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cooleyinsuranceagency.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2134535
Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website operator about its existence...
No More Ransom Saves Victims Nearly €1 billion Over 5 Years
To date, the No More Ransom repository of ransomware decryptors has helped more than 6 million victims recover their files, keeping nearly a billion euros out of the hands of cybercriminals, according to a Monday release. Launched five years ago, No More Ransom is maintained via cooperation betwe...
Spike in “Chain Gang” Destructive Attacks on ATMs
Last summer, financial institutions throughout Texas started reporting a sudden increase in attacks involving well-orchestrated teams that would show up at night, use stolen trucks and heavy chains to rip Automated Teller Machines ATMs out of their foundations, and make off with the cash boxes...
A week in security (June 28 – July 4)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Is it Game Over for VR Advergaming? Lil’ skimmer, the Magecart impersonator What is the WireGuard VPN protocol? Binance receives the ban hammer from UK’s FCA Fired by algorithm: The future’s here and it’s a robot wearing a white collar Second colossal Linkedin...
Insurance and Ransomware
As ransomware becomes more common, Im seeing more discussions about the ethics of paying the ransom. Heres one more contribution to that issue: a research paper that the insurance industry is hurting more than its helping. However, the most pressing challenge currently facing the industry is...
Insurance slippage reimbursement can be used to steal insurance fund
Handle cmichel Vulnerability details The Liquidation contract allows the liquidator to submit "bad" trade orders and the insurance reimburses them from the insurance fund, see Liquidation.claimReceipt. The function can be called with an orders array which does not check for duplicate orders. An...
avoid paying insurance
Handle gpersoon Vulnerability details Impact It's possible to avoid paying insurance in the following way: once per hour at the right moment, do the following: ----using a flash loan, or with a large amount of tokens, call deposit of Insurance.sol to make sure that the pool is sufficiently filled...
Insurance ERC20 return values not checked
Handle cmichel Vulnerability details The ERC20.transfer and ERC20.transferFrom functions return a boolean value indicating success. This parameter should be checked for success. The Insurance.deposit and Insurace.withdraw functions dp not check the return value: // deposit...
Use of incorrect index leads to incorrect updation of funding rates
Handle 0xRajeev Vulnerability details Impact The updateFundingRate function updates the funding rate and insurance funding rate. While the instant/new funding rates are calculated correctly, the cumulative funding rate calculation is incorrect because it is always adding the instant to 0, not the...
First American Financial Pays Farcical $500K Fine
In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. NYSE:FAF was leaking more than 800 million documents -- many containing sensitive financial data -- related to real estate transactions dating back 16 years. This week, the U.S...
Another one bites the dust: Avaddon ransomware group shuts down operation
Are you seeing some pattern here? In what could be a called "shocking news" on Friday, BleepingComputer revealed that the gang behind the Avaddon ransomware shut down its operations after releasing more than 2,000 decryption keys to the technology news site. BleepingComputer claimed they received...
As Ransomware Demands Boom, Insurance Keeps Paying Out
While major carriers like AXA have backed away from covering ransoms, don't expect the industry at large to break the vicious cycle...
Cyber-Insurance Fuels Ransomware Payment Surge
Ransomware victims are increasingly falling back on their cyber-insurance providers to pay the ransom when they’re hit with an extortion cyberattack. But security researchers warn that this approach can quickly become problematic. In the first half of 2020, ransomware attacks accounted for 41...
Digital Transformation Usain Bolt-Style: Health Care's Sprint to Modernization
In the present age, patients now use smartphone apps to schedule doctor's visits, contact insurance companies, and get prescriptions instead of picking up the phone...
Anhui Jingqi Network Technology Co., Ltd. website building system has SQL injection vulnerabilities
Anhui Jingqi Network Technology Co., Ltd. was founded in 2006, the company is based on the informatization in the field of civil affairs and health, around the "prevention, treatment and maintenance" to provide the service users in the big health industry chain with intelligent medical care,...
DoJ Task Force: Taking Down the Ransomware Economy
Ransomware has reached crisis levels across business sectors and across the globe, but a public-private Ransomware Task Force aims to stem the tide of attacks by disrupting the crooks’ business model. Join Threatpost for “Fortifying Your Business Against Ransomware, DDoS & Cryptojacking Attacks” ...
Prometei Botnet Exploiting Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers
Attackers are exploiting the ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange Server flaws to co-opt vulnerable machines to a cryptocurrency botnet named Prometei, according to new research. "Prometei exploits the recently disclosed Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities associated with the HAFNIUM attacks to penetrate...
GEICO Alerts Customers Hackers Stole Driver License Data for Two Months
Threat actors stole driver license numbers from customers of GEICO insurance for nearly two months earlier this year due to a security flaw on its website that has since been fixed. The second-largest auto insurance provider in the United States disclosed the vulnerability in a data breach notice...
Ransomware: A Deep Dive into 2021 Emerging Cyber-Risks
Ransomware has been a growing scourge for years, but recent attacks illustrate a growing sophistication by attackers within this slice of the cybercrime underbelly. Snowballing assaults against the business sector, schools and government organizations are now a primary cybersecurity concern. Maki...
Insurance Giant CNA Hit with Novel Ransomware Attack
A novel ransomware attack forced insurance giant CNA to take systems offline and temporarily shutter its website. The attack occurred earlier this week and leveraged a new variant of the Phoenix CryptoLocker malware. The Chicago-based company—the seventh largest commercial insurance provider in t...