, <=0.5.0) +2 more potentially affected by CVE-2016-0775 via pillow (2.7.0)

pillow PYPI version 2.7.0 is affected by a known vulnerability. The following packages have a transitive dependency on pillow and may be impacted: - django-oscar =1.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.1, =0.2.1 Source cves: CVE-2016-0775 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-8XJV-V9XQ-M5H9...

django-oscar (>=1.1.0, <=1.1.1), django-oscar-telegram-bot (>=0.1.0, <=0.5.0) +2 more potentially affected by CVE-2016-0740 via pillow (2.7.0)

pillow PYPI version 2.7.0 is affected by a known vulnerability. The following packages have a transitive dependency on pillow and may be impacted: - django-oscar =1.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.1, =0.2.1 Source cves: CVE-2016-0740 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-HGGX-3H72-49WW...

django-oscar (>=1.1.0, <=1.1.1), django-oscar-telegram-bot (>=0.1.0, <=0.5.0) +2 more potentially affected by CVE-2016-9190 via pillow (2.7.0)

pillow PYPI version 2.7.0 is affected by a known vulnerability. The following packages have a transitive dependency on pillow and may be impacted: - django-oscar =1.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.0, =0.1.1, =0.2.1 Source cves: CVE-2016-9190 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-W4VG-RF63-F3J3...

Idisagree - Control Remote Computers Using Discord Bot

Control remote computers using discord bot and python 3. ! If your target is a windows system, you may want to compile your payload. Do this with py2exe or pyinstaller. MAINTAINERS Alisson Moretto | Twitter: @A1S0N Github: @A1S0N PREREQUISITES Python 3.x pip3 subprocess from python3 Discord from...

Key Considerations in API security

Every day, there are billions of API calls being executed. These include public APIs, private APIs, SaaS APIs, APIs performing mobile back-end functions and many more. Given the gravity of the threat and the sheer volume of what’s exposed, how do we develop systems that are both safe and robust?...

botbait Information Disclosure Vulnerability

botbait is a tool used in the npm ecosystem for tracking bot and automation tool usage. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in botbait. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to disclose information...

Mail.ru: Загрузка png бомбы, которая начинает DDOS атаку на бота со Стикерами.

ICQ sticker bot was vulneraeble to DoS via PNG compression bomb attack...

CVE-2017-16126

The module botbait is a tool to be used to track bot and automated tools usage with-in the npm ecosystem. botbait is known to record and track user information. The module tracks the following information. Source IP process.versions process.platform How the module was invoked test, require,...

Perspectives on Russian hacking

Russia is an endlessly fascinating subject both in and around infosec. Recent years have shifted attention away from pure malware capabilities, to psyops, social engineering, and an endless slew of mind games designed to destabilize and keep nations ever-so-slightly off balance. Security firms in...

Introducing Web Security Analytics

Every security team knows that the success of any security product relies heavily on the ability to maintain an optimal security configuration. Any misconfiguration can result in malicious or undesired traffic reaching the application, or worse - legitimate traffic being blocked. In addition, it...