Spam In your Calendar? Here’s What to Do.

Many spam trends are cyclical: Spammers tend to switch tactics when one method of hijacking your time and attention stops working. But periodically they circle back to old tricks, and few spam trends are as perennial as calendar spam, in which invitations to click on dodgy links show up unbidden ...

Feds Allege Adconion Employees Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming

Federal prosecutors in California have filed criminal charges against four employees of Adconion Direct, an email advertising firm, alleging they unlawfully hijacked vast swaths of Internet addresses and used them in large-scale spam campaigns. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the charges are...

Spam and phishing in Q2 2019

Quarterly highlights Spam through Google services In the second quarter of 2019, scammers were making active use of cloud-based data storage services such as Google Drive and Google Storage to hide their illegal content. The reasoning behind this is simple: a link from a legitimate domain is seen...

WordPress limit-attempts plugin SQL injection vulnerability

WordPress is a blogging platform developed by the WordPress Foundation using the PHP language. The platform supports personal blogs on PHP and MySQL servers. limit-attempts is a website security plugin that targets spam and brute-force attacks. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the WordPres...

SmokeDetector Code Execution Vulnerability

SmokeDetector is a program that detects spam and posts links to chat rooms. A security vulnerability exists in SmokeDetector. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to execute code...

CVE-2018-20951

cPanel before 68.0.27 allows self XSS in WHM Spamd Startup Config SEC-387...

CVE-2019-14404

cPanel before 78.0.18 allows certain file-read operations in the context of the root account via the Exim virtualuserspam router SEC-484...

PT-2019-13673

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions cPanel versions prior to 78.0.18 Description The issue allows certain file-read operations in the context of the root account via the Exim virtual user spam router. Recommendations For versions prior to 78.0.18, update to version 78.0.18 or...

Popular File-Sharing Service WeTransfer Used in Malicious Spam Campaigns

Hackers are abusing the popular file-sharing service called WeTransfer to circumvent defensive email gateways that are designed to block spam messages with malicious URLs. Researchers have observed an uptick in attacks targeting banking, power and media industries using this technique. The hack...

Malware Loader ‘Brushaloader’ Grows More Menacing

The tenacious loader malware called Brushaloader is growing more menacing, showing no signs of abatement despite best efforts by security professionals. First identified in June 2018, the Brushaloader malware is now more pervasive, stealthy and growing in popularity faster than ever before. New...

This Week in Security News: Spam Campaigns and Mobile Malware

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about a mobile malware that infects Android devices by exploiting the vulnerabilities found within the operating system. Also, read...

PT-2019-13447

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MDaemon Email Server versions 19 through 20.0.1 Description The issue concerns the default behavior of skipping SpamAssassin checks for email messages larger than 2 MB. This behavior might interfere with risk management for malicious email,...

A week in security (July 8 – 14)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at ways to send your sensitive information in a secure fashion, examined some tactics in incident response land, and explored federal data privacy law. We also looked at how security tools can turn against you, and took a deep dive into the rather fiendis...

Incorrect Access Control

Mediawiki uses incorrect access control. It allows a spammer to send out unblockable or rate uncontrollable spam by using Special:ChangeEmail...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-12467

MediaWiki through 1.32.1 has Incorrect Access Control issue 1 of 3. A spammer can use Special:ChangeEmail to send out spam with no rate limiting or ability to block them. Fixed in 1.32.2, 1.31.2, 1.30.2 and 1.27.6...

Improper access control

MediaWiki through 1.32.1 has Incorrect Access Control issue 1 of 3. A spammer can use Special:ChangeEmail to send out spam with no rate limiting or ability to block them. Fixed in 1.32.2, 1.31.2, 1.30.2 and 1.27.6...

CVE-2019-12467

MediaWiki through 1.32.1 has Incorrect Access Control issue 1 of 3. A spammer can use Special:ChangeEmail to send out spam with no rate limiting or ability to block them. Fixed in 1.32.2, 1.31.2, 1.30.2 and 1.27.6...

CVE-2019-12467

MediaWiki through 1.32.1 has Incorrect Access Control issue 1 of 3. A spammer can use Special:ChangeEmail to send out spam with no rate limiting or ability to block them. Fixed in 1.32.2, 1.31.2, 1.30.2 and 1.27.6...

CVE-2019-12467

MediaWiki through 1.32.1 has Incorrect Access Control issue 1 of 3. A spammer can use Special:ChangeEmail to send out spam with no rate limiting or ability to block them. Fixed in 1.32.2, 1.31.2, 1.30.2 and 1.27.6...

CVE-2019-12467: Undefined Security Weakness

MediaWiki through 1.32.1 has Incorrect Access Control issue 1 of 3. A spammer can use Special:ChangeEmail to send out spam with no rate limiting or ability to block them. Fixed in 1.32.2, 1.31.2, 1.30.2 and 1.27.6...