MSC-2023-14195

This package has been identified by Mend as containing potential malicious functionality. The severity of the functionality can change depending on where the library is running user's machine or backend server. The following risks were identified: Contacting external host – this package sends...

Threat Roundup for March 10 to March 17

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between March 10 and March 17. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral...

Emotet Returns, Now Adopts Binary Padding for Evasion

Following a three-month hiatus, Emotet spam activities resumed in March 2023, when a botnet known as Epoch 4 began delivering malicious documents embedded in Zip files that were attached to the emails...

Formidable Forms < 6.1 - IP Spoofing

The plugin uses several potentially untrusted headers to determine the IP address of the client, leading to IP Address spoofing and bypass of anti-spam protections. PoC 1. In WordPress's Settings Discussion page, add your IP address to the Disallowed Comment Keys field. This will block form...

Maspik – Spam blacklist < 0.7.9 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

The plugin does not protect some of its actions in the file /admin/partials/contact-forms-anti-spam-log.php against CSRF attacks, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to clear plugin logs and stat counter by tricking a logged in user to submit a crafted request...

WordPress Maspik – Spam blacklist Plugin <= 0.7.8 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Software Maspik – Spam blacklist Type Plugin Vulnerable versions = 0.7.8 Fixed in 0.7.9 OWASP Top 10 A5: Broken Access Control Classification Cross Site Request Forgery CSRF CVE CVE-2023-24008 Patch priority Low CVSS severity Low 4.3 Developer Yonifre PSID 06c51ed7d4f7 Credits Mika Required...

Proven Techniques for Effective Email Spam Filtering

By Waqas In this article, we’ll dive into the world of spam emails, highlighting the reason that email service providers are so vigilant and exploring exactly how marketing teams can prevent ending up in the spam pile. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Proven Techniques for...

Attackers Flood NPM Repository with Over 15,000 Spam Packages Containing Phishing Links

In what's a continuing assault on the open source ecosystem, over 15,000 spam packages have flooded the npm repository in an attempt to distribute phishing links. "The packages were created using automated processes, with project descriptions and auto-generated names that closely resembled one...

Improper Input Validation

phpmyfaq is vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. The vulnerability exists due to a lack of input validation in ajaxservice.php which allows an attacker to spam proposals into the system...

A week in security (February 13 - 19)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: What is AI good at and what the heck is it, actually, with Josh Saxe: Lock and Code S04E04 Malwarebytes recognized as endpoint security leader by G2 CISA issues alert with South Korean government about DPRK's ransomware antics Jailbreaking ChatGPT and other large...

Threat Round up for February 10 to February 17

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats weve observed between Feb. 10 and Feb. 17. As with previous roundups, this post isnt meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats weve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

iPhone calendar spam: What it is, and how to remove it

If you open up your iPhone and see a variety of messages claiming that youve been hacked, your phone is not protected, that viruses have damaged your phone, or, my personal favourite, "Click to get rid of annoying ads", fear not. Its quite possible youve accidentally wandered into a common form o...

Spam and phishing in 2022

Figures of the year In 2022: 48.63% of all emails around the world and 52.78% of all emails in the Russian segment of the internet were spam As much as 29.82% of all spam emails originated in Russia Kaspersky Mail Anti-Virus blocked 166,187,118 malicious email attachments Our Anti-Phishing system...

Experts Warn of 'Beep' - A New Evasive Malware That Can Fly Under the Radar

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new piece of evasive malware dubbed Beep that's designed to fly under the radar and drop additional payloads onto a compromised host. "It seemed as if the authors of this malware were trying to implement as many anti-debugging and anti-VM anti-sandbox...

SUSE CVE-2004-0234

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the getheader function in header.c for LHA 1.14, as used in products such as Barracuda Spam Firewall, allow remote attackers or local users to execute arbitrary code via long directory or file names in an LHA archive, which triggers the overflow when testi...

SUSE CVE-2005-3351

SpamAssassin 3.0.4 allows attackers to bypass spam detection via an e-mail with a large number of recipients "To" addresses, which triggers a bus error in Perl...

SUSE CVE-2007-1669

zoo decoder 2.10 zoo-2.10, as used in multiple products including 1 Barracuda Spam Firewall 3.4 and later with virusdef before 2.0.6399, 2 Spam Firewall before 3.4 20070319 with virusdef before 2.0.6399o, and 3 AMaViS 2.4.1 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinit...

SUSE CVE-2010-4699

The iconvmimedecodeheaders function in the Iconv extension in PHP before 5.3.4 does not properly handle encodings that are unrecognized by the iconv and mbstring aka Multibyte String implementations, which allows remote attackers to trigger an incomplete output array, and possibly bypass spam...

SUSE CVE-2015-5331

Moodle 2.9.x before 2.9.3 does not properly check the contact list before authorizing message transmission, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and conduct spam attacks via the messaging API...

Malware Delivered through Google Search

Criminals using Google search ads to deliver malware isnt new, but Ars Technica declared that the problem has become much worse recently. The surge is coming from numerous malware families, including AuroraStealer, IcedID, Meta Stealer, RedLine Stealer, Vidar, Formbook, and XLoader. In the past,...