A week in security (June 18 – June 24)

Last week, we took a deep dive into SamSam ransomware, looked at ways how to identify and delete malicious emails, recognized that there are now risks affecting job recruitment portals, analyzed a malicious Android app banking on the popularity of Fortnite, and identified causes and solutions for...

PSA: Recruitment portals and job sites at risk

Readers of Malwarebytes Labs aren't new to the social engineering tactics of malcontents to get users to respond to fake job offers via email. In 2014, we wrote about spam claiming to be from the recipient's supposed work application to a "Career Services Department," only to be redirected to a...

CVE-2018-6563

Multiple cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerabilities in totemomail Encryption Gateway before 6.0.0Build371 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that 1 change user settings, 2 send emails, or 3 change contact information by leveraging lack of an anti-CSRF...

CVE-2018-6563

Multiple cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerabilities in totemomail Encryption Gateway before 6.0.0Build371 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that 1 change user settings, 2 send emails, or 3 change contact information by leveraging lack of an anti-CSRF...

Email Phishers Using A Simple Way to Bypass MS Office 365 Protection

Security researchers have been warning about a simple technique that cyber criminals and email scammers are using in the wild to bypass most AI-powered phishing detection mechanisms implemented by widely used email services and web security scanners. Dubbed ZeroFont, the technique involves...

13 Ways Cyber Criminals Spread Malware

By David Balaban Security incidents where hackers distribute malicious code malware via spam, This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 13 Ways Cyber Criminals Spread Malware...

Security Bulletin: IBM Maximo Asset Management could allow an authenticated user to manipulate work orders to forge emails which could be used to conduct further advanced attacks (CVE-2017-1357)

Summary IBM Maximo Asset Management could allow an authenticated user to manipulate work orders to forge emails which could be used to conduct further advanced attacks. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-1357 DESCRIPTION: IBM Maximo Asset Management could allow an authenticated user to...

Security Bulletin: IBM Content Collector for Emails,IBM Content Collector for File Systems, IBM Content Collector for SharePoint and IBM Content Collector for IBM Connections affected by vulnerabilities in International Components for Unicode library

Summary IBM Content Collector for Emails,IBM Content Collector for File Systems,IBM Content Collector for SharePoint and Content Collector for IBM Connections is affected by following vulnerabilities present in the International Components for Unicode ICU library. ICU is vulnerable to a stack-bas...

Feds Arrest 74 Email Fraudsters Involved in Nigerian BEC Scams

The United States Department of Justice announced Monday the arrest of 74 email fraudsters across three continents in a global crackdown on a large-scale business email compromise BEC scheme. The arrest was the result of a six-month-long operation dubbed "Operation Wire Wire" that involved the US...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5162

Plaintext of decrypted emails can leak through the src attribute of remote images, or links. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird ESR 52.8 and Thunderbird 52.8...

Code injection

Plaintext of decrypted emails can leak through by user submitting an embedded form. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird ESR 52.8 and Thunderbird 52.8...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID32902: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 7, 2018

Medium Alert ID: 58063 First Published: 2018 June 7 20:49 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 RuleID32902 may contain the following files: Name | Size...

Targeted Spy Campaign Hits Russian Service Centers

A series of espionage attacks have been uncovered, targeted at service centers in Russia that provide maintenance and support for a variety of electronic goods. The payload is a commercial version of the Imminent Monitor tool, which is freely available for purchase as legitimate software. Its...

User emails visible in page source

A customer reported that user emails are being included in the page source on issue pages. Even with email visibility set to "Hidden", the reporter and assignee emails are included in the page source. The email is in an attribute called data-user as part of a span tag. Example from this page:...

Mozilla Thunderbird Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-11037)

Mozilla Thunderbird is the United States Mozilla Foundation developed from the Mozilla Application Suite independent of the e-mail client software, support for IMAP, POP mail protocol and HTML mail format. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Mozilla Thunderbird versions prior to 52....

Apple iOS and macOS High Sierra Mail Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Apple iOS and macOS High Sierra are products of Apple Inc. Apple iOS is an operating system for mobile devices; macOS High Sierra is a specialized operating system for Mac computers. mail is one of the email components. A security vulnerability exists in the Mail component of Apple iOS before 11....

Liberapay: CSRF token manipulation in every possible form submits. NO server side Validation

Web Application is generating CSRFtoken values inside cookies which is not a best practice for web applications the revelation of cookies can reveal CSRF Tokens as well. Authenticity tokens should be kept separate from cookies and should be isolated to change operations in the account only...

Debian DLA-1382-1 : thunderbird security update

Multiple security issues have been found in Thunderbird, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, denial of service or attacks on encrypted emails. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1:52.8.0-1deb7u1. We recommend that you upgrade your thunderbird packages...

2018 Fraud World Cup

There are only two weeks to go before the start of the massive soccer event — FIFA World Cup. This championship has already attracted the attention of millions worldwide, including a fair few cybercriminals. Long before kick-off, email accounts began bulging with soccer-related spam, and scammers...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1382-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...