Spelevo exploit kit debuts new social engineering trick

2019 has been a busy year for exploit kits, despite the fact that they haven't been considered a potent threat vector for years, especially on the consumer side. This time, we discovered the Spelevo exploit kit with its virtual pants down, attempting to capitalize on the popularity of adult...

Fake Elder Scrolls Online developers go phishing on PlayStation

A player of popular gaming title Elder Scrolls Online recently took to Reddit to warn users of a phish via Playstation messaging. This particular phishing attempt is notable for ramping up the pressure on recipients—a classic social engineering technique taken to the extreme. A terms of service...

Seeker v1.2.1 - Accurately Locate Smartphones Using Social Engineering

Concept behind Seeker is simple, just like we host phishing pages to get credentials why not host a fake page that requests your location like many popular location based websites. Read more on thewhiteh4t's Blog .Seeker Hosts a fake website on In Built PHP Server and uses Serveo to generate a li...

Hacking Hardware Password Managers: Royal Vault Password Keeper

TL;DR: Taking three hardware password managers I used them to: Learn the basics of hardware hacking Practice disassembling Perform chipset research Understand pinouts and protocols Read data off each device The royal password vault boards looked to be reused from a previous hardware device with...

Analysis of LooCipher, a New Ransomware Family Observed This Year

ARCHIVED STORY Analysis of LooCipher, a New Ransomware Family Observed This Year By ATR Operational Intelligence Team · December 05, 2019 Co-authored by Marc RiveroLopez. Initial Discovery This year seems to again be the year for ransomware. Notorious attacks were made using ransomware and new...

Adding Some Salt to Our Network – Part 1

Why configuration management system was a must for our network, and how we chose SaltStack When we planned and designed the network automation at Imperva Cloud, we split our automation systems into three different systems, where each of the systems has a different set of requirements: 1...

Navigating the Looming Threat of Nation-State Attacks

Nation-state attacks are sophisticated cyberthreats from adversaries working directly or indirectly for their own government. Their objectives might be to steal sensitive information, disrupt enemy capabilities, grow financial power through cryptocurrency, or even sway the international balance o...

Spear phishing campaigns—they’re sharper than you think

Even your most security-savvy users may have difficulty identifying honed spear phishing campaigns. Unlike traditional phishing campaigns that are blasted to a large email list in hopes that just one person will bite, advanced spear phishing campaigns are highly targeted and personal. They are so...

The snooping girl on a train, again. How to compromise a business

So, I’m on a train, again, sat at a four-seat table, next to two men facing each other. From their conversation and interactions I’ve concluded that they are colleagues. The chap to my left is clearly working on implementation plans for a building management system, for a company I know yeah, I g...

Microsoft Excel 2016 1901 - XML External Entity Injection

Microsoft Excel 2016 1901 - XML External Entity Injection Exploit Title: Microsoft Excel 2016 1901 - XML External Entity Injection Discovery by: hyp3rlinx Date: 2019-12-02 Vendor Homepage: www.microsoft.com Tested Version: 2016 v1901 CVE: N/A + Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website:...

RevengeHotels: cybercrime targeting hotel front desks worldwide

RevengeHotels is a targeted cybercrime malware campaign against hotels, hostels, hospitality and tourism companies, mainly, but not exclusively, located in Brazil. We have confirmed more than 20 hotels that are victims of the group, located in eight states in Brazil, but also in other countries...

CVE-2019-17590

The csrfcallback function in the CSRF Magic library through 2016-03-27 is vulnerable to CSRF protection bypass as it allows one to tamper with the csrf token values. A remote attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious page and dispersing it to a victim via social engineering, enticing them...

CVE-2019-17590

The csrfcallback function in the CSRF Magic library through 2016-03-27 is vulnerable to CSRF protection bypass as it allows one to tamper with the csrf token values. A remote attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious page and dispersing it to a victim via social engineering, enticing them...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

DISPUTED The csrfcallback function in the CSRF Magic library through 2016-03-27 is vulnerable to CSRF protection bypass as it allows one to tamper with the csrf token values. A remote attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious page and dispersing it to a victim via social engineering,...

CVE-2019-17590

The CVE-2019-17590 entry concerns CSRF protection bypass in the CSRF Magic library (through 2016-03-27) via tampering with csrf_token values. The exploitation path described involves remote attackers crafting malicious pages and social engineering victims into clicking a link; on clicking, an att...

CVE-2019-17590

The csrfcallback function in the CSRF Magic library through 2016-03-27 is vulnerable to CSRF protection bypass as it allows one to tamper with the csrf token values. A remote attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious page and dispersing it to a victim via social engineering, enticing them...

Sextortion scammers getting creative

We've covered sextortion before, focusing in on how the core of the threat is an exercise in trust. The threat actor behind the campaign will use whatever information available on the target that causes them to trust that the threat actor does indeed have incriminating information on them. They...

CVE-2019-16242

On TCL Alcatel Cingular Flip 2 B9HUAH1 devices, there is an engineering application named omamock that is vulnerable to OS command injection. An attacker with physical access to the device can abuse this vulnerability to execute arbitrary OS commands as the root user via the application's UI...

CVE-2019-16242

On TCL Alcatel Cingular Flip 2 B9HUAH1 devices, there is an engineering application named omamock that is vulnerable to OS command injection. An attacker with physical access to the device can abuse this vulnerability to execute arbitrary OS commands as the root user via the application's UI...

CVE-2019-16242

CVE-2019-16242 affects the OC engineering app omamock on TCL Alcatel Cingular Flip 2 B9HUAH1. The vulnerability is OS command injection arising from inadequate input handling when constructing OS commands, enabling an attacker with physical access to execute arbitrary commands as root via the app...