Gamaredon campaign abuses LNK files to distribute Remcos backdoor

Cisco Talos is actively tracking an ongoing campaign targeting users in Ukraine with malicious LNK files, which run a PowerShell downloader, since at least November 2024. The file names use Russian words related to the movement of troops in Ukraine as a lure. The PowerShell downloader contacts...

TikTok: Stored XSS on TikTok's backend leads to the leakage of highly sensitive administrator data (Cookies, API Keys, Internal Paths, Emails, phone numbers).

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability was discovered in TikTok's contact form backend. Malicious code submitted through the form executed when administrators viewed the submission, exposing sensitive internal data such as cookies, API keys, internal paths, emails, and phone numbers...

Fake Binance Wallet Email Promises TRUMP Coin, Installs Malware

Scammers use fake Binance wallet emails to lure users with TRUMP Coin, but instead, they install malware that grants hackers full control over victims' devices...

Dark Caracal Uses Poco RAT to Target Spanish-Speaking Enterprises in Latin America

The threat actor known as Dark Caracal has been attributed to a campaign that deployed a remote access trojan called Poco RAT in attacks targeting Spanish-speaking targets in Latin America in 2024. The findings come from Russian cybersecurity company Positive Technologies, which described the...

PayPal scam abuses Docusign API to spread phishy emails

PayPal scammers are using an old Docusign trick to enhance the trustworthiness of their phishing emails. We've received several reports of this recently, so we dug into how the scam works. The Docusign Application Programming Interface API allows “customers” to send emails that come from genuine...

CVE-2025-27156 Tuleap allows content injection via emails sent by the mass emailing features

Tuleap is an Open Source Suite to improve management of software developments and collaboration. The mass emailing features do not sanitize the content of the HTML emails. A malicious user could use this issue to facilitate a phishing attempt or to indirectly exploit issues in the recipients mail...

Silver Fox APT Uses Winos 4.0 Malware in Cyber Attacks Against Taiwanese Organizations

A new campaign is targeting companies in Taiwan with malware known as Winos 4.0 as part of phishing emails masquerading as the country's National Taxation Bureau. The campaign, detected last month by Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, marks a departure from previous attack chains that have leveraged...

CERT-UA Warns of UAC-0173 Attacks Deploying DCRat to Compromise Ukrainian Notaries

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA on Tuesday warned of renewed activity from an organized criminal group it tracks as UAC-0173 that involves infecting computers with a remote access trojan named DCRat aka DarkCrystal RAT. The Ukrainian cybersecurity authority said it observe...

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting XSS due to the improper neutralization of HTML tags in users' first names. An attacker can create and send phishing emails from the affected instance's email address by injecting malicious HTML content. Details...

Angry Likho: Old beasts in a new forest

Angry Likho referred to as Sticky Werewolf by some vendors is an APT group we've been monitoring since 2023. It bears a strong resemblance to Awaken Likho, which we've analyzed before, so we classified it within the Likho malicious activity cluster. However, Angry Likho's attacks tend to be...

CVE-2023-51297

A lack of rate limiting in the 'Email Settings' feature of PHPJabbers Hotel Booking System v4.0 allows attackers to send an excessive amount of email for a legitimate user, leading to a possible Denial of Service DoS via a large amount of generated e-mail messages...

CVE-2023-51293

A lack of rate limiting in the 'Forgot Password', 'Email Settings' feature of PHPJabbers Event Booking Calendar v4.0 allows attackers to send an excessive amount of email for a legitimate user, leading to a possible Denial of Service DoS via a large amount of generated e-mail messages...

CVE-2024-49337

IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3 and 9.0 IBM OpenPages is vulnerable to HTML injection, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input of text fields used to construct workflow email notifications. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability using HTML tags in a text field...

CVE-2023-51293

A lack of rate limiting in the 'Forgot Password', 'Email Settings' feature of PHPJabbers Event Booking Calendar v4.0 allows attackers to send an excessive amount of email for a legitimate user, leading to a possible Denial of Service DoS via a large amount of generated e-mail messages...

New Snake Keylogger Variant Leverages AutoIt Scripting to Evade Detection

A new variant of the Snake Keylogger malware is being used to actively target Windows users located in China, Turkey, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Spain. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs said the new version of the malware has been behind over 280 million blocked infection attempts worldwide since the start of...

Spam and phishing in 2024

The year in figures 27% of all emails sent worldwide and 48.57% of all emails sent in the Russian web segment were spam 18% of all spam emails were sent from Russia Kaspersky Mail Anti-Virus blocked 125,521,794 malicious email attachments Our Anti-Phishing system thwarted 893,216,170 attempts to...

CVE-2023-51293

A lack of rate limiting in the 'Forgot Password', 'Email Settings' feature of PHPJabbers Event Booking Calendar v4.0 allows attackers to send an excessive amount of email for a legitimate user, leading to a possible Denial of Service DoS via a large amount of generated e-mail messages...

Snake Keylogger Variant Hits Windows, Steals Data via Telegram Bots

The New Snake Keylogger variant targets Windows users via phishing emails, using AutoIt for stealth. Learn how it…...

Autodesk: CVE-2023-5561 on Payapps.com

A vulnerability was identified at the WordPress site on payapps.com. This vulnerability allowed unauthenticated attackers to discern the email addresses of users who have published public posts. The vulnerability has been fixed...

CVE-2024-13525

The Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.4 via Shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract sensitive data...