Malicious Attachments Remain a Cybercriminal Threat Vector Favorite

While attachment threat vectors are one of the oldest malware-spreading tricks in the books, email users are still clicking on malicious attachments that hit their inbox, whether it’s a purported “job offer” or a pretend “critical invoice.” The reason why threat actors are still relying on this...

Reliance on Cookies without validation in OctoberCMS

Impact Previously encrypted cookie values were not tied to the name of the cookie the value belonged to. This meant that certain classes of attacks that took advantage of other theoretical vulnerabilities in user facing code nothing exploitable in the core project itself had a higher chance of...

Adversarial use of current events as lures

By Nick Biasini. The goal of malicious activity is to compromise the system to install some unauthorized software. Increasingly that goal is tied to one thing: the user. Over the past several years, we as an industry improved exploit mitigation and the value of working exploits has increased...

Radancy: x-request-id header reflected in server response without sanitization

Domain and URL: maximum.nl Summary: When issuing a GET request to maximum.nl, its possible to set the x-request-id header which is then reflected in the server response without any sanitization. Description: An attacker can use this vulnerability to escalate to more advanced attacks such as CRLF...

Office for Mac Users Warned of Malicious SYLK Files

Microsoft Office for Mac users are being warned that malicious SYLK files are sneaking past endpoint defenses even when the “disable all macros without notification” is turned on. This leaves systems vulnerable to a remote, unauthenticated attackers who can execute arbitrary code. The warning com...

CVE-2019-17093

An issue was discovered in Avast antivirus before 19.8 and AVG antivirus before 19.8. A DLL Preloading vulnerability allows an attacker to implant %WINDIR%\system32\wbemcomn.dll, which is loaded into a protected-light process PPL and might bypass some of the self-defense mechanisms. This affects...

But We Have an Email Gateway...

In my previous phishing blogs, I wrote about the evolution of phishing and the industrialization of phishing that's being driven by the availability and low cost of toolkits. In this blog post, I'm going to provide more information about emerging phishing attack vectors and how cybercriminals are...

Golang Go CVE-2019-16276 HTTP Request Smuggling Vulnerability

Description Golang Go is prone to an HTTP-request-smuggling vulnerability. A remote attacker may leverage this issue to poison web caches,bypass security defenses, launch cross-site scripting and HTML-injection attacks, and execute session-hijacking attacks. Other attacks are also possible...

These Hacks Require Literally Sneaking in the Backdoor

After slipping past security, picking a backdoor lock and gaining access to a company’s inner sanctum, a skilled hacker can cause mayhem. They can plant malware on a network, grab physical files and walk out the front door with a donut pilfered from the employee break room. Meet the world of a...

Gamification Can Transform Company Cybersecurity Culture

Chief information security officers CISOs of Global 2000 enterprises have one of the toughest jobs in the world, defending their organization’s cyberspace and being the guardian of its assets and private information. But CISOs also have a second, even bigger problem: Their own company employees...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

magento/community-edition is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The vulnerability exists due to the lack of brute-forcing defenses in the token exchange protocol...

Mass Spoofing Campaign Abuses Walmart Brand

An ongoing domain name spoofing campaign is taking aim at retail giant Walmart and other big fish, with more than 540 malicious domains being used to harvest consumer information. The scam domains are mimicking legitimate sites in name and appearance, in hopes of fooling visitors into entering...

CVE-2019-7928

A denial-of-service DoS vulnerability exists in Magento 2.1 prior to 2.1.18, Magento 2.2 prior to 2.2.9, Magento 2.3 prior to 2.3.2. By abusing insufficient brute-forcing defenses in the token exchange protocol, an unauthenticated attacker could disrupt transactions between the Magento merchant a...

Protecting Against Ransomware Attacks: A Checklist

Sometimes all it takes is a malicious email to infect an entire municipality with ransomware, freezing important city systems from water utilities or websites. That was the case with the Florida city of Riviera Beach, which paid hackers $600,000 after being hit by a ransomware attack that downed...

McAfee ATR Aids Police in Arrest of Rubella & Dryad Office Macro Builder

ARCHIVED STORY McAfee ATR Aids Police in Arrest of Rubella & Dryad Office Macro Builder By John Fokker · July 16, 2019 Everyday thousands of people receive emails with malicious attachments in their email inbox. Disguised as a missed payment or an invoice, a cybercriminal sender tries to entice a...

Who’s Behind the GandCrab Ransomware?

The crooks behind an affiliate program that paid cybercriminals to install the destructive and wildly successful GandCrab ransomware strain announced on May 31, 2019 they were terminating the program after allegedly having earned more than $2 billion in extortion payouts from victims. What follow...

SUSE-SU-2018:3864-2 Security update for openssl

This update for openssl fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-0734: Fixed timing vulnerability in DSA signature generation bsc1113652. - CVE-2018-5407: Fixed elliptic curve scalar multiplication timing attack defenses bsc1113534. - CVE-2018-0737: Corrected the current erro...

This Week in Security News: Phishing Attacks and Ransomware

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about schemes used in phishing and other email-based attacks. Also, learn how ransomware continues to make a significant impact in the...

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In two months, hundreds of security professionals will gather in San Diego for two days of discussion around the future of endpoint security at CB Connect 2019. The event will take place at Hotel Del Coronado June 4-5 with sweeping views of Coronado beach where attendees will hear from robust...

How to Mature Your Threat Hunting Program with the ATT&CK™ Framework

John Wunder, Principal Cybersecurity Engineer at MITRE spoke in a recent webinar about how the ATT&CK framework is a knowledgebase of adversary behaviors, describing the things that are tough for the adversary to change – those at the top of David J. Bianco’s influential Pyramid of Pain. Wunder...