Scams and how to spot them

We’re in strange times at the moment. Some things dont change though e.g. the scams and fraudulent activity designed to separate people from their money or identity. When dealing with these scams the main thing to remember is: If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. While that statement ...

Defending Exchange servers under attack

Securing Exchange servers is one of the most important things defenders can do to limit organizational exposure to attacks. Any threat or vulnerability impacting Exchange servers should be treated with the highest priority because these servers contain critical business data, as well as highly...

Coughing in the face of scammers: security tips for the 2020 tax season

In spite of everything happening in the world right now—the 2020 tax season is about to come to an end, and taxes are due. Americans got a reprieve back in March when the US Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service IRS announced they were pushing back the federal income tax filing due dat...

Popular Techniques Used by Cybercriminals Amid COVID-19

Editor's Note: Gary Stevens, a technology writer, is posting as a guest author to carbonblack.com. Cybercriminals constantly leverage fear and confusion by launching cyberattacks during major world events. Such attacks are mostly carried out with social engineering campaigns using malicious email...

Popular Techniques Used by Cybercriminals Amid COVID-19

Editor's Note: Gary Stevens, a technology writer, is posting as a guest author to carbonblack.com. Cybercriminals constantly leverage fear and confusion by launching cyberattacks during major world events. Such attacks are mostly carried out with social engineering campaigns using malicious email...

Hackers Target Military and Aerospace Staff by Posing as HRs Offering Jobs

Cybersecurity researchers today took the wraps off a new sophisticated cyber-espionage campaign directed against aerospace and military organizations in Europe and the Middle East with an aim to spy on key employees of the targeted firms and, in some case, even to siphon money. The campaign, dubb...

LinkedIn 'Job Offers' Targeted Aerospace, Military Firms With Malware

Attackers are impersonating human resource employees from Collins Aerospace and General Dynamics in a spear-phishing campaign leveraging LinkedIn’s messaging service. Targets are sent phony job offers that include malicious documents designed to fetch data-exfiltrating malware. The spear-phishing...

chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools

Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools in Google Chrome prior to 83.0.4103.97 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted Chrome Extension...

URLCADIZ - A Simple Script To Generate A Hidden Url For Social Engineering

A simple script to generate a hidden url for social engineering. Legal disclaimer: Usage of URLCADIZ for attacking targets without prior mutual consent is illegal. It's the end user's responsibility to obey all applicable local, state and federal laws. Developers assume no liability and are not...

Understanding the Payload-Less Email Attacks Evading Your Security Team

The traditional image of a successful email attack is that of a naive employee clicking the link in a crudely crafted spam email bent on phishing. But times have changed, and employees are much more security-educated than they used to be. So, today’s threat actors are creating increasingly...

CVE-2020-5298

In OctoberCMS october/october composer package versions from 1.0.319 and before 1.0.466, a user with the ability to use the import functionality of the ImportExportController behavior can be socially engineered by an attacker to upload a maliciously crafted CSV file which could result in a...

GHSA-4RHM-M2FP-HX7Q Potential CSV Injection vector in OctoberCMS

Impact Any users with the ability to modify any data that could eventually be exported as a CSV file from the ImportExportController could potentially introduce a CSV injection into the data to cause the generated CSV export file to be malicious. This requires attackers to achieve the following...

Potential CSV Injection vector in OctoberCMS

Impact Any users with the ability to modify any data that could eventually be exported as a CSV file from the ImportExportController could potentially introduce a CSV injection into the data to cause the generated CSV export file to be malicious. This requires attackers to achieve the following...

Reflected XSS when importing CSV in OctoberCMS

Impact A user with the ability to use the import functionality of the ImportExportController behavior could be socially engineered by an attacker to upload a maliciously crafted CSV file which could result in a reflected XSS attack on the user in question Patches Issue has been patched in Build 4...

Iranian APT Group Targets Governments in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia

Today, cybersecurity researchers shed light on an Iranian cyber espionage campaign directed against critical infrastructures in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bitdefender said the intelligence-gathering operations were conducted by Chafer APT also known as APT39 or Remix Kitten, a threat actor known fo...

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-6489

Inappropriate implementation in developer tools in Google Chrome prior to 83.0.4103.61 allowed a remote attacker who had convinced the user to take certain actions in developer tools to obtain potentially sensitive information from disk via a crafted HTML page...

Self-XSS - Self-XSS Attack Using Bit.Ly To Grab Cookies Tricking Users Into Running Malicious Code

Self-XSS attack using bit.ly to grab cookies tricking users into running malicious code How it works? Self-XSS is a social engineering attack used to gain control of victims' web accounts by tricking users into copying and pasting malicious content into their browsers. Since Web browser vendors a...

CVE-2020-12825

A stack overflow flaw was found in libcroco. A service using libcroco's CSS parser could be crashed by a local, authenticated attacker, or an attacker utilizing social engineering, using a crafted input. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. Mitigation To mitigate...

CVE-2020-6244

SAP Business Client, version 7.0, allows an attacker after a successful social engineering attack to inject malicious code as a DLL file in untrusted directories that can be executed by the application, due to uncontrolled search path element. An attacker could thereby control the behavior of the...

CVE-2020-6244

SAP Business Client, version 7.0, allows an attacker after a successful social engineering attack to inject malicious code as a DLL file in untrusted directories that can be executed by the application, due to uncontrolled search path element. An attacker could thereby control the behavior of the...