NetTraveler Attackers Using PRISM Program as Bait

Never let it be said that attackers don’t keep up with the news. The crew behind the NetTraveler cyberespionage attacks is now using the news about the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program as bait in a new spear-phishing campaign. Security researcher Brandon Dixon of 9bplus came across a malicious...

get_emails

This plugin greps every page for emails, these can be used in other places, like bruteforce plugins, and are of great value when doing a complete information security assessment. Plugin type Grep Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- onlytargetdomain | boole...

Turkish PM Erdogan’s staff emails hacked and leaked by Syrian Electronic Army Hackers as #OpTurkey

Syrian Electronic army appears to be taking part in ongoing operation against Turkey government website. Hackers collectively called Anonymous and SEA breached into Turkish Ministry of Interior website and the private information of staffers in PM Tayyip Erdogan's office. Hackers claimed that the...

IBM Notes Accepts JavaScript Tags Inside HTML Emails

The IBM Notes application installed on the remote Windows host accepts Java applet tags and JavaScript tags inside HTML emails, making it possible to load Java applets and scripts from a remote location. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid66637;...

Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks The Guardian's Twitter Accounts

The Guardian's Twitter accounts have been taken over by pro-Syrian government hackers 'Syrian Electronic Army' , who previously targeted the Associated Press BBC, al-Jazeera, the Qatari government and National Public Radio in the United States, as well as France 24 TV. "We are aware that a number...

50 million customers compromised in LivingSocial hack

LivingSocial, a daily deals website part-owned by Amazon Inc., hit by a cyber attack that may have affected more than 50 million customers and will need to reset their passwords. LivingSocial says it has 70 million members worldwide. Leaked data includes names, e-mail addresses, dates of birth an...

Osama Bin Laden-Themed Phishing

Summary The intent of this advisory is to provide general guidance to public and private sector organizations and individuals on potential targeted phishing attacks often referred to as “spear phishing” with respect to the Osama Bin Laden related media reporting, and to offer some suggested metho...

Novell GroupWise Client IMG Tag SRC Parameter Buffer Overflow - High Confidence (CVE-2007-6435)

Novell GroupWise is a client-server collaborative software and email system provided by Novell. The Novell GroupWise Client application is capable of communicating with Novell Group server, as well as Internet email gateways using SMTP, POP, and IMAP protocols. A buffer overflow vulnerability has...

Zendesk security breach, "We've been hacked"

Customer service software provider Zendesk announced a security breach, that affected three major Zendesk clients i.e Tumblr, Pinterest and Twitter and allowed hackers into their systems. The hacks come just days after Apple ,Twitter and Facebook revealed that their employees computers fell victi...

Twitter added DMARC support to prevent email phishing

Twitter announced via its blog today that it has begun using a new method called Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance DMARC to help prevent email phishing. DMARC is actually a standard for preventing email spoofing, in order to make it harder for attackers to send phishi...

Hacker Exposes former US President Bush Family Photos and Emails

The hacker, known as Guccifer, targeted several e-mail accounts and exposed personal photos and sensitive correspondence from members of the former US President Bush family, including both former U.S. presidents. Hacked Emails includes the AOL account of his daughter Dorothy Bush Koch; family...

Business Partners Give Hackers Easy Access to Secure Firms

As frequently targeted, high-value companies continue fortifying their defenses, FireEye researchers claim that attackers are increasingly setting their sights on the affiliated but not-as-well-protected third-party organizations that do business with them. By aiming phishing email campaigns at...

China, The New York Times and the Value of Self-Shaming

There aren’t many things that count as surprises anymore in the security industry. And the news today that The New York Times was penetrated by a team of Chinese attackers who apparently had access to large amounts of employee emails for several months certainly doesn’t fall into that category. I...

Russian Hackers Behind Gozi Malware charged for Infecting Millions users

The mastermind Russian Hackers who coded and distributed the Gozi malware, Nikita Vladimirovich Kuzmin, 25 was charged along with Deniss Calovskis, 27, and Mihai Ionut Paunescu, 28 for infecting more than a million computers worldwide in order to steal banking and other credentials from tens of...

CentOS 5 : quota (CESA-2013:0120)

An updated quota package that fixes one security issue and multiple bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

Virut and Waledac Botnets Spamming from Shared Machines

In an analysis of Virut botnet samples, Symantec researchers observed the malware downloading Waledac variants, suggesting that the gangs responsible for each botnet may be cooperating with one another through some sort of affiliate program, or, at the very least, that the two threats coexist and...

ADP-Themed Phishing Emails Lead to Blackhole Sites

Scammers are spamming out malicious emails purporting to come from payroll processing company ADP, according Dancho Danchev of Webroot. The emails arrive under the subject line “ADP Immediate Notifications” and contain links to compromised websites hosting the latest iteration of the Blackhole...

phlyMail Lite 4.03.04 Path Disclosure / XSS Vulnerabilities

phlyMail suffers from multiple stored XSS vulnerabilities post-auth and Path Disclosure when input passed via several parameters to several scripts is not properly sanitized before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser...

Hacker leaks Bangladesh Intelligence classified Emails

Indian hacker, Godzilla once again hit Bangladesh government server. Hacker told us about his latest cyber attack on Directorate General of Forces Intelligence Bangladesh DGFI - www.dgfi.gov.bd server . He claimed to back up all confidential mails in the server and list of all their agents around...

Hacker leaks Bangladesh Intelligence classified Emails

Indian hacker, Godzilla once again hit Bangladesh government server. Hacker told us about his latest cyber attack on Directorate General of Forces Intelligence Bangladesh DGFI - www.dgfi.gov.bd server . He claimed to back up all confidential mails in the server and list of all their agents around...