This Week in Security News: Cyber Leads and Email Frauds

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, The Trump Administration added a cyber lead at Homeland Security and the Energy Department. Also, the FBI announced the arrest of 74 “email...

Feds Arrest 74 Email Fraudsters Involved in Nigerian BEC Scams

The United States Department of Justice announced Monday the arrest of 74 email fraudsters across three continents in a global crackdown on a large-scale business email compromise BEC scheme. The arrest was the result of a six-month-long operation dubbed "Operation Wire Wire" that involved the US...

Police Dept loses years worth of dashcam video to ransomware

By Waqas The city of Atlanta Police department lost critical dashcam video This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Police Dept loses years worth of dashcam video to ransomware...

Further Down the Trello Rabbit Hole

Last month's story about organizations exposing passwords and other sensitive data via collaborative online spaces at Trello.com only scratched the surface of the problem. A deeper dive suggests a large number of government agencies, marketing firms, healthcare organizations and IT support...

Beers with Talos EP 30 - VPNFilter, the Unfiltered Story

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Episode 30 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing: www.talosintelligence.com/podcast EP30 Show Notes: Recorded May 25, 2018 - As you can expect, this episode focuses on VPNFilter. We discu...

kingwoodserviceassociation.org XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-618156 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| kingwoodserviceassociation.org Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

CVE-2018-10326

PrinterOn Enterprise 4.1.3 suffers from multiple authenticated stored XSS vulnerabilities via the 1 department field in the printer configuration, 2 description field in the print server configuration, and 3 username field for authentication to print as guest...

Cross site scripting

PrinterOn Enterprise 4.1.3 suffers from multiple authenticated stored XSS vulnerabilities via the 1 department field in the printer configuration, 2 description field in the print server configuration, and 3 username field for authentication to print as guest...

CVE-2018-10326

PrinterOn Enterprise 4.1.3 suffers from multiple authenticated stored XSS vulnerabilities via the 1 department field in the printer configuration, 2 description field in the print server configuration, and 3 username field for authentication to print as guest...

CVE-2018-10326: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

PrinterOn Enterprise 4.1.3 suffers from multiple authenticated stored XSS vulnerabilities via the 1 department field in the printer configuration, 2 description field in the print server configuration, and 3 username field for authentication to print as guest...

PT-2018-9830

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: PrinterOn Enterprise version 4.1.3 Description: The issue concerns multiple authenticated stored XSS vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities can be exploited via the department field in the printer configuration, the description field in the...

Ransomware Attack Wipes Out Police and Fire Department Data

By Waqas The city of Riverside’s Police and Fire department has been This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ransomware Attack Wipes Out Police and Fire Department Data...

labour.gov.bn XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-614912 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| labour.gov.bn Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Establishing a Baseline for Remote Desktop Protocol

For IT staff and Windows power users, Microsoft Terminal Services Remote Desktop Protocol RDP is a beneficial tool that allows for the interactive.aspx use or administration of a remote Windows system. However, Mandiant consultants have also observed threat actors using RDP, with compromised doma...

DDoS attacks in Q1 2018

News overview In early January, it was reported that an amateur hacker had come close to pulling off a botnet attack using "improvised" materials. Armed with information gleaned from hacker forums, the DIYer created a Trojan using a zero-day exploit in Huawei routers and released it online. The...

U.S. DoD Hopes To Stamp Out Threats With Bug Bounty Program

The U.S. Department of Defense is doubling down on routing out vulnerabilities in its massive government systems. On Monday, the DoD announced it was expanding its bug bounty program to include the agency’s massive Defense Travel System. The “Hack the DTS” program launched in partnership with bug...

Russian Hacker Who Allegedly Hacked LinkedIn and Dropbox Extradited to US

A Russian man accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012 and possibly compromising personal details of over 100 million users, has pleaded not guilty in a U.S. federal court after being extradited from the Czech Republic. Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, 30, of Moscow was arrest...

9 Iranian hackers charged with hacking universities & stealing secrets

By Waqas The US Justice Department charged nine Iranian nationals with allegedly This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 9 Iranian hackers charged with hacking universities & stealing secrets...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID31991: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on February 13, 2018

Medium Alert ID: 56799 First Published: 2018 February 13 16:13 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID31991 may contain the following files: Name |...

U.S. Arrests 13, Charges 36 in ‘Infraud’ Cybercrime Forum Bust

The U.S. Justice Department announced charges on Wednesday against three dozen individuals thought to be key members of 'Infraud," a long-running cybercrime forum that federal prosecutors say cost consumers more than a half billion dollars. In conjunction with the forum takedown, 13 alleged Infra...