Update on the vulnerability in the Azure Cosmos DB Jupyter Notebook Feature

On August 12, 2021, a security researcher reported a vulnerability in the Azure Cosmos DB Jupyter Notebook feature that could potentially allow a user to gain access to another customers resources by using the accounts primary read-write key. We mitigated the vulnerability immediately. Our...

di.se Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2127074

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

Google Docs Scams Still Pose a Threat

A 2017 worm caused havoc across the internet. One researcher is warning that despite new protections put in place, it could still happen again...

Critical Valve Bug Lets Gamers Add Unlimited Funds to Steam Wallets

A security researcher helped Valve, the makers of the gaming platform Steam, plug an easy-to-exploit hole that allowed users to add unlimited funds to their digital wallet. Simply by changing the account’s email address, the exploit allowed anyone to artificially boost their digital billfold to...

Exploit for CVE-2021-28476

pack test and exploitdev for POC CVE-2021-28476 from bluefrostse...

Kaseya’s ‘Master Key’ to REvil Attack Leaked Online

Someone has leaked the master decryption key that Kaseya used to unlock the files encrypted by a REvil ransomware attack on the company that affected customers across 22 countries last month. However, while the key may be interesting to security researchers, it’s not likely to be of use to any of...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Desert heat not the 1999 film This week was more quiet than normal with Black Hat USA and DEF CON, but that didn’t stop the team from delivering some small enhancements and bug fixes! We are also excited to see two new modules 15519 and 15520 from researcher Jacob Baines’ DEF CON talk ​​Bring You...

Angry Affiliate Leaks Conti Ransomware Gang Playbook

An apparently vengeful affiliate of the Conti Gang has leaked the playbook of the ransomware group after alleging that the notorious cybercriminal organization underpaid him for doing its dirty work. A security researcher shared a comment from an online forum allegedly posted by someone who did...

Congratulations to the MSRC 2021 Most Valuable Security Researchers!

The MSRC Researcher Recognition Program offers public thanks and acknowledgement to the researchers who help protect customers through discovering and sharing security vulnerabilities under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure. Today, we are excited to recognize this year’s Most Valuable Security...

Congratulations to the MSRC 2021 Most Valuable Security Researchers!

The MSRC Researcher Recognition Program offers public thanks and acknowledgement to the researchers who help protect customers through discovering and sharing security vulnerabilities under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure. Today, we are excited to recognize this year’s Most Valuable Security...

PyPI Python Package Repository Patches Critical Supply Chain Flaw

The maintainers of Python Package Index PyPI last week issued fixes for three vulnerabilities, one among which could be abused to achieve arbitrary code execution and take full control of the official third-party software repository. The security weaknesses were discovered and reported by Japanes...

CloudFlare CDNJS Bug Could Have Led to Widespread Supply-Chain Attacks

Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare last month fixed a critical vulnerability in its CDNJS library that's used by 12.7% of all websites on the internet. CDNJS is a free and open-source content delivery network CDN that serves about 4,041 JavaScript and CSS libraries, making...

Critical SQL Injection Vulnerability Patched in WooCommerce

Update: The article originally credited Tommy DeVoss dawgyg for the discovery. Weve since been contacted by Tommy, who let us know that the credit should go to another researcher, Josh from DOS Development Operations Security On July 14, 2021, WooCommerce released an emergency patch for a SQL...

#NoFilter: Exposing the Tactics of Instagram Account Hackers

What tactics do Instagram account hackers use? What do these cybercriminals do with stolen accounts? How can users protect their accounts? We look into Instagram account hacking incidents from a security researcher’s perspective and share recommendations for users of Instagram and other social...

Exploit for CVE-2021-1675

CVE-2021-1675PrintNightmare system shell poc for CVE-2021-16...

Babuk Ransomware Builder Mysteriously Appears in VirusTotal

The Babuk ransomware gang’s source code has been uploaded to VirusTotal, making it available to all security vendors and competitors. It’s unclear however just how that happened. According to a Wednesday posting from Malwarebytes, the operators of the ransomware – perhaps best-known for hitting t...

GHSA-2JX8-V4HV-GX3H XXE vulnerability in Launch import

| Release Date | Affected Projects | Affected Versions | Access Vector| Security Risk | |--------------|-------------------|-------------------|---------------|---------------| | Monday, May 4, 2020| service-api | Every version, starting from 3.1.0 | Remote | Medium | Impact Starting from version...

XXE vulnerability in Launch import

| Release Date | Affected Projects | Affected Versions | Access Vector| Security Risk | |--------------|-------------------|-------------------|---------------|---------------| | Monday, May 4, 2020| service-api | Every version, starting from 3.1.0 | Remote | Medium | Impact Starting from version...

Behind the scenes with the head of Kaspersky’s GReAT

Costin Raiu has been with Kaspersky since 2000, initially as the Chief Security Expert overseeing research efforts in the EEMEA region. In 2010, he became Director of our Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT. During his tenure at Kaspersky, he has spearheaded the companys research on some of t...

CVE-2021-23845

This vulnerability could allow an attacker to hijack a session while a user is logged in the configuration web page. This vulnerability was discovered by a security researcher in B426 and found during internal product tests in B426-CN/B429-CN, and B426-M and has been fixed already starting from...