Google and Microsoft accused of feeding smaller search engines spam ads

Google and Microsoft appear to have been flooding their smaller search engine rivals with spam ads, to limit the number of higher-value ads that appear on them, according to data viewed by POLITICO. Ads are considered "spam" if they appear in search results but have little to no relevance to the...

Attacker can DOS VUSD withdrawal by spamming withdrawals of zero tokens

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact By spamming withdrawal requests of 0, the user can clog the withdrawal queue. For anybody to withdraw their funds somebody has to first unclog it by running processWithdrawal. Depending on the number of spam withdrawals, potentially multiple times. Since...

Zero Spam < 5.2.11 - Admin+ SQL Injection

The plugin does not properly sanitise and escape the order and orderby parameters before using them in a SQL statement in the admin dashboard, leading to a SQL injection PoC With at least one IP in the “Blocked IPs” list:...

Zero Spam < 5.2.11 - Admin+ SQL Injection

The plugin does not properly sanitise and escape the order and orderby parameters before using them in a SQL statement in the admin dashboard, leading to a SQL injection With at least one IP in the “Blocked IPs” list:...

WP Cerber Security, Anti-spam & Malware Scan < 8.9.6 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

The plugin does not sanitise the $url variable before using it in an attribute in the Activity tab in the plugins dashboard, leading to an unauthenticated stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability. POST /"/onmouseover=alert1;// HTTP/1.1 Host: 127.0.0.1 Content-Type:...

Improper Access Control in liangliangyy/djangoblog

Description "formvalid" function in comments/views.py file performs the task of saving user comments. However, this function doesn't check the status of article, so users can leave comments on draft article or public article with commentstatus is off. Proof of Concept - Step 1: Login as admin in...

Improper Access Control in publify/publify

Description Article in draft mode can only be accessed by admins who have permission to manage article. Anonymous users can't view but can leave comments on article in draft mode. The cause of the vulnerability is that the draft article is setting to comment enabled and createcomment function onl...

Spam and phishing in 2021

Figures of the year In 2021: 45.56% of e-mails were spam 24.77% of spam was sent from Russia with another 14.12% from Germany Our Mail Anti-Virus blocked 148 173 261 malicious attachments sent in e-mails The most common malware family found in attachments were Agensla Trojans Our Anti-Phishing...

A week in security (January 31 – February 6)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Threat actor steals email with Zimbra zero-day FBI warns of bogus job postings on recruitment sites Investment scams are on the rise A worrying Etsy listing reveals the stalking potential of Apple’s AirTags Beware bogus OperaGX sponsorship offers $320 milllion stol...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2017-0110)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Emotet Spam Abuses Unconventional IP Address Formats to Spread Malware

We found waves of Emotet spam campaigns using unconventional IP addresses to evade detection...

WordPress Zero Spam plugin <= 5.2.9 - SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerability

SQL injection SQLi vulnerability discovered in WordPress Zero Spam plugin versions = 5.2.9. Solution Update the WordPress Zero Spam plugin to the latest available version at least 5.2.10...

WordPress Zero Spam plugin <= 5.2.9 - SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerability

SQL injection SQLi vulnerability discovered in WordPress Zero Spam plugin versions = 5.2.9. Solution Update the WordPress Zero Spam plugin to the latest available version at least 5.2.10...

in zikula/core

Description When sending test emails, you're able to spam a target email address with as many emails as an attacker wants to a victim's email address due to lack of rate limiting /mailer/config/test I've put together a simple Python script that exploits this and would allow you to send a custom...

What is a Botnet ❓ Definition, Types, Example Attack

Professionals, who make system security arrangements, are well-aware of the term ‘botnet’. Often used for the chain of hijacked computers/systems, the term ‘botnet’ should be well understood if a restorative and robust system is instructed as their wrong usage can lead to tremendous chaos. Botnet...

Dridex affiliate dresses up as Scrooge

Threat actors are hoping to catch a few more victims before they leave work for the Christmas holidays. The recent malicious spam campaigns malspam we and others have observed appear to have been created by someone who wants to play Scrooge and add onto peoples already heightened state of anxiety...

Sql injection

The WP Block and Stop Bad Bots Crawlers and Spiders and Anti Spam Protection Plugin StopBadBots WordPress plugin before 6.67 does not sanitise and escape the User Agent before using it in a SQL statement to save it, leading to a SQL injection...

CVE-2021-24863

CVE-2021-24863 affects the WordPress plugin StopBadBots (StopBadBots WordPress plugin) prior to version 6.67. The vulnerability is a SQL injection caused by failure to sanitize and escape the User Agent before using it in a SQL statement to save it. Impact is unauthenticated access leading to dat...

Talos Takes Ep. #79: Emotet's back with the worst type of holiday present

By Jon Munshaw. The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. Emotet is back, and it brought the worst possible holiday present just in time for peak spam season, too!. We... This is...

Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security has an unspecified vulnerability (CNVD-2022-08933)

Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security is an enterprise-class information security protection solution from Trend Micro, Inc. The product provides anti-spam, anti-virus, network security and email protection features.A security vulnerability exists in Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security,...