BIOS Boots What? Finding Evil in Boot Code at Scale! | Trellix

ARCHIVED STORY BIOS Boots What? Finding Evil in Boot Code at Scale! By Ryan Fisher, Andrew Davis · August 08, 2018 Malware continues to take advantage of a legacy component of modern systems designed in the 1980s. Despite the cyber threat landscape continuing to evolve at an ever-increasing pace,...

Black Hat USA 2018 Preview

Threatpost editors Tom Spring, Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals break down the biggest trends to watch out for at Black Hat USA and DEF CON 2018, which both kick off this week in Las Vegas. There is much to watch out for, including a keynote from Google’s Director of Engineering Parisa Tabriz, as...

FBI Releases Article on Building a Digital Defense Against Facebook Scams

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article on building a digital defense against a fraud that uses Facebook’s texting app—Facebook Messenger. Scammers send messages that appear to be from trusted sources or trick users into clicking on malicious links or sharing personal...

onArcade 2.4.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Add Admin) Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Cross-Site Request Forgery Add Admin Google Dork: Powered by onArcade v2.4.2 Author: r3m0t3nu11Zero-way Software Link: "http://www.onarcade.com" Version: "Uptodate" the appilication is vulnerable to CSRF attack No CSRF token in...

Three of My Books Are Available in DRM-Free E-Book Format

Humble Bundle sells groups of e-books at ridiculously low prices, DRM free. This month, the bundles are all Wiley titles, including three of my books: Applied Cryptography, Secrets and Lies, and Cryptography Engineering. $15 gets you everything, and they're all DRM-free. Even better, a portion of...

Fluxion - Set Up Fake AP, Fake DNS, And Create Captive Portal To Trick Users Into Giving You Their Password

Fluxion is a security auditing and social-engineering research tool. It is a remake of linset by vk496 with hopefully less bugs and more functionality. The script attempts to retrieve the WPA/WPA2 key from a target access point by means of a social engineering phishing attack. It's compatible wit...

Social engineering attacks: What makes you susceptible?

We now live in a world where holding the door open for someone balancing a tray of steaming hot coffee—she can’t seem to get her access card out to place it near the reader—is something we need to think twice about. Courtesy isn’t dead, mind you, but in this case, you'd almost wish it were. Becau...

Updated AZORult Spyware Comes with Sophisticated New Techniques

An updated version of the AZORult spyware has been sighted as the payload in a large spam campaign – just one day after debuting on the Dark Web. AZORult steals information and can download additional malware; it’s been around since at least 2016, when Proofpoint researchers identified it as part...

Shipt: Price manipulation via fraction values (Parameter Tampering)

A security researcher identified an issue in our member application that showed how a user's cart would accept fractional quantities of any item; irrespective of whether or not the item was capable of being in a 'fractional' state e.g. fractional quantities were being accepted for a half pound of...

Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Functions is affected by two function runtimevulnerabilities

Summary IBM Cloud Functions has addressed the following vulnerabilities. Users of the IBM Cloud Functions service that are using docker actions https://console.bluemix.net/docs/openwhisk/openwhiskactions.htmlcreating-docker-actions are affected but only if the user's function has a general securi...

Shopify: App messaging can be hijacked by third-party websites

The JavaScript code at https://cdn.shopify.com/s/assets/admin/index-c6e72fa910cd0182ab1d1e67ff823fb2e6ca61745c00797769410ce01aafc4d8.js installs a message event listener to receive messages from installed apps when these apps are displayed in a frame. The following check rejects invalid event...

Introducing: Malwarebytes Browser Extension

Are you tired of all the unwanted content the world wide web offers up, whether you like it or not? It is our privilege to introduce you to the Malwarebytes Browser Extension BETA. Or, better said, the Malwarebytes Browser Extensions, because we have one for Firefox and one for Chrome. Introducti...

Trojans: What’s the real deal?

The fictional Greeks hiding in their legendary Trojan horse would probably be excited to learn that the default Wiki page for Trojan is, in fact, their big wooden horse thingy vs. computer infections or dubious businesses. Sorry, fictional ancient Greek warriors. It’s not that we don't think you'...

Shopclues.com Cross Site Request Forgery

Exploit Title: Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF at SHOPCLUES Date: 17.07.2018 Exploit Author: Ismail Tasdelen Vendor Homepage: https://www.shopclues.com/ Software Type : Website Software Version : N/A Vulenrability : Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF Risk : Medium Description : What is Cross-Site...

Vanilla: Bypassing the Trusted Link Alert System

Summary: I have discovered a means of bypassing the system that will alert users of an untrusted link utilizing the Right to Left Overrride unicode character. The alert looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/9rp1K7b.mp4 Description: For this demonstration, I have added "facebook.com" to the trusted...

Camelishing - Social Engineering Tool

Camelishing Social Engineering Tool Features 1. Bulk email sending 2. Basic Python Agent Creator 3. Office Excel Macro Creator 4. DDE Excel Creatoror Custom Payload 5. Return İnformation Mail Open Track Agent Open Track 6. AutoSave 7. Statistics Report 8. User Control Installation Modules $ pip...

Imgur: Go.imgur.com can be used to phish for account information

Right now the go.imgur.com domain is pointing to godoc.org/go.imgur.com but there is nothing at this resource. It is possible with encoded double dots to redirect go.imgur.com URLs to pages that phish for imgur account information. Proof of Concept === PoC 1:...

CVE-2018-2969

Vulnerability in the Primavera Unifier component of Oracle Construction and Engineering Suite subcomponent: Core. The supported version that is affected is 16.x. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Primavera Unifier. Successfu...

CVE-2018-2966

Vulnerability in the Primavera Unifier component of Oracle Construction and Engineering Suite subcomponent: Core. Supported versions that are affected are 16.x, 17.x and 18.x. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Primavera...

CVE-2018-2969

Vulnerability in the Primavera Unifier component of Oracle Construction and Engineering Suite subcomponent: Core. The supported version that is affected is 16.x. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Primavera Unifier. Successfu...