20-Year-Old Man Arrested For Carrying Out Germany's Biggest Data Leak

German federal police have arrested a 20-year-old local student for stealing and publishing a massive trove of personal data of hundreds of politicians, journalists and other public figures last month. The young man, whose identity has not been revealed by the police, was arrested after police...

Snowden’s Attorney Urges Canada to Take in Whistleblower Helpers (Part Two)

In our second part of Threatpost’s interview of lawyer Robert Tibbo, who represented former N.S.A. contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden, Tibbo describes the present day systematic harassment of families that sheltered Snowden while he was in Hong Kong in 2013. Tibbo also describes how h...

Hackers Leak Personal Data from Hundreds of German Politicians On Twitter

Germany has been hit with the biggest hack in its history. A group of unknown hackers has leaked highly-sensitive personal data from more than 100 German politicians, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Brandenburg's prime minister Dietmar Woidke, along with some German artists, journalist...

Amazon sent 1,700 audio recordings of Alexa user to a stranger

By Waqas An Amazon customer in Germany under the European Union data protection law called GDPR General Data Protection Regulation requested the company to send all the data it stored on him but little did he know he was about to get his hands on a trove of 1,700 audio recordings of a stranger...

3S-Smart Software Solutions GmbH CODESYS Control V3 Products

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION : Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor : 3S-Smart Software Solutions GmbH Equipment : CODESYS Control V3 products Vulnerability : Improper Access Control 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow...

Philips HealthSuite Health Android App

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 3.5 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: Philips Equipment: Philips HealthSuite Health Android App Vulnerability: Inadequate Encryption Strength 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker with physical access to...

A week in security (November 26 – December 2)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a look at our cybersecurity predictions for 2019, we explained why Malwarebytes participated in AV testing and how we took part in an joint take down of massive ad fraud botnets, warned that ESTA registration websites still lurk in paid ads on Google,...

Knuddels Flirt App Slapped with Hefty Fine After Data Breach

Germany has slapped a popular in-region dating, flirting and chat service with a €20,000 fine or around $22,667, after a hack affected more than 1.8 million accounts this summer. The Baden-Württemberg Data Protection Authority announced last week it had issued the fine, which is the country’s fir...

mobile.bahn.de XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-680189 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| mobile.bahn.de Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Adwind Dodges AV via DDE

This blog post is authored by Paul Rascagneres, Vitor Ventura and with the contribution of Tomislav Pericin and Robert Perica from ReversingLabs. Introduction Cisco Talos, along with fellow cybersecurity firm ReversingLabs, recently discovered a new spam campaign that is spreading the Adwind 3.0...

Kronos Banking Trojan Surfaces After Years of Silence

The Kronos banking trojan is back from the malware dustbin. After years of lying dormant, hackers have reworked the underlying code and are actively targeting victims in Germany, Japan and Poland. The latest variant has incorporated a new command-and-control feature designed to work with the Tor...

Notification Emails From Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Are Sent in an Unexpected Language

Challenge Email notifications sent by Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 unexpectedly contain Chinese characters. Cause The issue is caused by an encoding conflict. By default, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 uses UTF-16 character encoding, and the problem appears under the following circumstances: Us...

Mobotix Webcam Detection

HTTP based detection of Mobotix Webcam devices. 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...

HTTPS+TLS and IPv6-enablement both in the majority for World Cup streaming

The underlying protocols of the Internet continue to evolve, and massive events such as the World Cup are a great opportunity to see this in action. A single-match peak for live video streaming of 22.5 Tbps was set on Akamai on Tuesday July 10 during the semi-final in Russia between France and...

germany.travel XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-648762 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| germany.travel Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

PEPPERL+FUCHS VisuNet RM, VisuNet PC, and Box Thin Client

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.5 Vendor: PEPPERL+FUCHS Equipment: VisuNet RM, VisuNet PC, Box Thin Client BTC Vulnerability: Improper Authentication 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow attackers to intercept sensitive communications, establish a...

DomainFactory Hacked—Hosting Provider Asks All Users to Change Passwords

Besides Timehop, another data breach was discovered last week that affects users of one of the largest web hosting companies in Germany, DomainFactory, owned by GoDaddy. The breach initially happened back in last January this year and just emerged last Tuesday when an unknown attacker himself...

World Cup 2018: malware attacks gunning for goal

World Cup 2018 is upon us and in full swing, bringing together 32 nations for a month of footballing to see who'll be crowned World Champion. With the tournament underway, we thought it'd be fun to see which of the footballing powerhouses also expended a similar amount of energy fighting off...

enders-germany.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-636875 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| enders-germany.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Siemens SCALANCE X Switches, RUGGEDCOM WiMAX, RFID 181-EIP, and SIMATIC RF182C (Update D)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable from the same local network segment OSI Layer 2 Vendor: Siemens Equipment: SCALANCE X switches, RUGGEDCOM Win, RFID 181-EIP, and SIMATIC RF182C Vulnerability: Heap-based Buffer Overflow 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a...