An iOS hacker tries Android

Written by Brandon Azad, when working at Project Zero One of the amazing aspects of working at Project Zero is having the flexibility to direct my own research agenda. My prior work has almost exclusively focused on iOS exploitation, but back in August, I thought it could be interesting to try...

Exfiltrating Data from Air-Gapped Computers via Wi-Fi Signals (Without Wi-Fi Hardware)

A security researcher has demonstrated that sensitive data could be exfiltrated from air-gapped computers via a novel technique that leverages Wi-Fi signals as a covert channel—surprisingly, without requiring the presence of Wi-Fi hardware on the targeted systems. Dubbed "AIR-FI," the attack hing...

Norweigian researcher exposes how a US firm collected his location data

By Sudais Asif The researcher identified over 75000 data points of his phone being tracked. Here's how he found and exposed the firm behind the scenes. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Norweigian researcher exposes how a US firm collected his location data...

A ‘Magical Bug’ Exposed Any iPhone in a Hacker's Wi-Fi Range

A Google researcher found flaws in Apple's AWDL protocol that would have allowed for a complete device takeover...

DNS Filtering: A Top Battle Front Against Malware and Phishing

Peter Lowe With the proliferation of malicious websites, domain name system DNS filtering has been adopted as an effective method for blacklisting content and blocking out suspicious webpages. Peter Lowe, security researcher with DNSFilter, talks to Cody Hackett on this week’s Threatpost Podcast...

German users targeted with Gootkit banker or REvil ransomware

This blog post was authored by Hasherezade and Jérôme Segura On November 23, we received an alert from a partner about a resurgence of Gootkit infections in Germany. Gootkit is a very capable banking Trojan that has been around since 2014 and possesses a number of functionalities such as keystrok...

TurkeyBombing Puts New Twist on Zoom Abuse

Millions of family and friends, forced to spend Thanksgiving socially distant, are being targeted by cybercriminals as they turn to video platforms like Zoom to virtually be together. In this ongoing attack, cybersecurity experts warn, victims are targeted with a Zoom-related and...

This Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes

The company is rolling out a patch for the vulnerabilities, which allowed one researcher to break into a car in 90 seconds and drive away...

Facebook Messenger Bug Allows Spying on Android Users

Facebook has patched a significant flaw in the Android version of Facebook Messenger that could have allowed attackers to spy on users and potentially identify their surroundings without them knowing. Natalie Silvanovich, a security researcher at Google Project Zero, discovered the vulnerability,...

German COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Vulnerability Allowed RCE

A security vulnerability in the infrastructure underlying Germany’s official COVID-19 contact-tracing app, called the Corona-Warn-App CWA, would have allowed pre-authenticated remote code execution RCE. Researcher Alvaro Muñoz wrote in a report this week that he and his team at GitHub Security La...

Vulnerability in Bumble dating app risked data of 100 million users

By Sudais Asif It took Bumble 255 days to respond and fix some of the vulnerabilities reported by the researcher. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Vulnerability in Bumble dating app risked data of 100 million users...

Researcher Discloses Critical RCE Flaws In Cisco Security Manager

Cisco has published multiple security advisories concerning critical flaws in Cisco Security Manager CSM a week after the networking equipment maker quietly released patches with version 4.22 of the platform. The development comes after Code White researcher Florian Hauser frycos yesterday public...

2 More Google Chrome Zero-Days Under Active Exploitation

Google is asking Chrome desktop users to prepare to update their browsers once again as two more zero-day vulnerabilities have been identified in the software. Both allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to compromise an affected system via the web. And both are being actively exploited in the...

MISSIONS — The Next Level of Interactive Developer Security Training

If organizations want to get serious about software security, they need to empower their engineers to play a defensive role against cyberattacks as they craft their code. The problem is, developers haven't had the most inspiring introduction to security training over the years, and anything that...

Pre-Authorization Limited Arbitrary File Read in Confluence Server - CVE-2020-29448

The ConfluenceResourceDownloadRewriteRule class in Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center allowed unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files within WEB-INF and META-INF directories via an incorrect path access check. h3. Affected versions: version 6.13.18 6.14.0 ≤ version 7.4....

ICSA-20-315-01_OSIsoft PI Interface for OPC XML-DA

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.1 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: OSIsoft Equipment: PI Interface Vulnerability: Numeric Errors 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker-controlled OPC XML-DA Server to respond with a...

Basecamp: Information Disclosure of Garbage Collection Cycle 'Again'

A diagnostic subdomain was still available publicly after being reported https://hackerone.com/reports/981796 and remediation. Subsequently a researcher was able to access the subdomain. Disclosure has been limited as the report contains low sensitive information, but sensitive none the less...

xms.ylsh.ilc.edu.tw Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1470540

Following 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...

WordPress < 5.5.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) to Change Theme Background

Description Erwan, a security researcher from the WPScan team, discovered and responsibly disclosed a Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to change the background image of the theme. For a successful attack, a privileged authenticated WordPre...

Friday Squid Blogging: Interview with a Squid Researcher

Interview with Mike Vecchione, Curator of Cephalopoda -- now thats a job title -- at the Smithsonian Museum of National History. One reason theyre so interesting is they are intelligent invertebrates. Almost everything that we think of as being intelligent -- parrots, dolphins, etc. -- are...