Largest Cryptocurrency Exchange Hacked! Over $1 Million Worth Bitcoin and Ether Stolen

One of the world's largest Bitcoin and Ether cryptocurrencies exchanges Bithumb has recently been hacked, resulting in loss of more than $1 Million in cryptocurrencies after a number of its user accounts compromised. Bithumb is South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange with 20% of global ethe...

Professional PE file Explorer: PPEE

Professional PE file Explorer Puppy is a lightweight yet strong tool for static investigation of suspicious files. A companion plugin is also provided to query the file in the well-known malware repositories and take one-click technical information about the file such as its size, entropy,...

Update on Petya malware attacks

As happened recently with WannaCrypt, we again face a malicious attack in the form of ransomware, Petya. In early reports, there was a lot of conflicting information reported on the attacks, including conflation of unrelated and misleading pieces of data, so Microsoft teams mobilized to investiga...

Google Gets Record-Breaking $2.7 Billion Fine for Manipulating Search Results

Google has just lost its biggest regulatory battle! Google has been hit with a record-breaking $2.7 billion €2.42 billion fine by the European antitrust officials for unfairly manipulating search results since 2008. After a lengthy seven-year investigation that was launched in 2010 after several...

Anthem Agrees to Settle 2015 Data Breach for $115 Million

Like many companies hit by data breaches, Anthem, the United States’ largest for-profit health care company, has been forced to watch from the sidelines while the incident plays out in court. An end finally appears to be in sight however. Late Friday the company agreed to settle a series of...

BSA-2017-341

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2017-341 Component : Samba Revision : 1.0: Interim All versions of Samba from 3.5.0 onwards are vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability, allowing a malicious client to upload a shared library to a writable share, and then cause the server to load and execute...

Endpoint Security Platform: Lima Charlie

LIMA CHARLIE is an endpoint security platform. It is itself a collection of small projects all working together to become the LC platform. LC gives you a cross-platform Windows, OSX, Linux, Android and iOS low-level environment allowing you to manage and push in memory additional modules to. The...

Digital Forensics Platform: Autopsy

Digital Forensics Platform Autopsy® is a digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit® and other digital forensics tools. It is used by law enforcement, military, and corporate examiners to investigate what happened on a computer. You can even use it to recover photos from...

Cisco, Netgear Readying Patches for Samba Vulnerability

Device manufacturers are combing through code again this week to determine whether their products are affected by a vulnerability tied to the SMB file-sharing protocol. The vulnerability, CVE-2017-7494 disclosed last Wednesday, affects versions of 3.5.0 onward of Samba, the free software...

WannaCry Ransom Note Written by Chinese, English Speaking Authors

The WannaCry ransom note was likely written by Chinese- and English-speaking authors, adding more intrigue to the investigation into whether it was indeed a North Korean APT using stolen NSA exploits to spread ransomware worldwide. Analysts at Flashpoint, including some fluent in Chinese, said th...

Cyber Crime Gang Arrested for Infecting Over 1 Million Phones with Banking Trojan

The Russian Interior Ministry announced on Monday the arrest of 20 individuals from a major cybercriminal gang that had stolen nearly $900,000 from bank accounts after infecting over one million Android smartphones with a mobile Trojan called "CronBot." Russian Interior Ministry representative Ri...

Private Eye Allegedly Used Leaky Goverment Tool in Bid to Find Tax Data on Trump

In March 2017, KrebsOnSecurity warned that thieves who perpetrate tax refund fraud with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service were leveraging a widely-used online student loan tool to find critical data on consumers that allows them to claim huge refunds with the IRS in someone else's name. This week...

Design/Logic Flaw

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none...

BSA-2017-284

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2017-284 Component : Apache Brooklyn 0.9.0 and all prior versions Revision : 1.0: Interim No information. Affected Products Brocade is investigating its product lines to determine which products may be affected by this vulnerability and the impact on each affected produ...

BSA-2017-277

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2017-277 Component : Apache Struts Revision : 1.0: Interim The Jakarta Multipart parser in Apache Struts 2 2.3.x before 2.3.32 and 2.5.x before 2.5.10.1 mishandles file upload, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a cmd= string in a crafted...

Intel Active Management Technology Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

On May 1st, 2017, Intel released a security advisory titled Intel Active Management Technology, Intel Small Business Technology, and Intel Standard Manageability Escalation of Privilege, also known as INTEL-SA-00075. The advisory details a vulnerability in the Intel Active Management AMT, Intel...

Breach at Sabre Corp.’s Hospitality Unit

Breaches involving major players in the hospitality industry continue to pile up. Today, travel industry giant Sabre Corp. disclosed what could be a significant breach of payment and customer data tied to bookings processed through a reservations system that serves more than 32,000 hotels and oth...

Fitbit Evidence Used in Murder Investigation

Fitbit evidence is cited in an arrest warrant, stating that the device monitored steps by the victim after the suspect claimed she died...

Mozilla InvestiGator: MIG

Mozilla InvestiGator Mozilla’s real-time digital forensics and investigation platform MIG is a platform to perform investigative surgery on remote endpoints. It enables investigators to obtain information from large numbers of systems in parallel, thus accelerating investigation of incidents...

IHG Confirms Second Credit Card Breach Impacting 1,000-Plus Hotels

In what’s becoming a familiar refrain to guests, InterContinental Hotels Group, said late last week that payment card systems at more than 1,000 of its hotels had been breached. It’s the second breach that IHG, a multinational hotel conglomerate that counts Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza among its...