A Growing Frontier for Terrorist Groups: Unsuspecting Chat Apps

Opinion: As Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube crack down on extremist propaganda, ISIS recruiters are exploiting lesser-known messenger apps...

MIPT/PhysTech guest lecture: Vulnerabilities, Money and People

On December 1, I gave a lecture at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology informally known as PhysTech. This is a very famous and prestigious university in Russia. In Soviet times, it trained personnel for Research Institutes and Experimental Design Bureaus, in particular for the Soviet...

New Advanced Dynamic Scan Policy Template in Nessus 8

According to Nessus 8.1.0 release notes, Tenable finally solved the problem with Mixed Plugin groups. At least partially. I will briefly describe the problem. Let's say we found out that some Nessus plugins crash our target systems. This happens rarely, but it happens. So, we decided to disable...

Chamilo LMS cross-site scripting vulnerability (CNVD-2018-26467)

Chamilo LMS is an open source online learning and collaboration system developed by the Chamilo Association. The system supports the creation of instructional content, distance training and online question and answer sessions. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the...

CVE-2018-20328

Chamilo LMS version 1.11.8 contains XSS in main/social/groupview.php in the social groups tool, allowing authenticated users to affect other users, under specific conditions of permissions granted by administrators. This is considered "low risk" due to the nature of the feature it exploits...

CVE-2018-20328

Chamilo LMS version 1.11.8 contains XSS in main/social/groupview.php in the social groups tool, allowing authenticated users to affect other users, under specific conditions of permissions granted by administrators. This is considered "low risk" due to the nature of the feature it exploits...

Design/Logic Flaw

Chamilo LMS version 1.11.8 contains XSS in main/social/groupview.php in the social groups tool, allowing authenticated users to affect other users, under specific conditions of permissions granted by administrators. This is considered "low risk" due to the nature of the feature it exploits...

CVE-2018-20328

Chamilo LMS version 1.11.8 contains XSS in main/social/groupview.php in the social groups tool, allowing authenticated users to affect other users, under specific conditions of permissions granted by administrators. This is considered "low risk" due to the nature of the feature it exploits...

LDAP_Search - Tool To Perform LDAP Queries And Enumerate Users, Groups, And Computers From Windows Domains

LDAPSearch can be used to enumerate Users, Groups, and Computers on a Windows Domain. Authentication can be performed using traditional username and password, or NTLM hash. In addition, this tool has been modified to allow brute force/password-spraying via LDAP. LdapSearch makes use of Impackets...

Australia Anti-Encryption Law Triggers Sweeping Backlash

A controversial Australian bill, which could give the government access to data protected by end-to-end encryption, was passed Thursday. The bill, called the Assistance and Access Act, empowers Australian police to essentially force companies that are operating in the country to help the governme...

U.S. Military Members Catfished and Hooked for Thousands of Dollars

A sextortion ring that aimed “catfish” efforts at U.S. military service members has been uncovered. The scam bilked 442 service members from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps out of more than $560,000. An 11-month investigation, dubbed “Operation Surprise Party” and carried out by the...

Podcast: Breaking Down the Magecart Threat (Part Two)

Threatpost editor Lindsey O’Donnell talks to RiskIQ’s threat researcher, Yonathan Klijnsma, about the varying groups under the Magecart umbrella, and the differing characteristics, targets and techniques of these growing number of groups. This is the second in a series of three podcasts featuring...

CVE-2018-13355

Incorrect access controls in ajaxdata.php in TerraMaster TOS version 3.1.03 allow attackers to create user groups without proper authorization...

CVE-2018-13355

Incorrect access controls in ajaxdata.php in TerraMaster TOS version 3.1.03 allow attackers to create user groups without proper authorization...

Widespread Malvertising Campaign Hijacks 300 Million Sessions

A massive malvertising campaign targeting iOS devices hijacked a whopping 300 million browser sessions in just 48 hours. Researchers at Confiant recorded the campaign Nov. 12, and said that the threat actor behind the campaign is still active to this day. A malicious landing page According to...

Cyberthreats to financial institutions 2019: overview and predictions

Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Threat Predictions for 2019 Threat predictions for industrial security in 2019 Cryptocurrency threat predictions for 2019 Introduction – key events in 2018 The past year has been extremely eventful in terms of the digital threats faced by financial institutions:...

GitLab: Add and Access to Labels of any Private Projects/Groups of Gitlab(IDOR)

Summary & Description : If you have a private project or private group then no non member should be able to access any information.But Adding Labels in your Private boards API request is vulnerable to IDOR attack which is leading to add private group/project labels and access it. Vulnerable Reque...

The AWS Exploitation Framework: Pacu

Pacu is an open source AWS exploitation framework, designed for offensive security testing against cloud environments. Created and maintained by Rhino Security Labs, Pacu allows penetration testers to exploit configuration flaws within an AWS account, using modules to easily expand its...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: systemd-238-10.git438ac26.fc28

systemd is a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the rest of the system. It provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux control groups,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: systemd-239-6.git9f3aed1.fc29

systemd is a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the rest of the system. It provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux control groups,...