The State of Cybersecurity: Why Industry Experts Are Optimistic

By Owais Sultan 2022 has been a tumultuous one for cybersecurity professionals. Breaches, hacks, and ransomware attacks have become commonplace in… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The State of Cybersecurity: Why Industry Experts Are Optimistic...

Hackers Bombard Open Source Repositories with Over 144,000 Malicious Packages

NuGet, PyPi, and npm ecosystems are the target of a new campaign that has resulted in over 144,000 packages being published by unknown threat actors. "The packages were part of a new attack vector, with attackers spamming the open source ecosystem with packages containing links to phishing...

CVE-2022-3096

The WP Total Hacks WordPress plugin through 4.7.2 does not prevent low privilege users from modifying the plugin's settings. This could allow users such as subscribers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks against other users, like administrators, due to the lack of sanitisation and...

Cross site scripting

The WP Total Hacks WordPress plugin through 4.7.2 does not prevent low privilege users from modifying the plugin's settings. This could allow users such as subscribers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks against other users, like administrators, due to the lack of sanitisation and...

CVE-2022-3096

CVE-2022-3096 concerns the WP Total Hacks WordPress plugin (versions up to 4.7.2). The affected component is the plugin settings handling, where low-privilege users can modify settings due to insufficient sanitisation/escaping, enabling Stored XSS against other users (e.g., admins). The vulnerabi...

WordPress plugin WP Total Hacks 安全漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. A security vulnerability...

PT-2022-20415 · WordPress · Wp Total Hacks

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: WP Total Hacks WordPress plugin versions through 4.7.2 Description: The issue allows low privilege users to modify the plugin's settings, potentially leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks against other users, including administrators...

WordPress WP Total Hacks plugin <= 4.7.2 - Auth. Arbitrary Options Update vulnerability leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Auth. Arbitrary Options Update vulnerability leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS discovered by Daniel Ruf in the WordPress WP Total Hacks plugin versions = 4.7.2. Solution Deactivate and delete. This plugin has been closed as of October 6, 2022 and is not available for download. This closu...

WP Total Hacks <= 4.7.2 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Options Update to Stored XSS

The plugin does not prevent low privilege users from modifying the plugin's settings. This could allow users such as subscribers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks against other users, like administrators, due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping as well. Run the below command in...

WP Total Hacks <= 4.7.2 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Options Update to Stored XSS

The plugin does not prevent low privilege users from modifying the plugin's settings. This could allow users such as subscribers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks against other users, like administrators, due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping as well. PoC Run the below command...

Self-spreading stealer attacks gamers via YouTube

UPD: A notice on Googles response to the issue was added. An unusual malicious bundle a collection of malicious programs distributed in the form of a single installation file, self-extracting archive or other file with installer-type functionality recently caught our eye. Its main payload is the...

FBI Warns Investors to Take Precautions with Decentralized Financial Platforms

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI on Monday warned of cyber criminals increasingly exploiting flaws in decentralized finance DeFi platforms to plunder cryptocurrency. "The FBI has observed cyber criminals exploiting vulnerabilities in the smart contracts governing DeFi platforms to ste...

Tornado Cash Developer Arrested After U.S. Sanctions the Cryptocurrency Mixer

Dutch authorities on Friday announced the arrest of a software developer in Amsterdam who is alleged to be working for Tornado Cash, days after the U.S. sanctioned the decentralized crypto mixing service. The 29-year-old individual is "suspected of involvement in concealing criminal financial flo...

Hackers Used Fake Job Offer to Hack and Steal $540 Million from Axie Infinity

The $540 million hack of Axie Infinity's Ronin Bridge in late March 2022 was the consequence of one of its former employees getting tricked by a fraudulent job offer on LinkedIn, it has emerged. According to a report from The Block published last week citing two people familiar with the matter, a...

The Worst Hacks and Breaches of 2022 So Far

From cryptocurrency thefts to intrusions into telecom giants, state-backed attackers have had a field day in the year’s first half...

Hunt for Lapsus$ Hackers Leads to a British Teen

Plus: New details emerge about Russian hacks and hackers as the US warns of potential new attacks...

Agencies Warn on Satellite Hacks & GPS Jamming Affecting Airplanes, Critical Infrastructure

In a warning to aviation authorities and air operators on Thursday, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency EASA warned of satellite jamming and spoofing attacks across a broad swath of Eastern Europe that could affect air navigation systems. The warning came in tandem with a separate alert fro...

This Week in Security News - February 18, 2022

SMS PVA services' use of infected Android phones reveals flaws in SMS verification, and 'Russian state-sponsored cyber actors' cited in hacks of U.S. defense contractors...

This Week in Security News - February 4, 2022

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Learn about the Samba vulnerability discovered by Trend Micro the White House’s warning of Russian hacks as tensions with Ukraine grow...

Cyberinsurance companies don’t want to pay out for “acts of war”

Due to the evolving and growing impact of cybersecurity incidents there are some questions starting to arise about the way that insurance companies deal with the costs that are the results of such incidents. Cyber insurance is a form of cover designed to protect your business from threats in the...