This Week in Security News: Hacker Strategies and Spyware Attacks

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 how hackers are improving their breach strategies. Also, learn about new spyware attacks via URLs, websites, and mobile apps. Re...

Wordpress Users Urged to Delete Zero-Day-Ridden Plugin

Researchers are urging WordPress site owners to delete a compromised plugin after multiple zero-day vulnerabilities were discovered being exploited by a malicious actor. Researchers at Wordfence said on Friday that flaws in the plugin, Total Donations, are being exploited by malicious actors to...

CVE-2019-6703

Incorrect access control in miglaajaxfunctions.php in the Calmar Webmedia Total Donations plugin through 2.0.5 for WordPress allows unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary WordPress option values, leading to site takeover. These attackers can send requests to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php to call...

Improper access control

Incorrect access control in miglaajaxfunctions.php in the Calmar Webmedia Total Donations plugin through 2.0.5 for WordPress allows unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary WordPress option values, leading to site takeover. These attackers can send requests to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php to call...

CVE-2019-6703

The Calmar Webmedia Total Donations plugin for WordPress (versions through 2.0.5 ) contains an incorrect access control vulnerability in migla_ajax_functions.php. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this by sending requests to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php to trigger the miglaA_update_me action, allo...

CVE-2019-6703

Incorrect access control in miglaajaxfunctions.php in the Calmar Webmedia Total Donations plugin through 2.0.5 for WordPress allows unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary WordPress option values, leading to site takeover. These attackers can send requests to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php to call...

PT-2019-18275

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Calmar Webmedia Total Donations plugin versions through 2.0.5 Description The issue allows unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary WordPress option values, potentially leading to site takeover. Attackers can send requests to...

CVE-2019-6703: Undefined Security Weakness

Incorrect access control in miglaajaxfunctions.php in the Calmar Webmedia Total Donations plugin through 2.0.5 for WordPress allows unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary WordPress option values, leading to site takeover. These attackers can send requests to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php to call...

Total Donations - Update Arbitrary WordPress Option Values

The Total Donations WordPress plugin was affected by an Update Arbitrary WordPress Option Values security vulnerability...

Happy 9th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Hard to believe we've gone another revolution around the Sun: Today marks the 9th anniversary of KrebsOnSecurity.com! This past year featured some 150 blog posts, but as usual the biggest contribution to this site came from the amazing community of readers here who have generously contributed the...

ThreatList: Gift Card-Themed BEC Holiday Scams Spike

With cyber threats rampant between Black Friday and Christmas, security experts are warning of a wave of business-style email scams hitting inboxes designed to appeal to holiday shoppers. Attacks involve scam messages purporting to be gift card deals or links to corporate donations. According to...

Beware of Hurricane Florence Relief Scams

If you're thinking of donating money to help victims of Hurricane Florence, please do your research on the charitable entity before giving: A slew of new domains apparently related to Hurricane Florence relief efforts are now accepting donations on behalf of victims without much accountability fo...

Joomla! Component jGive 2.0.9 - SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Joomla! Component JGive 2.0.9 - SQL Injection Dork: N/A Date: 16.02.2018 Vendor Homepage: http://techjoomla.com/ Software Link: https://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension/e-commerce/donations/jgive/ Version: 2.0.9 Category: Webapps Tested on: WiN7x64/KaLiLinuXx64 CVE:...

Trend Micro Committed to Helping Those in Need – Most Recently in Vancouver

January often marks a fresh start for both organizations and individuals. For many, lots of time is put towards goal setting for the year and taking on new challenges. At Trend Micro, a goal of ours every year is to find new ways to give back to local communities so that we are not only helping...

Exploits

Exploits Containing Self Made Perl Reproducers / PoC Codes -...

IC3 Issues Alert on Disaster-Related Fraud

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has released an announcement on fraudulent cyber activity related to natural disasters. IC3 reports that scammers have recently used email and social-networking sites to solicit money from disaster victims with scams on false temporary housing and job...

Beware of Hurricane Harvey Relief Scams

U.S. federal agencies are warning citizens anxious to donate money for those victimized by Hurricane Harvey to be especially wary of scam artists. In years past we've seen shameless fraudsters stand up fake charities and other bogus relief efforts in a bid to capitalize on public concern over an...

Fraudulent Donations Lead to Disbanding of Hutchins Legal Defense Fund

A legal defense fund established to ease Marcus Hutchins’ attorney costs has been disbanded after a sizable number of fraudulent donations were discovered. Hutchins, known as Malware Tech, is facing six counts for his alleged involvement in creating and distributing the Kronos banking malware. Th...

Security, Tech Communities Rally to Support GnuPG

The last year has seen a big swing in the support from the technology community for open-source security tools, many of which are maintained by tiny staffs or volunteers. OpenSSL last year received a large chunk of funding from the Core Infrastructure Initiative, and now it’s GnuPG’s turn. After ...

English Defence League Donors Information Leaked by Hackers

3 Days ago "English Defence League" was hacked and Defaced by "ZCompany Hacking Crew". Today same hacking crew expose a list of 25 people who give Donations to EDL. Leaked information include Donator's Names, addresses and Email addresses, posted in a note. Hackers said,"If you donate to EDL and...