Scalpers, and their bot armies, swing in to net web-based Spiderman tickets

29 November 2021 was “Spider Monday” and tickets for Marvel’s film Spider-Man: No Way Home went on sale with the sort of marketing fervor for which Disney and the Marvel Cinematic Universe MCU are famous. As tickets to one of the most eagerly anticipated Christmas films featuring one of the most...

UniswapHandler vulnerable to sandwich bots

Handle Koustre Vulnerability details Impact Any user or contract that has the buyer role that uses the functions buyMalt and sellMalt will be vulnerable to sandwich attacks from bots that will causes slippage loses to users. Proof of Concept Provide direct links to all referenced code in GitHub...

Getting Ready for Some Holiday Shopping? So Are the Bots

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By the Numbers: The State of Security in eCommerce

The ongoing global pandemic has accelerated eCommerce growth and pushed more consumers online. More consumers mean a larger threat landscape and ensure that cybersecurity issues remain a significant, ongoing challenge for the retail industry. Based on a 12-month analysis by Imperva Research Labs,...

Holiday Shopping Season is Upon Us: The State of Security Within eCommerce in 2021

The eCommerce industry has gone through years worth of changes in a matter of just a mere couple of months as the global pandemic emerged back in March of 2020. These changes have led to skyrocketing growth for the industry, with sales predicted to hit $4.921 trillion by the end of this year. And...

Telegram Bots Stealing One-Time Passwords

By Waqas So far two Telegram bots called SMSRanger and BloodOTPbot have been found taking part in this malicious campaign. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Telegram Bots Stealing One-Time Passwords...

Threat Actors Weaponize Telegram Bots for ExtortionThreat Actors Weaponize Telegram Bots to Compromise PayPal Accounts

Cybercriminals are using Telegram bots to steal one-time password tokens OTPs and defraud people through banks and online payment systems, including PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, new research has found. Researchers from Intel 471 discovered the campaign, which has been operational since June,...

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in hdinnovations/unit3d-community-edition

Description CSRF allows enable/disable bots CSRF allows flush chatbox Proof of Concept After logging in to unit3d.site, Access this link: https://unit3d.site/dashboard/chat/bots/2/disable, https://unit3d.site/dashboard/chat/bots/2/enable See that the chat bot is disabled/enabled correspondingly...

_addLiquidity will lose user funds due to frontrunning.

Handle tensors Vulnerability details Impact If addLiquidity is ever called with funds at stake anything more than a few thousand dollars it becomes profitable for MEV bots and other frontrunners to frontrun the addLiquidity call by skewing the pool reserves lowering the amount of LP tokens return...

CVE-2021-24727 Block and Stop Bad Bots < 6.60 - Authenticated SQL Injections

The StopBadBots WordPress plugin before 6.60 did not validate or escape the order and orderby GET parameter in some of its admin dashboard pages, leading to Authenticated SQL Injections...

Gamers beware: The risks of Real Money Trading (RMT) explained

Any game with an online component can be at risk from a practice known as Real Money Trading RMT, where in-game items, artefacts, characters and the like are sold for real money. It’s a big problem for developers, especially in competitive and / or massively multiplayer online role-playing game...

Traffic Exchange Networks Distributing Malware Disguised as Cracked Software

An ongoing campaign has been found to leverage a network of websites acting as a "dropper as a service" to deliver a bundle of malware payloads to victims looking for "cracked" versions of popular business and consumer applications. "These malware included an assortment of click fraud bots, other...

Block and Stop Bad Bots < 6.62 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The plugin does not escape the page parameter before outputting it back in attributes, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issues PoC POST /wp-admin/admin.php?page=sbbmy-custom-submenu-page HTTP/1.1 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,/;q=0.8...

Block and Stop Bad Bots < 6.62 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The plugin does not escape the page parameter before outputting it back in attributes, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issues POST /wp-admin/admin.php?page=sbbmy-custom-submenu-page HTTP/1.1 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,/;q=0.8...

[The Lost Bots] Bonus Episode: Velociraptor Contributor Competition

!\The Lost Bots\ Bonus Episode: Velociraptor Contributor Competitionhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence.jpeg Welcome back for a special bonus edition of The Lost Bots, a vlog series where Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice...

Block and Stop Bad Bots < 6.60 - Authenticated SQL Injections

The plugin did not validate or escape the order and orderby GET parameter in some of its admin dashboard pages, leading to Authenticated SQL Injections...

Block and Stop Bad Bots < 6.60 - Authenticated SQL Injections

The plugin did not validate or escape the order and orderby GET parameter in some of its admin dashboard pages, leading to Authenticated SQL Injections PoC https://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=sbbmy-custom-submenu-page=1+AND+%28SELECT+4242+FROM+%28SELECT%28SLEEP%285%29%29%29aaa%29=asc...

[The Lost Bots] Episode 1: External Threat Intelligence

!\The Lost Bots\ Episode 1: External Threat Intelligencehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/07/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence.png Welcome to The Lost Bots, a new vlog series where Rapid7 resident expert and former CISO Jeffrey Gardner virtually sits down with fell...

A week in security (July 5 – July 11)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Racing against a real-life ransomware attack. Podcast with Ski Kacoroski. Kaseya CEO: “The impact of this incredibly sophisticated attack is very minimal” Patch now! Emergency fix for PrintNightmare released by Microsoft. Game over: Apex Legends players locked out ...

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...