This Week in Security News - August 6, 2021

This week, learn how false advertisers use spam browser notifications to gain ad revenue. Also, read about the results from Trend Micro’s first half 2021 biannual Cyber Risk Index report...

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP have unspecified vulnerabilities (CNVD-2021-62965)

Liferay Portal and Liferay DXP are both products of Liferay, a J2EE-based portal solution that uses EJB and JMS technologies and serves as a web publishing and shared workspace, enterprise collaboration platform, social network, etc. Liferay DXP is a digital experience collaboration platform...

CVE-2021-33320

The Flags module in Liferay Portal 7.3.1 and earlier, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 96, 7.1 before fix pack 20, and 7.2 before fix pack 5, does not limit the rate at which content can be flagged as inappropriate, which allows remote authenticated users to spam the site administrator with...

CVE-2021-33320

The CVE concerns the Flags module in Liferay Portal (7.3.1 and earlier) and Liferay DXP (7.0 before fix pack 96, 7.1 before fix pack 20, 7.2 before fix pack 5) where there is no rate limit on flag submissions, allowing remote authenticated users to spam site administrators via emails. Concrete de...

CVE-2021-33320

The Flags module in Liferay Portal 7.3.1 and earlier, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 96, 7.1 before fix pack 20, and 7.2 before fix pack 5, does not limit the rate at which content can be flagged as inappropriate, which allows remote authenticated users to spam the site administrator with...

CVE-2021-33320: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

The Flags module in Liferay Portal 7.3.1 and earlier, and Liferay DXP 7.0 before fix pack 96, 7.1 before fix pack 20, and 7.2 before fix pack 5, does not limit the rate at which content can be flagged as inappropriate, which allows remote authenticated users to spam the site administrator with...

Browser Notification Spam Tricks Clicks for Ad Revenue

As many countries reintroduced lockdowns and restrictions, more people are once again stuck at home. Not only are people possibly bored at home, but many major sporting events are taking place. This brings fans to streaming sites to watch the games and inadvertently becoming victims of a major...

BazaCall: Phony call centers lead to exfiltration and ransomware

Our continued investigation into BazaCall campaigns, those that use fraudulent call centers that trick unsuspecting users into downloading the BazaLoader malware, shows that this threat is more dangerous than what’s been discussed publicly in other security blogs and covered by the media. Apart...

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✍️ Description Bypass rate limit and sent unlimited email to any email address. 💥 Impact Attacker can sent unlimited email to any mail address . Many email service provider has limited email sending like 10000 email per month . If you exeed that limit then you will be extra charged . So, using thi...

The life and death of the ZeuS Trojan

Whether youve read up on Greek mythology or youre simply a big fan of Marvel comics, the name "Zeus" should be familiar to you. In the context of cybercrime though, ZeuS aka the Zbot Trojan is a once-prolific malware that could easily be described as one of a handful of information stealers ahead...

Nope, that isn’t Elon Musk, and he isn’t offering a free Topmist Dust watch either

Elon Musk is an incredibly popular target for scammers and spammers on social media. Attach his name to something he has no involvement in and watch it fly. Verified accounts on Twitter continue to be favourites for account compromise / fake Elon scams. Those often turn out to be Bitcoin related...

CVE-2021-32678

Nextcloud Server is a Nextcloud package that handles data storage. In versions prior to 19.0.13, 20.0.11, and 21.0.3, ratelimits are not applied to OCS API responses. This affects any OCS API controller OCSController using the @BruteForceProtection annotation. Risk depends on the installed...

Malspam banks on Kaseya ransomware attack

The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence Team recently found a malicious spam campaign making the rounds and banking on the ransomware attack that forced Kaseya to shut down its VSA service. This is a classic example of an opportunistic attack conducted by potentially another threat actor/group off t...

Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability in SPAM SQR Email Security Gateway of Shou Nei An Information Technology (Shanghai) Co.

SPAM SQR Email Security Gateway is a new generation email filtering system that separates spam and threat emails and provides differential behavior management features. SPAM SQR Email Security Gateway of Shou Nei An Information Technology Shanghai Co., Ltd. suffers from an arbitrary file reading...

Cleantalk SFW Arbitrary SQL Injection

The vulnerability of the updatelog function in modules for spam protection, AntiSpam, and CleanTalk firewall plugins is related to the failure to protect the SQL query structure. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries remotely...

Data for 700M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale

A new posting with 700 million LinkedIn records has appeared on a popular hacker forum, according to researchers. Analysts from Privacy Sharks stumbled across the data put up for sale on RaidForums by a hacker calling himself “GOD User TomLiner.” The advertisement, posted June 22, claims that 700...

CVE-2021-28585

Magento versions 2.4.2 and earlier, 2.4.1-p1 and earlier and 2.3.6-p1 and earlier are affected by an Improper input validation vulnerability in the New customer WebAPI.Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to send unsolicited spam e-mails...

CVE-2021-28585

Magento versions 2.4.2 and earlier, 2.4.1-p1 and earlier and 2.3.6-p1 and earlier are affected by an Improper input validation vulnerability in the New customer WebAPI.Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to send unsolicited spam e-mails...

Input validation

Magento versions 2.4.2 and earlier, 2.4.1-p1 and earlier and 2.3.6-p1 and earlier are affected by an Improper input validation vulnerability in the New customer WebAPI.Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to send unsolicited spam e-mails...

CVE-2021-28585

CVE-2021-28585 affects Magento Commerce/Open Source (Magento), specifically the New customer WebAPI. Affected are Magento versions 2.4.2 and earlier, 2.4.1-p1 and earlier, and 2.3.6-p1 and earlier. The root cause is Improper input validation in the New customer WebAPI, which could allow an attack...