Romance Scams Drive Necurs Botnet Activity in Run Up to Valentine’s Day

Necurs botnet activity is spiking as scammers use the network to flood inboxes with promises of companionship, in part of a seasonal wave of Valentine’s Day-themed spam. Victims are encouraged to share revealing photos of themselves, which scammers later use as leverage in extortion shakedowns. T...

A week in security (January 29 – February 04)

Last week on Labs, we looked into PUPs stealing and using mainstream logos of security and tech companies to further gain user trust, GandCrab and Scarab ransomware variants in the wild, and a new Mac malware called OSX.CreativeUpdater that can be distributed via MacUpdate. We also profiled...

November 20, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Thanksgiving Week” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! November 20, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Why business is booming...

Google’s reCaptcha Cracked Again

Google’s reCaptcha service has been cracked by a group of University of Maryland researchers who devised an automated attack that can break the service with 85 percent accuracy. The researchers created a tool called unCaptcha that is able to abuse the audio challenge option of Google’s reCaptcha ...

Major update for Wallarm UI

We’ve just released a couple of features we’re really excited about Live Threat Verification results The Active Threat Verification component was always a unique feature of Wallarm. Having the ability to replay the attack/payload against the application or its staging environment gives our...

Twitter Bots Use Likes, RTs for Intimidation

I awoke this morning to find my account on Twitter @briankrebs had attracted almost 12,000 new followers overnight. Then I noticed I'd gained almost as many followers as the number of re-tweets RTs earned for a tweet I published on Tuesday. The tweet stated how every time I tweet something relate...

Google Releases reCAPTCHA API for Android

Google announced today that it has made a new reCAPTCHA API available for Android. The API is part of Google Play Services, Google said, and developers can now add the verification to mobile applications to distinguish between bots and human users. The technology is more than a decade old and...

Modified Zyklon and plugins from India

IntroductionStreams of malicious emails Talos inspects every day usually consist of active spamming campaigns for various ransomware families, phishing campaigns and the common malware family suspects such as banking Trojans and bots.. It is however often more interesting to analyze campaigns...

Yelp: Research papers on yelp are getting indexed by google bots.

While playing around to access some private information on yelp.com i was able to get access to research papers on yelp which are not supposed disclose publically. By framing a google dork i got access to most of your documents. Google Dork: site:starbucks.com ext:doc | ext:docx | ext:odt | ext:p...

Massive Twitter Botnet Dormant Since 2013

A sizable and dormant Twitter botnet has been uncovered by two researchers from the University College London, who expressed concern about the possible risks should the botmaster decide to waken the accounts under his control. Research student Juan Echeverria Guzman and his supervisor and senior...

VK.com: SSRF через Share-ботов

Отсутствие флуд-контроля на Share-ботах...

Malware exploit: Madness Pro 1.14

Type: SQL Injection Author: bwall !/usr/bin/env python2 -- coding: utf-8 -- Exploit Title: Madness Pro = 1.14 SQL injection Date: June 05, 2014 Exploit Author: @botnethunter Version: 1.14 Tested on: Apache2 - Ubuntu - MySQL Unauthenticated SQL injection in Madness Pro panel = 1.14 Proof of Concep...

Turkish Hackers Are Giving Away Prizes For Participating In DDoS Attacks

DDoS has become a game now that could knock any service offline. A Turkish hacking group is encouraging individuals to join its DDoS-for-Points platform that features points and prizes for carrying out distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against a list of predetermined targets. The points...

Rumble Bots - Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Rumble Bots published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

OWASP Mth3l3m3nt Framework

OWASP Mth3l3m3nt Framework is a penetration testing aiding tool and exploitation framework. Mth3l3m3nt provides the ability to create or do custom LFI and RFI exploits fast with little or no effort at all. It also enables you to store all your quick wins based on its ability to manage HTTP bots,...

200 Million WhatsApp Users Vulnerable to vCard Vulnerability

WhatsApp recently claimed to have hit 900 Million monthly active users, but a dangerous security flaw in the web version of the popular instant messaging app puts up to 200 Million of its users at risk. Yes, the web-based extension of WhatsApp is vulnerable to an exploit that could allow hackers ...

Bash Vulnerability Exploits Dropping DDoS Bots

A honeypot run by researchers at AlienVault Labs has snared two separate pieces of malware attempting to exploit the Bash vulnerability. One sample is a repurposed IRC bot written in Perl that is trying to build a botnet to be used in distributed denial of service attacks DDoS, said Jaime Blasco,...

Cridex Variant Geodo Part Trojan, Part Email Worm

A knockoff of the Cridex banking Trojan has surfaced with an appetite for more than online banking credentials. Seculert has called this one Geodo—a take on another of Cridex’s many aliases Feodo—and has confirmed that the malware comes with an efficient self-replicating feature borne of stolen...

Bitbot C2 Panel gate2.php - Multiple Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. Exploit Title: Bitbot C2 Panel gate2.php SQLi + XSS Date: 08/19/2013 Exploit Author: Brian Wallace bwall aka @botnethunter Software Link: https://sourceforge.net/p/flippingbitbot/wiki/Home/ Vulnerable Virtual Machine including Bitbot Tested on: Debian/Ubuntu fro...

RelateIQ: Captcha Bypass With Extension

Hello, These days Captcha's are one of the most vulnerable methods To Protect The Website From Bots, But there is a Extension Named Rumola Which Automatically Fills up the Captcha While We Fill Other Credentials like Email etc. Here a Vulnerability Arises That Bots May Use This Extension Script i...