Two TalkTalk hackers jailed for 2015 data breach that cost it £77 million

Two hackers have been sent to prison for their roles in hacking TalkTalk, one of the biggest UK-based telecommunications company, in 2015 and stealing personal information, banking, and credit card details belonging to more than 156,000 customers. Matthew Hanley, 23, and Connor Allsopp, 21, both...

UK Slaps Facebook with $645K Fine Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal

The UK has fined Facebook $645,000 over Cambridge Analytica’s data harvesting practices, which exploited the data of 87 million users of the social network. That represents a gnat bite for the tech giant, which generated $5.1 billion in net profit in the second quarter of the year. However, the...

Facebook Fined £500,000 for Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal

Facebook has finally been slapped with its first fine of £500,000 for allowing political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica to improperly gather and misuse data of 87 million users. The fine has been imposed by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office ICO and was calculated using the UK's old...

UK Regulator Fines Equifax £500,000 Over 2017 Data Breach

Atlanta-based consumer credit reporting agency Equifax has been issued a £500,000 fine by the UK's privacy watchdog for its last year's massive data breach that exposed personal and financial data of hundreds of millions of its customers. Yes, £500,000—that's the maximum fine allowed by the UK's...

Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Softmedia Icon Master, Softmedia Magic, Qingdao (CNVD-2018-19757)

Softmedia Icon Master is an icon management software with functions such as icon extraction, icon replacement, icon format conversion and icon cache repair. There is a memory corruption vulnerability in Softmedia Icon Master, which allows an attacker to cause the program to crash by constructing...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : gtk2 (SUSE-SU-2018:2470-1)

This update for gtk2 provides the following fixes: These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-6312: Prevent integer overflow that allowed context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault and application crash via a crafted image entry offset in an ICO file bsc1027026...

Denial Of Service (DoS) Through Integer Underflow

libgdkpixbuf-2.0.so is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. A malicious user can pass an ICO file to the loadresources function in io-icns.c to cause an integer underflow, crashing the application...

XnView Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities (Aug 2018)

XnView is prone to multiple denial of service vulnerabilities. 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 CPE = "cpe:/a:xnview:xnview";...

CVE-2018-15174

XnView 2.45 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service Read Access Violation at the Instruction Pointer and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ICO file...

CVE-2018-15174

XnView 2.45 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service Read Access Violation at the Instruction Pointer and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ICO file...

Design/Logic Flaw

XnView 2.45 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service Read Access Violation at the Instruction Pointer and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ICO file...

CVE-2018-15174

XnView 2.45 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service Read Access Violation at the Instruction Pointer and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ICO file...

CVE-2018-15174

XnView 2.45 is affected by CVE-2018-15174. A crafted ICO file can remotely trigger a denial of service via a Read Access Violation at the Instruction Pointer, potentially causing an application crash or related impact. This CVE is corroborated across multiple sources (e.g., Red Hat, NVD, CNVD, Op...

KICKICO Hacked: Cybercriminal Steals $7.7 Million from ICO Platform

Again some bad news for cryptocurrency users. KICKICO, a blockchain-based initial coin offering ICO support platform, has fallen victim to a suspected cyber attack and lost more than 70 million KICK tokens or KickCoins worth an estimated $7.7 million. In a statement released on its Medium post on...

ICO hacked: Hackers steal $8 million from KICKICO Blockchain network

By Waqas Another day, another ICO hacked. This time, KICKICO, an Initial Coin Offering ICO project that lets users conduct ICOs, pre-ICOs, crowdfunding and crowdinvesting campaigns have suffered a security breach and as a result, hackers have stolen more than 70 million KickCoins which is around...

Denial Of Service (DoS) Through Out-of-Bounds Write

libgdkpixbuf-2.0.so is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. A malicious user can pass a ICO file to the OneLine32 function in io-ico.c, causing a out-of-bounds write that can crash the application...

A week in security (July 9 – July 15)

Last week, we talked about domestic abuse fuelled by IoT, doing threat intel programs right, blocking ICO fraud, and man-in-the-middle attacks. We also explained why we block shady ad blockers and provided tips to online shoppers for Prime Day. Other news: Reports revealed that low-end Android...

Block all or nothing to prevent ICO fraud?

At Malwarebytes, we feel we have reached a point where we need to ask our customers how to proceed on the subject of ICO scams. Asking for your opinion may seem strange to some of you, but Malwarebytes comes from a community of mutual help and trust. If you were unaware of this, reading how our C...

CVE-2018-13686

The mintToken function of a smart contract implementation for ICO Dollar ICOD, an Ethereum token, has an integer overflow that allows the owner of the contract to set the balance of an arbitrary user to any value...

Integer overflow

The mintToken function of a smart contract implementation for ICO Dollar ICOD, an Ethereum token, has an integer overflow that allows the owner of the contract to set the balance of an arbitrary user to any value...