CHM Help Files Deliver Brazilian Banking Trojan

Security researchers are warning of a new spam campaign targeting Brazilian institutions that contain Compiled HTML file attachments that are used to deliver a banking Trojan. Spam messages contain a malicious CHM attachment called “comprovante.chm”, wrote Rodel Mendrez, senior security researche...

Starting/stopping Amazon EC2 instances using CLI and Python SDK

It's a very good practice to scan your perimeter from the outside of your network, simulating an attacker. However, you will need to deploy the scanners somewhere to do this. Hosting on Amazon EC2 can be a good and cost-effective option, especially if you start instances with vulnerability scanne...

Problems of Vulnerability Prioritization and Detection

It’s the third part of our talk with Daniil Svetlov at his radio show “Safe Environment” recorded 29.03.2017. In this part we talk about Vulnerability Prioritization and Detection: Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS Environmental factor Manual and automated vulnerability detection...

Researchers Find Phishing Site Encrypted with AES

Scammers chasing Apple credentials and payment card information have ramped up their efforts to hide their phishing page by encrypting it with AES. Researchers at Ring 0 Labs disclosed details about the operation last week, pointing out that the criminals behind this activity are buffering a fair...

DirectDefense Incorrectly Asserts Architectural Flaw in Cb Response

Today, a blog was released that incorrectly asserts an architectural flaw in Cb Response that leaks customer data. In fact, this is an optional feature turned off by default to allow customers to share information with external sources for additional ability to detect threats. Cloud-based,...

Qualys Cloud Suite 8.10.2 New Features

This new patch release of the Qualys Cloud Suite, version 8.10.2, includes updates to shared platform features, a new role for user management, and expanded Policy Compliance platform support. Feature Highlights Qualys Cloud Platform Limit number of external scanners – You can now limit the numbe...

Attackers Using Automated Scans to Takeover WordPress Installs

Attackers have been setting their sights on freshly installed WordPress deployments, taking advantage of users who fail to follow through when it comes to configuring their server’s settings. Researchers at the WordPress security plugin WordFence said Tuesday they observed a significant spike in...

New vulnersBot for Telegram with advanced searches and subscriptions

Vulners.com team have recently presented a new version of vulnerability intelligence bot for Telegram messenger. Now you can search for vulnerabilities and other security content by talking with bot. Searches For example, I've heard about new critical vulnerability in Samba called SambaCry by...

Fedora 24 : sane-backends (2017-0f5fe1913f)

CVE-2017-6318 sane-backends: SANENETCONTROLOPTION response packet may contain memory contents of the server fedora-all ---- This update adds the 'skip-adf' option to the avision driver. This let users work around problems on HP ScanJet 82xx/83xx scanners with no automatic document feeder attached...

Debian DLA-940-1 : sane-backends security update

It was discovered that there was an issue in sane-backends, an API library for scanners. It allowed remote attackers to obtain sensitive memory information via a crafted SANENETCONTROLOPTION packet. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in sane-backends version 1.0.22-7.4+deb7u1. We...

[SECURITY] [DLA 940-1] sane-backends security update

Package : sane-backends Version : 1.0.22-7.4+deb7u1 CVE ID : CVE-2017-6318 Debian Bug : 854804 It was discovered that there was an issue in sane-backends, an API library for scanners. It allowed remote attackers to obtain sensitive memory information via a crafted SANENETCONTROLOPTION packet. For...

scanless - Public Port Scan Scrapper

Command-line utility for using websites that can perform port scans on your behalf. Useful for early stages of a penetration test or if you'd like to run a port scan on a host and have it not come from your IP address. scanless adj: lacking respectable morals. That girl is scanless! Public Port...

Vulnerability subscriptions in terms of business

The question is: do we really need an employee in organization that deals with vulnerabilities in infrastructure on a full-time basis? Since this is similar to what I do for living, I would naturally say that yes, it is necessary. But as person, who makes security automation, I can say that there...

Travel Routers, NAS Devices Among Easily Hacked IoT Devices

SINT MAARTEN—A researcher only needed 20 minutes last week to explain just how hopelessly broken some of the more popular Internet of Things devices on the market these days are. Jan Hoersch, an IT security consultant at Securai GmbH, a small pen-testing firm based in Munich, described...

MalQR - Collection of malicious QR Codes and Barcodes you can use to test the security of your scanners

MalQR is a collection of malicious QR codes and barcodes you can use to test the security of your scanners. It gives you the ability to conduct such tests with easiness : you just need to have a smartphone, a tablet or a laptop with an internet connection and browse MalQR.shielder.it to have a...

Test your barcode scanners: MalQR

Test your barcode scanners MalQR is a collection of malicious QR codes and barcodes you can use to test the security of your scanners. It gives you the ability to conduct such tests with easiness : you just need to have a smartphone, a tablet or a laptop with an internet connection and browse...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: flex-2.6.0-2.fc23

The flex program generates scanners. Scanners are programs which can recognize lexical patterns in text. Flex takes pairs of regular expressions and C code as input and generates a C source file as output. The output file is compiled and linked with a library to produce an executable. The...

Commodity 'Exaspy' Spyware Targets High-Level Execs

Researchers say they have discovered commodity Android spyware called Exaspy being used to spy on executives. The spyware, according to Skycure Research Labs, is being sold as a $15-a-month turnkey service online and can be used to intercept nearly all phone-based communications including phone...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: flex-2.6.0-2.fc24

The flex program generates scanners. Scanners are programs which can recognize lexical patterns in text. Flex takes pairs of regular expressions and C code as input and generates a C source file as output. The output file is compiled and linked with a library to produce an executable. The...

Peach Fuzz - Vulnerability Scanning Framework

This tool aims to look through files in a given directory to detect any unsafe, vulnerable, or dangerous function calls. It is designed to be extensible and easy to understand; you can "plug-and-play" modules that specify criteria on which types of files will trigger what 'scans,' in which you...