New BEC Spam Campaign Targets Fortune 500 Businesses

Researchers have identified a wave of new business email compromise campaigns targeting Fortune 500 companies that are designed to trick victims into fraudulent wire transfers. Researchers said the campaigns originate from Nigeria and are targeting companies in the retail, healthcare and financia...

A week in security (January 22 – January 28)

Last week on Labs, we analyzed a rogue app outbreak on Twitter, took a look at how Singapore's government is faring with network defense, and rolled out our 2017 State of Malware report. We also became visionaries in Gartner's Magic Quadrant report and explored a VR data mishap. Other news Man...

12 Threats of Christmas

We've all heard the old classic, "The 12 Days of Christmas." While we all enjoy a good song about a partridge in a pear tree, Trend Micro has updated this seasonal standby, counting down the top threats to be aware of heading into 2018, from least to most pressing. Let's look at the vulnerabiliti...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities Within libxls

Vulnerabilities discovered by Marcin Noga of Cisco TalosTalos is releasing seven new vulnerabilities discovered within the libxls library: TALOS-2017-0403, TALOS-2017-0404, TALOS-2017-0426, TALOS-2017-0460, TALOS-2017-0461, TALOS-2017-0462, and TALOS-2017-0463. These vulnerabilities result in...

CommuniGatePro 6.1.16 - Cross-Site Scripting

Exploit Title: CommuniGatePro webmails Multiple Stored XSS Date: 15/11/2017 Exploit Author: Boumediene KADDOUR Unit: Algerie Telecom R&D Unit Vendor Homepage: https://www.stalker.com/ Software Link: http://www.stalker.com/ paid product Version: 6.1.16 Tested on: production server on crystal, pron...

Beyond Catching Sender Spoofing – using AI to stop email fraud and Business Email Compromise

In September, we announced our new email security technologies powered by XGen™ and a new product, Smart Protection for Office 365. One key technology introduced was our new AI based Email fraud, or Business Email Compromise BEC, detection technique. A user receiving a BEC email will have a...

When Phishing Starts from the Inside

A growing concern of security professionals is internal phishing attacks - phishing emails sent from one trusted user to another of the same organization. Internal phishing emails are used in multi-stage attacks in which an email account is owned either by controlling the users device with...

Design/Logic Flaw

GNU Emacs before 25.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via email with crafted "Content-Type: text/enriched" data containing an x-display XML element that specifies execution of shell commands, related to an unsafe text/enriched extension in lisp/textmodes/enriched.el, and unsafe...

Insider threats in your work inbox

Recently, our friends at Barracuda found a new phishing campaign that banks on the popularity of cloud services used in most businesses, such as Microsoft Office 365. According to their blog post, this latest scheme takes advantage of the natural trust employees place on messages they receive fro...

How hackers have improved their BEC attack methods

Email is increasingly an integral part of global life, but business email compromise BEC attacks could place these communications at risk. Research by The Radicati Group found that 2.9 billion people worldwide will be using email portals by 2019. Each business user will send 126 messages daily by...

WakaTime: Password reset links should expire after being used, instead of at specific time

Hi, Hope you are good! Steps to repro: 1 Create an account having any email address like "[email protected]". 2 Now Logout and ask for password reset link. Don't use the password reset link sent to your mail address. 3 Login using the same password back and update your email address to "[email protected]" and verify...

Few Victims Reporting Ransomware Attacks to FBI

Ransomware may have been the most prevalent internet threat of 2016, and WannaCry certainly made it a mainstream conversation, but that doesn’t mean people are reporting incidents to law enforcement. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center’s annual report published this week counted only 2,673...

Business Process Compromise: The Next Step in Advanced Targeted Attacks

Targeted attacks have come a long way in recent years, leveraging increasingly advanced techniques aimed at specific individuals. Often, these hackers pinpoint a single person within an enterprise, steal their credentials, log into an account, and leverage this position to find sensitive...

X (Formerly Twitter): Vine - overwrite account associated with email via android application

Hi, It's possible to deny any user from logging in to his account by overwriting the password associated with his email. This is not an account takeover because while we do override the password associated with that specific mail we just login to a "new" account and not the user's original one...

Researchers Go Inside a Business Email Compromise Scam

LAS VEGAS – Poor operational security on the part of Nigerian scammers running a Business Email Compromise BEC scheme has given researchers a window into their operations. Dell SecureWorks today published a report at Black Hat USA 2016 on what the criminals involved call wire-wire, or “waya-waya....

Cybercrime Hit Businesses Hardest in 2015, says IC3 Report

Businesses were hit hardest by inbox-based scams in 2015 that robbed U.S. companies of $263 million. The numbers come from the FBI’s recently released 2015 Internet Crime Report that tallies the types of cybercrimes hitting U.S. business and individuals the hardest. According to the FBI, its...

2.7 billion Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts were compromised-the vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Russian users of Gmail, Yahoo and Microsoft email Hotmail, etc. 2. 7 2 3 million accounts were compromised, and in the Russian underground black market trade. ! This time, Russian hackers successfully conducted a massive data leak accident. In this cyber attack, hackers stole 2. 7 2 3 million...

IC3 Warns of Cyber Attacks Focused on Law Enforcement and Public Officials

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert warning that law enforcement personnel and public officials may be at an increased risk of cyber attacks. In addition to doxing the act of gathering and publishing individuals' personal information without permission, threat actors have...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID17278: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on August 11, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 40404 First Published: 2015 August 11 16:07 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 RuleID17278 may contain the following files: Name |...

Pinterest Bug Bounty #1 - Persistent CNAME Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Pinterest Bug Bounty 1 - Persistent CNAME Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1431 Release Date: ============= 2015-06-30 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 14...