Talos takes home top research honors at Virus Bulletin conference

By Jon Munshaw Researchers from Cisco Talos brought up the top award at this year’s Virus Bulletin conference. Talos received the Péter Ször Award — named for the prolific security researcher who was a longtime contributor to Virus Bulletin and passed away in 2013 — for our research into several...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: [█████] — DOM-based XSS on endpoint `/?s=`

Description GET parameter s is vulnerable to DOM-based XSS on endpoint /?s=. XSS affects all users and no authentication or login is required. Proof of Concept Visit the following URL for PoC: https://██████/?s=%27%3E%3Cscript%3Ealertdocument.domain%3C/script%3E █████████ Explanation This DOM-bas...

Former Yahoo Employee Admits Hacking into 6000 Accounts for Sexual Content

An ex-Yahoo! employee has pleaded guilty to misusing his access at the company to hack into the accounts of nearly 6,000 Yahoo users in search of private and personal records, primarily sexually explicit images and videos. According to an press note released by the U.S. Justice Department, Reyes...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Unauthenticated arbitrary file upload on the https://█████/ (█████.mil)

The vulnerability involved an unauthenticated arbitrary file upload on the https://█████/ █████.mil website. An unsafe upload endpoint at https://██████/upload.php was identified, where a test file was successfully uploaded. The uploaded file could be accessed at the internal path...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Arbitrary File Reading leads to RCE in the Pulse Secure SSL VPN on the https://██████ (███)

The Pulse Secure SSL VPN was found to be vulnerable to multiple issues, including pre-authentication arbitrary file reading CVE-2019-11510 and post-authentication command injection CVE-2019-11539. These vulnerabilities were discovered and disclosed by security researcher Orange Tsai. The...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: [CVE-2018-0296] Cisco VPN path traversal on the https://████████/ (no hostname)

The Cisco VPN was vulnerable to a path traversal vulnerability CVE-2018-0296 that allowed an unauthenticated attacker to disclose sensitive information such as VPN sessions and user files...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: [CVE-2018-0296] Cisco VPN path traversal on the https://1████████ (https://████████.███.████████/)

The Cisco VPN vulnerability CVE-2018-0296 was discovered, which allowed an unauthenticated attacker to perform path traversal and disclose sensitive information such as VPN sessions and files. The issue was addressed by updating to a patched version, which returned a 404 "File not found" error...

US Sanctions 3 North Korean Hacking Groups Accused for Global Cyber Attacks

The United States Treasury Department on Friday announced sanctions against three state-sponsored North Korean hacking groups for conducting several destructive cyberattacks on US critical infrastructure. Besides this, the hacking groups have also been accused of stealing possibly hundreds of...

Vital infrastructure: emergency services

Organizations in the emergency services sector are there for the public to provide help when situations get out of hand or are too much to handle. This can be because the problem requires special tools and skills to use them, and the organizations are set up to provide assistance at short notice...

Feds Indict 281 People for Involvement in Massive Email Fraud Scheme

Federal authorities have arrested 281 people and seized nearly $3.7 million in a coordinated effort between multiple agencies to disrupt a massive email-fraud scheme. Perpetrators of a global business email compromise BEC scheme were the target of a four-month investigation that began in May call...

Secret Service Investigates Breach at U.S. Govt IT Contractor

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The contractor claims the access being auctioned off was to old test systems...

Capital One Hacker Also Accused of Hacking 30 More Companies and CryptoJacking

Former Amazon employee Paige Thompson, who was arrested last month in relation to the Capital One data breach, has been accused of hacking not only the U.S. credit card issuer, but also more than 30 other companies. An indictment unsealed on Wednesday revealed that Thompson not just stole data fr...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Authentication bypass and RCE on the https://████ due to exposed Cisco TelePresence SX80 with default credentials

Description Hello. I was able to identify Cisco TelePresence SX80 device located on the https://█████ According to the IP Info: https://ipinfo.io/████████it belongs to ASN with ID ███████ so it's likely in scope of the program. The mentioned instance has default credentials ████ POC https://█████...

The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security

The Department of Justice wants access to encrypted consumer devices but promises not to infiltrate business products or affect critical infrastructure. Yet that's not possible, because there is no longer any difference between those categories of devices. Consumer devices are critical...

Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do.

Incessantly annoying and fraudulent robocalls. Corrupt wireless company employees taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to unlock and hijack mobile phone service. Wireless providers selling real-time customer location data, despite repeated promises to the contrary. A noticeable uptic...

DHS Warns Small Airplanes Vulnerable to Flight Data Manipulation Attacks

What could be more horrifying than knowing that a hacker can trick the plane's electronic systems into displaying false flight data to the pilot, which could eventually result in loss of control? Of course, the attacker would never wish to be on the same flight, so in this article, we are going t...

DHS Warning: Small Aircraft are Ripe for Hacking

The Department of Homeland Security issued an alert Tuesday warning that small aircraft are vulnerable to hackers that can gain physical access to a plane. It warned that a hacker can easily manipulate aircraft telemetry data, which can result in loss of control of the airplane. The bulletin was...

Fearing WannaCry-Level Danger, Enterprises Wrestle with BlueKeep

The nightmare vision of a “mega-worm” global BlueKeep infection could be closer to becoming reality as working exploits are now becoming available to the public, and there’s evidence that adversaries are actively scanning for the vulnerability. Researchers weighed in with Threatpost about how...

Siemens Contractor Pleads Guilty to Planting 'Logic Bomb' in Spreadsheets

A former Siemens contractor has pledged guilty in federal court Friday to secretly planting code in automated spreadsheets he had created for the company over a decade ago that deliberately crashes the program every few years. David Tinley, a 62-year-old resident of Harrison City, Pennsylvania, w...

Siemens Contractor Pleads Guilty to Planting 'Logic Bomb' in Spreadsheets

A former Siemens contractor has pledged guilty in federal court Friday to secretly planting code in automated spreadsheets he had created for the company over a decade ago that deliberately crashes the program every few years. David Tinley, a 62-year-old resident of Harrison City, Pennsylvania, w...