Anonymous hacks & defaces Russian Space Research Institute Website

By Deeba Ahmed A prominent Twitter account @YourAnonNews linked to the Anonymous movement has also confirmed the hack via Twitter Thursday… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous hacks & defaces Russian Space Research Institute Website...

Samsung Encryption Flaw

Researchers have found a major encryption flaw in 100 million Samsung Galaxy phones. From the abstract: In this work, we expose the cryptographic design and implementation of Androids Hardware-Backed Keystore in Samsungs Galaxy S8, S9, S10, S20, and S21 flagship devices. We reversed-engineered an...

ncagr.gov Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2396168

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. Affected Website:| ncagr.gov ---|--- Open Bug Bounty...

Cyberattacks are Prominent in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

As Russia invaded Ukraine, our researchers have also observed a number of alleged cyberattacks perpetrated by different groups. Our research teams have verified and validated internal data and external reports to provide accurate information that can be used to strengthen defenses against these...

Exploit for Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference in Linux Linux_Kernel

LinuxLPEiouringCVE-2021-41073 LPE exploit for CVE-2021-41...

How Insider Threats Drive Better Data Protection Strategies

Fifty-eight percent of sensitive data security incidents are caused by insider threats, according to a recent study by Forrester Research. Insider threats originate from inappropriate use of legitimate authorized user accounts. These accounts - assigned to internal employees and business associat...

WordPress WCC SEO Keyword Research plugin <= 1.0.0 - Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability

Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability discovered in WordPress WCC SEO Keyword Research plugin versions = 1.0.0. Solution No patched version available...

WordPress WCC SEO Keyword Research plugin <= 1.0.0 - Toggle The Debug Mode via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Toggle The Debug Mode via Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability discovered in WordPress WCC SEO Keyword Research plugin versions = 1.0.0. Solution No patched version available...

Iranian State Broadcaster Clobbered by ‘Clumsy, Buggy’ Code

Footage of opposition leaders calling for the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader ran on several of the nation’s state-run TV channels in late January after a state-sponsored cyber-attack on Iranian state broadcaster IRIB. The incident – one of a series of politically motivated attacks in Iran...

USN-5292-3: snapd vulnerabilities

USN-5292-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in snapd. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: James Troup discovered that snap did not properly manage the permissions for the snap directories. A local attacker could possibly...

Oh Snap! More Lemmings: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered in snap-confine (CVE-2021-44731)

The Qualys Research Team has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the snap-confine function on Linux operating systems, the most important of which can be exploited to escalate privilege to gain root privileges. Qualys recommends security teams apply patches for these vulnerabilities as soon as...

TrickBot Ravages Customers of Amazon, PayPal and Other Top Brands

Cyberattackers are targeting 60 different high-profile companies with the TrickBot malware, researchers have warned, with many of those in the U.S. The goal is to attack those companies’ customers, according to Check Point Research CPR, which are being cherry-picked for victimization. According t...

[Security Nation] Amit Serper on Finding Leaks in Autodiscover

!\Security Nation\ Amit Serper on Finding Leaks in Autodiscoverhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/02/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Amit Serper, Director of Security Research at Akamai, on his work uncovering a flaw in the Autodiscover...

in mruby/mruby

Description There is a NULL Pointer Dereference in aryconcat array.c:301. This bug has been found on mruby lastest commit hash ecb28f4bf463483cf914c799d086b0cfff997aee on Ubuntu 20.04 for x8664/amd64. Proof of Concept The crash is not reproducible in a debug build, so a release build config must ...

Evolving How We Share Rapid7 Research Data

In the spring of 2018, we launched the Open Data initiative to provide security teams and researchers with access to research data generated from Project Sonar and Project Heisenberg. Our goal for those projects is to understand how the attack surface is evolving, what exposures are most common o...

vulhub

This is an offensive tool repository for vulnerability research and exploitation. It is a collection of vulnerable environments and exploits for various software and frameworks, including CouchDB, FFmpeg, Git, and others. The repository is maintained by Vulhub, a community-driven project for...

consumermarketresearch.co.uk Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2367559

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. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

WordPress 5.9 Cross Site Scripting

Document Title: =============== Wordpress = 5.9 Cross-Site Scripting Reflected Authenticated Credits & Authors: ================== Taurus Omar [email protected] Disclosure Type: ================ Independent Security Research Release Date: ============= 2022-31-01 Vulnerability Disclosure...

Ex-Gumshoe Nabs Cybercrooks with FBI Tactics

Crooks are crooks, right? Whatever motivates serial violent offenders doesn’t switch off when they stop mugging people and instead pick up a keyboard to transform into cyber actors who craft cyber threats. At least, that was the thinking behind the 2012 creation of the FBI’s Cyber Behavioral...

Guide: Alert Overload and Handling for Lean IT Security Teams

Alarming research reveals the stress and strains the average cybersecurity team experiences on a daily basis. As many as 70% of teams report feeling emotionally overwhelmed by security alerts. Those alerts come at such high volume, high velocity, and high intensity that they become an extreme...