sLoad Banking Trojan Downloader Displays Sophisticated Recon and Targeting

A new PowerShell downloader dubbed sLoad is making the rounds, sporting impressive reconnaissance tactics and a penchant for geofencing, which indicate increasing sophistication when it comes to targeting efforts. First spotted in May 2018, sLoad typically delivers the Ramnit banking trojan but h...

ThreatList: 3 Out of 4 Employees Pose a Security Risk to Businesses

While much is always made of external hackers, insider threats remain a problem at more organizations. A full 75 percent of professionals pose a moderate or severe risk to their company’s data, according to a recent survey. MediaPRO’s third-annual State of Privacy and Security Awareness Report...

CVE-2018-12374

Plaintext of decrypted emails can leak through by user submitting an embedded form by pressing enter key within a text input field. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 52.9...

CVE-2018-12374

Plaintext of decrypted emails can leak through by user submitting an embedded form by pressing enter key within a text input field. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 52.9...

30 Million Facebook Accounts Were Hacked: Check If You're One of Them

Late last month Facebook announced its worst-ever security breach that allowed an unknown group of hackers to steal secret access tokens for millions of accounts by taking advantage of a flaw in the 'View As' feature. At the time of the initial disclosure, Facebook estimated that the number of...

spamassassin: Certain unclosed tags in crafted emails allow for scan timeouts and result in denial of service

A flaw was found in the way SpamAssassin processes HTML email containing unclosed HTML tags. A carefully crafted mail message could cause SpamAssassin to consume significant resources. If a large number of these messages are sent, a denial of service could occur potentially delaying or preventing...

Innovative Phishing Tactic Makes Inroads Using Azure Blob

A fresh tactic for phishing Office 365 users employs credential-harvesting forms hosted on Azure Blob storage – signed with legitimate Microsoft SSL certificates to lend an air of legitimacy. Azure Blob Storage is a cloud storage solution for hosting unstructured data such as images, video or tex...

KLA11335 Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server

Multiple serious vulnerabilities were found in Microsoft Exchange. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code, gain privileges. Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities: 1. A remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange can be exploited remotely vi...

PT-2018-9528 · Gitea · Gitea

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Gitea versions prior to 1.5.1 Description: The issue results in the exposure of users' private email addresses. This can be exploited by watching a repository to receive email notifications, which contain the other recipients even if they hav...

SHEIN-Fashion Shopping Site Suffers Data Breach Affecting 6.5 Million Users

U.S. online fashion retailer SHEIN has admitted that the company has suffered a significant data breach after unknown hackers stole personally identifiable information PII of almost 6.5 million customers. Based in North Brunswick and founded in 2008, SHEIN has become one of the largest online...

Leaked? 2.0 - A Checking Tool For Hash Codes, Passwords And Emails Leaked

Leaked? is A Checking tool for Hash codes and Passwords and Emails leaked, uses leakz module from Aidan Holland, and leakz module uses API from Aurelius Wendelken. Leaked? can work in any OS if they have support Python 3 and 2. What's new? Check email leaked Update More friendly for users Support...

ALPINE-CVE-2017-15705

A denial of service vulnerability was identified that exists in Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.2. The vulnerability arises with certain unclosed tags in emails that cause markup to be handled incorrectly leading to scan timeouts. In Apache SpamAssassin, using HTML::Parser, we setup an object and...

CVE-2017-15705

A denial of service vulnerability was identified that exists in Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.2. The vulnerability arises with certain unclosed tags in emails that cause markup to be handled incorrectly leading to scan timeouts. In Apache SpamAssassin, using HTML::Parser, we setup an object and...

Potential Hurricane Florence Phishing Scams

NCCIC warns users to remain vigilant for malicious cyber activity seeking to exploit interest in Hurricane Florence. Fraudulent emails commonly appear after major natural disasters and often contain links or attachments that direct users to malicious websites. Users should exercise caution in...

Osiris Banking Trojan Displays Modern Malware Innovation

After staying dormant for few years, the Kronos banking trojan resurfaced in July in a form dubbed Osiris. A wider analysis of how the banking trojan is evolving shows innovative development on the part of its authors, with an eye to broader malware trends. Osiris first appeared in July in three...

19-Year-Old Hacker Arrested Over Making Hoax School and Flight Bomb Threats

British police have arrested a 19-year-old teen who is an alleged member of Apophis Squad cybercriminal group responsible for making hoax bomb threats to thousands of schools and airlines; and DDoSing ProtonMail and Tutanota secure email services. George Duke-Cohan was arrested in his bedroom at...

Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H1 2018

For many years, Kaspersky Lab experts have been uncovering and researching cyberthreats that target a variety of information systems – those of commercial and government organizations, banks, telecoms operators, industrial enterprises, and individual users. In this report, Kaspersky Lab Industria...

Yahoo Persists in Scanning Emails for In-Depth Ad-Targeting

While the rest of the U.S. tech industry is taking steps to assuage consumer concerns over privacy and data-harvesting, Yahoo is selling off the ability to scan more than 200 million Yahoo Mail inboxes for rich user data that might be used for marketing purposes. Verizon’s Oath unit, which owns...

Loki Bot: On a hunt for corporate passwords

Starting from early July, we have seen malicious spam activity that has targeted corporate mailboxes. The messages discovered so far contain an attachment with an .iso extension that Kaspersky Lab solutions detect as Loki Bot. The malware's key objective is to steal passwords from browsers,...

Who’s Behind the Screencam Extortion Scam?

The sextortion email scam last month that invoked a real password used by each recipient and threatened to release embarrassing Webcam videos almost certainly was not the work of one criminal or even one group of criminals. Rather, it's likely that additional spammers and scammers piled on with...