Apple Execs Chose to Keep a Hack of 128 Million iPhones Quiet

Emails from the Epic Games lawsuit show Apple brass discussing how to handle a 2015 iOS hack. The company never directly notified affected users...

Tesla Remotely Hacked from a Drone

This is an impressive hack: Security researchers Ralf-Philipp Weinmann of Kunnamon, Inc. and Benedikt Schmotzle of Comsecuris GmbH have found remote zero-click security vulnerabilities in an open-source software component ConnMan used in Tesla automobiles that allowed them to compromise parked ca...

FBI, CISA Uncover Tactics Employed by Russian Intelligence Hackers

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, Department of Homeland Security DHS, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI on Monday published a new joint advisory as part of their latest attempts to expose the tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs adopted by the Russian...

CVE-2020-7385

By launching the drbremotecodeexec exploit, a Metasploit Framework user will inadvertently expose Metasploit to the same deserialization issue that is exploited by that module, due to the reliance on the vulnerable Distributed Ruby class functions. Since Metasploit Framework typically runs with...

Beating security fatigue with Troy Hunt, Chloé Messdaghi, and Tanya Janca: Lock and Code S02E06

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs. In addition, we speak to Point3 Security chief strategist Chloé Messdaghi, HaveIBeenPwned founder Troy Hunt, and We Hack Purple founder and CEO Tanya Janca about security fatigue. Security fatigue is...

Gigaset Android Update Server Hacked to Install Malware on Users' Devices

Gigaset has revealed a malware infection discovered in its Android devices was the result of a compromise of a server belonging to an external update service provider. Impacting older smartphone models — GS100, GS160, GS170, GS180, GS270 plus, and GS370 plus series — the malware took the form of...

Office 365 Cyberattack Lands Disgruntled IT Contractor in Jail

A former IT contractor has been sentenced to two years in prison after hacking into a company’s server and deleting the majority of its employees’ Microsoft Office 365 O365 accounts. The incident resulted in the company completely shutting down for two days. The 32-year-old contractor, Deepanshu...

Accellion Supply Chain Hack

A vulnerability in the Accellion file-transfer program is being used by criminal groups to hack networks worldwide. Theres much in the article about when Accellion knew about the vulnerability, when it alerted its customers, and when it patched its software. The governor of New Zealands central...

A week in security (March 15 – 21)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, our podcast featured Adam Kujawa, who talked us through our 2021 State of Malware report. We cover our own research on: Royal mail parcel scam How your iPhone can tell you if you’re being stalked Careers in cybersecurity ProxyLogon PoC whack-a-mole Teen behind 2020...

The Peculiar Ransomware Piggybacking Off of China’s Big Hack

DearCry is the first attack to use the same Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, but its lack of sophistication lessens the threat...

Zomato: subdomain takeover on fddkim.zomato.com

Our subdomain fddkim.zomato.com was vulnerable to a 0-day subdomain takeover vulnerability on Freshdesk. The DNS entry was removed on our end to fix this. HOW I hacked thousand of subdomains writeup--https://medium.com/@moSec/how-i-hacked-thousand-of-subdomains-6aa43b92282c...

Teen behind 2020 Twitter hack pleads guilty

The so-called “mastermind” behind the 2020 Twitter hack that compromised the accounts of several celebrities and public figures—including President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk—pleaded guilty to several charges on Tuesday in a Florida court. As part of an agreed-upon plea deal with...

18-Year-Old Hacker Gets 3 Years in Prison for Massive Twitter 'Bitcoin Scam' Hack

A Florida teen accused of masterminding the hacks of several high-profile Twitter accounts last summer as part of a widespread cryptocurrency scam pled guilty to fraud charges in exchange for a three-year prison sentence. Graham Ivan Clark, 18, will also serve an additional three years on...

Mastermind of 2020’s top celebrity Twitter hack sentenced to 3 years

By Waqas At the time of the Twitter hack and his arrest, Graham Ivan Clark was 17, therefore, being sentenced as a “youthful offender.” This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mastermind of 2020s top celebrity Twitter hack sentenced to 3 years...

Foreign Meddling Flooded the 2020 Election—but Not Hackers

A new ODNI report shows how extensive Russian and Iranian influence operations were, but it doesn’t mention a single hack-and-leak incident...

The Malwarebytes 2021 State of Malware report: Lock and Code S02E04

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs. In addition, we tune in to a special presentation from Adam Kujawa about the 2021 State of Malware report, which analyzed the top cybercrime goals of 2020 amidst the global pandemic. If you just pay...

Katy Voor HHVM 缓冲区错误漏洞

Katy Voor HHVM is an open source application by Katy Voor. Provides an open source virtual machine designed to execute programs written in Hack. A security vulnerability exists in HHVM that stems from a crypt function that allows the size of the input salt to be null to terminate the buffer witho...

Katy Voor HHVM 缓冲区错误漏洞

Katy Voor HHVM is an open source application by Katy Voor. Provides an open source virtual machine designed to execute programs written in Hack. A security vulnerability exists in HHVM that stems from a write out-of-bounds if a buffer is full. The following products and versions are affected: HHV...

A Basic Timeline of the Exchange Mass-Hack

Sometimes when a complex story takes us by surprise or knocks us back on our heels, it pays to revisit the events in a somewhat linear fashion. Heres a brief timeline of what we know leading up to last weeks mass-hack, when hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Exchange Server systems got compromise...

A week in security (March 1 – 7)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, our podcast featured Eva Galperin who talked to us about defending online anonymity and speech. We wrote about how Ryuk ransomware has developed a worm-like capability, how Exchange servers are attacked by Hafnium zero-days, 21 million free VPN users’ data was...